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exceptional honor. It has been proposed that 

 one street in Madrid and one in Pavia be 

 named after Cajal and Golgi, respectively, 

 and the name of Golgi is to be given to one 

 of the hospitals of Pavia. Various other 

 projects also are being discussed. It is re- 

 ported that Cajal may be knighted and made 

 a senator for life and that endowed prizes 

 may be given in his name. 



Professor John R. S. Sterrett, of Cornell 

 University, sailed on December 15 for Athens 

 with a party which will spend two years in 

 archeological field work in the near east. 



Mr. William E. D. Scott, curator of orni- 

 thology at Princeton University and director 

 of the Worthington Society for the Investiga- 

 tion of Bird Life, is spending the winter at 

 Trudeau, New York, in the interest of his 

 health, on a six months' leave of absence from 

 the laboratory of the Worthington Society at 

 Shawnee, Pennsylvania. 



Professor G. W. A. Luckey, of the depart- 

 ment of education of the University of Ne- 

 braska, has been given a leave of absence for 

 the next semester to allow him to go abroad 

 to study secondary education in European 

 countries. 



Dr. R. S. Woodward, president of the Car- 

 negie Institution, gave an address on * Tech- 

 nical Education ' at the meeting of the Wash- 

 ington Society of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology on December 12. 



Dr. William R. Brooks, director of the 

 Smith Observatory and professor of astron- 

 omy at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., deliv- 

 ered two illustrated astronomical lectures re- 

 cently before the Eranklin Institute, Philadel- 

 phia. The subjects were ' Other Worlds than 

 Ours ' and ' The Evening and Morning Stars.' 



Sir Victor Horsley's Hughlings Jackson 

 lecture before the Neurological Society of the 

 United Kingdom on November 29 was en- 

 titled ' The Illustration by Recent Research 

 of Dr. Hughlings Jackson's Views on the 

 Functions of the Cerebellum.' 



On December 12, 1906, in the chapel of the 

 University of Nashville, a portrait of Gerard 

 Troost was unveiled with appropriate cere- 



monies. Troost was the pioneer geologist of 

 the state of Tennessee, was state geologist 

 from 1831 to 1850, and was professor of geol- 

 ogy, mineralogy and chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Nashville from 1828 to the time of his 

 death in 1850. Addresses were made by 

 James D. Porter, LL.D., chancellor of the uni- 

 versity; J. I. D. Hinds, Ph.D., LL.D., pro- 

 fessor of chemistry, and P. H. Manning, A.M., 

 professor of geology. The geological building 

 and the cabinet which it contains have also 

 been named in honor of Gerard Troost. 



A statue of the late Principal Viriamu 

 Jones, F.R.S., first principal of the University 

 College of South Wales and Monmouthshire 

 and the first senior vice-chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity of Wales, was unveiled at Cardiff on 

 December 1 by Viscount Tredegar. The 

 statue, which is the work of Mr. Goscombe 

 John, A.R.A., has been placed temporarily in 

 the new city hall, but will be removed to the 

 new college buildings when they are completed. 



Mr. Arthur Vaughan Abbott, a well- 

 known electrical engineer in New York City, 

 author of important works on telephony and 

 electrical transmission of energy, has died 

 from pneumonia at the age of fifty-two years. 



Eitzhugh Townsend, A.B., E.E., instructor 

 in electrical engineering at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, died of typhoid fever on December 

 11, at the age of thirty-four years. 



Sir Edward J. Reed, E.R.S., chief con- 

 structor of the British navy from 1863 to 1870 

 and later lord of the treasury and member 

 of parliament, died on November 30, aged 

 seventy-six years. 



The Central Branch of the American So- 

 ciety of Naturalists and Affiliated Societies 

 will hold its next annual meeting during 

 the Easter vacation, at the University of Wis- 

 consin. There will consequently be no con- 

 flict with the convocation week meeting in 

 New York City. 



The following lectures will be given during 

 the winter by Lewis M. Haupt, Sc.D., pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering of the Eranklin 

 Institute, Philadelphia. ' The Chesapeake and 



