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$1,000, respectively, as research associates of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Dr. G. Carl Huber, professor of histology 

 and embryology in the department of medicine 

 of the University of Michigan, has tendered 

 his resignation as secretary. Dr. Huber has been 

 made head of the new department of embryol- 

 ogy at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, Phila- 

 delphia, and vcill spend part of his time there. 

 An arrangement has been effected for the next 

 two years. By long service Dr. Huber has 

 earned a year's leave of absence, which the 

 regents have consented to allow in two periods 

 of six months each. During the next semester 

 Dr. Huber will be at the Wistar Institute, and 

 he will return to the University of Michigan 

 for the first semester of next year. Dr. C. W. 

 Edmunds, professor of therapeutics and ma- 

 teria medica, has been elected secretary of the 

 department. 



Professor E. A. Harper, head of the de- 

 partment of botany at the University of Wis- 

 consin, has left for the University of Cali- 

 fornia, where he will lecture during the re- 

 mainder of the present academic year. Pro- 

 fessor George J. Pierce, of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, will be acting professor of botany at the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. Arthur W. Weysse, professor of biol- 

 ogy at Boston University, has started on a 

 trip around the world on sabbatical leave of 

 absence. He will sail from San Francisco on 

 February 8, for Hawaii and Japan, and will 

 be away about eight months. 



On January 20 Professor Arthur Michael 

 lectured before the members and research stu-> 

 dents at the department of chemistry at Clark 

 University on his recent observations in con- 

 nection with reversible organic chemistry. A 

 result of the greatest importance is Professor 

 Michael's discovery of an apparently new fac- 

 tor influencing the velocity of organic reac- 

 tions. 



Dr. George T. Moore, of the Shaw Botan- 

 ical Gardens at St. Louis, gave a public lec- 

 ture before the Society of Sigma Xi, of 

 Cornell University, on January 17, on " Some 

 Striking Advances in Botanical Science and 

 the Application of these in Practical Affairs." 



On January 13 Professor A. E. Kennelly, 

 of Harvard University, delivered a lecture be- 

 fore the Society of Sigma Xi at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania on " Wireless Telegraphy 

 and Telephony as compared with Wire Teleg- 

 raphy and Telephony." 



A SPECUL meeting of the Geological Con- 

 ference was held at Harvard University on 

 January 31, when Mr. Frank A. Perret, of 

 Naples, Italy, spoke on " Volcanoes and Vol- 

 canic Action," with illustrations. Mr. Per- 

 ret has spent the last six years in the study of 

 volcanic problems, and has lived on Vesuvius, 

 Etna and Stromboli during their recent erup- 

 tions. 



At a general meeting of the Association of 

 Public School Science Masters held in London 

 on January 11 and 12, the president. Sir Ed- 

 win Eay Lankester delivered an address on 

 " Compulsory Science versus Compulsory 

 Greek." 



At a meeting of the Royal Geographical 

 Society on January 16 Dr. Johan Hjort gave 

 a detailed account of the Michael Sars North 

 Atlantic deep sea expedition of 1910, which 

 he, with Professor H. H. Grau, Dr. Helland- 

 Hansen, Mr. E. Koefoed, and Captain Thor 

 Iversen, undertook at the suggestion and at 

 the expense of Sir John Murray, who himself 

 accompanied them. 



VN^ERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The General Education Board has made 

 conditional appropriations as follows : Brown 

 University, $100,000; Carleton College, $100,- 

 000; Colorado College, $50,000; Dakota Wes- 

 leyan University, $50,000 ; Denison University, 

 $75,000; Fisk University, $60,000; Mount 

 Holyoke College, $100,000; Randolph-Macon 

 College, $50,000; Swarthmore College, $75,- 

 000 ; Wesleyan College for Women, $50,000. 



The bill increasing the annual appropria- 

 tion from the state of Vermont to Middle- 

 bury College by $7,600 has been signed by 

 Governor Mead. This will make the state ap- 

 propriation to Middlebury $16,000 a year, be- 

 ginning on July 1. The increase is " to pro- 

 vide additional instruction in the departments 



