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Arrangements are being made for a recep- 

 tion and dinner in honor of Professor Ira O. 

 Baker, '74, of the University of Illinois, at the 

 Hotel LaSalle in Chicago, on March 17. 

 About four hundred are expected to be present 

 and the list of speakers will include some of 

 the most prominent engineers of the west. 

 Professor Baker completes in June, 1914, forty 

 years of active, continuous service as a mem- 

 ber of the faculty of the college of engineering 

 of the University of Illinois. 



De. Wolfgang Ostwald, professor of chem- 

 istry in the University of Leipzig, Germany, 

 was given a banquet on February 11, by the 

 Cincinnati Chemical Society and the Cincin- 

 nati Society for Medical Research. 



Professor J. Paul Goode, of the University 

 of Chicago, has completed the second pair of 

 wall maps in the series upon which he has 

 been engaged for some years. This pair con- 

 sists of the physical and political North 

 America. The first pair on the physical and 

 political Europe were issued some months ago. 

 There are to be eighteen maps in the series, 

 all of which are nearing completion. 



Lewis E. Moore, associate professor of 

 structural engineering at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, has resigned to be- 

 come bridge engineer for the Massachusetts 

 Public Service Commission. 



Professor Hergesell, head of the Meteoro- 

 logical Institute of Strassburg, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Aeronautical Labora- 

 tory at Lindenberg, in succession to Professor 

 Assmann. 



Professor A. A. Iwanow has been appointed 

 director of the University Observatory at St. 

 Petersburg. 



Dr. Martin Strell haa been appointed 

 assistant in the Biological Experiment Sta- 

 tion for Fisheries at Munich. 



Professor E. C. Bryant, of Middlebury 

 College, Professor L. L. Campbell, of Sim- 

 mons College, and Professor W. E. McElfresh, 

 of Williams College, are spending their sab- 

 batical year at the Cavendish Laboratory of 

 Cambridge University, and are carrying on 

 researches under Sir J. J. Thomson. 



Professor Henry Tschetsohott, of the St. 

 Petersburg Mining Institute, has registered 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 for special work. His coming to the institute 

 is part of a general plan of the government to 

 educate Russians abroad for positions as 

 teachers in the home schools. Already there 

 are at Technology two other Russiaiis, 

 Messrs. Penn and Ortin, who have likewise 

 been sent by the government. 



Dean Charles R. Baedeen, of the school of 

 medicine of the University of Wisconsin, de- 

 livered the annual address of the University 

 of Iowa chapter of Sigma Xi, February 18, on 

 " The Eilect of Physical and Chemical Agents 

 on Development." 



Under the auspices of the Rush Society, 

 the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the 

 University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia 

 Pathological Society, and the Miitter Museum, 

 the Weir Mitchell lecture for 1914 was given 

 on February 25, by Dr. Harvey Gushing, pro- 

 fessor of surgery at the Harvard Medical 

 School, on " Clinical types of dyspituitarism." 



The Harvey Society lecture on February 

 28, at the New York Academy of Medicine, 

 was given by Professor Richard P. Strong, of 

 Harvard University, on the etiology of oroya 

 fever and verruga peruviana. 



" The Nebular Hypothesis " was the sub- 

 ject of an illustrated lecture given on March 2 

 by Professor Forest Ray Moulton, of the de- 

 partment of astronomy and astrophysics in 

 the University of Chicago, at the Berwyn 

 center of the University Lecture Association, 

 Chicago. On March 16 Professor Moulton 

 speaks at the same place on the subject of 

 " The Sidereal Universe." 



Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald delivered his series 

 of five lectures on colloids at the Ohio State 

 University during the week ending February 

 21. A more popular lecture designed to inter- 

 est beginners in chemistry was delivered for 

 the benefit of the freshmen class. 



The foreign mathematicians who attended 

 the Fifth International Congress of Mathe- 

 maticians held at Cambridge in 1912 sub- 

 scribed a sum to be devoted to a permanent 



