Mat 15, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



797 



V. Sanford, M.E., treasurer, and Dr. F. H. 

 SafFord, recording secretary. 



Dr. Oscae Teague has resigned an assist- 

 antship in pathological chemistry in the de- 

 partment of experimental pathology of Cor- 

 nell University to accept an appointment as 

 pathologist In the Philippine Islands. He is 

 now on his way to the islands, where his 

 address will be Bureau of Science, Manila. 



In connection with the International Con- 

 gress on Tuberculosis, to be held in Wash- 

 ington from September 21 to October 12 next, 

 the Smithsonian Institution has offered, as 

 we have already announced, a prize of $1,500, 

 under the Hodgkins fund, for the best treatise 

 " On the Relation of Atmospheric Air to 

 Tuberculosis." This prize will be awarded by 

 a committee appointed by the secretary of the 

 institution in conjunction with the officers of 

 the congress, and consisting of Dr. William 

 H. Welch, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, chairman; Dr. Simon Tlexner, director 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, New York; Dr. George M. Sternberg, 

 surgeon-general, U. S. A., retired, Washing- 

 ton; Dr. Hermann Biggs, of the New York 

 Department of Health; Dr. George Dock, 

 University of Michigan; Dr. William M. 

 Davis, Harvard University, and Dr. John S. 

 Fulton, secretary-general of the International 

 Congress on Tuberculosis. 



On May first Professor W. E. Castle, of 

 Harvard University, lectured at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, under the auspices 

 of the Guernsey Breeders' Association, on 

 " Heredity." 



Mrs. Fleming, of the Harvard College Ob- 

 servatory, on the occasion of a reception given 

 to her at the Whitin Observatory of Wellesley 

 College, lectured on the work of the Henry 

 Draper Memorial with which she has been 

 prominently connected since its inception, and 

 in connection with which she has made many 

 discoveries of new stars, variable stars, and 

 stars with peculiar spectra, in addition to the 

 general work of classification in the Draper 

 catalogue of stellar spectra. Mrs. Fleming is 

 an honorary member of the Royal Astronom- 

 ical Society of London, and, on the occasion 



of the completion of the Whitin Observatory, 

 was created by the trustees of Wellesley Col- 

 lege an honorary fellow of the college in 

 astronomy. 



On April 2 Mr. R. Lydekker began a course 

 of two lectures at the Royal Institution on 

 (1) "The Animals of Africa"; (2) "The 

 Animals of South America." The Friday 

 evening discourse on April 3 was delivered by 

 Lord Montagu of Beaulieu on " The Modern 

 Motor-car," and on April 10 by Professor J. 

 J. Thomson on " The Carriers of Positive 

 Electricity." 



A COURSE of five free popular lectures was 

 arranged by the Chicago Academy of Sciences 

 for Friday evenings in March and April, at 

 eight o'clock. The lectures, which were given 

 in the lecture haU. in Lincoln Park, foot of 

 Center Street, were as follows : 



March 27 — " Daylight : Its Quantity and Qual- 

 ity," by Dr. Olin B. Basquin, associate professor 

 of physics, Northwestern University. 



April 3 — " World Building," by Dr. Forest Ray 

 Moulton, assistant professor of astronomy. Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



April 10 — " The Forests of Eastern America," 

 by Dr. Edgar N. Transeau, professor of botany, 

 Eastern Illinois State Normal School, Charleston, 

 111. 



April 17 — " The Birds of the Washington 

 Coast," by Dr. Lynds Jones, associate professor 

 of zoology, Oberlin College, Ohio. 



April 24 — " Zoological Collecting in British 

 East Africa," by Mr. C. E. Akeley, Field Museum 

 of Natural History. 



The American committee on the Mendel 

 memorial begs to acknowledge the receipt, to 

 April 20, of $322 on account of this fund, re- 

 ceived from 150 senders to whom acknowledg- 

 ment has been personally made. It is pro- 

 posed to close this account on the first of 

 June. Those desirous of adding their names 

 to the very honorable roll already obtained 

 are requested to make their contributions 

 before that date. Checks or cash may be 

 sent to Dr. C. B. Davenport, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, New York. 



The annual celebration of the Blue Hydra 

 Society, composed of biological students at the 

 University of Cincinnati, took place on April 



