Apbil 29, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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Wellesley College has appointed Pro- 

 fessor C. B. Thompson delegate to the interna- 

 tional zoological congress at Graz. Miss 

 Thompson will sail for Antwerp on June 25, 

 and will spend the greater part of the summer 

 in Austria. 



Dr. Jasies E. Angell, professor of psychol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago, has left this 

 country for Great Britain. 



Dr. W. Cramer, of the physiological de- 

 partment of the University of Edinburgh, is 

 visiting some of the American universities. 



MEMORLiL services were held in Sage 

 chapel at Cornell on April 24 for Boss G. Mar- 

 vin, who lost his life on the Peary expedition. 

 Commander Peary delivered the memorial ad- 

 dress, dedicating a tablet which has been 

 erected in the chapel to Professor Marvin's 

 memory. President Jacob Gould Schurman 

 read a biographical sketch, written by Pro- 

 fessor O. M. Leland, a member of the faculty 

 of the College of Civil Engineering, to which 

 Professor Marvin belonged. 



The death is announced of M. Charlois, of 

 the Nice Observatory, known especially for 

 his work on the minor planets. 



Mr. C. Bird, headmaster of the Eochester 

 Mathematical School and the author of text- 

 books on geography and geology, died on 

 April 11, aged sixty-seven years. 



The senate committee has given its ap- 

 proval to a proposed amendment to the 

 sundry civil bill providing for the establish- 

 ment of a seismological laboratory in connec- 

 tion with the Smithsonian Institution. The 

 proposed annual appropriation is $20,000. 



A JoixT meeting of the American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers with the Institution 

 of Mechanical Engineers will be held this 

 summer in Birmingham and London, begin- 

 ning on July 26. 



We learn from Nature that in connection 

 with the aviation week to be held at Verona 

 in the first fortnight of May, it is proposed to 

 organize a first International Congress on 

 Aerial Locomotion. On the scientific side the 

 movement has received the support of Pro- 

 fessors Angelo Battelli (Pisa), Giovanni 



Celoria (Brera Observatory), Giuseppe Co- 

 lombo (Milan), Count Almerigo di Schio, Dr. 

 Enrico Forlanini, Professor Luigi Palazzo, 

 Professor Eighi (Bologna), Professor Vito 

 Volterra (Eome). 



A preliminary program has been issued for 

 this year's meeting of the British Association, 

 which is to take place at Sheffield on August 

 31 and following days. The president, the 

 Eev. Professor T. G. Bonney, will have the 

 assistance of representatives of the municipal, 

 educational, ecclesiastical and commercial ac- 

 tivities of the city, who have been appointed 

 as vice-presidents for the meeting, headed by 

 the Lord Mayor, the Et. Hon. Earl Eitzwil- 

 liam. To the list of sections, whose presi- 

 dents have already been announced, there has 

 been added, as in previous years, a sub-sec- 

 tion of agriculture, which this year will be 

 formed under the section of chemistry, with 

 Mr. A. D. Hall, E.E.S., as chairman. The 

 conference of Delegates of Corresponding So- 

 cieties will assemble this year as usual, at 

 Sheffield, during the meeting, and not in Lon- 

 don, as last year, when the meeting was in 

 Canada. Its chairman will be Dr. Tempest 

 Anderson. The reception room and adminis- 

 trative offices during the meeting will be es- 

 tablished in the Cutlers' Hall. It is centrally 

 situated, and a great majority of the sectional 

 meeting-rooms will be within a very short dis- 

 tance of it. The Victoria Hall will be the 

 scene of the opening meeting on Wednesday 

 evening, August 31, when Professor Bonney 

 will deliver his inaugural address. In the 

 same hall the first evening discourse will be 

 delivered on the Eriday evening by Professor 

 William Stirling on " Types of Animal Move- 

 ment," and the second on the Monday evening 

 by Mr. D. G. Hogarth on "'Sew Discoveries 

 about the Hittites." Eeceptions are an- 

 nounced to be given by the lord mayor and 

 by the university, and a number of garden 

 parties will be arranged. The city itself and 

 its vicinity offer a wide range of scientific in- 

 terests, as for example to chemists and metal- 

 lurgists, geologists, and students of economic 

 and educational problems, while its close 

 proximity to the Peak district, the " Duker- 



