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Professor Arthur H. Blanchard, of Co- 

 lumbia University, on February 24, delivered 

 illustrated lectures at the University of Ten- 

 nessee on the subjects : " Bituminous Macadam 

 and Bituminous Concrete Pavements " and 

 " Highway Engineering in Europe " and an 

 illustrated lecture on " City Pavements," be- 

 fore the chamber of commerce of the city of 

 Knoxville. 



Professor J. Ansel Brooks, of Brown Uni- 

 versity, on March 2, delivered an illustrated 

 lecture on " The Principles of Efficiency Engi- 

 neering applied to Highway Engineering," be- 

 fore the graduate students in hig'hway engi- 

 neering at Columbia University. 



On February 28 Sir J. J. Thomson began a 

 course of six lectures at the Eoyal Institution 

 on recent discoveries in physical science. 



Portraits of Dr. John Herr Musser, late 

 professor of medicine in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and of Dr. Rush Shippen 

 Huidekoper, first dean of the school of veter- 

 inary medicine, were presented to the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania at its university-day 

 celebration on February 23. 



Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Sachs have estab- 

 lished a fund for the American Museum of 

 Natural History to be known officially as the 

 Angelo Heilprin Exploring Fund. The money 

 is given in memory of Angelo Heilprin and is 

 to be applied each year to any exploring pur- 

 pose the museum authorities deem fitting. 



Memorial services for Alfred G. Compton, 

 late professor of physics at the College of the 

 City of New York, were held on March 9 in the 

 great hall of the college. Professor Compton 

 entered the college at its foundation and was 

 graduated with the class of 1853. Since his 

 graduation until his retirement in 1911 he 

 was a member of the faculty. Among those 

 who made addresses- were: Professor Michael 

 I. Pupin, of Columbia University; Professor 

 Adolph Werner, of the college, and Dr. John 

 H. Finley, state commissioner of education and 

 formerly president of the college. 



Professor Edwin J. Houston, formerly of 

 the Central High School of Philadelphia and 

 the Franklin Institute, well known for his 



work in electrical engineering and for his 

 writings on this and other departments of 

 physics, died on March 1, aged seventy years. 

 • Colonel Alexander Eoss Clarke, the dis- 

 tinguished British geodesist, died on February 

 11, at the age of eighty-five years. 



Dr. Julia Cock, consulting surgeon to the 

 New Hospital for Women and dean of the 

 London School of Medicine for Women, died 

 on February 7, aged fifty-four years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for junior pharmacol- 

 ogist, on April 8, to fill vacancies in this posi- 

 tion in the bureau of chemistry. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C, at salaries 

 ranging from $1,200 to $1,500 a year. 



John Dewrance has presented £2,000 to the 

 donation fund of the Eoyal Society. The in- 

 come arising from this fund is applied in pro- 

 moting experimental researches. 



The Bermuda Biological Station for Ee- 

 search will be opened in June for a period of 

 about six weeks. Members have facilities for 

 shore collecting, dredging and marine towing 

 down to a depth of 100 fathoms. Inquiries 

 should be sent to Dr. E. L. Mark, 109 Irving 

 St., Cambridge, Mass. 



According to the resolutions of the meeting 

 of October 25, 1912, at Lyons, the secretary's 

 ofiice of the permanent committee for the 

 International Veterinary Congresses has been 

 definitely established at The Hague from 

 January 1, 1914, under the patronage of the 

 Dutch Department of Agriculture, Industry 

 and Commerce. The address of the office is 

 as follows : " Secretary's Office for the Perma- 

 nent Committee for the International Veteri- 

 nary Congresses at The Hague, Stationsweg Y4 

 (Int. Tel. 848)." Correspondence, publica- 

 tions, etc., as far as they are not sent to the 

 president of the committee, Dr. A. Lydtin, at 

 Baden-Baden, or to the secretary, Professor 

 Dr. D. A. de Jong, at Leyden, are to be ad- 

 dressed to this office. 



With the cooperation of fifty different or- 

 ganizations devoted to social progress and civic 

 welfare, Eeed College will hold a conference 

 on May 15, 16 and 17, as a clearing house for 



