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been appointed honorary curator of the de- 

 partment of vertebrate paleontology and Dr. 

 W. D. Matthew has been promoted to the 

 position of acting curator. 



In continuation of the program outlined 

 some time ago, the Wistar Institute of Anat- 

 omy and Biology has taken up the Chemical 

 Study of the Nervous System. The work, in 

 cooperation with Professor H. H. Donaldson, 

 has been put in charge of Dr. Waldemar Koch, 

 of the University of Chicago. Dr. Koch re- 

 tains his connection with the university but 

 will spend part of his time in Philadelphia 

 and the results wiU be published jointly from 

 the department of neurology of the Wistar 

 Institute and the laboratory of pharmacology 

 of the University of Chicago. 



Dr. C. F. Clark, assistant agronomist in 

 the New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University, has accepted a position in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry in connection 

 with the sugar beet investigations. 



Arthur H. Estabrook, Ph.D. (Hopkins), 

 will spend the winter in research work at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. 



Drs. Goddard and Spinden, of the depart- 

 ment of anthropology of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, attended the Con- 

 gress of Americanists in Mexico City after 

 which Dr. Spinden again took up his work 

 among the Eio Grande Pueblo of New Mex- 

 ico. 



Miss Alice C. Fletcher, Thaw fellow in the 

 Peabody Museum of Harvard University, pre- 

 sented a paper on " The Archeological Activ- 

 ities in the United States," before the Section 

 of Anthropology at the Sheffield meeting of 

 the British Association. Miss Fletcher was 

 elected a vice-president of the section. 



Professor G. H. P.\rker, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, delivered a lecture on " Taste and 

 Smell," at a meeting of the American Acad- 

 emy of Dental Science, held in Boston, on 

 October 5. 



At the stated meeting of the American Phil- 

 osophical Society on October 7, Dr. John 

 Chalmers Da Costa read a paper on " Sui- 

 cide." 



Among the courses of public extension lec- 

 tures offered by Columbia University is one on 

 " The Science of Zoology, Fundamentals of 

 Biology and Principles of Evolution " by Pro- 

 fessor Henry E. Crampton. 



Among the public introductory lectures to 

 be given at University College (University of 

 London) during October, Nature quotes the 

 following: October 3, "Niton: one of the 

 Argon Series of Gases," Sir W. Eamsay; Oc- 

 tober 4, " The Origin of Scenery," Professor 

 E. J. Garwood; October 6, "The Life and 

 Times of Sennacherib," Dr. T. G. Pinches; 

 "Recent Investigations into the Mental 

 Growth of Children," Dr. C. Spearman; Oc- 

 tober 10, "Climatic Control," Professor L. 

 W. Lyde; "Instinct," Professor Carveth 

 Eead; October 13, "Experimental Phonetics," 

 Mr. D. Jones. 



The College of the City of New York has 

 acquired, as already announced, the complete 

 private library of the late Professor Simon 

 Newcomb, consisting of about 4,000 volumes 

 and 7,000 pamphlets dealing with astronomy, 

 mathematics and physics. Both pamphlets 

 and books are being catalogued and are now 

 accessible to research students, in accordance 

 with the expressed desire of the professor and 

 Mrs. Newcomb. 



A STATUE in memory of Dr. Victor CornU, 

 formerly professor of pathological anatomy at 

 Paris, has been dedicated at Cusset, his native 

 city. 



Mme. Pasteur, widow of Louis Pasteur, 

 whom she assisted in his researches, has died 

 at the age of eighty-four years. 



Dr. John E. Matzke, head professor of 

 Romanic languages in Stanford University, 

 died very suddenly at Mexico City on Septem- 

 ber 18. He had gone to that city as the rep- 

 resentative of Stanford University on the oc- 

 casion of the opening of the Mexican National 

 University. 



Dr. Otto Lijdecke, associate professor of 

 mineralogy at Halle, has died at the age of 

 sixty years. 



