Maech 29, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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Thiers, Paris; Joka Norman Collie, Ph.D., 

 F.E.S., professor of organic chemistry, Uni- 

 versity College, London; Signer Ulisse Dini, 

 professor of mathematics in the University of 

 Pisa; Professor Adolf Harnack, director of 

 the Eoyal Library, Berlin, and author of many 

 works on ecclesiastical history; M. Henri 

 Poincare, professor of mathematics and as- 

 tronomy at the Sorbonne; emeritus Professor 

 of Physiology John Gray McKendrick, and 

 Principal Donald Macalister, of the univer- 

 sity, and recently lecturer in medicine at Cam- 

 bridge University. 



Professor F. W. Putnam, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has recently received word from Dr. 

 W. 0. Farabee, head of the Peabody Museum 

 South American Ethnological Expedition, 

 which started December 17, 1906, of its safe 

 arrival at Arequipa, Peru, where the Harvard 

 Observatory is situated. The expedition will 

 make its headquarters at Arequipa, from 

 which place the members will make excursions 

 of several months' duration in order to study 

 the manners and customs of the South Amer- 

 ican Indians of that region. 



Dr. Otto Lummer, professor of physics in 

 the University of Breslau, who came to this 

 country to give a course of lectures at Co- 

 lumbia University, gave an address before the 

 Philosophical Sosiety of Washington on 

 March 21. The subject of the address was 

 ' The Determination of the Temperature of 

 the Sun, and Eecent Solar Theories.' The 

 meeting was held at the Bureau of Standards 

 and was followed by a reception. 



The annual lecture of the Michigan chapter 

 of the Society of the Sigma Xi was given 

 on March 22, by Professor W. E. Castle, of 

 Harvard University, his subject being ' The 

 Experimental Study of Heredity.' 



Dr. William E. Brooks, director of the 

 Smith Observatory and professor of astron- 

 omy at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., de- 

 livered an illustrated lecture at Clark Uni- 

 versity on March 15, his subject being ' Other 

 Worlds than Ours.' 



At the meeting of the Botanical Seminar 

 of the University of Nebraska, on March 22, 



Dr. Eoscoe Pound delivered an address on the 

 life and work of the late Dr. Otto Kuntze, 

 whose death at San Eemo, Italy, occurred on 

 January 28, 1907. The address, which was of 

 the nature of an ' appreciation,' will be pub- 

 lished in an early number of Science. The 

 second paper read was by Dr. Edith Clements, 

 on ' Stability and Evolution,' and was based 

 on her studies of particular species in the 

 Eocky Mountains. 



Miss Cruickshank has presented to the 

 University of Aberdeen a handsome window 

 in the Library at Marischal College, in mem- 

 ory of her father, the late Dr. John Cruick- 

 shank, professor of mathematics from 1817 

 to 1860, and librarian from 1844 to 1860; and 

 two portraits in oils — one of Sir Archibald 

 Simpson, the architect of Marischal CoUege; 

 the other of James Ferguson, the astronomer. 



PRorESSOR W. H. Bakhuis-Eoozeboom, who 

 carried forward to an important extent the 

 work on physical chemistry inaugurated by 

 Willard Gibbs, and who succeeded Professor 

 van't HofE at Amsterdam in 1896, died on 

 February 8, at the age of fifty-three years. 



M. Marcel Bertrand, professor of geology 

 in the Paris School of Mines, died on Febru- 

 ary 25, at the age of sixty years. 



Dr. Gumo Ejrafpt, professor of agriculture 

 in the Technical Institute at Vierma, died on 

 February 22 at the age of fifty-two years. 



Mr. Noble Harter, known to psychologists 

 for an important piece of research work on 

 the telegraphic language, carried on in con- 

 junction with Dr. W. L. Bryan, died in South 

 Pasadena, Cal., on February 23. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. 

 Mathias Marie Duval, professor of histology 

 at the Paris Faculte de Medicine and at the 

 Ecole d'Anthropologie; of Professor T. Y. 

 TswetkofF, professor of mathematics at the 

 Moscow Forestry School, and of Professor 

 Karl Mayer-Cymar, the paleontologist of 

 Zurich. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on April 17-18 for the position of scientific 

 assistant in the Department of Agriculture, 



