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zoology, Jolins Hopkins University. Mr. B. 



E. Shackelford, fellow in physics in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has been appointed Charles 



F. Brush fellow for the summer of 1915. 

 The annual joint meeting of the Phi Beta 



Kappa and Sigma Xi honorary societies of the 

 University of Pennsylvania was held in Hous- 

 ton Hall on the evening of May 3. Dr. John 

 A. Brashear made the address on the subject 

 of " Great Telescopes of the World and Dis- 

 coveries made by their Use." An informal 

 reception followed the address. The societies 

 alternate in choosing a speaker, and this year 

 the choice fell to Sigma Xi. 



Dr. Ulric Dahlgren, professor of biology 

 in Princeton University, lectured on May 12 on 

 " The Production of Light by Animals " at 

 the closing exercises of the lecture season of 

 the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Phila- 

 delphia. 



The monument to be erected to Cesare Lom- 

 broso at Verona, the work of the sculptor 

 BistoM, was to have been unveiled at the 

 International Pellagra Congress scheduled for 

 next October. As the congress has been post- 

 poned until 1916, the committee in charge of 

 the monument has postponed the dedication. 



Dr. Jay W. Seaver, for twenty-five years 

 director of the Tale gjrmnasium and professor 

 of hygiene in the university, died suddenly 

 from heart disease at Berkeley, Cal., on May 5, 

 at the age of sixty years. 



William Harlow Reed, curator of the mu- 

 seum and instructor of geology in the Univer- 

 sity of Wyoming, noted for his collections of 

 vertebrate fossils, died at the age of sixty-seven 

 years on April 24. 



Me. Daniel W. Edgecomb, inventor, astron- 

 omer and manufacturer of telescopes, has died 

 at his home at Fairfield, Conn., at the age of 

 seventy-five years. 



Mr. Eichard Lydekker, F.E.S., known for 

 his work and writings on natural science, 

 died on April 16 at the age of sixty-five years. 



Sir William Eichard Gowers, F.E.S., emi- 

 nent as a specialist on diseases of the nervous 

 system, died on May 4, aged seventy years. 



Sir Thomas Smith Clouston, a well-known 

 psychiatrist, died at Edinburgh, on April 19, 

 at seventy-five years of age. 



Dr. M. Bernhardt, professor of neurology 

 at Berlin, has died at the age of seventy years. 



The death is announced in Nature of Mr. 

 J. B. A. Lege, who made the first tide-predict- 

 ing machine for Lord Kelvin. He was the 

 constructor of signaling lamps and other appa- 

 ratus invented by Admiral Sir Percy Scott and 

 used in the navy. Among Mr. Lege's inven- 

 tions are horological mechanisms, torpedoes 

 and direct-acting petrol engines. 



The next examination for the medical corps 

 of the navy will be held in Washington, Bos- 

 ton, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Va., 

 Charleston, S. C, Great Lakes (Chicago), 111., 

 Mare Island, Cal., and Puget Sound, Wash., 

 on or about July 6. Candidates for appoint- 

 ment must be citizens of the United States, 

 between 21 and 30 years of age, and graduates 

 of reputable schools of medicine. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for metallographist, 

 for men only, to fill a vacancy in this position 

 for service in the Engineer Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., at a 

 salary of $2,500 a year. 



The department of geology of New York 

 University has planned a travel tour for the 

 coming summer which will extend through the 

 western part of the United States and a portion 

 of Alaska. The trip is the outcome of a plan 

 which was formulated by the department of 

 geology two years ago. In the summer session 

 of last year, a course of lectures preparatory 

 to the work that will be taken up this year 

 was given, in order that students might obtain 

 the greatest benefit from the trip. The educa- 

 tional conduct of the tour will be under the 

 direction of Dr. Eaymond B. Earle, assistant 

 professor of geology in Hunter College. The 

 director of the department of geology in New 

 York University, Dr. J. Edmund Woodman, 

 will exercise general supervision. The tour 

 will extend from July 2 to August 28 and in- 

 cludes a ten-day visit in Yellowstone Park, a 

 trip to Glacier National Park, an excursion to 



