April 24, 1908] 



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acting head of the department of zoology for 

 the summer term. 



Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, of the University 

 of Chicago, will spend the coming field season 

 in Alaska, continuing his investigations under 

 the auspices of the U. S. Geological Survey 

 of the coal resources of Alaska. The special 

 fields of V70rk during the coming season will 

 be in the neighborhood of Unga, Herendeen 

 Bay and Ohignik on the Alaskan peninsula, 

 and in the Matanuska valley at the head of 

 Cook Inlet. His address during the sum m er 

 season will be Seward, Alaska. 



The Martin White studentship of £100, at 

 London University, lately vacated by Mr. 

 Gerald Camden Wheeler, B.A., has been 

 extended to him for a further period of one 

 year, in order to enable him to accompany Dr. 

 Rivers to the Solomon Islands for the purpose 

 of investigating the sociology of a mother- 

 right community. This extension was ren- 

 dered possible by the generosity of Mr. Martin 

 White in offering to provide a further sum of 

 £100 for the purpose. 



Dr. W. G. MacCallum, associate professor 

 of pathology in the Johns Hopkins University, 

 lectured before the faculty and students of 

 the College of Medicine of the University of 

 Cincinnati and many physicians of the city 

 on April 17. He spoke of his recent research, 

 including his discovery of the function of the 

 parathyroid glands. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave an illustrated address 

 on the " Magnetic Survey of the Pacific Ocean 

 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington," 

 on March 10, before the Scientific Association, 

 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 



On Friday evening, April 10, Professor 

 David Todd, of Amherst College, lectured be- 

 fore the Stamford Scientific Society on " Mars, 

 as seen from the Andes." 



At a technical conference of the faculty 

 and student officers of United States Army 

 Signal School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., 

 held on March 25, a resolution was adopted 

 in the name of the school favoring the adop- 

 tion of the word Kelvin to designate the com- 

 mercial unit of electrical energy at present 



known as the Mlowatt-hour, as a recognition 

 of the services of the late Lord Kelvin in the 

 advancement of electrical science. 



The body of Emmanuel Swedenbourg has 

 been removed from the Swedish church in 

 London, where it was interred on his death 

 in 1872, and taken by a Swedish man-of-war 

 to Stockholm, where it will be interred. 



Dr. G. von HtJFNER, professor of physiolog- 

 ical chemistry at Tiibingen, has died at the 

 age of sixty-seven years. 



The death is announced of Professor J. L. 

 Mierzejewski, who has been called the father 

 of Eussian psychiatry. He published exten- 

 sively on insanity, neurology and pathological 

 anatomy. 



Sns Cowasjee Jehanghir has given four 

 lakhs of rupees (about $130,000) for the pro- 

 motion of science teaching in Bombay. 



The city council of Lincoln has passed a 

 resolution which gives the Nebraska State 

 Historical Society a half block of ground 

 facing the capitol upon which to erect the 

 building provided for by the last legislature. 

 Mr. Charles H. Morrill, of Lincoln, has pre- 

 sented to the society valuable collections of 

 objects of Indian archeology. 



The Eoyal College of Surgeons of England 

 has presented to the Harvard Medical School, 

 through Dr. Walter G. Chase, about seventy 

 engravings and mezzos of celebrated medical 

 men. These, together with loan collections 

 of Dr. Chase and Dr. E. B. Young, numbering 

 about six hundred, have been arranged for 

 exhibition in the Warren Anatomical Museum, 

 in the administration building of the Harvard 

 Medical School, Longwood Avenue. 



Professor Joseph Jastrow's work, " The 

 Subconscious," has been translated into 

 French by Mr. E. Phillipi, with an introduc- 

 tion by M. Pierre Janet, and is published in 

 Alcan's Bibliotheque de Philosophie Con- 

 temporaine. 



A Eeuter telegram from Eome states that 

 the International Congress of Mathematicians 

 was opened on April 6 at the capitol. Signor 

 Eava, minister of public instruction, the 

 mayor of Eome, Signor Blaserna, vice-presi- 



