Mat 15, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



719 



F. H. H. Calhoun, professor of geology and 

 mineralogy. 



Dr. L. J. Henderson, assistant professor of 

 biological chemistry, has been appointed the 

 professor from Harvard University for the 

 second half of the year 1914^15 under the 

 interchange agreement between Harvard Uni- 

 versity and the four western colleges — Beloit, 

 Grinnell, Knox and Colorado. 



Professor Percy E. Raymond, of Harvard 

 University, has left for an exi)edition under 

 a grant from the Shaler Memorial fund to 

 explore regions about the Baltic. 



Professor G. D. Harris, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, wiU leave Ithaca early in June in a 

 thirty-foot motor boat to take an inland trip 

 down the Atlantic coast for the purpose of 

 studying the geological formations on the 

 route and to add to the university's collection 

 of geological specimens. He will be accom- 

 panied by six or eight graduate students who 

 are specializing in paleontology. 



Professor J. H. Leuba, of Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege, will be absent next year on sabbatical 

 leave. His work will be taken by Professor 

 E. Wilm, now at Wells College and by Dr. 

 Chester E. KeUogg. 



The University of Pennsylvania Chapters 

 of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi held their 

 annual joint meeting on May 1, when an ad- 

 dress, entitled " The Whole Man," was made 

 by Professor E. M. Wenley, of the University 

 of Michigan. 



On the evening of May 4, Professor C. J. 

 Keyser delivered an address before the Phi 

 Beta Kappa Alumni in New York on " Sci- 

 ence and Religion: the Rational and the 

 Superrational." 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave the following course 

 of illustrated lectures at the -Tohns Hopkins 

 University : 



May 4, "The General Magnetic Survey of the 

 Earth. I. The Chief Phenomena and Instruments 

 of Investigation used in Ocean and Inland Work. ' ' 



May 5, ' ' The General Magnetic Survey of the 

 Earth. II. The Results and Bearings of Magnetic 

 Observations. ' ' 



May 6, ' ' The General Characteristics of the Mag- 

 netic Fields of the Earth and of the Sun and Re- 

 sults of Analyses." 



May 7, ' ' E§sum4 and General Theories. ' ' 



Professor Gustav Killian (Berlin), who 

 win deliver the Semon Lecture at the house 

 of the Royal Society of Medicine, on May 28, 

 has selected for his subject, " Suspension 

 Laryngoscopy and Its Practical Use." 



The Romanes lecture at Oxford University 

 will be delivered on June 10, by Sir Joseph 

 John Thomson, professor of experimental 

 physics at Cambridge. The subject is " The 

 Atomic Theory." 



A conference under the auspices of the 

 Societe des Amis de I'Universite de Paris has 

 been held to consider the subject of the fourth 

 centenary of Andreas Vesalius, the great 

 anatomist, who was born in Brussels in 1514. 

 The plan is to erect a monument to his mem- 

 ory on the island of Zante where he died in 

 1564, next August, under the auspices of the 

 Belgian government. 



Professor Newton Horace Winchell, 

 formerly state geologist of Minnesota and pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy and geology at the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, died on May 3, aged 

 seventy-five years. 



Professor Eduard Suess died on April 26 

 of pneumonia at the age of eighty-three. 

 Until his eightieth birthday he had been presi- 

 dent of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. Pro- 

 fessor Suess was not only the dean of modern 

 geologists, but a Liberal politician of the old 

 school, whose parliamentary activity was 

 largely directed against the organized forces 

 of professional obscurantism. 



Dr. Otto May, honorary professor of agri- 

 culture at the Technical School at Munich, 

 has died at the age of eighty-one years. 



The Swiss Society of Neurology has called 

 an International Congress of Neurology, 

 Psychiatry and Psychology to be held at 

 Berne, September 7-12, 1914. An organiza- 

 tion committee and various international 

 committees have been appointed. 



The committee having in charge the Sam- 

 uel D. Gross prize, valued at $1,500, of the 



