June 22, 1906.] 



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Glaciers and make a reconnoissance survey of 

 the bed-rock geology of the region between 

 Takutat and Controller Bays. 



Professor H. L. Fairohild, of the Univer- 

 sity of Rochester, secretary of the Geological 

 Society of America, will spend the summer 

 on the Pacific coast, and will thereafter at- 

 tend the International Geological Congress at 

 the City of Mexico. 



M. Pierre Janet, professor of experimental 

 psychology in the College de Prance, has been 

 appointed lecturer at Harvard Univereity next 

 year, and will give a course on the symptoms 

 of hysteria. 



Mr. Elihu Eoot, secretary of state, has 

 been elected Dodge lecturer at Tale for 1907. 

 He will lecture on the responsibilities of 

 citizenship. 



Dr. W. H. Manwaring, of Indiana Univer- 

 sity, will give a series of twenty-four lectures 

 entitled ' An Introduction to Pathological 

 Physiology,' before the students of Rush Med- 

 ical College, during the summer quarter. 



The American Medical Association will 

 meet next year in Atlantic City either imme- 

 diately before or after the meeting of the 

 Congress of Physicians and Surgeons at 

 Washington. The chairmen of the sections 

 are: Ohstetrics and Diseases of Women — Dr. 

 J. Wesley Bovee, of Washington, D. C; 

 Hygiene and Sanitary Science — Dr. Prince A. 

 Morrow, of New York City; Diseases of Chil- 

 dren — Dr. J. Ross Snyder, of Birmingham, 

 Ala.; Pathology and Physiology — Dr. W. L. 

 Bierring, of Iowa City, la.; Laryngology and 

 Otology— Dv. S. M. Snow, of Philadelphia; 

 Ophthalmology — Dr. G. C. Savage, of Nash- 

 ville, Tenn. ; Pharmacology and Therapeutics 

 —Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr., of Philadelphia; 

 Stomatology — ^Dr. Schamberg, of Philadelphia. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed with the ob- 

 ject of establishing a memorial of the late 

 Sir William Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S., who 

 died at Cape Town in September, after the 

 British Association meeting in South Africa. 



Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, a well-known 

 physician and author of works on medicine 

 .and hygiene, died on June 10, at the age of 



sixty-three years. Mrs. Jacobi was the wife 

 of Dr. Abram Jacobi, emeritus professor of 

 the diseases of children in Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



The death is announced of Dr. James 

 Blyth, professor of natural philosophy in the 

 Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical 

 College. 



The Royal Geographical Society of Aus- 

 tralasia, Queensland, will celebrate the twenty- 

 first anniversary of its foundation in the last 

 week of June. 



The Selborne Society^s aimual conver- 

 sazione was held in London, on May 25. 

 About 800 guests were present. In the 

 smaller halls there was a collection of exhibits, 

 including natural history specimens shown un- 

 der microscopes by fellows of the Royal 

 Microscopical Society, members of the Quekett 

 Club, North London Natural History Society 

 and others. Lord Avebury gave the presi- 

 dential address. The society now numbers 

 over 1,800 members, and several new branches 

 have been formed during the year. 



The new Cecil Duncombe Observatory at 

 Leeds was opened on May 4 by Professor 

 Turner, of Oxford University, who is a native 

 of Leeds. 



Nature states that the German Bunsen So- 

 ciety for Applied Physical Chemistry held its 

 annual general meeting in Dresden under the 

 presidency of Professor Nernst on May 20-23. 

 The business of the meeting included some 

 thirty-five papers, in a group of five of which 

 the value and methods of the fixation of nitro- 

 gen for industrial and agricultural purposes 

 were discussed, in another group colloidal 

 bodies were considered, whilst other subjects 

 brought forward were such as technical meth- 

 ods for examining explosives, radiation laws, 

 etc. 



On June 11, the bill for the protection of 

 animals, birds and fish in the forest reserves 

 of California was reported to the senate by 

 the committee on forest reservations and the 

 protection of game without amendment. The 

 house resolution to protect birds and their 

 eggs in game and bird preserves was reported 



