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[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 676 



livered. an address on the sanitary problems 

 encountered in the canal zona 



The re^lar meeting of the Columbia 

 Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi was held 

 with the department of chemistry on Decem- 

 ber 12. Professor C. F. Chandler addressed 

 the society on Recent Progress of Electro- 

 chemistry. The lecture was an exposition of 

 the theory and practise of electrochemistry as 

 employed in the great industries built up dur- 

 ing the last few years at Niagara Palls, and 

 was illustrated by a collection of specimens of 

 both materials and products. 



The annual meeting of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences will be held on Monday, 

 December 16, at the Hotel Endicott, corner 

 of Columbus Avenue and Eighty-first Street, 

 at 7 P.M. After the annual dinner Professor 

 N. L. Britton will deliver his address as re- 

 tiring president of the academy, on " The New 

 York Botanical Garden, its organization and 

 construction." 



A Journal Club in General Science has 

 been organized at the New York City College 

 with membership consisting of the instructors 

 in the science courses. Professor Alfred G. 

 Compton has been elected president and Dr. 

 George G. Scott secretary. 



Professoe C. A. EwALD has announced his 

 intention of retiring from the editorship of 

 the Berliner Minische Wochertschrift on Jan- 

 uary 1. 



The recent opening of a new laboratory of 

 botany at Wellesley College was made the 

 occasion of a reception to Professor Emeritus 

 Susan M. Hallowell, at the head of the depart- 

 ment of botany from the opening of the col- 

 lege in 1875 to 1902. 



Lieutenant Frank H. Lahm, of the United 

 States Army, is in Germany on leave of ab- 

 sence from the War Department to study 

 German aeronautics. 



Dh. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, honorary associate in historic arche- 

 ology in the U. S. National Museum, has been 

 designated by Secretary Walcott as the repre- 

 sentative of the National Museum and the 

 Smithsonian Institution at the fifteenth inter- 



national congress of orientalists to be held in 

 Copenhagen during the second half of the 

 month of August, 1908. 



A statue of the late Professor Tillaux is 

 to be erected in the school of practical anat- 

 omy of the University of Paris at Clamart. 

 The statue is by M. Chaplain. 



Bernard J. Harrington, Ph.D., professor 

 of chemistry in MeGill University, died on 

 November 29 in Montreal. We learn from 

 a notice in the Yale Alumni Weekly that he 

 was born on August 5, 1848, at St. Andrews, 

 P. Q., and was graduated from McGill Uni- 

 versity in 1869, taking first honors in natural 

 science and winning the Logan gold medal. 

 Pursuing a graduate course at ShefBeld Scien- 

 tific School, Yale University, he received the 

 degree of doctor of philosophy in 1871 and the 

 prize in mineralogy. He was appointed in 

 the same year lecturer in chemistry at McGill, 

 and in 1872 succeeded Dr. T Sterry Hunt as 

 chemist and mineralogist to the Geological 

 Survey of Canada. He filled both posts for 

 seven years, retiring from the Geological Sur- 

 vey in 1879 in order to devote his entire time 

 to teaching, giving lectures in mining and 

 metallurgy in addition to his regular courses. 

 In 1883 Dr. Harrington was appointed Green- 

 shields professor of chemistry, but continued 

 to hold the lectureship of mining and metal- 

 lurgy until 1891. He was for many years 

 editor of The Canadian Naturalist, and was 

 the author of numerous monographs on the 

 mineralogy of Canada. He published in 1883 

 "The Life of Sir William Logan, First Di- 

 rector of the Geological Survey in Canada." 



We regret to record the deaths of Dr. Georg 

 Sidler, honorary professor of astronomy at 

 Bern, of Dr. Maurits Snellen, director of the 

 Meteorological Institute at Utrecht, and of 

 Dr. Pietro Pavesi, professor of zoology at 

 Pavia. 



The Central Branch of the American So- 

 ciety of Zoologists will unite with Section F 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science in a joint program at the 

 meeting to be held at the University of Chi- 

 cago during convocation week. The Central 

 Branch of the American Society of Natural- 



