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24, an imported hemlock, dedicated to the 

 memory of Cuvier, being planted on the 

 campus. The chief address was delivered by 

 Professor C. A. L. Reed, of the Medical 

 faculty, on " The Lessons of Ouvier's Life." 



Egbert Chalmers, LL.D., of the Canadian 

 Geological Survey, died at Ottawa, Can., on 

 April 9, at the age of seventy-four years. He 

 joined the survey about twenty-three years 

 ago, and conducted work in Pleistocene geol- 

 ogy, especially in his native province of New 

 Brunswick. 



Dr. Otto Kuntze, a graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Munich, died recently at Iowa City, 

 Iowa. During the past eleven years Dr. 

 Kuntze was a dealer in minerals and rocks, 

 and shortly before his death he placed his 

 entire collection, consisting of thousands of 

 specimens from all parts of the world, at the 

 service of the University of Iowa. Dr. 

 Kuntze was forty-one years of age. 



Miss Nina Holton, of Newburyport, a 

 member of the staff of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Department of Agriculture, died of 

 typhoid fever on May 5. 



Mr. John Walter Hastings, A.B. (Har- 

 vard, 1905), A.M. (1906), ethnologist during 

 the first year of the Peabody Museum An- 

 thropological South American Expedition 

 under Dr. W. 0. Farrabee, died on April 26 

 from injuries received in an accident. 



The death is announced of Professor Leo- 

 pold Schrotter von Kristelli, one of the best 

 known and most influential members of the 

 Vienna medical faculty. Only the week be- 

 fore, as honorary president of the Congress 

 of Laryngologists then sitting in Vienna, Pro- 

 fessor von Schrotter delivered an inaugural 

 address, in the course of which he celebrated 

 the achievements of Vienna University in 

 developing the science of laryngology. 



The deaths are announced of Dr. Ludwig 

 Schmarde, formerly professor of zoology in 

 the University of Vienna, at the age of eighty- 

 nine years, and of Dr. Wilhelm Scheidner, 

 professor of mathematics at Leipzig, at the 

 age of eighty-two years. 



The thirty-eighth general meeting of the 

 American Chemical Society will, as has been 

 already announced, be held in New Haven, 

 Conn., June 30, July 1 and 2. The sections 

 will meet in the lecture rooms of the Sheffield 

 Scientific School, and will be under the chair- 

 manship of the following members: Agricul- 

 tural and Food Section — A. L. Winton; Bio- 

 logical and Sanitary Section, Thomas B. Os- 

 borne; Physical Section, Frank K. Cameron; 

 Organic Section, Wm. McPherson; Inorganic 

 Section, Philip E. Browning; Industrial Sec- 

 tion, Wm. D. Richardson. Papers intended 

 for these sections must be sent to the chair- 

 man or to the secretary of the society before 

 June 10. The division of industrial chemists 

 and chemical engineers will be organized at 

 this meeting. Programs will be sent mem- 

 bers on June 20. Hotel headquarters will be 

 at the New Haven House. 



The third International Botanical Congress 

 will be held at Brussels from May 14^22, 1910. 

 All communications relating to the congress 

 should be addressed to Dr. E. De Wildeman, 

 general secretary of the organizing committee, 

 Jardin Botanique de I'Etat, Brussels. 



Mr. a. F. Yarrow has offered to give $100,- 

 000 for a tank for research purposes to be 

 erected at the National Physical Laboratory. 



The late Dr. H. Clifton Sorby, F.E.S., of 

 Sheffield, has bequeathed to the Eoyal Society 

 of London, a sum of £15,000, for a fellow- 

 ship or professorship for the carrying on of 

 original scientific research. He leaves to the 

 University of Sheffield £6,500, to which is to 

 be added £3,500 which he gave in 1903, ma- 

 king £10,000, as an endowment for a professor- 

 ship of geology or such other subject as the 

 university may think more suitable. Dr. 

 Sorby also gives to the university a number 

 of books, optical and scientific instruments, 

 geological, mineralogical and natural history 

 specimens, manuscript books, lantern slides, 

 and microscopical objects of rocks and metals, 

 and architectural and other photographs. To 

 the corporation of Sheffield he bequeaths cer- 

 tain scientific articles, pictures, etc. The 

 Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society 



