March 25, 1910] 



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Professor Bashford Dean, Columbia IJni- 

 versity, lias recently been decorated by the 

 French government chevalier de la legion 

 d'honneur in recognition of his services to 

 zoology in France. 



Dr. H. a. Miers, F.E.S., principal of the 

 University of London, has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Athenaeum Club for " eminence in 

 science." 



Dr. C. Lloyd Morgan, F.E.S. , for upwards 

 of twenty years principal of University Col- 

 lege, Bristol, first vice-chancellor of the uni- 

 versity and now professor of psychology and 

 ethics, has received a presentation from the 

 staff and students of University College and 

 friends. The gifts consisted of several sub- 

 stantial pieces of plate and £200 worth of 

 books. 



The Marquis Cappelli has been appointed 

 president of the Liternational Institute of 

 Agriculture at Rome, to succeed Count Faina, 

 who has resigned owing to diplomatic troubles 

 about minor appointments under the institute. 



The following officers of the Pellagra Inves- 

 tigation Committee have been selected : Chair- 

 man, Sir T. Lauder Brunton; vice-chairman, 

 Dr. F. M. Sandwith; honorary secretary and 

 treasurer, Mr. J. Cantlie; advisory subcom- 

 mittee, Mr. E. E. Austen, Professor E. C. 

 Bayly, Sir William Leishman, Dr. J. M. H. 

 MacLeod, Sir Patrick Manson, Sir John Me- 

 Fadyean, Dr. F. "W. Mott and Professor Eon- 

 aid Eoss. The field-workers will be Dr. Louis 

 W. Sambon, of the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine, and Captain J. E. Siler, with Mr. 

 Arthur Dawson- A m oruso and Mr. G. C. C. 

 Baldini as assistants. 



Dr. H. H. Bunzel, assistant in physiolog- 

 ical chemistry at the University of Chicago, 

 has been appointed biochemical expert of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry in the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



Dr. J. H. Creighton, professor of philos- 

 ophy at Cornell University, will have leave of 

 absence next year. His course will be taken 

 by Dr. G. H. Sabine, of Stanford University. 



Past Assistant Surgeon C. H. Lavinder, of 

 the Public Health and Marine Hospital Serv- 



ice has been sent to Milan and other places in 

 Italy for the purpose of making an investi- 

 gation into the origin and prevalence of pel- 

 lagra and into the measures being taken to 

 combat the disease. 



Mr. W. G. Bateman, lately instructor in 

 chemistry in Stanford University, has sailed 

 for China to take up his work as professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Tiensin. 



Dr. V. Franz, assistant in the biological 

 station in Heligo Land, has been appointed 

 head of the department in the Frankfort Neu- 

 rological Institute. 



Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie has ac- 

 cepted the presidency of the Hampstead Sci- 

 entific Society, in succession to Sir Samuel 

 Wilks, F.E.S., who has resigned. 



Dr. John M. Coulter, head of the depart- 

 ment of botany, was the orator at the seventy- 

 fourth convocation of the University of Chi- 

 cago, on March 15. The subject of his ad- 

 dress was " Practical Science." 



Dean F. E. Turneaure, of the College of 

 Engineering of the University of Wisconsin, 

 reported at the eleventh annual meeting of the 

 American Eailway Engineering and Main- 

 tenance of Way Association at Chicago last 

 week on the work of the special committee on 

 the effect of high speed and weight of trains 

 on steel and iron bridges, of which he is chair- 

 man. 



Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, on February 26, lectured before the 

 students of Denison University on " The Un- 

 tamed Inner Border of Palestine." 



The Bakerian lecture of the Eoyal Society 

 was delivered on March 17 by Professor J. H. 

 Poynting, F.E.S., and Dr. Guy Barlow, on 

 " The Pressure of Light." 



Among the lectures to be given at the Eoyal 

 Institution, London, after Easter, is a course 

 of three on the mechanism of the human voice, 

 by Dr. F. W. Mott, F.E.S., Fullerian professor 

 of physiology; Professor C. J. Hohnes wiU 

 give two lectures on heredity in Tudor and 

 Stuart portraits; and Major Eonald Ross, 

 F.E.S., two lectures on malaria. The Tyndall 



