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Dr. S. Weir Mitchell celebrated his 

 eightieth birthday on February 15. On the 

 following day he gave a lecture before the 

 College of Physicians of Philadelphia on 

 "WiUiam Harvey, the Discoverer of the Cir- 

 culation of the Blood." 



A TESTIMONIAL banquet will be tendered Dr. 

 William H. Welch, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, on April 2. Gold portrait medallions 

 of Professor Welch will be presented to him, 

 and to the Johns Hopkins University and the 

 Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. 



The Italian Royal Geographical Society has 

 conferred a gold medal on Commander Robert 

 E. Peary, a silver medal on Captain Robert A. 

 Bartlett, a gold medal on Lieutenant Ernest 

 H. Shackleton and a silver tablet on the Duke 

 of the Abruzzi for his expedition to the Hima- 

 layas. Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard 

 University, was made a correspondent of the 

 society. 



Professor G. H. F. Nuttall, F.E.S., Quick 

 professor of biology in the University of Cam- 

 bridge, has been awarded the Mary Kingsley 

 medal by the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine. 



Dr. John M. Coulter, professor of botany 

 in the University of Chicago, has been elected 

 president of the Hlinois Academy of Science. 



M. GuEBAiN, of the University of Paris, has 

 been elected president of the French Society 

 of Physical Chemistry. 



Mr. James E. Howard has been appointed 

 an engineer physicist in the U. S. Bureau of 

 Standards. 



The University of Pennsylvania has con- 

 ferred its doctorate of science on Mr. Samuel 

 Eea, third vice-president of the Pennsylvania 

 railroad and Mr. George S. Webster, chief of 

 the Bureau of Surveys of the City of Phila- 

 delphia. 



The officers of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences for 1910 are: President, C. 

 D. Walcott ; Vice-presidents — Anthropological 

 Society, Walter Hough; Archeological So- 

 ciety, Mitchell Carroll; Biological Society, T. 

 S. Palmer; Botanical Society, David White; 



Chemical Society, H. W. Wiley; Engineers^ 

 Society, B. R. Green; Entomological Society,, 

 A. D. Hopkins; Foresters' Society, Gifford 

 Pinchot; Geographic Society, Henry Gannett; 

 Geological Society, F. L. Ransome; Historical 

 Society, J. D. Morgan; Medical Society, Louis- 

 MackaU; Philosophical Society, R. S. Wood- 

 ward; Corresponding Secretary, Frank Baker; 

 Recording Secretary, Bailey WiUis; Treas- 

 urer, .Arthur L. Day; Additional Managers,- 

 L. O. Howard, O. H. Tittmann, B. W. Ever- 

 mann, L. A. Bauer, C. H. Merriam, C. F.. 

 Marvin, Geo. M. Kober, F. V. Coville, E. W. 

 Parker. 



A COURSE of three lectures on " Amphioxus " 

 was given at the Lnperial College of Sci- 

 ence and Technology, Royal College of Sci-- 

 ence, South Kensington, by Professor E. W.- 

 Macbride, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., February 14,. 

 21 and 28. 



Four lectures on " The Anatomy and Rela- 

 tionships of the Negro and Negroid Races"' 

 were delivered at the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons by Professor Arthur Keith, conservator- 

 of the museum, on February 14, 16, 18 and 21. 



The Julius Thomsen memorial lecture of' 

 the Chemical Society, London, was delivered 

 on February 17 by Sir Edward Thorpe. 



In memory of the late Dr. Ludwig Mond's 

 scientific eminence and his generous benefac- 

 tion of £3,000 towards the building of the- 

 Institute of Physiology at University College, 

 London, the college committee has resolved to 

 name the biochemistry research department of 

 the institute " The Ludwig Mond Biochem- 

 istry Research Laboratory." 



Dr. Charles R. Barnes, professor of plant 

 physiology at the University of Chicago and 

 eminent for his contributions to this subject, . 

 one of the editors of the Botanical Gazette,. 

 president of the Botanical Society of America 

 in 1903 and vice-president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science • 

 in 1899, died on February 24, at the age of 

 fifty-one years. 



Dr. Amos Emerson Dolbear, for thirty-two 

 years professor of physics at Tufts College,., 

 the author of numerous contributions to phys-- 



