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provisions of the Adams act. The work will 

 be entirely research along the lines of plant 

 and animal breeding. Especial attention will 

 be devoted to an investigation of the prin- 

 ciples of inheritance in poultry, a line of work 

 which on its practical side has already been 

 extensively developed by the station. 



Dr. Feiedrich Mijller, professor of medi- 

 cine in the University of Munich, was ten- 

 dered a complimentary dinner by prominent 

 American physicians on March 8 at the Uni- 

 versity Club, New York. Dr. Francis P. 

 Kinnieutt was toastmaster, and addresses were 

 made by Drs. E. G. Janeway, A. Jacobi, W. 

 H. Welch, L. F. Barker and by the distin- 

 guished guest. On March 9 Professor Miiller 

 spoke before the Harvey Society, and begin- 

 ning on March 11 gave a series of six lectures 

 on chemical pathology under the Herter 

 foimdation before the students of the Univer- 

 sity and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. 

 He will visit Baltimore, New Haven, Boston, 

 Albany, Montreal, Toronto and Cleveland. 



Peopessoe Charles S. Minot, of the Har- 

 vard Medical School, has visited the Universi- 

 ties of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and 

 Louisville, and at each of these has delivered 

 an address before the medical faculty and 

 students on the new ideals of medical educa- 

 tion for which the new laboratories of the 

 Harvard Medical School stand. He also de- 

 livered before the Sigma Xi societies of the 

 four state universities an address on ' The 

 Biological Interpretation of Life,' speaking 

 at Columbia, Mo., on the ninth of February; 

 at Lawrence, Kansas, on the fourteenth; at 

 Lincoln, Nebraska, on the sixteenth, and at 

 Iowa City on the eighteenth. During his 

 visit at Kansas University Professor Minot 

 also delivered a course of three lectures on 

 'The Problems of Age, Growth and Death,' 

 and a morning chapel address on the ' Func- 

 tions of Consciousness.' At Louisville he 

 participated as a representative of the uni- 

 versity at the combined dinner of the Harvard 

 and Tale Clubs, held on the evening of Feb- 

 ruary 21. 



Professor Poland Thaxter, of Harvard 

 University, addressed the Botanical Club, on 

 February 13, on 'A Botanical Trip to South 

 America.' 



Professor Bechterew, of St. Petersburg, 

 has examined the brain of the late Professor 

 MendeleefF. It is said to weigh more than 

 1,200 grams, and to be remarkable for the 

 number of its convolutions. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that a research professor- 

 ship in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- 

 cine has been proposed as a memorial to Dr. 

 Joseph Everett Dutton, who did valuable work 

 in four successive expeditions sent out by this 

 school to Nigeria, the Gambia, Senegambia 

 and the Congo Free State. He described 

 Trypanosoma gamliense, the parasite since 

 recognized as the cause of sleeping sickness, 

 and gained high distinction for himself and a 

 world-wide renown for his school. While in- 

 vestigating tick fever, previously little known, 

 he contracted that disease and died. The com- 

 mittee in charge of the fimd says : " All who 

 knew Dr. Dutton agree that the most fitting 

 form which a memorial can take is one which 

 will help to continue those researches in 

 tropical medicine for which he gave his life." 

 It is proposed to raise $50,000, and over $20,- 

 000 has already been pledged. 



The sum of $30,500, given by more than 

 760 alumni as a Shaler memorial fund, has 

 been accepted by the president and fellows of 

 Harvard University. The fund will com- 

 memorate the long and great services of Pro- 

 fessor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. A sum 

 has been set aside to procure a memorial tablet 

 to be put in the geological section of the 

 University Museimi, or some other suitable 

 place; and the income of the balance will be 

 used for the benefit of the division of geology 

 in support of original research and in the pub- 

 lication of the results of research. 



De. Allan Macfadyen, head of the Bio- 

 logical Department of the Lister Institute of 

 Preventive Medicine and one of the leading 

 English bacteriologists, died on March 1, at the 

 age of forty-six years, from infection con- 

 tracted in his laboratory. 



