January 10, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



77 



Dk. Nicholas Senn, whose lamented death 

 occurred while the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science was meeting in 

 Chicago, had just received the Order of Merit 

 of the Japanese Society of the Eed Cross by 

 the sanction of the Emperor of Japan. Dr. 

 Senn had likewise been elected an honorary 

 member of the Eoyal Medical Society of 

 Budapest. 



President Arthur T. Hadley, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, will complete his course of lectures in 

 the Roosevelt professorship, established by 

 Columbia University at the University of 

 Berlin, in about five weeks and, with his 

 family, will sail for this country, arriving 

 in New Haven about March 1. 



Sm Thomas Clifford Allbutt, M.D., 

 regius professor of physic, at Cambridge, was 

 entertained on December 16 at a compli- 

 mentary dinner by the Master of Downing and 

 the medical men of Cambridge, in the hall of 

 Downing College, upon the occasion of his 

 being created a Knight Commander of the 

 Bath. 



Count Maurice de Perigny gave a lecture 

 before the Geographical Society of Penn- 

 sylvania on January 8, entitled " Some Un- 

 knovm Ruins in Tukatan." 



The Society of Biblical Literature and 

 Exegesis at a meeting held at the University 

 of Pennsylvania on December 31, passed the 

 following resolution : 



Whereas, Charges reflecting on American 

 Oriental scholarship have been publicly made 

 against Professor H. V. Hilprecht. 



Resolved, That this society shares in the desire 

 already expressed by a number of American Ori- 

 ental scholars that a complete reply to these 

 charges be made in the journal of the society or 

 elsewhere. 



A memorial to Herman Brehmer, the in- 

 augurator of sanatorium treatment of tuber- 

 culosis, is to be unveiled at Breslati, at the 

 time of the twenty-ninth Balneological Con- 

 gress, which convenes on March 5. 



According to foreign journals, the Russian 

 Physico-chemical Society has arranged to hold 

 a conference of general and applied chemistry 

 in honor of Mendeleeff in the course of the 

 present month at the University of St. Peters- 



burg. Several discourses will be delivered on 

 the great chemist's life and works. A sub- 

 scription has been started for the purchase of 

 a Mendeleeff House, which, like the Hofmann 

 House in Berlin, would be used for the meet- 

 ings of learned societies. 



Dr. Charles Augustus Young, the eminent 

 astronomer, died at Hanover, N. H., on Jan- 

 uary 4. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn, the distinguished sur- 

 geon of Chicago, professor in the Rush Medi- 

 cal College, died on January 2, at the age of 

 63 years. 



Peter Townsend Austin, Ph.B. (Columbia 

 '72), Ph.D. (Zurich '76), at one time professor 

 in Rutgers College and the Brooklyn Poly- 

 technic Institute, and since 1896 practising as 

 a chemical expert, died on December 30, aged 

 fifty-five years. 



Pierre Charles Cesar Janssen, director of 

 the Meudon Astrophysical Observatory, died 

 on December 23, at the age of eighty-three 

 years. 



The Association of American Universities 

 has been meeting at the University of Mich- 

 igan, Ann Arbor, this week. 



The American Breeders' Association will 

 hold its fourth annual meeting at Washing- 

 ton, D. C, January 28-30, 1908, in the Na- 

 tional Rifles Armory and Carroll Hall. The 

 program includes reports on scientific investi- 

 gations in heredity and also addresses and dis- 

 cussions by practical men on the improvement 

 of animals and plants. The scientific, eco- 

 nomic and human aspects of heredity will also 

 be substantially presented in the reports of 

 over forty permanent committees of the asso- 

 ciation. 



The Oklahoma University Science Club was 

 organized in October last, to meet twice a 

 month. Membership is limited to regular 

 faculty instructors in the various science de- 

 partments and includes at present seventeen 

 individuals. The officers are: President, Ed- 

 win DeBarr, professor of chemistry; Vice- 

 president, Cyril M. Jansky, professor of phys- 

 ics; Secretary-treasurer, Henry H. Lane, pro- 

 fessor of zoology and embryology; Chairman 



