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public lectures under the auspices of the 

 Pennsylvania State Museum and the Harris- 

 burg Natural History Society at Harrisburg, 

 Pa., on January 21, 1914. He lectured upon 

 " The Antiquity of Man in the Light of 

 Recent Discoveries." 



Dr. Mayville W. Twitchell, the assistant 

 state geologist of New Jersey, has just finished 

 a course of five lectures on " The Geology of 

 New Jersey " before the combined classes of 

 the department of geology at Rutgers College. 



Professor Baldwin Spencer lectured on 

 January 27 before the Royal Anthropological 

 Institute on the life of the Australian tribes- 

 men. The lecture was illustrated by means of 

 kinematograph films and phonograph records. 



Mr. Alexander George McAdie has been 

 given the title Abbott Lawrence Eotch pro- 

 fessor of meteorology, in memory of the late 

 Professor Rotch. 



A committee has been formed to estab- 

 lish scholarships in memory of Lord Avebury 

 at the University of London. The sum of 

 $15,000 has already been subscribed for this 

 purpose. 



The centenary of the birth of Claude Ber- 

 nard was celebrated at the College de France 

 on December 30. 



The tablet unveiled at King's College by 

 Lord Eayleigh on January 14 to the memory 

 of Lord Lister bears the following inscription : 



In affectionate and respectful memory of Joseph 

 Baron Lister, F.E.S., O.M., professor of clinical 

 surgery in Bang's College from 1877-1892, and for 

 many years consulting surgeon to the King's Col- 

 lege Hospital, member of the council and life gov- 

 ernor of the college, this tablet is erected. His 

 name will be handed down to posterity as the 

 founder of antiseptic surgery, one of the greatest 

 discoveries in history, and a source of inestimable 

 benefit to mankind. 



Me. W. D. Marks, professor of mechanical 

 engineering at the University of Pennsylvania 

 from 1876 to 1887, later a consulting engineer 

 in New York City, has died at the age of 

 sixty-four years. 



Professor Aaron Hodgman Cole, of the 

 Chicago Normal School, known for his writ- 

 ings and lectures on biology, has died at the 

 age of fifty-seven years. 



The death is announced of Dr. J. Schreiner, 

 astronomer in the Potsdam Astrophysical 

 Observatory. 



The late Edward Ginn has bequeathed 

 $800,000 for the World's Peace Foundation 

 which he had established; Tufts College re- 

 ceives $10,000 and one tenth the residue of 

 his estate. 



The Swedish Antarctic committee, an asso- 

 ciation formed last year with Admiral 

 Palander at its head, has planned an expedi- 

 tion which will start in the autumn of 1915. 

 The cost of the expedition will be $72,360. 



Dispatches from Dr. Percival Lowell at his 

 observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., announce that 

 he is using the forty-inch Clark reflecting 

 telescope on Mars with full aperture. The 

 definition he declares to be perfect, the canals 

 being sharp lines. 



An organization dinner for the discussion of 

 plans for the International Electrical Con- 

 gress at San Francisco in September, 1915, is 

 to be held at the Engineers' Club, New York 

 City, Wednesday evening, February 25. 



Arrangements are being made for an exhi- 

 bition of physical apparatus at the joint meet- 

 ing of the American Physical Society and of 

 the electrophysics committee of the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers, to be held 

 on April 24 and 25 at the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, Washington. The opening of the new 

 electrical building of the bureau will add 

 interest to the occasion, and incidentally will 

 furnish abundant room for a large exhibit of 

 apparatus. It is hoped that designers and 

 makers of apparatus will unite to make this 

 a truly representative exhibition. Unfortu- 

 nately expenses of transportation and mount- 

 ing of exhibits must be borne by the exhibitors. 

 The Bureau of Standards can give only a 

 limited amount of help in mounting. Ex- 

 hibits of any considerable size should be un- 

 packed and mounted, and repacked and cared 



