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lectures on electric heating and pyrometry 

 will be given by Professor J. A. Fleming. 



Dr. Alfred Tuckerman, historian for the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, requests us to state that if members 

 of the American Chemical Society who have 

 had correspondence with the late Dr. Charles 

 B. Dudley will send it to him at the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Washington, D. C, it will 

 be safely preserved and will be accessible to 

 those interested. 



The Eev. Carr Waller Pritchett, formerly 

 director of the Morrison Astronomical Ob- 

 servatory and president of Central College 

 and Pritchett College, Missouri, died on 

 March 18, at the age of eighty-seven years. 



Professor Edward A. Bowser, for thirty- 

 three years professor of mathematics and engi- 

 neering at Rutgers College, died at Honolulu, 

 at the age of sixty-five years. 



George Willis Kirkaldy, an entomologist, 

 known for his work in hemipterology, died at 

 San Francisco, on February 2, in his thirty- 

 sixth year. 



Dr. E. P. Wright, for many years professor 

 of botany in Dublin University, has died at 

 the age of seventy-six years. 



At the general meeting of the American 

 Philosophical Society in April, 1909, a com- 

 mittee on South Polar exploration was au- 

 thorized. The resolutions in reference to the 

 matter were sent to all the scientific bodies 

 naturally interested in such exploration, and 

 were supported very widely by them. Later 

 the following were appointed members of this 

 committee: Edwin S. Balch, Henry G. 

 Bryant, Hermon C. Bumpus, Wm. Morris 

 Davis, George W. Melville, Henry F. Osborn 

 and Charles D. Walcott. The committee has 

 been actively at work to promote the explora- 

 tion of the South Polar region by an Ameri- 

 can expedition under the auspices of the gov- 

 ernment. The Navy Department is actively 

 interested in the matter, and it is hoped that 

 the expedition will be definitely authorized be- 

 fore long. 



SrsTY committees on the prevention of 

 tuberculosis in various parts of the state of 



New York met at Albany last week. At the 

 session on March 18, the Hon. Joseph H. 

 Choate presided and among those making ad- 

 dresses were Dr. Simon Flexner, director of 

 the Eockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 

 and Dr. E. L. Trudeau. 



The summer meeting of the American In- 

 stitute of Chemical Engineers will be held at 

 Niagara Falls, N. T., from June 22 to 24. A 

 prominent feature of the meeting will be 

 visits to the interesting chemical industries 

 in this locality. An important program of 

 papers is being arranged for by the committee 

 on meetings. 



A Physics Club at Philadelphia has been 

 organized with Professor George A. Hoadley, 

 of Swarthmore College, as president and Dr. 

 Guy W. Chipman, of the Friends' Central 

 School, as secretary and treasurer. There are 

 at present forty-three members. At the fourth 

 meeting held at the Central High School, on 

 March 11, Dr. Paul E. Heyl, of the Central 

 High School, presented a paper on the mag- 

 netic storm of September 25. 



The eighth International Physiological 

 Congress is to be held at the Physiological In- 

 stitute of the University, Vienna, from Sep- 

 tember 27-30 next. 



The British Medical Association will hold 

 its seventy-eighth annual meeting in London, 

 July 26 to July 29. The president's address 

 will be delivered on July 26 and the sections 

 will meet on the three following days. The 

 president of the association is Sir William 

 Whitla and the president-elect Mr. H. T. 

 Butlin. 



The Medical Record states that the Forsyth 

 Dental Infirmary is soon to be incorporated 

 in Boston as a result of a donation of $2,000,- 

 000 made by Mr. Thomas A. Forsyth, of that 

 city. The infirmary is to be located in Hem- 

 enway Street in the Back Bay, is to be thor- 

 oughly equipped and manned for modem 

 dental surgery, and is to be free to any child 

 under sixteen years of age. The purpose of 

 the clinic is to give free care of the teeth to 

 every child in Boston. 



