OCTOBEB 12, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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by Kussell H. Chittenden, LL.D., professor of 

 physiological chemistry and director of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 

 on ' The Nutrition of Man.' On Tuesdays 

 and Fridays, at 8 p.m., beginning March 5. 



The twelfth course will be eight lectures by 

 Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D., professor of his- 

 tory in Harvard University, on ' The Eeal 

 South.' On Mondays and Thursdays, at 8 

 P.M., beginning March 25. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Sir William Perkin was entertained at a 

 banquet at Delmonico's on October 6. Pro- 

 fessor Charles F. Chandler presided and a 

 number of speeches were made. Dr. Hugo 

 Schweitzer read a paper describing the extra- 

 ordinary chemical advances that had followed 

 the discovery of mauve by Sir William Perkin 

 fifty years ago. Dr. William H. Nichols pre- 

 sented the first impression of a gold medal 

 established in honor of Sir William, which 

 will be awarded each year for the most impor- 

 tant discovery in applied science. A silver 

 tea set was presented by Mr. Adolf Kuttrofi 

 and honorary membership in the American 

 Chemical Society by its president. Dr. W. F. 

 Hillebrand. Among other speakers were 

 President Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. H. W. 

 Wiley and Professor Walther Nernst. Sir 

 William Perkin replied, giving a most inter- 

 esting account of his work in chemistry. 



Professor S. F. Earle has resigned the di- 

 rectorship of the Cuban Central Agricultural 

 Station, which was organized in 1902. 



Dr. H. C. Wood, for thirty years professor 

 of therapeutics in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania and until 1902 clinical professor of dis- 

 eases of the nervous system, has retired from 

 the active duties of his chair, and has been 

 made professor emeritus. 



At the recent Quebec Congress of Amer- 

 icanists, the following resolution was passed: 

 " The International Congress of Americanists 

 has learned with great regret that Dr. Albert 

 S. Gatschet has been compelled to give up the 

 continuation of his important investigations 

 which he has cai'ried on for many years, and 

 expresses its admiration for the great services 



which he has rendered to Americanistic 

 studies, particularly to those of Lidian lan- 

 guages and of the ethnography of North 

 America." 



Dr. Harry Fielding Eeid, professor of geo- 

 logical physics in the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, has sailed for Rome as the representative 

 of the United States at the annual meeting 

 of the International Seismographic Associa- 

 tion. 



Among the delegates to the celebration of 

 the four hundredth anniversary of the founda- 

 tion of the University of Aberdeen the follow- 

 ing were mentioned in Nature.- Professor H. 

 Becquerel, Professor Behring, Dr. C. De Can- 

 dolle. Professor Deissmann, Professor Yves 

 Delage, Dr. Anton Dohrn, Professor A. Giard, 

 Professor H. Hoffding, Professor F. Hueppe, 

 Professor Jensen, Professor Lombroso, Pro- 

 fessor Matsumura, Professor Mendeleeff, Pro- 

 fessor Menschutkin, Professor Hugo Miinster- 

 berg, Professor W. Ostwald, Professor Giu- 

 seppe Veronese, Professor Paul Yinogradoff, 

 Professor J. W. Wijhe and Professor Weich- 

 selbaum. 



Dr. Arnold Jacobi, professor of zoology at 

 the School of Forestry at Tharandt, has been 

 appointed director of the Zoological and Eth- 

 nological Museum at Dresden, in succession 

 to Dr. A. B. Meyer. 



Dr. a. Pacz, sometime private assistant to 

 Professor Baskerville, has become chief chem- 

 ist to the National Electric Lamp Company, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



Mr. E. F. Schramm, A.B. (Oklahoma, '06), 

 who was elected to a fellowship in geology in 

 the University of Nebraska, has had charge 

 during the past season of a field party of the 

 Morrill geological expedition under the direc- 

 tion of Professor E. H. Barbour, collecting 

 Tertiary vertebrates in the Nebraska bad 

 lands. 



Mr. Custer A. Reed, A.B. (Oklahoma, '06), 

 who is doing graduate work in paleontology 

 at Yale, spent the greater part of the season 

 studying water-supply conditions near East 

 St. Louis for the Illinois Geological Survey. 



Dr. James C. Wells, adjunct professor of 

 analytical chemistry at Columbia University, 



