July 6, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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the coordination of investigations in the field 

 of neurology. 



The first session was held in the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences. Professor Waldeyer 

 presided and there were present: 



Donaldson (Philadelphia), Ehlers (Grottingen), 

 Flechsig (Leipsic), Langley (Cambridge), v. 

 Monakow (Ziirieh), Munk (Berlin), Obersteiner 

 ( Vienna ) , Retzius ( Stockholm ) . 



The membei*s of the commission unable to 

 attend were: 



Bechteren (St. Petersburg), Edinger (Frank- 

 f urt-am-Main ) , van Gehuchten (Louvain), Golgi 

 (Pavia), Mall (Baltimore), Minot (Boston), 

 Ramon y Cajal (Madrid), Raymond (Paris), 

 Sherrington ( Liverpool ) . 



The first session was devoted to the further 

 organization of the commission and to the 

 presentation of reports on the scientific and 

 financial resources of the several institutes 

 and laboratories there represented. Steps were 

 taken also to facilitate intercommunication 

 between the various institutes. 



May 28 the second session was held in the 

 Neurological Laboratory directed by Professor 

 Obersteiner. The commission was enlarged 

 by making the number of members from each 

 country more nearly representative of the ex- 

 tent of the neurological work. 



At the suggestion of Professor Langley a 

 committee on the revision of some points in 

 the neurological nomenclature was formed, 

 with Professor Waldeyer as chairman. 



It was decided to make English, French, 

 German or Italian the official language of the 

 commission — according to the place of meet- 

 ing. 



The conmiission then adjourned to meet 

 three years hence at the call of the academy 

 in charge. 



WILLIAM T. SEDGWICK. 



FESTSCHRIFT CELEBRATION. 



Thursday, June 14, at the Hotel "West- 

 minster, Boston, a dinner was given to Pro- 

 fessor W. T. Sedgwick, by his former students 

 in the biological department of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, of which he 

 has been the head since 1883. The occasion 



was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the receipt 

 of his doctor's degree from Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Sixty former students of Professor Sedg- 

 wick's at the institute were present, in- 

 cluding, among others. Professor E. 0. 

 Jordan and Professor A. P. Mathews, of 

 the University of Chicago; Professor Sev- 

 erance Burrage, of Purdue University; 

 Professor G. N, Calkins, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, and Messrs. G. W. Puller, G. C. 

 Whipple and Allen Hazen, of New York; 

 M. O. Leighton, of the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey; Dr. E. C. Levy, city bacteriolo- 

 gist of Richmond, Va. ; F. F. Longley, su- 

 perintendent of the Washington filter plant; 

 W. S. Johnson, of the Massachusetts State 

 Board of Health; B. R. Rickards, city bac- 

 teriologist of Boston; Dr. Augustus Wads- 

 worth, of the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, New York; Dr. F. S. Hollis, of the 

 Yale Medical School; E. E. Lochridge, engi- 

 neer of the Springfield water department; 

 Dr. F. W. White, of Boston; Dr. J. A. Rock- 

 well, Jr., of Cambridge; Edward G. Gardiner 

 and Robert S. Weston, of Boston; Dr. Robert 

 P. Bigelow; Professor Theodore Hough, of 

 Simmons College; Professor B. E. Stone, of 

 Amherst; S. D. Gage, of the Lawrence Ex- 

 periment Station, and Professor S. C. Pres- 

 cott. Professor C.-E. A. Winslow and Earle 

 B. Phelps of the institute. 



There were also present as guests, former 

 President D. C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins 

 University; Professor S. F. Clarke, of 

 Williams College; President Henry Lefavour, 

 of Simmons College; Dr. L. P. Kinnicutt, of 

 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Dr. 

 Francis H. Williams, of the corporation of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Dr. Calkins acted as toastmaster. President 

 Gilman, who conferred Professor Sedgwick's 

 doctor's degree in 1881, and Professor Clarke, 

 who was a student with him, spoke of the 

 early days of Johns Hopkins University, to 

 which the biological department of the Insti- 

 tute, through Professor Sedgwick, owes its 

 inspiration. Mr. G. W. Fuller, Professor E. 

 O. Jordan, Professor A. P. Mathews, Mrs. 



