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years. He has been granted leave of absence 

 from Harvard University for three months 

 this winter, and will spend this time in direct- 

 ing the work of the Department of Anthro- 

 pology and the Anthropological Museum of 

 the University of California. Professor Put- 

 nam has been appointed chairman of the De- 

 partment of Anthropology in the International 

 Congress of Arts and Science at the St. Louis 

 Exposition. 



Professor S. P. Langley has been ap- 

 pointed by the International Meteorological 

 Committee a member of the commission (men- 

 tioned on page 658 of Vol. XVIII.) to consider 

 the study of the relations of solar physics to 

 meteorology. 



The board of visitors to the Naval Academy 

 includes President Henry S. Pritchett, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 

 Professor Ira N. Hollis, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. 



Professor P. E. Lloyd, of Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, has received a grant 

 from the Botanical Society of America, to 

 carry on researches at the Desert Botanical 

 Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at 

 Tucson, Arizona. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn sailed from San Eran- 

 cisco on January 7 for Tahiti, where he will 

 join a commission appointed by the Erench 

 government to investigate the diseases of the 

 island. 



Drs. E. L. Tyser and W. E. Brinckerhoff, of 

 the Harvard Medical School, have been sent on 

 a commission to the Philippines to study 

 smallpox and other contagions diseases. 



Mr. William Barnum, formerly of the Fish 

 Commission, has been appointed chief clerk 

 of the Carnegie Institution. 



Professor F. H. King, of the Bureau of 

 Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has 

 resigned. He has been connected with the 

 Bureau of Soils since November, 1901, in 

 charge of the work in soil management. 



Mr. Charles Henry Thompson, assistant in 

 botany at Stanford University, has been ap- 

 pointed to take charge of the Department of 

 Siicculent Plants at the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden. 



Dr. William Osler, professor of medicine 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, will give 

 this year the Ingersoll lecture at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, his subject being ' Science and Im- 

 mortality.' 



The chapter of the Sigma Xi at the Ohio 

 State University is giving a series of lectures 

 this winter. The first was by Professor A. D. 

 Cole on ' Why Light is believed to be an Elec- 

 trical Phenomenon ' ; the second lecture was 

 delivered January 25 by Dr. Victor C. 

 Vaughan, of the University of Michigan, on 

 ' Immtmity from Disease ' ; the third lecture 

 will be given by Professor E. L. Landacre. 



Professor W. B. Scott, Blair professor of 

 paleontology at Princeton University, has be- 

 gun a course of sixteen lectures at the Wagner 

 Institute, Philadelphia. 



The death is announced of Dr. Georg von 

 reception on January 13 to celebrate the re- 

 turn of some of the members of the Gauss 

 South Polar Expedition. Count Posadowsky, 

 minister of the interior, delivered an address 

 of welcome. Dr. von Drygalski then gave a 

 lecture recounting his experiences, and was 

 afterwards presented with a gold medal. 



The prize of the Swedish Medical Associa- 

 tion has been awarded to Professor M. G. 

 Blix, of Stockholm, for his work on the tem- 

 perature of the muscles. 



The death is announced of Dr. Georg von 

 Liebig, decent in climatology at the University 

 of Munich. He was a son of Justus von 

 Liebig. 



A civil service examination will be held on 

 March 2 and 3 for the position of miscel- 

 laneous computer of the U. S. Naval Observa- 

 tory. 



The sixth International Congress of Phys- 

 iology will be held at Brussels from August 

 30 to September 3. Communications should 

 be addressed to Dr. Slosse, Institute Solvay, 

 Pare Leopold, Brussels, Belgium. 



Governor Odell has signed a bill author- 

 izing the consolidation of the New York State 

 Medical Society and the New York State 

 Medical Association. 



