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Akron, with a view to determining the avail- 

 ability of its waters for steam, sanitary, water 

 supply power, and such other purposes as may 

 be found advisable. 



Dr. Georg Aulmann, assistant in the Eoyal 

 Zoological Museum at Berlin, has been called 

 to the directorship of the Natural History 

 Museum at Diisseldorf. 



Professor H. T. Barkes, of McGill Univer- 

 sity, lectured before a general meeting of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences on February 

 16, his subject being " The Physical Effects 

 Produced by Icebergs in the North Atlantic." 



The Society for Biological Eesearch of the 

 University of Pittsburgh held its first open 

 meeting of the year 1913-14, on January 29, 

 at which time Dr. Ross G. Harrison, of Tale 

 University, addressed the society on " The 

 Life of Tissues Outside the Organism." 



Dr. Joseph Jastrow, professor of psychol- 

 ogy in the University of Wisconsin, gave the 

 opening convocation address at the University 

 of Missouri on February 4, on " Theory and 

 Practise." 



Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, of Harvard 

 University, made one of the addresses at the 

 thirty-second annual banquet of the faculty 

 and students of McGill University. 



The next convocation orator at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago will be Professor James Row- 

 land Angell, head of the department of psy- 

 chology and dean of the faculties of arts, liter- 

 ature and science in the university. 



Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald, of the University 

 of Leipzig, has delivered at the University of 

 Chicago a series of five lectures on the sub- 

 ject of " Colloidal Chemistry." 



Professor Vladimir Karapetoff, of the 

 electrical department of Cornell University, 

 has returned from a trip to Washington, D. C, 

 where he delivered four two-hour lectures be- 

 fore the engineer officers of the United States 

 Army, Washington Barracks. The lectures 

 were given on February 5, 6 and 7, and the 

 subjects treated were " Alternating Currents," 

 " Theory of Electrical Machinery," " Design 

 of Electrical Machinery," and " The Funda- 



mentals of the Magnetic Circuit." Lieutenant 

 Atkisson, who is in charge of electrical and 

 mechanical engineering, and his assistant. 

 Lieutenant Lampert, are former students of 

 Professor Karapetoff's at Cornell. 



The Mendelian Society of Vienna has cele- 

 brated the thirtieth anniversary of Mendel's 

 death by opening a new institute devoted to 

 research in heredity. 



Dr. Roswell Park, professor of surgery at 

 the University of Buflialo, a distinguished sur- 

 geon and scientific author, died suddenly on 

 February 15, aged sixty-two years. 



Dr. Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf 

 GiJNTHER, late keeper of zoology in the British 

 Museum (Natural History), distinguished for 

 his contributions to zoology, especially for his 

 work on fishes, died on February 1 at his resi- 

 dence at Kew Gardens, in his eighty-fourth 

 year. 



Dr. Eduard Huber, professor of Indo-Chi- 

 nese philology in the French School at Hanoi, 

 has died at the age of thirty-four years, while 

 engaged in an expedition to Cochin China. 



Dr. Fritz Jummersbach, professor of agri- 

 culture at Munich, has died at the age of 

 fifty-six years. 



Dr. Karl Albert Neufeld, of the Univer- 

 sity of Wiirzburg, assistant director of the 

 food laboratory, has died at the age of forty- 

 eight years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Conunission an- 

 nounces an examination for technical assist- 

 ant in malaria investigations to fill vacan- 

 cies in this position in the Public Health 

 Service, for duty in the field, at entrance sal- 

 aries ranging from $1,800 to $2,200 a year. 

 The duties of this position will be to conduct 

 laboratory studies of malaria, to make surveys 

 of malarial regions, and to advise in respect 

 to the prevention of the disease. It is desired 

 to secure persons thoroughly competent to 

 make thick and thin blood smears, stain the 

 same and identify the Plasmodium of malaria 

 in all its stages in such preparations. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission also 

 announces an examination for geologic aid 

 and assistant geologist, for both men and wo- 



