May 28, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



787 



At the second annual meeting of the Ken- 

 tucky Academy of Sciences, Professor Dayton 

 C. Miller, of the Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence, gave a lecture on " The Science of Mu- 

 sical Sound," and was elected an honorary 

 member of the academy. Professor A, M. 

 Miller, of the department of geology, of the 

 Kentucky State University, has been elected 

 president of the Kentucky Academy of Sci- 

 ence. 



Dr. Francis G. Benedict addressed the stu- 

 dents at Vassar College on Monday afternoon. 

 May 10, on " Investigations in the jSTutrition 

 Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington." In the evening he addressed 

 the advanced students in chemistry and phys- 

 ics and the instructors on " Women as Re- 

 search Assistants." 



Among recent scientific lectures before the 

 faculty and students of Oberlin College have 

 been the following : " Business and Kultur," 

 by Professor Arthur G. Webster, of Clark 

 University ; " Some Physical Characteristics 

 of the Vowels," by Dayton C. Miller, of Case 

 School of Applied Science ; " Eecent Evidences 

 as to the Nature of Molecules and Atoms," by 

 Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of the University of 

 Chicago. Dr. Millikan also made an address on 

 '■' The Significance of Modern Scholarship," 

 this being before the Society of Phi Beta 

 Kappa. 



At the University of Cambridge the Linacre 

 lecture was delivered by Professor E. H. Star- 

 ling, on May 6, on " The Governor Mechanism 

 of the Heart.'" The Rede lecture was delivered 

 by Dr. Norman Moore, on the same day, on 

 '■' St. Bartholomew's Hospital in Peace and 

 War." 



We learn from Nature that a monument to 

 the late Professor J. H. van't Hoff was unveiled 

 at Rotterdam on April 17. It consists of a 

 bronze statue, double life-size, in sitting posi- 

 tion, and has been placed in front of the school 

 at which Professor van't Hoff was educated. 

 The monument is about 30 ft. high, and the 

 statue itself is flanked by female figures repre- 

 senting " Imagination " and " Reason." On 

 the front of the base is the following inscrip- 

 tion: 



Van't Hoff, 



1852-1911. 



Physicam chemiae adiunxit. 



Joseph Johnston Hardy, professor of mathe- 

 matics and astronomy at Lafayette College, 

 died at his home on May 2. He was born in 

 New Castle, England, in 1844, and came to 

 this country in 1846. He was graduated from 

 Lafayette College in 1870 and immediately 

 became a member of the teaching staif. He is 

 survived by two daughters and a son, James 

 Graham Hardy, now professor of mathematics 

 at Williams College. 



William James Sell, F.R.S., university lec- 

 turer and senior demonstrator in chemistry at 

 the University of Cambridge, has died at the 

 age of sixty-eight years. 



Erasmus Darwin, the only son of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Horace Darwin, of Cambridge, a grand- 

 son of Charles Darwin and of the first Lord 

 Farrer, was killed on April 24 in Flanders. 

 For a time he carried out work in the test- 

 room of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument 

 Company and later became engaged in admin- 

 istrative work. 



The April number of the Review of Applied 

 Eniomology states that Duncan H. Gotch, 

 entomological assistant in the Imperial Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, London, was killed in 

 action at Nieuve Chapelle on March 11, while 

 acting as second Lieutenant in the Worcester- 

 shire regiment. 



Mr. Sanderson Smith, malacologist, of Port 

 Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y., died on 

 March 28, aged 83 years. He was born in 

 London on May 14, 1832. He studied in the 

 School of Mines, in London. From 1860 to 

 1870 he published a number of papers in the 

 Annals of Lyceum of Natural History of New 

 York, on the Mollusca of Long Island, Staten 

 Island and adjacent islands. From 1875 to 

 1887 he was one of the volunteer assistants en- 

 gaged in the various dredging expeditions 

 carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission off 

 our eastern coast, including the deep sea work, 

 and was of great service in that work. Later 

 in life he made extensive collections of maps, 

 charts and engravings. He also compiled, for 



