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fellow of Merton College, have offered tlie 

 university a sum of about £1,000 for the 

 foundation of a prize, with a view to perpet- 

 uate the memory of Professor Weldon and to 

 encourage biometrie science. The prize will 

 be called the Weldon memorial prize and will 

 be awarded every three years. It will consist 

 of a bronze medal and a grant of money. 



The Geographical Society of Philadelphia 

 will hold a meeting on November 6, in mem- 

 ory of the late Angelo Heilprin, foimder of 

 the society. Institutions and societies with 

 which Professor Heilprin was connected will 

 be represented by speakers, as follows: Mr. 

 Alba B. Johnson, president of the Geograph- 

 ical Society of Philadelphia; Mr. Henry G. 

 Bryant, Geographical Society of Philadelphia ; 

 Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, American Geo- 

 graphical Society and Peary Arctic Club, New 

 York; Mr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National 

 Geographic Society, "Washington, D. C. ; Pro- 

 fessor Eussell H. Chittenden, director of the 

 SheiEeld Scientific School, Tale University; 

 Dr. Edward J. Nolan, Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia; Dr. Edgar F. Smith, 

 American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia; 

 Dr. Theodore Le Boutillier, Geographical So- 

 ciety of Philadelphia. 



A MEMORIAL meeting in honor of the late 

 James Carroll was held by the Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital Historical Club on October 14. Ad- 

 dresses were delivered by Drs. William H. 

 Welch, Howard A. Kelly and William S. 

 Thayer. 



Sir David Gill and Major P. A. MacMahon 

 represented the Eoyal Society and the Eoyal 

 Astronomical Society at the funeral of the 

 late M. Maurice Loewy, director of the Ob- 

 servatory of Paris. 



Mr. Allen H. Curtiss, a collector and stu- 

 dent of the plants of the southern United 

 States and of the West Indies, died in Jack- 

 sonville, Fla., on September 1, in the sixty- 

 third year of his age. 



The death is announced of Dr. J. Grancher, 

 professor of the diseases of children at Paris 

 and eminent for his work on tuberculosis 

 among children. 



Dr. Willum Marshall, associate professor 

 of zoology at the University of Leipzig, has 

 died at the age of sixty-two years. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on November 13 to fill a number of vacancies 

 in the position of constructing engineer, in 

 the Forest Service, at salaries ranging from 

 $1,500 to $2,000 per annum. These positions 

 are for field service in the western part of the 

 United States, with no permanent station, and 

 require much travel. 



The administration building of the Mount 

 Weather Meteorological Observatory of the 

 Weather Bureau was destroyed by fire on Oc- 

 tober 23. The loss is said to be $25,000, in- 

 cluding some valuable instruments. 



An imperial edict issued on October 9 or- 

 dered the Board of Revenue and Commerce 

 forthwith to introduce a uniform system of 

 weights and measures throughout the Chinese 

 empire, the standards, whose character is not 

 stated, to be fixed within six months. 



It was announced at the International Con- 

 gress of Psychiatry and Neurology, held re- 

 cently at Amsterdam, that arrangements had 

 been made for an International Institute for 

 the Study of Causes of Mental and Nervous 

 Affections. The king of Italy has offered the 

 use of a villa near Lugano, but the institute 

 will later be transferred to Zurich. 



During the academic year 1907-8 Columbia 

 University, in cooperation with the officers of 

 the United States Navy and the United States 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, offers a series of 

 public lectures in navigation and nautical 

 science. They are intended for yachtsmen, 

 ofiicers of merchant vessels in New York har- 

 bor, and all persons interested in the safe 

 navigation of the seas. The lectures will be 

 given in 309 Havemeyer Hall on Tuesday 

 afternoons at 4:30, and will be illustrated. 



November 12 — ^Rear-Admiral C. F. Goodrich, 

 U.S.N. : Introductory Address. 



November 12 — Lieut.-Commander W. S. Crosley, 

 U.S.N. : " Dead Reckoning and CJoastwise Navi- 

 gation." 



November 19 — Lieut.-C!ommander W. S. Crosley, 

 U.S.N. : " The Bottom of the Sea and its Uses in 

 Navigation." 



