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Professor N. E. Gilbert, of the department 

 of physics of Dartmouth College, has gone to 

 study at Cambridge University during his sab- 

 batical year. 



Dr. Chauncey Juday, lecturer in zoology at 

 the University of Wisconsin, has gone to Cen- 

 tral America, where he will spend a month 

 studying lakes, particularly those formed in 

 volcanic craters, in Guatemala. 



An archeological expedition from Princeton 

 University will leave early in February. Pro- 

 fessor Howard Crosby Butler, who has led 

 three expeditions to Syria, will sail on Feb- 

 ruary 8 for Constantinople, where he wiU per- 

 fect the arrangements for the new expedition, 

 which will work in Asia Minor. 



Mr. Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., of Philadelphia, 

 founder of the Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., expedi- 

 tions into Nubia of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been made president of the 

 archeological department of that university. 



Dr. W. a. Murrill, assistant director of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, has sailed for 

 southern Mexico, to continue his studies of 

 tropical fungi. He is accompanied by Mrs. 

 Murrill. 



At a meeting of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, to be held on February 4, 

 Professor Francis G. Benedict, of the Car- 

 negie Nutrition Laboratory, Boston, will read 

 a paper on " The Influence of Mental and 

 Muscular Work on Nutritive Processes." 



Professor James F. Kemp, of Columbia 

 University, gave a lecture before the geolog- 

 ical department of Colgate University on the 

 evening of January 28. His subject was 

 " The Physiography of the Adirondacks." 



At the regular monthly meeting of the 

 Oregon Academy of Sciences held on January 

 15 an address was delivered by Mr. Ira E. 

 Purdin on " Local Geological Conditions." 

 The annual meeting of the academy will be 

 held on March 11 and 12. 



Monday evening lectures before the College 

 of Liberal Arts of Northwestern University 

 have been given as follows : 



December 20—" Our Present Knowledge of Hu- 

 man Lineage" (illustrated), by Professor William 

 A. Locy, Ph.D., Se.D. 



January 10— " Some Alaskan Glaciers" (illus- 

 trated), by Professor Ulysses S. Grant, Ph.D. 



January 24—" From Galileo to Kelvin, the Rise 

 of Modern Physics," by Professor Henry Crew, 

 Ph.D. 



January 31— "Problems of Modern Astronomy" 

 (illustrated), by Professor Philip Fox, M.S., di- 

 rector of Dearborn Observatory. 



Professor Hugo Mijnsterberg, of Harvard 

 University, delivered, on January 21, 1910, the 

 second of the series of lectures being given 

 during the college year by the Omega chapter 

 of the Sigma Xi Society, at the Ohio State 

 University, Columbus, O. He spoke on " The 

 Psychologist in the Courtroom." 



The fortieth anniversary of the founding 

 of the American Museum of Natural History 

 will be celebrated on the afternoon of Feb- 

 ruary 9, at which time a statue of Morris 

 Ketchum Jesup will be unveiled. The com- 

 memoration and presentation address will be 

 made by Mr. Joseph H. Choate. 



The Pennsylvania State Breeders' Associa- 

 tion and Dairymen's Association held me- 

 morial services for Professor Leonard Pearson, 

 at the University of Pennsylvania, on the eve- 

 ning of February 2. Dr. James Law delivered 

 the principal address. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, pro- 

 fessor of medicine in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania from 1813 to 1850, was presented to 

 the College of Physicians on January 5. The 

 presentation was made by Dr. S. Weir Mit- 

 chell on behalf of Mrs. Henry Caldwalader 

 Chapman in memory of her husband, the late 

 Dr. Henry C. Chapman. 



Dr. James F. Conneffe, assistant in the de- 

 partment of bacteriology, Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, Columbus, Ohio, died on Thursday, Jan- 

 uary 20, of typhus fever. Dr. Conneffe went 

 to Mexico as a member of an expedition in 

 charge of Associate Professor E. F. McCamp- 

 bell, of Ohio State University, and contracted 

 the disease while in Mexico. Dr. Conneffe 

 was a graduate of the Medico-Chirurgical Col- 

 lege of Philadelphia in 1906. 



