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purpose of studying cycads. Assistant Pro- 

 fessor Bradley M. Davis, of the same depart- 

 ment, has received an appointment to a Car- 

 negie table at the Zoological Station, Naples, 

 for the spring of 1904. 



Nature states that the Tanganyika com- 

 mittee (Professor Ray Lanli:ester, Sir John 

 Kirk, Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer, Mr. Boulenger 

 and Dr. Sclater) has determined to send out 

 another naturalist for the further investiga- 

 tion of the ' Tanganyika problem,' and Mr. 

 W. A. Cunnington, of Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed for this purpose. 

 Mr. Cunnington will leave for Tanganyika 

 (via Chinde and Zomba) in March, and will 

 pay special. attention to the lacustrine flora of 

 the lake, of which as yet little is known, but 

 will not neglect other subjects relating to the 

 lake basin. 



Dr. Eduard Zeller, emeritus professor of 

 philosophy in the University of Berlin, cele- 

 brated his ninetieth birthday on January 22. 

 Emperor William presented him with a por- 

 trait and an autograph letter. 



Professor August Weismann's seventieth 

 birthday was celebrated in Freiburg on Jan- 

 uary 17, when, as we learn from Nature, a 

 large and representative gathering assembled 

 to do him honor. A bust by Kowazik, of 

 Frankfort, subscribed for by biologists in 

 various parts of the world, was presented in 

 the name of the subscribers by Dr. H. E. 

 Ziegier, professor of zoology at Jena; it is to 

 be placed in the zoological institute of the 

 university. A special number of the Zoolo- 

 gische Jahrhucher, containing papers by vari- 

 ous naturalists, was presented by Professor J. 

 W. Spengel, professor of zoology at Giessen, 

 and from the Grand Duke .of Baden Professor 

 Weismann received the cross and star of Ber- 

 told I. 



Dr. Adolph France, of Berlin, known for 

 his contributions to chemical agriculture, 

 celebrated his seventieth birthday on January 

 20. 



Dr. Joseph Jastrow, professor of psychol- 

 ogy and logic at the University of Wisconsin, 

 has sailed for Europe to be absent until the 

 autumn. 



It is said that Dr. Nicholas Senn, of Chi- 

 cago, will have charge of the red cross work 

 of the Japanese army. 



A GRANT of $500 was given this year by the 

 Eockefeller Institute of Medical Research to 

 Dr. A. S. Warthin, professor of pathology in 

 the University of Michigan, for his researches 

 on the etiology "of the anemias. The grant 

 has been used for the establishment of a 

 fellowship in pathology, to which Mr. H. 

 Woltmann has been appointed. 



Mr. W. SA-(aLLE-KENT will shortly leave 

 England to investigate and advise towards the 

 further development of the pearl, shell and 

 other fisheries pertaining to certain Polynes- 

 ian Island properties. 



It is reported that M. Curie has declined 

 the cross of the Legion of Honor offered him 

 by the French government, because it has not 

 also been ofl^ered to Mme. Curie. 



Professor W. F. Barrett has been elected 

 president of the Society for Psychical Re- 

 search, succeeding Sir Oliver Lodge. 



Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, of New Tork City, 

 gave, February 15, one of the lectures on 

 tuberculosis before the Henry Phipps Insti- 

 tute of Philadelphia, his subject being ' The 

 Administrative Control of Tuberculosis.' 



At Trinity College, President David Starr 

 Jordan will lecture on Februai-y 19, on 

 ' Modern University Tendencies,' and on 

 February 26, Professor Henry Fairfield Os- 

 born, on ' The Evolution of the Horse.' 



Mr. Frank Chapman, of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, gave a lecture, 

 on January 24, before the Audubon Society 

 at Sherry's, New Tork City, his subject being 

 ' Travels of a Bird Lover.' 



Professor Elwood Mead, expert in charge 

 of irrigation investigations for the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, who also 

 holds the chair of the institutions and prac- 

 tice of irrigation in the University of Cali- 

 fornia, has left Washington, D. C, for Cali- 

 fornia, where he will deliver his annual 

 course of lectures on the ' Organization of the 

 Irrigation Industry.' 



Under the auspices of the West India Com- 

 mittee, London, Dr. John S. Flett read a 



