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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXII. No. 832 



Mr. O. W. Barrett, until recently director 

 of the Department of Agriculture of Mozam- 

 bique, has accepted the position of chief of 

 division of experiment stations, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, at Manila. He has al- 

 ready reached his new post. 



Mr. Barnuji Brown, of the department of 

 vertebrate paleontology of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, has recently re- 

 turned from an expedition to Montana which 

 completes the work on the Laramie formation 

 begun in 1902 and carried on continuously 

 since that time except during the year 1907. 

 The most important specimen obtained was an 

 unusually complete skeleton of Trachodon. 



Professor Herschel C. Parker, of the de- 

 partment of physics of Columbia University, 

 accompanied by Mr. Gilmore Brown and other 

 members of last summer's expedition, will 

 make a third attempt this winter to reach the 

 summit of Mount McKinley. 



On November 11 and 12, Professor Edmund 

 B. Wilson, of Columbia University, delivered 

 two lectures before the University of Missouri 

 under the auspices of the Society of the Sigma 

 Xi. The subjects of the lectures were " Some 

 Latter Day Aspects of Heredity and Evolu- 

 tion " and " Heredity and the Chromosomes." 



Dr. John Dewey, professor of philosophy at 

 Columbia University, will lecture at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, under the Harrison 

 Foundation, on " The Problem of Truth." 

 The subjects and dates of the lectures are as 

 follows : December 6, " Why Truth is a Philo- 

 sophical Problem " ; December 8, " Corre- 

 spondence, Coherence and Consequence as 

 Marks of Truth"; December 9, "Truth as 

 Objective." Following Dr. Dewey's lectures, 

 Professor Josiah Royce, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, will deliver three lectures on " Truth " on 

 February 6, 7 and 8. 



On December 3, Dr. George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy, of Yale University, lectured at the 

 University of Pennsylvania, his subject being 

 " The Antiquity of Man in Europe." This 

 was the first of a series of lectures to be given 

 by various speakers on " The History of Man- 

 kind." 



Dr. Georg Kerschensteiner, of Munich, 

 Bavaria, delivered an address on the trade 

 schools of Munich at the University of Chi- 

 cago on November 14. Dr. Kerschensteiner 

 is a member of the Royal Council of Educa- 

 tion of Bavaria and superintendent of the 

 public schools of Munich. He has come to 

 America at the invitation of the Commercial 

 Club of Chicago, which is making a study of 

 the advantages of industrial education and 

 which has sent Edwin G. Cooley, former 

 superintendent of the public schools of Chi- 

 cago and a graduate of the University of Chi- 

 cago, to Europe to investigate trade schools. 



" The Inefficiency of Natural Selection " 

 was the subject of Profesor H. H. Lane's 

 presidential address before the Oklahoma 

 Academy of Science at its second annual 

 meeting held in November. The address will 

 probably be printed in full by the state uni- 

 versity. Dr. D. W, Ohern was elected presi- 

 dent of the academy at its recent meeting. 



A MEMORIAL has been erected at the National 

 Bacteriological Listitute in the City of Mexico 

 to Howard T, Ricketts, who at the time of his 

 death was assistant professor of pathology in 

 the University of Chicago and professor-elect 

 of pathology in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, His death was caused by typhus fever, 

 which he contracted while conducting re- 

 searches in this disease. 



Dr. Christian Archibald Herter, professor 

 of pharmacology and therapeutics in the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia 

 University, died on December 5 at the age of 

 forty-six years, 



Dr, Angelo Mosso, professor of physiology 

 in the University of Turin and a member of 

 the Italian Senate, died on November 24 at 

 the age of sixty-four years. 



The Association of the Alumni of the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons offer the 

 Cartwright prize, $500, open to universal com- 

 petition, for the best essay on any medical, 

 surgical or kindred subject. The essays must 

 contain the original work of the author and 

 must be submitted on or before April 1, 1911. 

 In the spring of 1912, the alumni prize of 



