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Dr. E. B. Sosman, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, formerly connected 

 with the research lahoratory of physical chem- 

 istry, who received the doctor's degree from 

 the institute last June and who has been for 

 the past year in the office of A. D. Little, of 

 Boston, has accepted a position at the Geo- 

 physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion in Washington. 



Mr. C. V. Hartman, curator of the eth- 

 nological section at the Carnegie Museum in 

 Pittsburg, has received the call to a similar 

 position at the ethnological department of the 

 Eiks-museum in Stockholm. 



Chum Zen Chan, a graduate of the College 

 of Agriculture of the University of California 

 with the class of 190Y, has been made director 

 of the agricultural experiment station at 

 Mukden, Manchuria. 



At the annual general meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Institution of Mechanical Engineers on 

 February 21 the iisual council prizes offered 

 for the best papers read before the Graduates' 

 Association during the preceding session were 

 awarded to Mr. H. H. Broughton for his 

 paper " Notes on the design and equipment 

 of electric traveling cranes," and to Mr. A. 

 B. E. Oheeseman for his paper on " Portland 

 cement and the machinery used in its manu- 

 facture." 



The second lecture of a series supported 

 by a bequest of James Hamilton to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, known as the Hamilton 

 lectures, will be delivered April 22, at the 

 time of the annual meeting of the National 

 Academy of Sciences in Washington, by Pro- 

 fessor George E. Hale, director of the Mount 

 Wilson. Solar Observatory, California, on 

 " Some Recent Advances in Our Knowledge 

 of the Sun." The first use of this fund, with 

 accumulated interest, was made in 1905, when 

 Dr. Andrew D. White delivered a lecture on 

 " The Diplomatic Service of the United States 

 with Some Hints toward its Reform." 



Dr. E. B. Titchener. Sage professor of 

 psychology at Cornell University and non- 

 resident professor of psychology at Columbia 

 University for the current year, began on 

 February 17, at Columbia University, a course 



of eight lectures on " The Elementary Psy- 

 chology of Feeling and Attention." 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, lectured, on February 17, before 

 the New York Academy of Sciences on " Some 

 Recent Discoveries in Insect Parasitism, and 

 the Practical Handling of Parasites." One 

 of the features of the lecture was the descrip- 

 tion of studies upon, and results as to, ex- 

 terminating the gypsy moth. The lecture 

 was secured through cooperation with the 

 New York and Brooklyn Entomological So- 

 cieties. 



The seventh lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course will be delivered by Professor Otto 

 Folin, of the Harvard Medical School at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine on Saturday, 

 February 22, at 8 :30 p.m., on " Problems of 

 Chemistry in Hospital Practise." 



Professor A. Lawrence Rotch, director of 

 the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, 

 delivered an illustrated lecture on " Sounding 

 the Ocean of Air," before the Stamford Scien- 

 tific Society, on February 7. 



Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau 

 of Chemistry, spoke on February 13 at the 

 Boston City Club on " The ethics of the food 

 and drug trade." 



Dr. L. A. Bauer, director of the depart- 

 ment of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie 

 Institution, lectured at Columbia University 

 on February 11, on " The Magnetic Survey of 

 the Pacific Ocean." 



Dr. Osler, regius professor of medicine at 

 Oxford, presided on February 4 in the Town 

 Hall, when the Lees and Raper memorial lec- 

 ture was given by Mr. W. McAdam Eccles, 

 F.R.C.S., whose subject was " The Relation 

 of Alcohol to Physical Deterioration and Na- 

 tional Efficiency." 



A memorial service for the late Professor 

 0. Lassar was held, January 20, in the 

 amphitheater of his clinic at Berlin under the 

 auspices of the Dermatologieal Society. Pro- 

 fessors Rosenthal and Mayer delivered the 

 main addresses. 



We regret to record the death of M. Albert 

 Loewy, professor of mathematics at the School 

 of Physics and Chemistry at Montsouris. 



