Febeuaet 7, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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The prize of £50 from the Gordon Wigan 

 fund, Cambridge University, for an investiga- 

 tion in chemistry was awarded in the year 

 1907 to F. Buckney, of Sidney Sussex College, 

 for his essay entitled " A Study of some quin- 

 quevalent cyclic nitrogen compounds." 



Mr. Bailey Willis, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, will give a series of six 

 lectures at the University of Illinois from 

 February 10 to 15. Most of these lectures 

 will deal with the past and present geography 

 of North America. In one Mr. Willis will 

 give an account of his recent geological ex- 

 periences in China. 



Professor Eollin D. Salisbury, University 

 of Chicago, and Dr. H. Foster Bain, t^tate 

 geologist of Illinois, will give special lectures 

 in geology at the University of Wisconsin 

 during the present year. 



The sixth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course will be given by Professor Joseph Jas- 

 trow, University of Wisconsin, at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine building, on Sat- 

 urday evening, February 8, at 8 :30 p.m. Sub- 

 ject, " Subconsciousness." 



The experiment of Foucault, originally per- 

 formed in the Pantheon at Paris in 1851 to 

 prove the rotation of our earth, will be re- 

 peated twice publicly at Columbia University 

 in St. Paul's Chapel. The apparatus includes 

 a pendulum, 91 feet long, of which the weight 

 is a cannon ball weighing 140 pounds, the 

 whole suspended within the chapel dome. The 

 time required by this great pendulum to com- 

 plete a swing is six seconds. Two half -hour 

 lectures in explanation of the experiment will 

 be given as follows : February 7, Dr. S. Alfred 

 Mitchell, at 3 p.m., and February 12, Professor 

 Jacoby, at 4 :30 p.m. Visitors will be admitted 

 to see the swinging pendulum until 5:30 p.m. 

 on both days. 



A bill has been introduced in the senate by 

 Senator Teller, for the erection of a memorial 

 to John Wesley Powell, director of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology and the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey. 



A LIFE-SIZE bronze bust of the late Professor 

 von Bergmann was presented last month, as 



we learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, to the clinic, the scene 

 of his surgical triumphs, by his former pupils, 

 many of whom now occupy prominent posi- 

 tions in other clinics. The bust stands beside 

 those of Grafe, Dieffenbach and Langenbeck. 

 Professor Bier, the present chief of the clinic, 

 and Professor Sonnenburg delivered addresses. 



Services in honor of the late Nicholas Senn 

 were held in the Fine Arts building, Chicago, 

 on February 2, under the auspices of Hush 

 Medical College, Northwestern University 

 Medical School, College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Chicago Medical Society, Chicago 

 Surgical Association and the Nicholas Senn 

 Club. President Edmund Janes James, of 

 the University of Illinois, was chairman, and 

 the speakers were: Dr. Frank Billings, dean 

 of Eush Medical College, " Nicholas Seim as 

 a Teacher " ; Dr. Arthur E. Edwards, dean of 

 Northwestern University Medical School, 

 " Nicholas Senn as a Scientist " ; Dr. William 

 E. Quine, dean of the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, " Nicholas Senn as a Man " ; 

 Dr. Henry B. Favill, president of the Chicago 

 Medical Society, " Nicholas Senn as a Physi- 

 cian " ; Dr. Albert J. Ochsner, president of 

 the Chicago Surgical Association, " Nicholas 

 Senn as a Surgeon," and Dr. Daniel E. 

 Brower, president of the Nicholas Senn Club, 

 " Nicholas Senn as a Traveler." 



Mr. Charles Abbott Davis, curator of nat- 

 ural history at the Eoger Williams Park Mu- 

 seum, Providence, died, on January 29, at 

 the age of thirty-nine years. 



Captain Jules Bailly, osteologist at McGill 

 University, known for his work in osteology 

 and natural history, died, on January 29, at 

 the age of seventy-seven years. 



TDr. a. Williams Wilkinson, a chemist in 

 New York City, known for his inventions in 

 connection with illuminating gas, has died at 

 the age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. H. G. Knaggs, a British medical man, 

 known for his contributions to entomology, 

 died, on January 16, in his seventy-sixth 

 year. 



