May 8, 1908] 



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tana is offered by Dr. G. E. Mansfield; geo- 

 logical or petrograpliical studies in Montana 

 or New England, by Professor J. E. WolS; 

 physiographic studies in central France, by 

 Professor D. W. Johnson; physiographic field 

 work in northern Italy or southern Switzer- 

 land, by Professor W. M. Davis; and geo- 

 logical field work in Brazil, by Professor J. 

 B. Woodworth. The several instructors 

 named may be addressed regarding their plans 

 of work. 



Dr. Charles A. Kofoid, associate professor 

 of histology and embryology in the University 

 of California and assistant director of the 

 San Diego Marine Biological Laboratory, has 

 been granted leave of absence and will spend 

 the coming academic year in Europe, prin- 

 cipally at Munich and Naples. He will de- 

 liver a course of lectures in June at the 

 University of Liverpool on " The Plankton " 

 and an address at London before the Chal- 

 lenger Society of Great Britain on " Ocean- 

 ography in America." 



Professor John M. Maofarlane, professor 

 of botany in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 has returned from a collecting trip in the 

 Gulf states. 



Professor David G. Lyon, curator of the 

 Semitic Museum of Harvard University, has 

 left Cambridge for Samaria, where he will 

 take charge of the excavations to be carried 

 on Tmder the auspices of the museum. 



Six members of the department of geology 

 at the Oklahoma State University are doing 

 field work this summer. Professor Gould, 

 with S. S. Hutchinson and E. E. Severn, is 

 studying air and gas problems in the eastern 

 part of the new state. He will prepare a 

 report on the subject to be published by the 

 Oklahoma Geological Survey. Professor E. 

 G. Woodruff, accompanied by J. W. Mont- 

 gomery and E. S. De Galyer, is with N. H. 

 Darton in Wyoming, working for the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



The tenth and last lecture in the Harvey 

 Society course will be delivered at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine building on Sat- 

 urday, May 9, at 8 :30 p.m., by Professor A. E. 



Schafer, of the University of Edinburgh. 

 Subject: "Artificial Eespiration in Man." 

 Professor Schafer, who has come to the United 

 States for the purpose of giving the Herter 

 lectures at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, 

 was chairman of a committee appointed by 

 the Eoyal Medical and Chirurgical Society to 

 investigate the phenomena attending death by 

 drowning and the means of promoting resus- 

 citation in the apparently drowned. His lec- 

 ture will embody the results of much practical 

 work on the subject of artificial respiration. 



Professor Charles H. Judd, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, will be one of the lecturers in the new 

 department of psychology and pedagogy whick 

 is to be given at Chautauqua this summer. 

 Among other special courses in the summer 

 school is one in physical education by Dr. J. 

 W. Seaver. 



Sir WiLLLiM Eamsay delivered on April 11, 

 at the Electro-Technical Institute, Vienna, a 

 lecture on radio-active gases. After tracing 

 the history of the discovery of argon, krypton, 

 neon and xenon, the lecturer demonstrated the 

 scientific importance of the emanation of 

 radium, and expressed once more his gratitude 

 for the gift of radium which he received some 

 time since from the Austrian Academy of 

 Sciences. The lecture was followed by a 

 reception in honor of Sir William and Lady 

 Eamsay. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The new buildings of the College of the 

 City of New York will be formally dedicated 

 on May 14, whea addresses will be made by 

 Mayor McClellan, of New York City, and 

 President Eliot, of Harvard University. In the 

 afternoon the didication of the Chemistry and 

 Mechanical Arts Buildings takes place. Pro- 

 fessor Charles Baskerville, director of the de- 

 partment, will preside at the dedication of the 

 building for chemistry, the program of which 

 is as follows: 



" A Pioneer of Chemistry," by Edgar P. Smith, 

 vice-provost of the University of Pennsylvania. 



Unveiling of portrait of Wolcott Gibbs, Ph.D., 

 the first professor of chemistry, 1848-64. 



" Some Changes in Chemistry in Fifty Years," 



