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license and authority to accept the cross of 

 commander of the Order of Leopold II., which 

 decoration has been conferred upon them by 

 the King of the Belgians, in recognition of 

 their valuable services to the cause of medical 

 science. 



Mr. E. H. Wilson has been sent by the 

 Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University to 

 make collections in central and western China. 



Major C. F. Close and Captain G. R. Frith, 

 Eoyal Engineers, have come to this country 

 on behalf of the British government to study 

 the methods of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. 



Dr. Hugo Mijnsterberg, professor of psy- 

 chology in Harvard University, has returned 

 to Cambridge after a visit to Germany. 



Mr. Ernest Chubb, employed in the collec- 

 tion of recent mammals at the British Mu- 

 seimi (Natural History), has been appointed 

 assistant curator of the Buluwayo Museum, 

 Rhodesia. 



Dr. M. X. Sullivan, instructor in physi- 

 ology in Brown University, has been ap- 

 pointed an expert in fertility investigations in 

 the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Professor A. Lawrence Eotch delivered a 

 lecture on the ' Exploration of the atmosphere 

 over land and sea ' before the Canadian Insti- 

 tute at Toronto, on January 12. Mr. Stupart, 

 the director of the Canadian Meteorological 

 Office, expects to establish a sub-station at 

 Toronto, and may be able to carry out the 

 wish of the International Committee for Sci- 

 entific Aeronautics by creating stations for 

 aerial soundings in Newfoundland and Ber- 

 muda. 



The seventh lecture in the Harvey Society 

 Course will be given by Professor Edmund B. 

 Wilson, of Columbia University, at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine, on Saturday 

 evening, January 26, at 8 :30 p.m. Subject : 

 ' Recent Studies of Heredity.' All interested 

 are invited to be present. 



On February 1, Dr. A. G. Webster, head 

 of the Department of Physics in Clark Uni- 

 versity, will give the address on Founder's 



Day commemorating the anniversary of the 

 birth of Jonas B. Clark. 



Dr. George H. Shull, of the Carnegie 

 Station for Experimental Evolution of the 

 Carnegie Institution, spoke before the Colum- 

 bia chapter of the Sigma Xi Society on 

 January lY on ' Recent Aspects of Plant 

 Breeding and Variation.' 



January 11 was the hundredth anniversary 

 of the birth of Ezra Cornell. The founder's 

 day exercises at Cornell University, however, 

 have been postponed until April 26. It is 

 hoped that Governor Hughes, ex-officio 

 trustee, and formerly of the faculty, will be 

 present and speak. 



On the evening of December 31, Dr. John 

 C. Hem meter presented to the Medical and 

 Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland a life size 

 marble bust of Rudolph Virchow, and made 

 an address on ' Virchow as an Anthro- 

 pologist.' 



The Rev. Dr. James Woodrow, formerly 

 professor of natural sciences in the University 

 of South Carolina, has died at the age of 

 seventy-nine years. 



Dr. Wilhelm Konigs, professor of chem- 

 istry at Munich, has died at the age of fifty- 

 five years. 



Advance proofs of the report of the director 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden show the 

 customary activity and growth of that institu- 

 tion for the past year. Visitors numbered 

 117,553, an increase of 16 per cent, over the 

 number for 1905, and 36 per cent, more than 

 the average for earlier years — except the 

 World's Fair year. The number of species 

 and varieties of plants cultivated was in- 

 creased about Y per cent., to a total of 1Y,0Y2. 

 Over 300 kinds of chrysanthemums, in 4,000 

 specimens, were tented in the fall, and viewed 

 by about 17,000 persons. The herbariiun was 

 increased about 6 per cent., to a total of 559,- 

 26Y specimens, valued at $83,890.05. The 

 number of books and pamphlets in the library 

 was increased about Y per cent., to 54,895; 

 and the total valuation of the library was in- 

 creased about &i per cent., to $89,023.26. 



