JANTJAET 13, 1911] 



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Professor Arthur H. Blanohard, of tlie 

 department of civil engineering, Brown Uni- 

 versity, has recently been appointed expert 

 and consulting engineer to the United States 

 Office of Public Eoads. 



Professor M. V. O'Shea, professor of edu- 

 cation at the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been appointed chairman of the American 

 committee of the International Congress on 

 Childhood and Youth. The next session of 

 the congress will be held in the United 

 States, probably at Washington in 1912. 



Arthur E. Cushny, M.D., F.E.C.S., pro- 

 fessor of pharmacology in the University of 

 London, will deliver the first of the " Weir 

 Mitchell Lectures " at the Weir Mitchell Hall 

 in the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, on 

 January 17. His subject will be " Heart Ir- 

 regularity from Auricular Fibrillation." 



Dr. GiJNTHER Jacoby, privatdocent at the 

 University of Griefswald, and research fellow 

 in philosophy at Harvard University, is giving 

 a course of seven lectures on " Schopenhauer," 

 beginning January 6. The lectures are open 

 to members of Harvard University. 



The municipality of Dole, Jura, has just 

 voted to buy and preserve the house where 

 Pasteur, on December 27, 1822, was born. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that as a permanent honor to 

 its founder, who was also for many years its 

 honorary president, the Verein fiir innere 

 Medizin und KinderheiUrunde of Berlin has 

 resolved, on motion of Professor Schwalbe, to 

 establish a Leyden lectureship, the lecture to 

 be given annually at the first session of the 

 winter semester, by a speaker selected by the 

 board of directors. This arrangement, which 

 follows the English custom, is the first of the 

 kind made in Germany. A large fee will be 

 paid the lecturer, derived from the interest of 

 the fund of $14,000, established on the seven- 

 tieth birthday of von Leyden. The rest of the 

 interest on the fund is to be devoted to sci- 

 entific research under the influence of the so- 

 ciety for internal medicine. 



The death is announced at Cincinnati at 

 the age of eighty-eight years of Mr. Benn 



Pittman, who with his brother. Sir Isaac Pitt- 

 man, developed the system of stenography 

 which bears their name, and is also known for 

 his inventions in connection with electro- 

 typing. 



The Sarah Berliner research fellowship for 

 women will be awarded for the second time 

 this year. This fellowship, of the value of 

 twelve hundred dollars, is available for study 

 and research in this country and in Europe. 

 It is open to women holding the degree of 

 doctor of philosophy, or to those similarly 

 equipped for the work of further research; it 

 will be awarded only to those who give 

 promise of distinction in the subject to which 

 they are devoting themselves. Applications 

 must be in the hands of the chairman of the 

 committee, Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, 

 527 Cathedral Parkway, New York, by 

 February 1. This fellowship was awarded 

 two years ago (it is given only every two 

 years) to Miss Caroline McGill, Ph.D., 

 who was a member of the teaching staff of the 

 University of Missouri. Miss McGiU has 

 spent a year in Europe, chiefly at the Naples 

 Zoological Station. 



Dr. a. D. Gabay, of New York City, has 

 presented to the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History a collection of ground and pol- 

 ished shells from California and Japan. 

 These specimens with their convolutions and 

 superb nacre make objects of great beauty. 

 They will be installed in certain sections of 

 the hall of moUusca, illustrating the economic 

 and ornamental uses of shells. The museum 

 has also received, as a gift from Mr. D. 0. 

 Staples, a collection of archeological and eth- 

 nological material which comes from the 

 provinces of Esmeraldas and Manabi in the 

 extreme northern part of Colombia, South 

 America. 



According to Nature a new zoological gar- 

 den in course of construction by Mr. Carl 

 Hagenbeck in the grounds of the Villa Bor- 

 ghese, Eome, was expected to be opened on 

 January 1. The grounds, which comprise 

 twenty-eight acres, lie outside the old walls 

 to the northward of the city, and it is stated 



