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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 5G4. 



Principal Benjamin F. Buck, of the Lake View 

 High School, for high schools of the state. 



There are being held during the week a 

 large number of assemblies and conferences, 

 including a conference on ' Religious Edu- 

 cation in State Universities and Colleges,' 

 a conference on ' Commercial Education ' and 

 ' A National Conference of College and Uni- 

 versity Trustees.' Among those announced to 

 speak at the latter congress are the Hon. 

 Andrew S. Draper, president Henry S. Prit- 

 chett and Professor Charles E. Bessey. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



In memory of Professor DeWitt B. Brace, 

 head of the department of physics of the Uni- 

 versity of Nebrfiska, whose, death we were 

 compelled to record last week, the new physics 

 building, the construction of which he super- 

 vised and into which he was about to move, 

 will be named Brace Hall. 



Professor G. E. Hale, director of the Mt. 

 Wilson Solar Observatory, on September 30, 

 gave a lecture in the Cavendish Laboratory, 

 Cambridge University, on ' The Development 

 of a New Method in Solar Research,' and 

 on October 4 he gave a lecture at a special 

 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 on the ' Solar Observatory on Mount Wilson, 

 California.' 



The medical profession of Chicago will give 

 a banquet to Dr. Nicholas Senn on Saturday, 

 November 11. The committee of arrange- 

 ments consists of Drs. William A. Evans, 

 Frank Billings, John B. Murphy, William L. 

 Baum and David J. Doherty. 



Dr. C. H. Gilbert, who has been working 

 during the summer on the deep-sea fishery 

 collections at Washington, has returned to 

 Stanford University. 



Mr. J. H. Batty, who has been collecting 

 mammals, birds and reptiles for the American 

 Museum of Natural History in Mexico for 

 several years past, finished his work in south- 

 ern Sinaloa in November of last year, going 

 thence overland through Tepic to Jalisco, 

 where he has since been making important 

 collections. Several shipments from Jalisco 

 have already reached the museum, containing 



hundreds of birds and mammals, besides many 

 reptiles and insects, accessories for groups and 

 a large number of valuable photographs. 

 During the last two or three months he has 

 been exploring the fauna of Mount Colima 

 and the adjacent regions. 



Dr. H. Bechhold has been appointed a 

 member of the Royal Institute for Experi- 

 mental Pathology at Frankfort. 



The Royal Commission on the Care and 

 Control of the Feeble-Minded, consisting of 

 Mr. W. P. Byrne, C.B., Mr. W: H. Dickinson, 

 Dr. H. B. Donkin, Dr. J. C. Dunlop and 

 Mrs. Pinsent, left Liverpool for the United 

 States on October 2 to study American meth- 

 ods of treating the insane. 



Professor W. E. Castle, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, will lecture before the New York 

 Association of Biology Teachers, on the even- 

 ing of October 20, his subject being ' The 

 Experimental Study of Heredity.' 



Professor Edgar L. Hewett, of Washing- 

 ton, will lecture on October 30 at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History before the 

 American Ethnological Society, on ' The Life 

 and Culture of the Tewa Indians in Pre- 

 Spanish Times.' 



Professor H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., de- 

 livered the inaugural address at the opening of 

 the present session of the Southeastern Agri- 

 cultural College, at Wye, England, taking as 

 his subject ' Botany and Agriculture.' 



Dr. J. W. Lowber, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., of 

 Austin, Texas, has been elected a member of 

 the Royal Societies Club of London. 



Sir William Wharton, F.R.S., hydrog- 

 rapher of the British Navy, died at Cape 

 Town, on September 29, of enteric fever. Sir 

 William Wharton was president of the Sec- 

 tion for Geography at the meeting of the 

 British Association in South Africa. 



Dr. Wilhelm Johann Friedrich von 

 Bezold, professor of physics and meteorology 

 at the University of Berlin and director of 

 the Prussian Meteorological Btireau, died on 

 September 13, at the age of sixty-eight years. 



The death is announced of Dr. Alexander 

 Hay Japp at the age of sixty-six years. He 



