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SCIENCE 



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from Professor Darbous, of Paris, as well as 

 contributions from nearly all the heads of the 

 departments of mathematics and many other 

 professors in the American universities. 

 Dean Frederick C. Ferry, of Williams Col- 

 lege, acted as toastmaster, and speeches were 

 made by President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark 

 University; President Edmund C. Sanford, 

 of Clark College, Professor James Pierpont, 

 of Tale University, and Professor Arthur (j. 

 Webster, Professor Henry Taber, Dr. Louis 

 N. Wilson, Professor Clifton F. Hodge and 

 Professor Frank B. Williams, of Clark Uni- 

 versity. The dinner marked the completion 

 by Dr. Story of thirty-five years of the teach- 

 ing of mathematics at Harvard University, 

 the Johns Hopkins University and Clark Uni- 

 versity. 



A SCIENTIFIC expedition to the west-central 

 part of Labrador for the present summer has 

 been organized by Professor Eaymond Mc- 

 Farland of Middlebury College. The expedi- 

 tion will go to Lake Mistassini by way of the 

 Chamouchouan Eiver and File Axe Lake, and 

 thence to the eastward where field work and 

 study of the unexplored region about Little 

 Lake Mistassini and Lake Temiscamie will be 

 made. He will be accompanied by Professors 

 Thomas C. Brown and Phelps N. Sweet, both 

 of Middlebury College. 



Phofessor C. S. Schuchert, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, and Mr. Twenhope, of the graduate 

 school, have engaged a schooner for explora- 

 tion of the shores of northwestern Newfound- 

 land and I^abrador. 



Professor H. F. Cleland, geology, has re- 

 ceived leave of absence from Williams College 

 for the first semester of next year, and Pro- 

 fessor W. I. Milham, astronomy, leave of ab- 

 sence for the second semester. 



The death is announced of Charles Stani- 

 land Wake, connected with the Field Museum 

 of Natural History, and known for his work 

 in ethnology, born in England in 1835. 



John William Critchlet, chief taxiderm- 

 ist of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences, died at his home in 

 Brooklyn, N. T., May 24, of cirrhosis of the 



liver. That date marks the end of a long and 

 useful career in museum taxidermy, which be- 

 gan at Ward's Natural Science Establishment 

 in 1877, and ended with eight years of work 

 in the Brooklyn Museum. In that institution 

 his mounted mammals, great and small, con- 

 stitute a fitting and permanent memorial to 

 his skill, thoroughness and industry as a pre- 

 parator. Perhaps Mr. Critchley's chief claim 

 to distinction lies in the fact that in the 

 saving and successful mounting of valuable 

 zoological rarities that were about to become 

 a total loss to science, his skill was really 

 marvelous. His handiwork is widely scat- 

 tered through the museums of America, but 

 by far the largest and best collection of it is 

 to be seen in the Brooklyn Museum. Espe- 

 cially noteworthy are his polar bear and fur- 

 seals. 



The anniversary meeting of the New Tork 

 Academy of Medicine to be held on Thursday, 

 November 17, 1910, will be devoted to the sub- 

 ject of animal experimentation in medicine, 

 with the following program: 



" The Influence of Anti-vivisection on the Char- 

 acter of its Advocates," Professor Wm. W. Keen, 

 Philadelphia. 



'■ Objections to Proposals of Further Legislation 

 to Regulate Animal Experimentation," Dr. Wm. 

 H. Welch, professor of pathology in the Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



" The Character of Anti-vivisection Literature," 

 Dr. W. B. Cannon, professor of physiology at the 

 Harvard Medical School. 



The sixth annual meeting of the Southern 

 Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be 

 held in conjunction with the meetings of the 

 Southern Educational Association at Chatta- 

 nooga, Tenn., December 27-29. 



The LTniversity of Southern California at 

 Los Angeles, has recently established a ma- 

 rine biological station at Venice, Cal. The 

 station is on the nearest beach to the univer- 

 sity, some thirteen miles distant. It com- 

 prises an aquarium consisting of forty tanks 

 with running sea water and a series of labora- 

 tories for class work and research. The tanks 

 are built of Catalina marble with glass on 

 four sides and lighted in such a manner as to 



