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bamboo, known only in the sterile condition, 

 was obtained in flower. 



An alumni chapter of the Sigma Xi has 

 been planned in Washington, D. C, which will 

 be known as the " D. 0." Chapter. An organ- 

 izing committee consisting of Marcus Benja- 

 min (Columbia), CJmirman; M. W. Lyon 

 (Brown), Secretary; Paul Bartsch (Iowa), 

 B. W. Everman (Indiana), Edmond Heller 

 (Stanford), L. O. Howard (Cornell), F. J. 

 Katz (Chicago), W. E. Maxon (Syracuse), 

 T. S. Palmer (California), J. E. Pogue (Yale) 

 and B. H. Eansom (Nebraska) are about to 

 apply for a charter. As there are over 200 

 members in Washington it is expected that a 

 large and flourishing chapter will be formed. 



The Norman W. Harris Lectures for 1913- 

 1914 will be delivered by Dr. Edwin Grant 

 Conklin, professor of zoology at Princeton 

 University, on the subject, " Heredity and En- 

 vironment in the Development of Men," Feb- 

 ruary 9 to 14 inclusive, Northwestern Univer- 

 sity, Evanston. 



At the annual meeting of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences held at the Cosmos Club 

 on January 15, the retiring president. Dr. O. 

 H. Tittmann, delivered an address on " Our 

 Northern Boundaries." 



Professor Edward Kasner, of Columbia 

 University, on January 17 gave a lecture at 

 Princeton LTniversity on " Elements of Infinite 

 Order and the Geometry of Divergent Power 

 Series." 



At an open meeting of the Sigma Xi So- 

 ciety at Case School of Applied Science, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, on January 14, Dr. O. P. Hay, 

 research associate of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, D. C, lectured on " The Ice 

 Age of North America and its Remarkable 

 Animals." 



The first of a series of lectures on practical 

 conservation and industrial questions, given 

 under the auspices of the Ohio State Univer- 

 sity for the benefit of citizens of the state, was 

 delivered January 8 by Professor C. E. Sher- 

 man, of the department of civil engineering. 

 His theme was the regulation of streams, with 

 special reference to floods. 



On January 6 Associate Professor Frederick 

 Starr, of the department of sociology and an- 

 thropology in the University of Chicago, be- 

 gins a course of five illustrated lectures on the 

 general subject of " Japan : The Land of the 

 Rising Sun " at the Abraham Lincoln Center 

 of the University Lecture Association in Chi- 

 cago. The subjects of the individual lectures 

 are as follows : " The Life of the Japanese," 

 " Japanese Religion," " The Hairy Ainu of 

 Japan," " Korea : The Land of the Morning 

 Calm," and " Far Eastern Questions." 



Professor Albion Woodbury Small, head 

 of the department of sociology and anthropol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago, delivered on 

 December 27, at the eighth annual meeting of 

 the American Sociological Society in Minneap- 

 olis, his address as the retiring president of the 

 society. The address, which was on " Prob- 

 lems of Social Assimilation," was given at a 

 joint meeting of the American Sociological 

 Society and the American Economic Associa- 

 tion. 



Mr. W. Popplewell Bloxam, formerly pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in Presidency College, 

 Madras, and the author of papers on the pro- 

 duction and chemistry of indigo, died on De- 

 cember 26, aged fifty-three years. 



Dr. George William Peckham, librarian of 

 the Milwaukee Public Library, known for his 

 important contributions to entomology, died 

 on January 11, aged sixty-eight years. 



Edmund B. Huey, Ph.D., died in Connell, 

 Washington, on December 30, 1913. Dr. Huey 

 had been in the west for a year trying to re- 

 gain his health. He had previously been asso- 

 ciated with Dr. Adolf Meyer, at the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital. He was the author of a 

 book on " The Psychology of Reading " and 

 another on " Mentally Defective Children," 

 and was one of the foremost leaders in the 

 more recent study of mentally defective chil- 

 dren. He spent a year studying defective chil- 

 dren at the State Home for the Feeble-minded 

 at Lincoln, Hi., and had previous to this spent 

 two years with Janet in Paris. He was pre- 

 paring a book on clinical psychology, but about 

 six months before his death the notes and what 



