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Professor D. C. Jackson, of the Massa- 

 cliiisetts Institute of Technology, has been 

 retained by the Massachusetts Highway Com- 

 mission, to make a report regarding the tele- 

 phone situation with special reference to the 

 practicability of a reduction in rates and a 

 higher efficiency of service. 



Professor E. C. McCrea, associate director 

 of the New York School of Philanthropy, has 

 been appointed by the trustees of Columbia 

 University to make a preliminary study of 

 humane societies and instruction in humanity, 

 in view of the recent endowment of $100,000 

 to establish a chair in this subject. 



The Eev. J. B. McClellan, M.A., has re- 

 signed the principalship of the Eoyal Agri- 

 cultural College, Cirencester, after more than 

 a quarter of a century's service. 



The British secretary of state for the 

 colonies has sent Dr. W. J. Simpson, pro- 

 fessor of hygiene at King's College, London, 

 and lecturer in tropical hygiene at the Lon- 

 don School of Tropical Medicine, to the Gold 

 Coast to assist in combating the present out- 

 break of bubonic plagxTC at Accra.- 



Dr. W. S. Brdce, of the Scottish Ocean- 

 ographical Laboratory, has received informa- 

 tion from Buenos Aires to the effect that the 

 ship Austral was getting ready to go south. 

 Mr. Davis, of the Argentine Meteorological 

 Office, will probably have another meteoro- 

 logical and magnetic station set up on Wandel 

 Island for the coming year. 



Under the auspices of the Sigma Xi scien- 

 tific society of the University of Kansas, Pro- 

 fessor Eussell H. Chittenden, director of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Tale LTniversity, 

 will deliver two popular lectures at the Uni- 

 versity on February 17 and 18. 



Dr. Lucien I. Blake, formerly professor of 

 physics in the University of Kansas, will give 

 a course of lectures iipon electrical subjects 

 before the students in electrical engineering 

 at the university, during the last week in 

 February. Aside from the technical lectures, 

 Mr. Blake will deliver three popular lectures 

 for the general public. 



Arrangements have been made by the 



American Society of Naturalists to celebrate 

 the one hundredth anniversary of Charles 

 Darwin, in cooperation with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 on the occasion of their meetings in Balti- 

 more in 1908. The Society of Naturalists 

 will be represented on the Committee of Ar- 

 rangements by the president, the secretary and 

 several members. 



A BUST of A. Kekule, eminent for his work 

 at Bonn on organic chemistry, has been pre- 

 sented to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

 by Dr. George D. Moore, formerly assistant 

 professor of chemistry, and has been placed 

 in one of the museums of the chemical de- 

 partment. 



Mr. James Wallace Pinchot, who took an 

 active interest in art and science, especially 

 in forestry, and made liberal contributions 

 for their support, died in Washington on 

 February 6, at the age of seventy-six years. 



Mr. Eichard Hinckley Allen, of Chatham, 

 N. J., died on January 14 at Northampton, 

 Mass. Mr. Allen will be remembered as the 

 author of " Star Names and their Meanings," 

 a work of wide and scholarly research, and 

 lasting value. Mr. Allen was a member of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and of the Astronomical So- 

 ciety of the Pacific, and the National Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



Sir Thomas McCall Anderson, regius pro- 

 fessor of medicine in the University of Glas- 

 gow, and an authority on diseases of the skin, 

 died on January 25 at the age of seventy-one 

 years. 



Professor James Bell Pettigrew, M.D., 

 LL.D., Chandos professor of anatomy and 

 medicine in the University of St. Andrews, 

 died on January 30 at the age of seventy-three 

 years. He was the author of numerous con- 

 tributions to medicine and other scientific 

 subjects, being the author of a book oh " Ani- 

 mal Locomotion " and of various papers con- 

 cerned with flying machines. 



Dr. Adolf Paalzow, formerly professor of 

 physics in the Technological Institute at 

 Charlottenburg, has died at the age of eighty- 

 four years. 



