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October 20, Professor A. E. Wright, London: 

 ' Therapeutic Inoculation with Bacterial Vaccines.' 



November 3, Professor C. A. Herter, New York: 

 * The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digest- 

 ive Tract and the Intoxications arising from 

 them.' 



November 17, Professor W. T. Porter, Boston: 

 ' Vasomotor Reflexes.' 



December 1, Professor J. G. Adami, Montreal: 

 ' The Myelins and Potential Fluid Crystals of the 

 Body.' 



December 15, Dr. S. J. Meltzer, New York: 

 ' The Factors of Safety in Animal Structure and 

 Animal Economy.' 



January 12, Professor F. G. Benedict, Middle- 

 town, Ct. : ' Metabolism during Fasting.' 



January 26, Professor E. B. Wilson, New York: 

 ' Recent Studies of Heredity.' 



February 9, Professor G. S. Huntington, New 

 York : ' The Genetic Interpretation of Variations 

 in the Genito-Urinary Tract.' 



February 23, Professor W. T. Councilman, Bos- 

 ton : ' The Relation of Certain Leucocytes to In- 

 fectious Diseases.' 



March 9, Professor Friedrich Miiller, Munich: 

 ' Neuroses of the Heart.' 



The autumn lectures to be delivered in the 



^ lecture hall of the museum building of the 



]S[ew York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, on 



Saturday afternoons, at 4:30 o'clock, are as 



follows : 



October 13, Dr. W. A. Murrill: 'A Summer in 

 Europe; Some Foreign Botanists and Botanical 

 Institutions.' 



October 20, Dr. M. A. Howe: 'The Vegetation 

 of the Florida Keys.' 



October 27, Dr. C. Stuart Gager: 'How Plants 

 Breathe.' 



November 3, Dr. Arthur Hollick: 'Coal: Its 

 Origin and Development.' 



November 10, Mr. G. V. Nash : ' The Vegetation 

 and Botanical Features of the Inaguas and Grand 

 Turk, Bahamas.' 



November 17, Dr. N. L. Britton: 'Recent Ex- 

 plorations in the West Indies.' 



November 24, Dr. H. H. Rusby : ' The Wild 

 Nuts and Grains of North America.' 



In order to provide a method for viewing the 

 collections of the garden under guidance, an 

 aid will leave the front door of the museum 

 building every week day afternoon at three 

 o'clock, to escort all who may wish to accom- 

 pany him. The routes will be as follows : Mon- 



day, hemlock forest and herbaceous garden; 

 Tuesday, pinetum; Wednesday, fruticetum 

 and north meadows; Thursday, deciduous 

 arboretum, nurseries, propagating houses ; Fri- 

 day, public conservatories; Saturday, mu- 

 seums. 



We learn from Nature that the council of 

 the Institution of Civil Engineers has, in addi- 

 tion to the medals and prizes given for com- 

 munications discussed at the meetings of the 

 institution in the last session, made the fol- 

 lowing awards in respect of other papers dealt 

 with in 1905-6 : A Telford gold medal to Mr. 

 G. A. Denny ; a George Stephenson gold medal 

 to Professor W. E. Dalby; Telford premiums 

 to Messrs. W. R. Baldwin- Wiseman, G. N. 

 Abernethy, H. R. C Blagden, M. R. Collins 

 and James Kelly; a Crampton prize to Mr. 

 P. T. Gask. For students' papers the awards 

 are : Miller prizes to Messrs. Ralph Freeman, 



A. F. Harrison, A. J. Grindling, T. R. Grig- 

 son, J. W. D. Ball and A. Morris. Mr. A. F. 

 Harrison also gained the James Prescott Joule 

 medal. The awards will be presented on 

 jSTovember 6, when an inaugural address will 

 be delivered by the president. Sir Alexander 



B. W. Kennedy, F.R.S. 



Professor C. A. J. A. Oudemanns, who 

 formerly held a chair of botany at Amster- 

 dam, has died at the age of eighty years. 



Sir Richard Tangye, head of a large engi- 

 neering firm at Birmingham and the author 

 of books on travels and industry, died on 

 October 14, at the age of seventy-three years. 



The widow of the late Professor Gusserow 

 would like to sell his library as a whole. The 

 library is a very rich one and contains sets 

 of archives, of society publications, text-books 

 and separate volumes, and also about 4,000 

 separate. reprints. A catalogue has been pre- 

 pared of the library, the value of which has 

 been estimated at 14,000 Marks. Further in- 

 quiries on the subject may be addressed to 

 Professor Waldeyer, 35 Luther Strasse, Berlin, 

 W., Germany. 



Through the generosity of friends the Chi- 

 cago Academy of Sciences has secured 3,000 

 species of the Quadras collection of Mollusca, 

 which was exhibited at the St. Louie World's 



