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awarded every five years during the annual 

 meeting of the Societe de Chirurgie. 



The Fothergillian gold medal, of the Med- 

 ical Society of London, given triennially, has 

 been awarded to Dr. F. W. Mott, F.E.S., for 

 his researches on the nervous system. 



PRESffiENT ScHURMAN has been appointed 

 by the faculty and trustees of Cornell Uni- 

 versity a delegate to the celebration on Sep- 

 tember 12 to 15 nest, of the five hundredth 

 anniversary of the founding of St. Andrews 

 University. He has also been appointed a 

 delegate to represent the university at the 

 centenary celebration of the University of 

 Christiania, Norway, to be held September 5 

 and 6. 



A SIX months' leave of absence, owing to 

 illness, has been granted to Dr. E. B. Voor- 

 hees, professor of agriculture at Eutgers Col- 

 lege and director of the New Jersey Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Professor Otto C. Glaser, of the depart- 

 ment of zoology in the University of Michi- 

 gan, has been granted leave of absence for 

 the academic year 1911-12. 



T. D. Urbahns, instructor of entomology at 

 the Minnesota Agricultural College, has re- 

 signed to enter the government service. He 

 will go to Salt Lake City to take up an in- 

 vestigation of the alfalfa weevil. 



The appointment of Dr. L. Van Es as a 

 member of the permanent commission of the 

 International Veterinary Congress in the 

 place of Dr. Leonard Pearson, deceased, has 

 recently been announced. Dr. Van Es is head 

 of the School of Veterinary Medicine at North 

 Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, N. D. 



Captain Horace D. Bloomberg, of the U. S. 

 Army Medical Corps, who has been a mem- 

 ber of the Army Board for the Study of Trop- 

 ical Diseases, has completed his term of duty 

 in the Philippines and is returning to the 

 United States. 



Mr. K. R. Lewin, Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been nominated to use the uni- 

 versity table at Naples for six months from 

 March 1. 



In response to the request of the Chinese 

 government for an international commission 

 to proceed to China to investigate the out- 

 break of plague in Manchuria, the British 

 government has instructed Dr. Eeginald 

 Farrar, one of the medical inspectors of the 

 local government board, to proceed to China. 



Dr. C. p. Steenmetz, consvilting engineer 

 for the General Electric Company, was a guest 

 of the University of Illinois during the week 

 of March 6 to 11. During his stay he deliv- 

 ered lectures on " Electric Energy " and on 

 " Transients." 



Dr. E. B. Titchener, Sage research pro- 

 fessor of psychology in Cornell University, ad- 

 dressed a convocation of the students and 

 faculty of Indiana University, on February 

 23, on "Memory and Imagination." On the 

 evening of February 9, the members of the 

 Purdue chapter of Sigma Xi were the guests 

 of the Indiana University chapter at a ban- 

 quet and lecture. The lecture was given by 

 Professor E. B. Moore, of Butler College, on 

 the subject of " The Eare Elements of the 

 Atmosphere." 



Colonel G. W. Goethals, chief engineer of 

 the Panama Canal, appeared as the ninth lec- 

 turer upon the J. C. Campbell Foundation of 

 the Sigma Xi Society of the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity on February 21. A large audience 

 gathered to hear him speak upon the subject 

 " The Panama Canal." His lecture was illus- 

 trated by a large number of slides and also a 

 film of moving pictures showing some of the 

 machinery used upon the canal in operation. 



Professor Charles H. Judd, director of the 

 school of education at the University of Chi- 

 cago, and Professor John M. Coulter, head of 

 the department of botany, spoke at the annual 

 convention of the Central Kansas Teachers' 

 Association, which met at Salina on March 2, 

 3 and 4. 



On February 10, Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, 

 of the University of Chicago, spoke at Prince- 

 ton, HI., on " Conservation in Illinois," em- 

 phasizing the work of the State Park Com- 

 mission, of which he is a member. 



Sir Horace Plunkett, the Irish authority 

 on cooperation in agriculture and member of 



