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Washington University, for his investigations 

 on yellovif fever. 



Professor William James, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, our most eminent student of phi- 

 losophy and psychology, celebrated his sixty- 

 fifth birthday on January 11, and retired on 

 January 22 from the active work of his chair. 

 Professor James is at present giving a course 

 of eight lectures on * Pragmatism : a nevp name 

 for an old way of thinking,' before the depart- 

 ments of philosophy and psychology of Colum- 

 bia University. 



The Cullum medal of the American Geo- 

 graphical Society has been awarded to Dr. 

 Kobert Bell, F.R.S., chief geologist of the 

 Canadian Geological Survey. 



The University of Edinburgh has conferred 

 the honorary degree of doctor of laws on the 

 Prince of Monaco for his scientific investiga- 

 tions. 



Mr. Alexander Agassiz has left on the 

 yacht Virginia for a scientific cruise in the 

 West Indies. 



Dr. Edward L. Nichols, professor of 

 physics in Cornell University, president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, has left for a trip abroad. He ex- 

 pects to visit Algeria and Sicily and to spend 

 several months in Europe, returning to the 

 United States in September. 



Dr. William Trelease, director of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, left St. Louis on 

 January 24 for an expedition to the West 

 Indies which will last about two months. 



Dr. Gordon will, during the present sum- 

 mer, carry on ethnological researches on behalf 

 of the Peabody Museum, Tale University. 



Professor Emil von Behring, of Berlin, 

 will spend some time at Capri, for the recovery 

 of his health. 



Professor Eriedrich von Esmarch, pro- 

 fessor of surgery at Kiel, celebrated his 

 eighty-fourth birthday on January 9. 



Professor Geo. W. Jones, professor of 

 mathematics at Cornell University, will retire 

 at the end of the present year, after thirty 

 years of service in the institution. 



Mr. Frederick T. Gates has succeeded Mr. 

 Robert C. Ogden as chairman of the general 

 education board, endowed by Mr. Rockefeller 

 with $10,000,000. 



Robert M. Chapin, instructor in chemistry 

 at Amherst College, has accepted a position as 

 assistant chemist in the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry. 



Professor Josiah Royce, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, is giving a series of five lectures at 

 the University of Illinois. His general sub- 

 ject is * Loyalty as an Ethical Principle.' The 

 special topics of the five lectures are : ' The 

 Problem of Ethics ' ; ' Four Ideals of Person- 

 ality ' ; ' Loyalty as a Personal and Social 

 Ideal ' ; ' Loyalty as a Factor in American 

 Life ' ; ' Personality and Immortality.' 



Professor R. S. Chittenden, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, will lecture at the University of 

 Illinois during the month of May on ' The 

 Physiology of Nutrition.' 



Dr. Elmer E. Brown, U. S. Commissioner 

 of Education, will deliver a course of lectures 

 at the summer school of Yale University. 



Professor W. Somerville, recently ap- 

 pointed Sibthorpian professor of rural econ- 

 omy at Oxford University, delivered his in- 

 augural address on February 1, his subject be- 

 ing ' The Place of Rural Economy in the 

 University Curriculum.' 



Dr. Howard A. Kelly, professor of gyne- 

 cology in the Johns Hopkins University, is 

 preparing an illustrated cyclopedia of Ameri- 

 can medical biography, to be issued in several 

 volumes. The work will include sketches of 

 the careers of all the medical worthies of the 

 United States and Canada from the earliest 

 times to our own day. 



It is proposed to found an invalid home for 

 physicians and a medical library in honor of 

 the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of 

 the Russian surgeon PorogofF. 



Professor Wilbur Samuel Jackman, who 

 held the chair of teaching of natural science 

 in the School of Education of the University 

 of Chicago and was principal of the ele- 

 mentary school, known for his publications on 



