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lows : Founder's medal, Professor Albreclit 

 Penck, professor of geography at Berlin and 

 director of the Oceanographical Institute; Pa- 

 tron's medal, Dr. Hamilton Rice, of Boston, 

 Mass., known for his explorations of the re- 

 gion of South America drained by the head- 

 waters of the Orinoco and of the northern 

 branches of the Amazon; Murchison grant. 

 Commander H. L. L. Pennell, E.lSr., a mem- 

 ber of the Antarctic expedition of 1910, and 

 selected by Captain Scott to command the 

 Terra Nova after the landing of the shore par- 

 ties; Gill memorial, Mr. A. E. R. Wollaston, 

 who has made extensive journeys in many 

 parts of the world, chiefly for zoological work ; 

 Cuthbert Peek grant. Dr. J. Ball, employed in 

 the geological survey of Egypt for the past 

 eighteen years; Back grant, Mr. J. N. Dra- 

 copouli, known for his work in the Sonora 

 desert of Mexico and for his expedition to the 

 Lorian Swamp. 



The former students of Dr. J. McKeen Cat- 

 tell, professor of psychology in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, at a dinner held in New York on 

 April 8, presented him, in celebration of his 

 completion of twenty-five years as professor 

 of psychology, with a " Festschrift " in the 

 form of reviews of his researches and of work 

 in psychology to which they have led. The 

 contents of the volume are : 



"Work on Reaction Time," by V. A. C. Hen- 

 mon. 



"Studies of Reading and Perception," by 

 Walter F. Dearborn. 



' ' The Association Method, " by F. Lyman Wells. 



"Psychophysical Contributions," by R. S. 

 Woodworth. 



' ' Studies by the Method of Relative Position, ' ' 

 by H. L. HoUingworth. 



"The Study of Individual Differences," by E. 

 L. Thorndike. 



On April 6, 7 and 8, there was held at Co- 

 lumbia University a Conference on Individ- 

 ual Psychology by former students of the de- 

 partment of psychology, at which thirty papers 

 were presented. 



Dr. M. Miyoshi, professor of botany in the 

 Imperial University of Tokyo, is visiting the 

 scientific institutions of the United States. 



Princeton University has granted leaves of 

 absence for the academic year 1914^15 to Pro- 

 fessor H. D. Thompson, of the department of 

 mathematics; and to Philip E. Robinson, as- 

 sistant professor of the department of physics. 



The American Association of Pathologists 

 and Bacteriologists met in Toronto, on April 

 10 and 11, under the presidency of Professor 

 J. J. McKenzie, of Toronto University. There 

 also met at Toronto the International Associa- 

 tion of Medical Museums, with Professor R. 

 M. Pearce, of Philadelphia, as president, and 

 the American Association for Cancer Research, 

 under the presidency of Dr. Ernest E. Tyzzer, 

 of the Harvard Medical School. 



Mr. F. J. North, assistant in the geolog- 

 ical laboratory. King's College, London, has 

 been appointed assistant keeper in the depart- 

 ment of geology in the National Museum of 

 Wales. 



Professor M. Frechet, of the University of 

 Poitiers, will give at the University of Illi- 

 nois during the academic year 1914-15 a 

 course of lectures on general analysis. 



Indiana University will hold, on April 16 

 and 17, a conference on educational measure- 

 ments. The principal speaker is Professor E. 

 L. Thorndike, of Teachers College, Columbia 

 University. 



Dr. John A. Brashear, of Pittsburgh, re- 

 cently delivered two illustrated lectures at the 

 University of Illinois on " The Contribution 

 of Photography to our Knowledge of the Stel- 

 lar Universe," and " Engineering Problems in 

 the Construction of Large Telescopes." The 

 lecture on celestial photography was held in 

 the university auditorium with an audience 

 of fifteen hundred persons. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave on April 3, in the 

 Engineering Societies Building, the evening 

 lecture at the first joint meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Geographical Society and of the Associa- 

 tion of American Geographers, his subject 

 being " The General Magnetic Survey of the 

 Earth," illustrated by lantern slides of the 

 work of the Carnegie, and of the various ex- 

 peditions to more or less unexplored countries. 



