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meetings of the British Association in Aus- 

 tralia. 



Professor E. W. Brown, of Yale TJniversity, 

 has accepted the invitation of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science to 

 attend the Australia meeting in 1914. He 

 expects to be absent from the university until 

 February, 1915. 



Dr. J. C. Arthur and Mr. F. D. Fromme, 

 of Purdue University, are making a botanical 

 trip through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona 

 during the month of February. The special 

 object of the trip is to obtain additional infor- 

 mation on certain species of Uredinales, whose 

 life histories are incompletely known. 



Professor George B. Eigg, of the TJniver- 

 sity of Washington, is absent on leave for the 

 rest of the academic year. He is at the TJni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



Walter Wallace Wetr has been placed in 

 charge of cooperative drainage experiments 

 being carried on at I^earney Park, near 

 Fresno, on the 5,400-acre ranch belonging to 

 the TJniversity of California. The TJniversity 

 and the Office of Experiment Stations of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture are 

 making these investigations in the reclama- 

 tion of alkali lands by drainage ditches and a 

 pumping system. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. J. I. Craig 

 has been transferred from the directorship of 

 the meteorological section of the Egyptian 

 Survey Department to the controllership of 

 the Department of Statistics, and has been 

 succeeded at the survey by Mr. H. E. Hurst. 



Mr. W. Lawrence Balls, botanist to the 

 Egyptian government, Department of Agri- 

 culture, has left the service and is returning 

 to Cambridge to work up the data on cotton 

 which he has collected. 



Dr. Emil Abderhalden, professor of physi- 

 ology at the University of Halle, will lecture 

 at Columbia University next autumn. 



Professor Dana Ddrand, of the University 

 of Minnesota, formerly director of the United 

 States Census, will lecture at Harvard Uni- 

 versity in April on combinations and trusts. 



Professor D. W. Johnson, of Columbia 

 University, recently gave an illustrated lec- 

 ture before a joint meeting of the American 

 Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and 

 the American Museum of Natural History on 

 the subject " The Scenery of the Atlantic 

 Coast and Its Answer to the Question: Is the 

 Coast Sinking ? " 



Professor Waldo H. Norris, of Grinnell 

 College, will lecture on zoology at Harvard 

 University this term under the exchange agree- 

 ment with colleges of the middle west. 



Dr. W. p. Mason, professor of chemistry in 

 the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, lectured 

 on January 29, before the Franklin Institute 

 of Philadelphia, on advantages and disadvan- 

 tages of water storage. 



Dr. John P. Stewart, professor of experi- 

 mental pomology of the Pennsylvania State 

 College, during the current fall and winter 

 has lectured before the Maine State Pomolog- 

 ical Society, the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' 

 Association and the New Hampshire State 

 Agricultural Convention on " The Ttesults of 

 Seven Tears' Experiments with Different Cul- 

 tural Methods, Covercropa and Fertilization 

 in Apple Orchards." 



Dr. W. B. Scott, Blair professor of geology 

 and paleontology at Princeton University, is 

 giving a course of six lectures on the theory 

 of evolution before the Wagner Free Institute 

 of Science, Philadelphia. The lectures which 

 are given on Saturday evenings are on the 

 Richard B. Westbrook Free Lectureship. 



Dr. Dayton C. Miller, professor of physics 

 in the Case School of Applied Science, has 

 delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, 

 a series of eight lectures, the subjects of 

 which were as follows : January 20, Sound, 

 Sound Waves, Character of Sounds; January 

 23, Pitch, Loudness, Tone Color, Pure Tones j 

 January 27, Methods of Recording and Photo- 

 graphing Sound; January 30, Effects of Horn 

 and Diaphragm on Sound; February 6, Tone 

 Qualities of Various Musical Instruments, 

 Ideal Tone; February 10, Physical Character- 

 istics of Vowels and Other Sounds of Speech; 

 February 13, Synthetic Reproduction of the 



