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fessors G. Darboux, A. E. Porsyth, D. Hilbert, 

 F. Klein, H. A. Lorentz, G. llittag Leffler, 

 S. Newcomb, E. Picard and H. Poincare. 



Professor George T. Ladd, who recently 

 retired from the active duties of the chair of 

 philosophy at Yale University, has gone from 

 Japan to Korea, at the invitation of Marquis 

 Ito, in the interest of the educational develop- 

 ment of the country. 



At the close of the year Dr. George Fred- 

 erick Wright, professor of the harmony of 

 science and revelation at Oberlin, will become 

 professor emeritus, retiring under the provi- 

 sion of the Carnegie Foundation. 



The Prussian ministry of education has 

 appointed Professor Felix Adler as Theodore 

 Eoosevelt professor in the University of 

 Berlin for the year 1908-09, upon the nomina- 

 tion of the trustees of Columbia University, 

 where he holds the chair of political and social 

 ethics. 



Dr. C. S. Sherrington, professor of physi- 

 ology at Liverpool University, has been elected 

 a foreign corresponding member of the Bel- 

 gian Royal Academy of Medicine. 



Dr. p. Chalmers Mitchell, secretary of 

 the London Zoological Society, and Mrs. 

 Mitchell arrived in New York on March 30. 



Mr. W. T. Horne has been appointed head 

 of the department of plant pathology in the 

 Central Agricultural Station of Cuba. 



Mr. W. H. Power, C.B., F.R.S., medical in- 

 spector of the Local Government Board, has 

 been appointed chairman of the Eoyal Com- 

 mission on Tuberculosis, in succession to the 

 late Sir Michael Foster. 



Dr. W. a. Kellerman, of the Ohio State 

 University, and students, Condit and Imaly, 

 who accompanied him, have just returned from 

 Guatemala where the winter was spent in 

 botanical exploration. He reports excellent 

 success in getting interesting, rare and new 

 plants, especially of parasitic fungi. More- 

 over, he has planned a regular ' Peripatetic 

 School of Tropical Botany ' for the successive 

 winters beginning at the next holidays. This 

 has been submitted to the State University 

 authorities for approval. A very .limited 

 number of students would be accepted. 



Professor R. Meldola, F.E.S., gave the 

 presidential address before the Chemical So- 

 ciety, London, on March 22, his subject being 

 ' The position and prospects of chemical re- 

 search in Great Britain.' The anniversary 

 dinner was held in the evening, when ad- 

 dresses were made by Lord Eayleigh, Sir Wil- 

 liam Ramsay, Professor Eay Lankester and 

 Lord Kelvin. 



The Institution of Civil Engineers held its 

 annual dinner in London on March 13, with 

 Sir Alexander B. W. Kennedy in the chair. 

 Addresses were made by Lord Kelvin, Sir 

 Arthur Riieker and Lord Tweedmouth. 



At the annual meeting of the Michigan 

 Academy of Sciences, held at Ann Arbor 

 during the past week. Professor William H. 

 Hobbs delivered by invitation the public ad- 

 dress, his subject being ' Earthquakes viewed 

 in a New Light.' 



Professor Alfred C. Lawson, of the Uni- 

 versity of California, chairman of the Cali- 

 fornia earthquake commission, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on ' The California Earthquake ' 

 before the Geographical Society of Philadel- 

 phia on April 3. 



Professor Gilman A. Drew, of the Univer- 

 sity of Maine, lectured before the Portland 

 Society of Natural History on March 18, on 

 ' Animal Adaptation.' 



On April 2, Professor John W. Harshberger, 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, delivered a 

 free public lecture on ' The Scientific Applica- 

 tion of Ecology in the Wet and Dry Cultiva- 

 tion of Plants,' illustrated by lantern slides 

 and specimens, in the lecture hall of the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences. 



The Friday evening meetings of the Eoyal 

 Institution will be resumed on April 12, at 

 9 P.M., when Professor A. H. Church will give 

 a discourse on ' Conservation of Historic 

 Buildings and Frescoes.' Succeeding dis- 

 courses will probably be given by Professor C. 

 E. Sherrington, James Swinburne, Esq., Sir 

 James Crichton-Browne, Signer Come, Gia- 

 como Boni, Professor G. Chrystal (assisted by- 

 E. W. Wedderburn, Esq.), Professor F. A. 

 Fleming, A. H. Savage Landor, Esq., Professor 

 Sir James Dewar and others. To these meet- 



