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Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, who has resigned 

 from the Phipps Institute, Philadelphia, was 

 the guest of honor at a dinner at the Univer- 

 sity Club on February 2. Dr. Flick was pre- 

 sented with a massive silver loving-cup, bear- 

 ing the engraved autographs of the members 

 of the staff. 



M. Emmanuel de Margerie has been elected 

 president of the Paris Geographical Society. 



Sir Ernest Shackleton has been presented 

 with the Constantine gold medal of the Rus- 

 sian Geographical Society. 



Mr. Bion J. Arnold has been appointed 

 chief engineer of subways of Chicago, and will 

 organize the work of constructing a system of 

 subways for that city. 



Dr. Ehodain will be the head of the Belgian 

 sleeping sickness mission to the Congo. The 

 mission proposes to make its center of work 

 the Kalengwe Falls, in the neighborhood of 

 which the disease is very prevalent. 



Mr. John Claude Fortescue Fryer, B.A., 

 Gonville and Caius, has been appointed to the 

 Balfour studentship at Cambridge University. 

 A grant of £200 from the Balfour Fund has 

 been made to Mr. Clive Forster Cooper, M.A., 

 Trinity, for an investigation into the Tertiary 

 vertebrate fauna of India, and a grant of £40 

 to Mr. Kenneth Robert Lewin, B.A., Trinity, 

 in furtherance of his work in protozoology. 



Professor "William T. Sedgwick, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 

 Mrs. Sedgwick expect to leave this country in 

 March for a European trip. 



Mr. Roosevelt will deliver the Romanes 

 lecture at Oxford University on May 18. 



Dr. Bernard Bosanquet, formerly professor 

 of moral philosophy in St. Andrews Univer- 

 sity, has been asked by the Senatus of Edin- 

 burgh University to become the Gifford lec- 

 turer for the usual period of three years, from 

 October, 1911. 



Dean F. E. Turneaure, of the College of 

 Mechanics and Engineering of the University 

 of Wisconsin, gave two addresses before the 

 instructional staff of the College of Engineer- 

 ing of the University of Illinois on February 

 10 and 11. His subject on the first day was 



" The Stress in Bridges under the Load of 

 Moving Trains," and on the second day, 

 " Some Features of the Manhattan Suspension 

 Bridge." 



M. Etienne Boutroux wiU sail for the 

 United States on the steamship Adriatic on 

 February 23, to deliver a course of lectures at 

 Harvard University. He will also make four 

 public addresses at Cambridge under the 

 auspices of the Cercle Frangais on the " Es- 

 sence of Religion " and the " Movement of 

 Contemporary Philosophy." 



A tablet has been erected in 'memory of 

 Robert Henry Thurston in the rooms of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 

 in the Engineering Societies building. New 

 York City. Dr. Thurston was the first presi- 

 dent of the society. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. W. West, of Seattle, have 

 endowed at Stanford University a lectureship 

 to be known as the " Raymond F. West Lec- 

 tureship on Immortality, Human Conduct and 

 Human Destiny." It is arranged that at 

 intervals of two years three lectures shall be 

 given, by men standing in the front rank of 

 eminence in this and other countries. The 

 first course will be given in the year 1911. 

 This course is in memorial of a son of Mr. 

 and Mrs. West, a former student of Stanford 

 University. 



Through a committee formed to perpetuate 

 the memory of the late Mr. Benn Wolfe Levy 

 a studentship in biochemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge has been endowed with 

 £3,000. 



Dr. Henry Wilde has offered the University 

 of Oxford the sum of £600 for the foundation 

 of an annual lecture on astronomy and ter- 

 restrial magnetism, in honor and memory of 

 Edmund Halley, some time Savilian professor 

 of geometry. 



Dr. Charles Paine Thayer, professor emer- 

 itus at the Tufts Medical School, died on 

 February 13, at the age of fifty-seven years. 



Dr. Henry Byron Newson, professor of 

 mathematics in the University of Kansas, 

 known for his work on the theory of groups. 



