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offered by the accused, and the recommendations 

 of the advisory board shall be attached to the 

 recommendation of the president of the university, 

 and the action of the board of trustees shall be 

 based solely upon the recommendation of the 

 president of the university and the record at- 

 tached thereto, there being no further hearing 

 before the board of trustees or any member 

 thereof, unless the board in its discretion shall 

 elect to receive other evidence in aid of its de- 

 cision, and any such recommendation and informa- 

 tion affecting the honor or character of a mem- 

 ber of the teaching staff shall be presented to and 

 acted upon by the board of trustees separately 

 from anything which may involve his competency 

 or fitness in any other respect. The members of 

 the board shall not in any case, or in any event, 

 listen to or receive any statement concerning such 

 matter except in open meeting. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor Ivan Petrovitch Pavloff, pro- 

 fessor of physiology in the University of St. 

 Petersburg, will deliver the Huxley lecture 

 at the Charing-cross Hospital Medical School 

 on October 1. 



The annual address before the Sigma Xi 

 Society of the University of California was 

 given on September 4 by Professor H. S. 

 Jennings, of Johns Hopkins University, on 

 the subject ' The Behavior of Some Animals 

 of the Seashore.' 



Dr. S. Ejmura, professor in the Imperial 

 Japanese Navy, is passing through this coun- 

 try on his way to Berlin, Germany, where he 

 will attend the wireless telegraph conference. 



Mr. W. Marconi expected to sail for this 

 country on September 15, on the Caronia. 



Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, director of the 

 Phipp's Institute of Philadelphia, was one of 

 the delegates to the Congress on Tuberculosis 

 which met during the first half of the present 

 month at The Hague. 



Professor D. S. Jacobus, who has been con- 

 nected with the Stevens Institute of Technol- 

 ogy since 1884 as instructor and professor of 

 experimental engineering, has resigned to join 

 the technical staff of the Babcock and Wilcox 

 Boiler Company. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer's resignation from the 

 U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey took effect 



on September 1. As already announced in 

 this journal, he has accepted the permanent 

 directorship of the department of terrestrial 

 magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of' 

 Washington. All his correspondence should 

 be addressed to The Ontario, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Dr. Harry T. Marshall, formerly of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed 

 pathologist at the Bureau of Science at 

 Manila. 



Dr. J. Stein, S.J., has been appointed as- 

 tronomer in the Vatican Observatory at Rome. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, it is rumored that Pro- 

 fessors von Leyden and Olshausen intend to 

 retire from the medical faculty at Berlin Uni- 

 versity. Professor E. v. Bergmann will also 

 give up further teaching this fall when he 

 passes his seventieth birthday, and Professor 

 W. Erb, of Heidelberg, will retire at the close 

 of the winter semester. 



Dr. Elmer E. Brown, recently appointed 

 U. S. commissioner of education, will give the 

 opening address at the exercises of the School 

 of Pedagogy of New York University, on 

 September 22. 



At the recent Boston meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Medicine, Dr. Casey A. 

 Wood, of Chicago, was elected president. Dr. 

 F. Trendelenburg, professor of surgery at 

 Leipzig, who was in attendance at the meeting, 

 was elected an honorary member. 



The Simon Fund of $25,000 for the further- 

 ance of research on syphilis has been divided 

 between Professor Neisser, of Breslau, who 

 receives $19,000; Dr. J. Siegel, who receives 

 $4,500, and Dr. Lesser, to whom $1,500 has 

 been awarded. 



Herr O. Wentzki, of Frankfurt a. M., has 

 been awarded the 300-marks prize of the 

 Berufsgenossenschaft der chemischen Industrie 

 for the discovery of the best means of purify- 

 ing hydrogen which contains arsenic. 



At the meeting of the Association of Mili- 

 tary Surgeons, held in Buffalo last week, it 

 was announced that the Enno Sanders prize 

 had been awarded to Major Pilcher for an 



