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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 583. 



Geikie; Vice-presidents, E. S. Herries, J. E. 

 Marr, A. Strahan and J. I. H. Teall; Secre- 

 taries, W. W. Watts and E. J. Garwood ; 

 Foreign Secretary, Sir John Evans; Treas- 

 urer, H. W. Monckton. This is the second 

 occasion on which Sir Archibald Geikie fills 

 the presidential chair. He has been specially 

 elected in view of the approaching centenary 

 of the society. 



We learn from Nature that a portrait of 

 Dr. H. 0. Sorby, F.R.S., subscribed for pri- 

 vately, and presented by the subscribers to the 

 University of Sheffield, in commemoration of 

 Dr. Sorby's scientific work and labors as one 

 of the founders of the university, was un- 

 veiled on February 12. Dr. Sorby was unable 

 to be present at the ceremony, but he ex- 

 pressed his appreciation of the honor in a let- 

 ter to Alderman Franklin. The portrait is a 

 replica of one painted by Mrs. M. L. Waller, 

 now hanging in the rooms of the Sheffield 

 Literary and Philosophical Society. 



Mr. Edward K. Putnam, instructor in 

 English in Stanford University, has resigned 

 to become trustee for the Putnam Memorial 

 Fund for the Davenport Academy of Sciences. 

 His brother, Mr. W. C. Putnam, bequeathed 

 more than $500,000 to the academy. 



Nature states that Dr. Lewis Gough has 

 been appointed to assist Dr. Gunning in the 

 management of the museum at Pretoria. The 

 department for which he will be responsible 

 will be that containing the fishes, the 

 amphibia and reptiles — groups of animals 

 which were especially under his charge when 

 he was an assistant in the museum at Stras- 

 burg. Eecently Dr. Gough has been working 

 at Plymouth on the plankton of the British 

 Channel in connection with the British 

 Marine Biological Association. 



Dr. J. P. LoTSY has been made director of 

 the National Herbarium in Leyden. 



Professor Zimmermann, director of the 

 Agricultural Station at Amani, German East 

 Africa, has been appointed director of the 

 Agricultural Station in Salatiga, Java. 



The tenth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course was delivered by Professor Charles S. 



Minot, of the Harvard Medical School, at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine, on February 

 24, on ' The nature and cause of old age.' The 

 eleventh lecture in the course will be deliv- 

 ered by Professor J. 0. Webster, of Eush 

 Medical College, on Saturday, March 3, at 

 8 :30 P.M., on ' Modern views regarding placen- 

 tation.' 



Dr. James Ward, professor of mental phi- 

 losophy in the University of Cambridge, will 

 deliver in the sessions of 1906, 1907 and 1908,' 

 the Gifford lectures at St. Andrews. Dr. Ward 

 was Gifiord lecturer at Aberdeen in 1895-1897. 

 The subject of his Gifford lectures at St. An- 

 drews will be ' The realm of ends.' 



A MEMORIAL tablet has been unveiled at the 

 house at Eisenach, in which the late Professor 

 C. Abbe, the optician, was born. 



A BUST of Liebault, founder of the Nancy 

 School of Psychotherapy, was unveiled on 

 February 8 in the Ecole de Psychologic, Paris. 



Plans are being made to erect in Munich 

 a monument in memory of the late Professor 

 A. Hilger, professor of pharmacy in the uni- 

 versity. 



It is proposed to erect a monument in honor 

 of the late Eduard Grimaux, the chemist, in 

 Eochefort-sur-Mer, his native town. 



The death is announced of Dr. H. Eitten- 

 hausen, professor of agricultural chemistry in 

 the University of Konigsberg; of Dr. Alex- 

 ander Popow, professor of physics in the 

 Electro-technical Institute at St. Petersburg, 

 and of Dr. Karl v. Koristka, professor of 

 geodesy in the Technical Institute at Prague. 



The fourth annual conference of the Col- 

 leges of the Interior was held on February 21 

 and 22 at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. 

 This conference represents twenty-six colleges, 

 with about 10,000 students. 



Physicians of Toronto, representing the 

 local branch of the British Medical Associa- 

 tion, appeared February 7 before the premier 

 and the provincial cabinet to ask for assist- 

 ance in entertaining the association next Au- 

 gust, $7,500 being the amount requested. The 

 dominion government has partially promised 

 $10,000, and the city of Toronto is expected 

 to contribute $5,000. 



