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Howell Evans, F.E.O.S., for his essay on 

 malformations of the small intestine. The 

 subject for the year 1915 will be "Congenital 

 Dislocations of the Joints." 



Professor Norman Wilde, head of the de- 

 partment of philosophy and psychology at the 

 University of Minnesota, has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence. Professor David 

 Swenson will act as chairman of the depart- 

 ment during Professor Wilde's absence. 



Dr. Leo M. Baekeland has been appointed 

 first lecturer upon the Charles Frederick 

 Chandler foundation of Columbia University. 

 Dr. Baekeland's lecture will be given at the 

 University on May 29 in connection with the 

 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 founding of the School of Mines. 



Professor Bergson began his GifFord Lec- 

 tures on " Human Personality " in Edinburgh 

 on April 21. 



A LECTURE on " Kilauea in Action " was 

 given to the Sigma Xi Society of Case School 

 of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, on 

 April 6, by Dr. A. L. Day, director of the 

 Geophysical Laboratory at Washington, D. C. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of McGill Uni- 

 versity, delivered a lecture on the subject " The 

 Artificial Ripening of Fruit," on April 4, be- 

 fore the Royal Canadian Institute of Toronto ; 

 and, on April 14, before the Clinical Society 

 of the Western Hospital of Montreal on 

 ■" Colloids and the Ultramicroscope." 



Dr. Shosuke Sato, president of the College 

 of Agriculture of the Northeast Imperial Uni- 

 versity of Japan, is giving his series of lec- 

 tures on " Fifty Years of Progress in Japan " 

 at the University of Illinois during the two 

 weeks from April 14 to 24. Dr. Sato, it will 

 be remembered, is the second lecturer from 

 Japan in the exchange of lecturers between 

 the United States and Japan. 



On March 2Y, Mr. N. S. Amstutz, research 

 engineer, Valparaiso, Indiana, lectured to the 

 Civil Engineering Society of Valparaiso Uni- 

 versity on photo-telegraphy. 



At intervals of two weeks during the months 

 of February and March, Dr. W. P. Kelley, of 



the Hawaii Experiment Station, delivered a 

 series of four lectures on soils and soil fertil- 

 ity before the agricultural students of the 

 College of Hawaii at Honolulu. 



A bronze medallion of the late Dr. John S. 

 Musser, the work of Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, 

 was unveiled in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania Hospital on April 15. Dr. George E. 

 de Schweinitz made the presentation address. 



The students and members of the faculty of 

 New York University and Bellevue Medical 

 College held a memorial service in honor of 

 Dr. Egbert Le Fevre on April 5. Addresses 

 were made by Drs. George Alexander, Elmer 

 Ellsworth Brown, Abram A. Smith, George 

 D. Stewart, Edward D. Fisher and Professor 

 John A. Mandel. Resolutions were passed in 

 recognition of the high esteem in which Dr. 

 Le Fevre was held. 



Plans are being made to erect in Lincoln 

 Park, Chicago, a monument in memory of 

 Dr. Nicholas Senn, the distinguished physi- 

 cian. 



A portrait of James Gates Percival, Yale, 

 '15, the poet and geologist, has been presented 

 to Yale University by Harvard University. 



Alfred Noble, chief engineer of the Penn- 

 sylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Com- 

 pany and a former President of the American 

 Society of Civil Engineers, has died at the 

 age of seventy years. 



Dr. S. M. Jorgensen, director of the Carls- 

 bad laboratory for chemistry and plant physi- 

 ology has died in Copenhagen, at the age of 

 seventy-six years. 



Dr. Jacques Huber, director of the Musen 

 Goeldi, Para, Brazil, died on February 18, in 

 his fifty-sixth year. 



The death is announced, at the age of 

 eighty-one years, of Mr. G. Sharman, for more 

 than forty years paleontologist to the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Great Britain. 



The Honorable Francis Albert EoUo Rus- 

 sell, known for his contributions to meteorol- 

 ogy, died on March 30, aged sixty-five years. 



Nature says : " By the death of Mrs. Huxley 

 on March 5, in her eighty-ninth year, an- 



