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the Carnegie Institution of Washington, gave 

 a course of five lectures before the graduate 

 students of the geological department of the 

 University of Chicago, on the genesis of min- 

 erals, eutectics and the volcanic gases of 

 Kilauea. These were followed by a course of 

 six lectures by Dr. John Johnston, of the same 

 institution, on the chemical and physical 

 effects of pressure and their bearing on certain 

 geological problems. Both courses were also 

 attended by the graduate students of allied 

 scientific departments and by members of the 

 staff. 



Dr. Shosuke Sato, of the Imperial Univer- 

 sity of Sapporo, Japan, will give a series of 

 lectures at the University of Illinois, April 13 

 to 25. The general subject is " Fifty Tears' 

 Progress in Japan." 



On February 11, Mr. E. J. Mehren, editor 

 of The Engineering Record, delivered a lec- 

 ture before the college of engineering of the 

 University of Illinois on " The Making of a 

 Technical Journal." Mr. Mehren graduated 

 from the University of Illinois in Civil Engi- 

 neering in 1906. 



Professor Arthur H. Blanchard, of Co- 

 lumbia University, on February 14 delivered 

 illustrated lectures at the University of West 

 Virginia on the subjects : " Park Boulevards," 

 " Bituminous Surfaces and Bituminous Pave- 

 ments," " Wood Block and Stone Block Pave- 

 ments " and " Modern Developments in High- 

 way Engineering in Europe." 



Two years' salary, amounting to $5,570, was 

 voted by the United States Senate on Feb- 

 ruary 12, to the widow of Dr. Thomas W. 

 McClintock, of the United States Public 

 Health Service, who died from spotted fever 

 contracted while he was making researches 

 into the cause and cure of the disease. 



We learn from Nature that it has been de- 

 cided to prepare for publication a biography 

 of the late Sir William H. White, K.C.B., the 

 eminent naval constructor. Mr. J. B. Capper, 

 to whom the work has been entrusted, will be 

 grateful for any material in the shape either 

 of correspondence or of reminiscence throw- 



ing light upon Sir William White's personal- 

 ity or work. Letters will be carefully pre- 

 served, copied and returned. Communications 

 of all kinds should be addressed to Mr. Cap- 

 per, care of Sir Henry Trueman Wood, secre- 

 tary of the Royal Society of Arts, John 

 Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 



Dr. Egbert Kennedy Duncan, director of 

 the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research 

 of the University of Pittsburgh, died on Feb- 

 ruary 18, in his forty-sixth year. 



Professor William Whitman Bailey, pro- 

 fessor emeritus of botany at Brown Univer- 

 sity, died at Providence on February 20, aged 

 seventy-one years. 



Dr. Arthur Henry Pierce, professor of 

 psychology at Smith College, died at North- 

 ampton on February 20, aged forty-four years. 



Dr. L.4ZARUS ScHONEY, a surgeon and scien- 

 tific author, died at Coney Island, New York, 

 on February 18, aged seventy-six years. 



Dr. R. T. Ormond, known for his work in 

 meteorology, died at Edinburgh on Jan- 

 uary 27. 



The sixth semi-annual meeting of the 

 American Institute of Chemical Engineers 

 will be held at Troy, N. Y., June 17-20, 1914. 



Owing to the agitation to prevent the suc- 

 cess of the International Congress of Ophthal- 

 mology to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 

 oh account of the exclusion of some and the 

 restrictions imposed on other Jewish members, 

 the following announcement was made early 

 in January by Professor Bellarminoff, the 

 head of the congress at St. Petersburg : " The 

 minister of the interior has granted, without 

 exception, unhindered entrance int© the em- 

 pire and unlimited stay to all members of the 

 Twelfth International Congress of Ophthal- 

 mology." 



The program for the twenty-eighth year of 

 the botanical seminar of the University of 

 Nebraska has been issued, giving the papers 

 which will be presented before some twenty 

 meetings 'that will be held in the course of the 

 year. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 



