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national Congress of Americanists to be held 

 at the City of Mexico at the same time. 



Me. H. H. Clayton, late of the Blue Hill 

 Observatory, has gone to Buenos Ayres to 

 organize kite and balloon observations under 

 the direction of the Argentine Meteorological 

 Service. 



Dr. Sebastian Albrecht, of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory, has been appointed first astronomer 

 in the National Observatory of the Argentine 

 Republic. 



The annual address before the Huxley So- 

 ciety in the Johns Hopkins University was 

 delivered Friday evening, April 1, by Professor 

 W. P. Montague, of Columbia University. 

 The address veas on " Life and Mind as Forms 

 of Energy." 



Professor A. E. Kennelly, of Harvard 

 University, gave a lecture on March 12, to 

 graduate students of the U. S. Naval Acad- 

 emy at Annapolis, on " The Operation of 

 Electric Motors from a Central Power Sta- 

 tion." 



The Aldred lecture of the Eoyal Society of 

 Arts will be delivered by Professor H. H. 

 Turner, F.R.S., on May 4, the subject being 

 " Halley and his Comet." 



Mr. T. a. Eickard, editor of the Mining 

 Magazine, London, has been appointed lec- 

 turer on mining geology at Harvard Univer- 

 sity, where he will deliver a course of lectures 

 at some time during the present year. 



Committees of members and friends of 

 Glasgow University have, says Nature, pro- 

 cured contributions to some £1500 for the 

 purpose of commemorating the services of 

 Dr. John Cleland, regius professor of anat- 

 omy from 1877 to 1909, and Dr. William Jack, 

 professor of mathematics from 1879 to 1909, 

 who retired last year. It has been decided to 

 present to the university a portrait of Dr. 

 Cleland, painted by Sir George Eeid, with a 

 replica for Mrs. Cleland; and a portrait of 

 Dr. Jack, painted by Sir James Guthrie, and 

 also a prize, to be awarded at intervals, for 

 the best thesis on a mathematical subject ap- 

 proved for the degree of doctor of science 

 during the preceding period. 



It is proposed to erect at Marburgh a mon- 

 ument in memory of Wilhelm Eoser, who held 

 the chair of surgery in the University of Mar- 

 burg from 1850 to 1858. 



Mr. Samuel Ward Loper, curator of the 

 Museum of Wesleyan University, the author 

 of contributions to geology and paleontology, 

 has died at the age of seventy-five years. 



Mr. J. Eayner Edmands, assistant in the 

 Harvard College Observatory, died on March 

 26, at the age of sixty years. 



The death is announced of Dr. Eduard 

 Pfliiger, the eminent physiologist of Bonn, 

 founder and editor of Pfliiger's Archiv. 



Dr. Otto Hermes, first director of the Ber- 

 lin Aquarium, has died at the age of seventy- 

 one years. 



Mr. Charles Fox-Strangways, for many 

 years connected with the British Geological 

 Survey, died on March 6, at the age of sixty- 

 six years. 



The Central Branch of the American So- 

 ciety of Zoologists will hold its annual meet- 

 ing at the University of Iowa on April 7, 8 

 and 9. The address of the president, Pro- 

 fessor E. A. Birge, of the University of Wis- 

 consin, is entitled " Some Personal Peculiari- 

 ties of Lakes." 



The Association of German Scientific Men 

 and Physicians and Medical Practitioners will 

 hold its eighty-second meeting at Konigsberg 

 this year from September 18 to 24. 



The bequest of Miss Phebe Anna Thome 

 to the American Museum of Natural History 

 has been applied as an endowment to the 

 museum's room for the blind. Messrs. Sam- 

 uel and Jonathan Thorne, the executors of the 

 will, have increased the amount from ten 

 thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars. 



The following course of illustrated lectures 

 in economic entomology and genetics is to be 

 given at the Bussey Institution of Harvard 

 University, Forest Hills, on Sunday after- 

 noons, during April and May, at 4 o'clock: 



April 10 — " Insects as Carriers of Disease. I. 

 The House-fly and its Allies," by Professor W. M. 

 Wheeler. 



April 17— "Insects as Carriers of Disease. II. 



