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work of Massachusetts, with the exception of 

 the extreme western part and sections around 

 Boston. 



Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who was appointed 

 Norwegian minister at London last November, 

 has been raised to the rank of ambassador. 



The Hebdomadal Council of Oxford Uni- 

 versity has appointed William Osier, D.M., 

 Hon. D.Sc, F.E.S., student of Christ Church, 

 regius professor of medicine, representative of 

 the university on the council of the Lister Li- 

 stitute of Preventive Medicine in the place of 

 the late Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Bart, 

 D.M., F.E.S., honorary fellow of Magdalen 

 College. 



The University of Heidelberg has awarded 

 the Kussmaul prize to Professor Bier, of 

 Bonn, for his work on artificial hyperaemia as 

 a therapeutic process. 



The title of emeritus professor of civil engi- 

 neering and surveying has been conferred by 

 the council of London University on Mr. L. 

 F. Vernon-Harcourt, who occupied the chair 

 of civil engineering at University College for 

 twenty-three years. 



Dr. Prank E. Ross has been promoted to 

 be astronomer in charge of the International 

 Latitude Observatory at Gaithersberg, Md., 

 vacant by the resigTiation of Dr. Herman S. 

 Davis. 



Professor P. Tiemo Schwarz has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Benedictine Observa- 

 tory at Kremsmiinster, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the resignation of Dr. P. P. Schwab. 

 Professor P. B. Zolss has been appointed ob- 

 server in the same observatory. 



The medical staff of the "Widener Memorial 

 Home for Crippled Children at Philadelphia, 

 which was formally opened March 3, will be 

 composed of the following men: Surgeon-in- 

 charge. Dr. DeForest Willard; assistant sur- 

 geon. Dr. Edward B. Hodge, Jr.; visiting 

 physician. Dr. Albert D. Ferguson; pediatrist. 

 Dr. Alfred Hand, Jr.; neurologist. Dr. Wil- 

 liam G. Spiller ; ophthalmologist. Dr. G. Oram 

 Eing; assistant ophthalmologist. Dr. Carl S. 

 Williams; laryngologist. Dr. Francis E. Pack- 

 ard; dermatologist. Dr. Jay F. Schamberg, 

 and pathologist. Dr. Eobert L. Pitfield. 



Dr. Edward L. Nichols, professor of phys- 

 ics at Cornell University, lectured before the 

 Society of Sigma Xi at Ohio State University 

 on the evening of February 21. The subject 

 of his lecture was ' Phosphorescence.' 



Professor John Milne, F.E.S., gave the 

 Bakerian lecture before the Eoyal Society on 

 March 22, his subject being ' Eeeent Ad- 

 vances in Seismology." 



On March 17 Mr. J. E. Marr gave the first 

 of three lectures at the Eoyal Institution, 

 London, on ' The Influence of Geology on 

 Scenery.' These are the Tyndall lectures. 

 On March 19 Professor Bertram Hopkinson 

 began a course of three lectures on ' Internal 

 Combustion Engines,' with experimental illus- 

 trations. The Friday evening discourse on 

 March 23 was delivered by Lord Eoberts on 

 ' Imperial Defence.' On March 30 Professor 

 Zeeman will speak on ' Recent Progress in 

 Magneto-Optics,' and on April 6 Mr. W. B. 

 Hardy on ' The Physical Basis of Life.' 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the international 

 journal devoted to the history of medicine 

 and medical geography, Janus, in its issue for 

 February, pays homage to the oriental student, 

 Moritz Steinschneider, who reached the age 

 of ninety on March 30, 1906. He is still 

 actively engaged as occasional assistant at the 

 Berlin Eoyal Library. His researches on the 

 pharmacology, toxicology, medicine and nat- 

 ural sciences of the Arabian and other writers 

 during and just preceding the middle ages 

 are said to be a mine of information. 



Eeplicas, in bronze, of the medal commem- 

 orating the semi-centennial of the Academy 

 of Science of St. Louis, bearing an excellent 

 portrait of George Engehnann, may be se- 

 cured from the secretary of the academy at a 

 cost of $1.00 each, if ordered before the end 

 of April. 



A MEMORIAL of the late Professor Nothnagel 

 is to be erected in the great quadrangle of the 

 University of Vienna. A fund will also be 

 established, the interest of which will be de- 

 voted to the delivery of an annual commem- 

 orative lecture. 



