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Changes in the Weather,' and ' The Circula- 

 tion of the Earth's Atmosphere, and the New 

 Theory of Storm Energy.' 



The winter course of free and illustra.ted 

 popular lectures for 1907 of the Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be given in the As- 

 sembly Hall of the Matthew Laflin Memorial 

 Building, Lincoln Park, on Friday evening's, 

 at eight o'clock, as follows : 



January 25, ' American Museums and their 

 Work,' Frank Collins Baker, Curator of the Acad- 

 emy. 



February 1, ' The Evolution Theory, Pro and 

 Con,' Dr. Winfield Scott Hall, Professor of Physi- 

 ology, Northwestern University Medical School. 



February 8, ' Deep Sea Fishes and Fishing,' 

 Dr. Seth E. Meek, Assistant Curator, Department 

 of Zoology, Field Miiseum of Natural History. 



February 15, ' The Every-day Application of 

 Ohm's Law,' a discussion of elementary electricity. 

 Dr. Howard N. Lyon, Chicago. 



February 22, ' The Place of Bacteria in the 

 Causation of Disease,' Dr. Adolph Gehrmann, Bac- 

 teriologist, Columbus Medical Laboratories, Chi- 

 cago. 



March 1, ' Other Worlds than Ours,' Dr. Forest 

 Eay Moulton, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, 

 University of Chicago. 



March 8, ' The Work of Leaves,' Dr. Charles B. 

 Atwell, Professor of Botany, Northwestern Uni- 

 versity. 



March 15, ' From the Big Horn Basin to the 

 Yellowstone and Jackson's Hole via Sylvan Pass,' 

 Mr. Charles A. Heath, Chicago. 



Me. William Wells Newell, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., known for his researches in 

 folk-lore, especially in connection with the 

 Authurian tales, secretary of the American 

 Folk-lore society and fellow of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 died on January 21, at the age of sixty-eight 

 years. 



Professor David Irons, professor of phi- 

 losophy at Bryn Mawr College, died suddenly 

 on January 24. He was born in Scotland in 

 1870, and received the M.A. at St. Andrews in 

 1901 and the doctorate of philosophy from 

 Cornell University, 1894. After holding 

 various positions in Cornell University, he 

 was elected professor of philosophy in Bryn 



Mawr College in 1900. He was the author of 

 contributions to ethics and psychology. 



Charles B. Simpson, entomologist of the 

 Department of Agriculture of the Transvaal, 

 died of typhoid at Pretoria on January 14. 

 Mr. Simpson was a graduate of the University 

 of Idaho, and took his master's degree at 

 Cornell University. In 1900 he became con- 

 nected with the Bureau of Entomology of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture as a special 

 field agent, and was placed in charge of the 

 investigation of the codling moth in the north- 

 west. His investigations were brilliantly suc- 

 cessful and resulted in the publication of 

 Bulletins Nos. 35 and 41 of the bureau. In 

 1904 he was selected to fill the post of ento- 

 mologist of the Department of Agriculture of 

 the newly created Transvaal colony, and has 

 since resided in Africa, making important in- 

 vestigations on malaria, on locust damage, and 

 on the tick-borne diseases of cattle. 



Dr. Clemens August ScHLiJTER, for the 

 past twenty-five years professor of geology and 

 paleontology at Bonn, died on December 25, 

 at the age of seventy-one years. 



Professor Otto Benndorf, director of the 

 Archeological Institute of the University of 

 Vienna, has died at the age of sixty-eight 

 years. 



A BILL has been introduced in the legisla- 

 ture incorporating the New York Observatory 

 and Nautical Museum, to which reference has 

 already been made in Science. It is stated 

 in the charter that the museum is " for the 

 purpose of encouraging and developing the 

 maritime interests of New York City, of ad- 

 vancing the general knowledge of the safe 

 navigation of the sea, of the development of 

 harbor facilities, of prosecuting original re- 

 searches in astronomy and navigation and in 

 kindred subjects, and of affording instruction 

 in the same." Tho. incorporators are Fred- 

 erick G. Bourne, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John 

 E. Bourne, Edward S. Isham, J. D. Jerrold 

 Kelley, Allison V. Armour, Edward H. Wales, 

 George A. Cormack, John Neilson, Charles 

 Lane Poor, William M. K. Olcott, Edward 

 D. Adams, D. Delahanty and Addison Brown. 

 Substantially the museum would be placed on 

 the same basis as the Museum of Natural 



