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of Prince Teano, deputy, who was chiefly in- 

 strumental in calling the attention of the 

 Italian government to the discovery of the 

 English commission on pellagra. 



The annual meeting of the College En- 

 trance Examination Board was held at Colum- 

 bia University on November 12. Tufts was 

 admitted to membership, bringing up to thirty 

 the total number of colleges represented. A 

 standing committee of seven was named to 

 study the reading and rating of examination 

 books and the standards of marking. The list 

 of examiners appointed to prepare examina- 

 tion questions in the sciences for 1911 is as 

 follows : 



Botany — Chief examiner, Willard VVinfield 

 Rowlee, Cornell; associates, Mary Elizabeth Ken- 

 nedy, Mount Holyoke; Louis Murbach, Central 

 High School, Detroit, Mich. 



Chemistry — Chief examiner, Alexander Smith, 

 University of Chicago; associates, Gregory Paul 

 Baxter, Harvard; Boynton Wells McFarland, New 

 Haven High School, New Haven, Conn. 



Mathematics — Chief examiner, Robert Wood- 

 worth Prentiss, Rutgers; associates, Herbert Ed- 

 win Hawkes, Columbia ; Edward B. Parsons, Boys' 

 High School, Brooklyn. 



Physics — Chief examiner, Frank Allan Water- 

 man, Smith; associates, William Edward McEl- 

 fresh, Williams; Daniel Edward Owen, William 

 Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Zoology — Chief examiner, George Howard 

 Parker, Harvard University; associates, Charles 

 Wright Dodge, University of Rochester; Walter 

 HoUis Eddy, High School of Commerce, New 

 York. 



The London Times states that by the gen- 

 erosity of Sir Julius Wernher, who recently 

 placed a sum of £10,000 at the disposal of the 

 committee for the purpose, a much-needed 

 extension of the department of metallurgy has 

 now been begun. The department has, up to 

 the present, been accommodated in a number 

 of scattered rooms in Bushy House, which, in 

 consequence of the increase and importance 

 of the work, have become quite inadequate. 

 Plans have been prepared in consultation with 

 Dr. Eosenhain, the superintendent of the de- 

 partment, and the contract has been let to 



Messrs. Dick, Kerr and Co., who have already 

 made good progress with the foundations. 



The Sedgwick Memorial Museum, of Cam- 

 bridge, has received a valuable gift of fossils, 

 etc., from the widow of the Rev. George Ferris 

 Whidborne, who had previously presented to 

 this museum his collection of Devonian fossils. 

 Mrs. Whidborne has now given the remainder 

 of his collection, with all his scientific books 

 and manuscripts, together with a series of 

 photographs and other illustrations. 



The University of Pittsburgh announces 

 the establishment of four industrial fellow- 

 ships: No. 1, in the chemistry of baking, yield- 

 ing $750 a year for two years, with a cash 

 prize of $2,000. Nos. 2, 3 and 4, for an in- 

 vestigation with a view to eliminating or aba- 

 ting the smoke nuisance in large cities, yield- 

 ing $2,000, $1,500 and $750 per year, respec- 

 tively, for two years, together with a large ad- 

 ditional consideration. 



The U. S. Geological Survey has published 

 as Bulletin 444 a bibliography of North Amer- 

 ican geology for the year 1909, by J. M. 

 Nickles. This volume covers all publications 

 on the geology of North America that were 

 printed anywhere in the world in 1909, show- 

 ing the authors, titles and, briefly, the scope 

 or contents of more than thirteen hundred 

 books and papers. The bulletin includes a 

 comprehensive index. 



The proceedings of the third International 

 Congress for Home Education comprises 8 

 volumes in which specialists in pedagogy dis- 

 cuss the study of childhood, and education of 

 children before, during and after their school 

 years, the education of abnormal children and 

 the various subjects relating to childhood. 

 The exchange of opinions which was evoked 

 at this congress by the papers presented will 

 be published in a separate volume, the ninth in 

 the series, which will appear shortly. The 9 

 volumes will be sent to all those who will be 

 registered with the secretary general of the 

 congress, L. Pien, 44 Rue Rubens, Brussels. 

 Belgium, before the first of January. Such 

 persons will be considered members of the 

 congress and will receive the 9 volumes upon 

 payment of the dues, 10 francs ($2). After 



