JANTJABT 30, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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We learn from Nature that an institution 

 of petroleum technologists has heen formed in 

 London with Sir Boverton Eedwood, Bart., as 

 president. Dr. D. T. Day, of the TJ. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, and Professor C. Engler have 

 been elected honorary members. 



The Geological Society of London will 

 award its medals and funds as follows : Wollas- 

 ton medal, Dr. J. E. Marr, F.E.S. ; Murchison 

 medal, W. A. E. Ussher; Lyell medal, C. S. 

 Middlemiss; Wollaston fund, E. B. Newton; 

 Murchison fund, E. N. Haward; Lyell fund, 

 Eev. W. Howchin and J. Postlethwaite. 



The prizes in astronomy of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences have been awarded as fol- 

 lows: the Lalande prize to J. Bosler, for his 

 researches on the sudden variations of terres- 

 trial magnetism and their connection with 

 disturbances in the sun; the Valz prize to 

 Professor Eowler, for his researches in spec- 

 troscopy; the G. de Pontecoulant prize to M. 

 Sundmann, for his researches on the problem 

 of three bodies. 



Dr. Ales Urdlicka, of the U. S. National 

 Museum, has been named a titular member 

 of the Societe Imperiale Des Amis D'llistoire 

 Naturelle, D'Anthropologie et D'Ethnographie, 

 Moscow, Eussia. 



Professor W. C. Eischer, recently compelled 

 to relinquish his chair at Wesleyan University, 

 was a candidate for mayor of Middletown at 

 a recent election, but was defeated by a vote 

 of 699 to 689. 



Dr. Carl Skottsberg, lecturer on botany 

 and keeper of the herbarium at the University 

 of Upsala and Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld, of the 

 Botanical Museum at Copenhagen, have been 

 visiting American botanical institutions. 



As the first half of the Washington-Paris 

 longitude campaign has been completed, the 

 last few weeks have been devoted for the most 

 part to exchange of observers. Mr. G. A. Hill 

 and his party have returned to Washington, 

 and the party headed by Professor F. B. Littell, 

 U. S. N., has departed for Paris. The new 

 French representatives are Professor E. Vien- 

 net, of the Paris Observatory, and Ensign P. 

 Auverny, of the French navy. 



News has been received from Dr. William 

 E. Farabee, who is now in Brazil directing 

 the University of Pennsylvania Expedition in 

 the Amazon regions. The expedition had 

 passed through the territory inhabited by the 

 Macusi Indians, and was starting, with forty 

 porters, through the Wai Wai country into 

 unexplored parts of French and Dutch Guiana. 



De. W. T. Hornaday, director of the New 

 York Zoological Park, will give a course of 

 lectures as a part of the regular work at the 

 Tale Forest School on wild animal life and 

 its conservation. The titles of the five lectures 

 in the course are as follows : " The Extinction 

 of Valuable Wild Life," "The Feathered 

 Allies of the Farmer and Forester," " The 

 Legitimate Utilization of Wild Birds and 

 Mammals," " Wild-animal Pests and their Ea- 

 tional Treatment," " The Duty and Power of 

 the Citizen in Wild Life Conservation." 



A course in industrial organization and sci- 

 entific management will be given at Brown 

 University during the second semester of the 

 present year. A feature of the course will be 

 three or four lectures monthly by business men 

 and efficiency experts. The first of these lec- 

 tures, which will be open to the public, will be 

 given on February 19 by Professor H. S. Per- 

 son, director of the Tuck School of Adminis- 

 tration and Finance, Dartmouth College, on 

 " Difi^erent Types of Management." 



On January 8 Professor Theobald Smith 

 delivered a lecture on " Prophylactic and 

 Therapeutic Vaccines " before the New York 

 State Veterinary College at Cornell Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. Arthur L. Day, director of the Geo- 

 physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, lectured before the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Chicago on January 23 on 

 " Some Observations on the Volcano Kileauea 

 in Action." 



Mr. Francis S. Peabody, president of the 

 Peabody Coal Company of Chicago, Illinois, 

 recently gave a lecture before the college of 

 engineering of the University of Illinois on 

 '■' The Mining and Utilization of Illinois 

 Coal." The lecture was illustrated with excel- 



