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son, since 1899 regius professor of natural 

 history at Aberdeen, to be the Gifford lecturer 

 for the years 1914 to 1916. 



Mrs. Ella Flagg Young has been reinstated 

 as superintendent of schools by the Chicago 

 Board of Education by a vote of thirteen to 

 seven, the minority of seven declining to cast 

 a ballot. 



Dr. Keivin Burns, of the Lick Observatory, 

 has been appointed to a post in the Bureau 

 of Standards, Washington. 



The Royal Society's studentship on the 

 foundation of the late Professor Tyndall for 

 scientific research on subjects tending to im- 

 prove the conditions to which miners are sub- 

 ject has been awarded for the ensuing year to 

 Mr. J. I. Graham, of Bentley Colliery, Don- 

 caster, for an investigation into the cause of 

 spontaneous combustion of coal. 



Dr. Lyman C. Newell, professor of Chem- 

 istry, Boston University, has been elected 

 president of the University Club of Maiden, 



At the educational conference, held at the 

 University of London, beginning on December 

 26, twenty-one institutions were represented. 

 Mr. James Bryce delivered the inaugural ad- 

 dress, entitled " Salient Educational Issues." 



" Scenio Features of North America from 

 the Geological Point of View " is the general 

 subject of a series of illustrated lectures to be 

 given by Professor Wallace W. Atwood, of the 

 department of geology of the University of 

 Chicago, at the West Side center of the Uni- 

 versity Lecture Association in Chicago. The 

 series begins on January 3 and ends January 

 31, one lecture being given each week. 



The following public lectures are an- 

 nounced by the Cornell Chapter of the Sigma 

 Xi : " Recent Investigations in Organic Chem- 

 istry," by Professor A. W. Browne, January 

 19 ; " Electric Operation of Panama Canal 

 Locks," by John W. Upp, M.E., '89, of the 

 General Electric Company, February 3; 

 '■ Some General Bearings of Embryology," by 

 Professor B. F. Kingsbury, February 23; 



" Electric Waves and Wireless Telegraphy," 

 by Professor Ernest Merritt, March 30 ; " The 

 Experimental Development of the Art of Sew- 

 age Disposal," by Professor H. N. Ogden, 

 April 30 ; " Some Recent Problems in Geom- 

 etry," by Professor Virgil Snyder, May 25. 



On November 20, Professor M. A. Rosanoff, 

 of Clark University, gave a talk before the 

 Sigma Xi Society at the Worcester Polytech- 

 nic Institute on his scientific experiences at 

 the Versammlung deutscher Naiurforscher in 

 Vienna last September. 



Mr. Emery C. Kolb, of Grand Canyon, Ari- 

 zona, gave a lecture, illustrated with colored 

 slides and motion pictures, before the Geo- 

 graphic Society of Chicago on December 19, 

 the title being " Photographic Exploration of 

 the Canyons of the Colorado River." 



Dr. Stuart Paton will give a series of pub- 

 lic lectures at Princeton University on Thurs- 

 day afternoons at five o'clock on The Study of 

 Human Activities in Relation to Social, Edu- 

 cational and Ethical Problems. The dates and 

 subjects are as follows : February 12, " The 

 Individual. Life as a Process of Adjust- 

 ment " ; February 19, " Adjustments in the 

 Reflex, Automatic and Conscious Levels of 

 Activity " ; February 26, " Synthetic and In- 

 hibitory Mechanisms " ; March 12, " The Per- 

 sonality " ; March 19, " The Problem of De- 

 generacy. The Feeble-minded, the Delin- 

 quent, the Criminal " ; March 26, " The Intelli- 

 gent Direction of Human Activities. Educa- 

 tion " ; April 2, " Science and Culture." 



At the annual public meeting of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, held on December 15, 

 M. Gaston Darboux, the permanent secretary, 

 pronounced a eulogy on Henri Poincare, the 

 famous mathematician, who died in July last 

 year. The speech included an account of 

 Henri Poincare's early life. 



It is proposed to establish a permanent 

 memorial to the late Sir WiUiam White, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S. The Institution of Civil En- 

 gineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers, and the Institute of Marine Engineers, 

 and other bodies are supporting the plan, and 



