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Professor J. S. Kingsley sails for Italy 

 and the Zoological Congress on May 28. All 

 matter intended for the Journal of Morphol- 

 ogy should be sent direct to the Wistar Insti- 

 tute until his return in September. 



From Oxford University Dr. G. C. Bourne, 

 Lin acre professor of comparative anatomy 

 and Mr. E. S. Goodrich, fellow of Merton 

 College, have been appointed representatives 

 at the International Congress of Zoology. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has appointed as delegates Dr. Rich- 

 ard A. K. Penrose and Dr. Edgar T. Wherry 

 to represent it at the eleventh International 

 Geological Congress and Dr. Henry Skinner 

 to represent it at the first International Con- 

 gress of Entomology. 



We learn from Nature that Dr. and Mrs. 

 Seligmann have returned from their first ex- 

 ploratory ethnological survey of the Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan, to which they were ap- 

 pointed by the Anglo-Egyptian government. 

 They studied the hitherto uninvestigated 

 Nubas of southern Kordofan, and the Shil- 

 luks, Dinkas and Shir of the White Nile. 

 A short time was spent between the White 

 and Blue Niles, where a Neolithic site was 

 discovered. Observations were made on the 

 sociology and religion of various tribes, and 

 some anthropometrical data were obtained, 

 especially of the Nubas. 



Professor John R. Allen, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, has been given leave of 

 absence to go to Constantinople and assist 

 the president of Robert College in laying out 

 a course in engineering and to install an elec- 

 tric lighting system for that college. Pro- 

 fessor Allen expects to visit a number of 

 European schools of engineering. 



Dr. F. W. Andrewes will deliver the 

 Croonian lectures before the Royal College of 

 Physicians of London in June. The Harveian 

 oration will be delivered by Dr. H. B. Donkin 

 on October 18. The Bradshaw lecture by Dr. 

 G. N. Pitt; the FitzPatrick lectures, on " The 

 History of Medicine," by Sir T. Clifford All- 

 butt and the Horace Dobell lecture, by Dr. W. 

 Bulloch, will be delivered in November. 



Dr. Leon J. Cole, recently appointed to the 

 chair of experimental breeding at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, has begun his work. He 

 has made arrangements to conduct breeding 

 operations with small birds and mammals, 

 such as will reproduce rapidly and will be 

 inexpensive to maintain. He will also begin 

 the collection of data as to the heredity of 

 characteristics in farm animals. Worlj with 

 plants will be begun later. 



It is proposed to add to the collection of 

 portraits of deceased members of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society, that of its first 

 president, Thomas Hopkinson (1743). 



A MEMORIAL service for Dr. Harold Taylor 

 Ricketts, associate professor of pathology at 

 the University of Chicago, who died of typhus 

 fever in Mexico City on May 3, was held at 

 the university in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, 

 on Sunday, May 15. His fatal illness was 

 contracted as the direct result of an investi- 

 gation of the disease which he had been pur- 

 suing for several months. President Henry 

 Pratt Judson made an address on the work of 

 Dr. Ricketts, and the essential facts of his 

 life and death were given by Dr. Russell M. 

 Wilder, who was associated with him in his 

 work in Mexico. Dr. Ludvig Hektoen de- 

 livered an address on the personality of Dr. 

 Ricketts and the nature and value of the 

 work. Professor Charles Henderson spoke on 

 the humanitarian aspects of Dr. Rickett's 

 work and his death. 



On convocation day on June 14 at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago will be laid the corner- 

 stone of the library building which is being 

 erected as a memorial to the university's first 

 president, William Rainey Harper. The ad- 

 dress will be delivered by Mr. Clement An- 

 drews, librarian of the Crerar Library of 

 Chicago, formerly instructor in chemistry at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



The council of the Royal Astronomical So- 

 ciety has adopted the following address in 

 memory of Sir William Huggins: 



The council have learned with the deepest re- 

 gret of the death of Sir William Huggins, and 

 desire to record their sense of the great loss which 

 the society itself and science in general have thus 



