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secretary of the Eoyal Society, has accepted 

 an invitation to become the unionist candidate 

 for the vacancy in the parliamentary repre- 

 sentation of Cambridge University. 



The Belgian Eoyal Academy of Sciences, 

 Letters and Arts has awarded to Dr. L. A. 

 Bauer, of the Carnegie Institution, the Charles 

 Lagrange Prize for the period of 1905-08, of 

 1,200 francs, on account of his various re- 

 searches in terrestrial magnetism. 



Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, associate member of 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, received in December, 1910, from the 

 Japanese government the honorary title of 

 Professor (Igakuhakushi) . 



Professor Jacques Hadamard, of the Col- 

 lege de France, has accepted an invitation 

 from Columbia University to give instruction 

 in mathematics at Columbia for a period of 

 four to five weeks in the autumn of 1911. He 

 will conduct one course in pure mathematics 

 and one in mathematical physics. 



It is reported that the Krupp Society has 

 given Professor Emil Wiechert, of the Uni- 

 versity of Gottingen, 10,000 Marks to enable 

 him to conduct experiments in aerodynamics; 

 and also 6,000 Marks to Professor Leopold 

 Ambronn, of the same university, for the con- 

 struction of a new photographic apparatus. 



The American Philosophical Society at a 

 recent meeting appointed a committee to 

 memorialize congress with a view to founding 

 a National Earthquake Laboratory at Wash- 

 ington. This committee consists of Dr. 

 Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, chairman ; Professor H. F. 

 Reid, Johns Hopkins University; Professor 

 William H. Hobbs, University of Michigan; 

 Dr. R. A. F. Penrose, Philadelphia, and Pro- 

 fessor T. C. Chamberlin, University of Chi- 

 cago. 



It is announced that Baron Reinach has 

 provided the Frankfort Physical Society with 

 the funds necessary to establish a seismolog- 

 ieal observatory on the Feldberg, in the 

 Taunus range. Dr. F. Linke will be the di- 

 rector of the observatory. 



Professor F. Smith and Mr. F. A. Loew, 

 of the University of Illinois, will this summer 

 be associated with Professor J. E. Reighard 

 at the Biological Station of the University of 

 Michigan at Douglass Lake. 



C. L. DE MuRALT, recently appointed pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, becomes editor of the Rail- 

 way Electrical Engineer. This journal is the 

 official organ of the Association of Railway 

 Electrical Engineers. 



Dr. J. J. Davis, of Racine, Wis., who 

 has devoted a large amount of time to the 

 study and collection of parasitic fungus flora 

 of Wisconsin, has been appointed curator of 

 the herbarium of the University of Wisconsin. 

 On their transfer to the new biological build- 

 ing, the botanical collections will be provided 

 with new and better quarters for work, and a 

 complete reorganization of the museum is 

 planned. 



Fourteen Harvard professors wiU be absent 

 during the second half of the current aca- 

 demic year. They include: Professors C. L. 

 Jackson, of the chemistry department; Hugo 

 Miinsterberg, of the philosophy department, 

 who is serving as exchange professor at the 

 University of Berlin; J. L. Love, of the math- 

 ematics department; C. L. Bouton, of the 

 mathematics department; W. Z. Ripley, of the 

 department of economics; R. B. Dixon, of the 

 division of anthropology, and 0. R. Sanger, 

 of the chemistry department. 



The following officers were elected at the 

 recent annual meeting of the Royal Meteoro- 

 logical Society: President, Dr. H. N. Dick- 

 son; vice-presidents, F. Druce, H. Mellish, 

 R. G. K. Lemfert, Colonel H. E. Eawson, 

 C.B.; treasurer. Dr. 0. Theodore Williams; 

 secretaries, F. C. Bayard, Commander W. F. 

 Caborne, C.B.; foreign secretary. Dr. R. H. 

 Scott, F.E.S. 



The ISTashville section of the American 

 Chemical Society held its organization meet- 

 ing at Furman Hall, Vanderbilt University, 

 on January 25. After the adoption of a con- 

 stitution the following officers were elected: 

 chairman, W. L. Dudley; vice-chairman, J. I. 



