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year, was given at the Hotel Astor on Janu- 

 ary 28. 



The chiefs of the Six Nations in New 

 York, through the Onondaga tribe, which has 

 been the keeper of the archives throughout 

 the history of the Iroquois Confederacy, have 

 conferred on Director John M. Clarke, of the 

 New York State Museum, the title of Hos- 

 san-na-ga-da, the Keeper of the Name, in 

 recognition of his oflficial custodianship of 

 the Iroquois wampums which were transferred 

 to the state in 1898. The title is to be 

 transmitted in perpetuity with the directorship 

 of the State Museum. 



Governor Deneen, of Illinois, has appointed 

 the following commission, authorized by the 

 general assembly to investigate the diseases 

 of occupation in the state and report to the 

 next general assembly : Dr. L. Hektoen, of 

 Chicago; Dr. Alice Hamilton, of Hull House, 

 Chicago ; Dr. George W. Webster, of Chicago, 

 president of the State Board of Health, and 

 the secretary of the State Board of Health, 

 Dr. James A. Egan. 



The occupation of the Smithsonian seat in 

 the Naples Zoological Station has been ap- 

 proved in behalf of Mr. I. F. Lewis for the 

 month of March of the present year. Mr. 

 Lewis is Bruce fellow in biology at Johns 

 Hopkins University. The seat has further 

 been assigned to Dr. F. M. Andrews, associate 

 professor in botany at the Indiana University, 

 for April and May. Dr. Andrews is now do- 

 ing research work with Professor PfefPer at 

 Leipzig, and will devote himself to a problem 

 in plant physiology while at Naples. 



Mr. Eobert B. Marshall, of the United 

 States Geological Survey, has been appointed 

 to administrative charge of the Topographic 

 Branch of the Survey with the title of chief 

 geographer. Mr. Marshall received his first 

 appointment in the Survey in 1890, and has 

 been connected with it continuously since that 

 date. In 1903 he was given charge of Cali- 

 fornia work, and two years later his district 

 was enlarged to include Oregon. In the re- 

 organization of the Topographic Branch in 

 March, 1907, he was made geographer in 

 charge of the Pacific Division, which com- 



prises California, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, 

 Utah and Arizona. Mr. Thomas G. Gerdine, 

 who has for a number of years had general 

 supervision of the topographic work in 

 Alaska, has been placed in charge of the 

 Pacific division to succeed Mr. Marshall. 



Professor Albert Neisser has returned to 

 his post in Breslau after his long stay at 

 Batavia for research on syphilis in monkeys. 

 He will deliver an address on the present 

 status of the pathology and treatment of 

 syphilis at the approaching German Congress 

 of Internal Medicine at Vienna, opening on 

 April 6. 



Ddeing the week from January 13 to Janu- 

 ary 18, Dr. Herman von Schrenk, consulting 

 timber engineer for the Atchison, Topeka and 

 Santa Fe Railroad and supervisor of timber 

 preservation for the Chicago, Rock Island and 

 Pacific Railroad, gave, as in former years, a 

 course of seven lectures at the Forest School 

 of Yale University on the decay of timber 

 and a description of American and European 

 methods and plants for seasoning and preserv- 

 ing wood. 



William S. Bigelow, A.B. (Harvard "71), 

 M.D. '74, of Boston, has been appointed 

 Ingersoll lecturer for this year at Harvard 

 University. His subject will be " Immor- 

 tality as conceived and taught in Buddhism." 

 The date of the lecture has not yet been 

 fixed. 



Professor Paul H. Hanus, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, addressed the Civic Federation of 

 New England, in Boston, on January 9, on 

 " Industrial Education under State Auspices 

 in Massachusetts." 



Professof Leo Loeb, of tlie laboratory of 

 experimental pathology, University of Penn- 

 sylvania, read a paper on " Tissue Growth and 

 Tumor Growth" at a meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society on January 17. 



At the meeting of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, held January 21, 

 Dr. Casey A. Wood, of Chicago, gave the 

 results of his ophthalmoscopic examination of 

 the eyes of birds. The communication was 

 illustrated by beautiful colored lantern views 



