January 7, 1910] 



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the department of biology of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, has been pre- 

 sented to the institute by past students and 

 associates. The portrait will be hung in the 

 near future with appropriate ceremonies. 



M. E. YsEAUx, professor of zoology and 

 paleontology at Brussels, has retired from 

 active service. 



Mm. Henry B. Hedrick, for many years 

 assistant in the Nautical Almanac, U. S. 

 Naval Observatory, has received an appoint- 

 ment in astronomy at Yale University, begin- 

 ning January 1, 1910. 



Professor William Morris Davis gave a 

 lecture before the geological department of 

 Colgate University on the evening of Decem- 

 ber 20. His subject was, " The Italian Eiviera 

 Levante." 



Dr. J. C. Branner, professor of geology in 

 Stanford University, will read a paper on 

 " The Geology of the Black Diamond Eegions 

 of Bahia, Brazil " before the American Philo- 

 sophical Society at the meeting on January 7. 



A monument in memory of the eminent 

 ■surgeon, Jules Pean, was unveiled before the 

 hospital which he founded and which bears 

 his name, on December 17. The address was 

 •made by M. Alfred Mezieres, in the presence 

 ■of the president of the republic and other dis- 

 tinguished guests. 



Sir Alfred Jones, who was largely respon- 

 sible for the foundation and support of the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has 

 bequeathed the residue of his estate to public 

 purposes to be selected by his executors, but 

 with an indication favoring the School of 

 Tropical Medicine. The estate is large, but 

 the amount that will be available for public 

 purposes is not known. 



Dr. p. Penner, professor of geodesy in the 

 Technical School at Darmstadt, has died at 

 the age of fifty-six years. 



The fourth Congress for Experimental Psy- 

 chology will meet at Innsbruck on April 19. 



A FREE exhibition of 700 photographs illus- 

 trating the flora, fauna and scenery of central 

 and western China was opened at Horticul- 



tural Hall, Boston, on December 27, to last 

 two weeks. These photographs are the prop- 

 erty of Arnold Arboretum, and were made by 

 Mr. E. H. Wilson, the head of the Arboretum 

 botanical exploration expedition, during the 

 years 1907-8. 



The council of the New York Academy of 

 Medicine announces that the income of the 

 Edward N. Gibbs fund, amounting to five 

 hundred dollars a year, will be granted for a 

 period of years to a qualified worker to be se- 

 lected by the council from those who may ap- 

 ply for its use in research in the clinical, 

 pathological or chemical problems of diseases 

 of the kidney. 



The Women's Medical Association of New 

 York City offers the Mary Putnam Jacobi 

 fellowship of $800 available for post-graduate 

 study. It is open to any woman graduate in 

 medicine. Applications should be forwarded 

 to the chairman of the committee on award. 

 Dr. Emily Lewi, 35 Mt. Morris Park, W., New 

 York City. 



The following telegram, dated December 31, 

 has been received at the Harvard College Ob- 

 servatory from Professor E. B. Frost, director 

 of the Yerkes Observatory. "Prismatic cam- 

 era shows light of Halley's comet to be now 

 largely due to third cyanogen band." 



Drs. John F. Anderson and Joseph Gold- 

 berger, of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Pub- 

 lic Health and Marine-Hospital Service, who 

 have been in Mexico City since November 1 

 studying typhus fever, have issued two notes 

 on their work of much interest as to this dis- 

 ease. In the first paper they showed that Mex- 

 ican typhus fever is not identical with Eocky 

 Mountain spotted fever. In their second 

 paper they report negative results in all their 

 cultures. By the inoculation of blood from 

 eases of typhus fever in two monkeys a course 

 of fever resembling that in cases of human 

 typhus was produced, ending in crisis in one 

 case on the tenth day and the other on the 

 thirteenth day. These papers were published 

 in the Public Health Reports of December 10 

 and 24, 1909. Now that an animal susceptible 

 to the disease has been found, it is hoped their 



