June 7, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



917 



William A. Locy delivered before this chapter 

 a lecture on ' The Life and Work of LinnEeus.' 



The Zoological Club of the University of 

 Nebraska celebrated the centenary of the birth 

 of Louis Agassiz on May 28. Addresses were 

 given by Professor H. B. Ward on ' The Debt 

 of the New World to Louis Agassiz,' and by 

 Professor P. D. Losey on ' Lowell's Tribute 

 to Agassiz.' 



The Denison Scientific Association on May 

 28 celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary 

 of Agassiz's birth by a memorial exercise at 

 which addresses were made by Dr. E. W. 

 Hunt, president of Denison University, on 

 ' The Personality of Agassiz ' ; by Professor 

 M. E. Stickney, on ' Penikese and the Agassiz 

 Museum ' ; by Professor Frank Carney, on 

 ' Agassiz's Contribution to Geology,' and by 

 Professor C. J. Herrick, on ' Louis Agassiz 

 and the New Natural History.' These ad- 

 dresses were delivered in the new Barney 

 Memorial Hall of Science of Denison Univer- 

 sity and were followed by a reception at which 

 the building was opened to the public for in- 

 spection. This hall was originally built in 

 1894 and was destroyed by fire in 1905. It has 

 been rebuilt fire-proof and greatly improved 

 in other respects by the original donor, Mr. E. 

 J. Barney, of Dayton, O. 



A TABLET to the meraory of Dr. Mary Put- 

 nam Jacobi was unveiled in the ■ Woman's 

 Medical College, New York, May 23. An ad- 

 dress was made by Dr. Bertha Lewis on behaK 

 of the alumnse association, and Dr. William 

 Welch accepted the tablet. The memorial 

 tablet is of brass and is inscribed as follows. 

 " In memoriam, Mary Putnam Jacobi, class 

 of 1864, Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl- 

 vania; president of the Alumnse Association 

 1881-1891 and 1894-1895. Ecole de Mede- 

 cine, Paris, class of 1871; professor of materia 

 medica and therapeutics. Woman's Medical 

 College of the New York Infirmary; professor 

 of the diseases of children, New York Post- 

 Graduate Medical College and Hospital; fel- 

 low of the New York Academy of Medicine. 

 A distinguished contributor to medical litera- 

 ture, and one of the most eminent women of 

 her time in the medical profession." 



At the recent session of the Pennsylvania 

 legislature the senate voted $300,000 to enable 

 the American Philosophical Society to erect 

 a memorial to Pranklin, but the house did not 

 concur in the bill. 



The death is announced of Dr. Charles 

 Fere, physician to the Bicetre, Paris, well 

 known for his researches in neurology and 

 psychiatry. 



Sir Joseph Fayrer, well known for his 

 pathological work in India and as one of the 

 most prominent British physicians, died at 

 Falmouth on May 21, at the age of eighty- 

 three years. 



Mr. Samuel Lord Morrison, A.B. (Har- 

 vard, 1873), an engineer, known especially for 

 his work on filtration plants, died in London 

 on May 21, at the age of fifty-six years. 



Dr. Volz, of Berne, while making natural 

 history collections in the Liberian Hinterland, 

 was murdered by natives. 



Dr. Wilhelm MIJller, curator of the min- 

 eralogical collections of the Technical Insti- 

 tute of Berlin, died on May 2. 



The death is announced at the age of fifty- 

 two years of M. Charrin, professor of general 

 and comparative pathology at the College de 

 France. 



A COMMITTEE of Filipinos appointed to in- 

 vestigate the inoculation of prisoners at Bili- 

 bid Prison with contaminated serum, has 

 made a report. The committee finds that no 

 one was responsible for the accident, and 

 exonerates Dr. F. P. Strong, of the Bureau of 

 Science, who was in charge of the bacteri- 

 ological work, and was conducting the experi- 

 ments. 



A CONFERENCE of State geologists was held 

 with the officers of the National Geological 

 Survey at Washington, on May 20, to discuss 

 cooperative work in various states^ by the 

 federal and state authorities. State geologists 

 were present from Alabama, Connecticut, Hli- 

 nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Mary- 

 land, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New 

 York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania 

 and South Carolina. 



The Paris Society of Chemistry celebrated 

 the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation on 



