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SCIENCE 



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ing of the Case Chaister of the Societj' of 

 Sigma Xi, in the physics building of Case 

 School of Applied Science, on the evening of 

 iTebruary 23, 1911. 



Mr. M. N. Baker, editor of the Engineering 

 NewSj gave a lecture on March 16, before the 

 engineering school of the University of Ver- 

 mont on " The Engineer and the City." 



The American Scenic and Historic Preser- 

 vation Society in cooperation with the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, arranged at 

 the museum, on March 23, an illustrated lec- 

 ture on " The Physical History of the Grand 

 Canyon District," by Professor Douglas Wil- 

 son Johnson, of Harvard University. 



Professor 6. W. Eitchey, of the Solar Ob- 

 servatory of the Carnegie Institution at 

 Mount Wilson, will give a lecture on " Celes- 

 tial Photography," at Harvard University, on 

 March 28. The sixty-inch mirror of the ob- 

 servatory is the work of Professor Eitchey's 

 hands, and the lecture will be illustrated by 

 "recent photographs taken with that instru- 

 ment. 



The nineteenth " James Forrest " lecture 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers, will be 

 delivered on June 28, by Dr. P. H. Hatch, his 

 subject being " The Past, Present, and Future 

 of Mining in the Transvaal." 



The Huxley lecture at Birmingham Uni- 

 versity is to be delivered by Professor Henri 

 Eergson, lecturer on philosophy at the Uni- 

 versity of Paris. 



The trustees of Columbia University have 

 voted that the head professorship of physiol- 

 ogy in the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons be named the Dalton professorship, in 

 honor of the late Dr. John C. Dalton, who 

 held the chair of physiology from 1860 to 

 1883, and was president of the college from 

 1884 to 1889. The professorship is now held 

 by Dr. Frederic S. Lee. 



We regret to record the death, on March 1, 

 of W. G. W. Harford, at Alameda, California. 

 Mr. Harford was eighty years of age and had 

 long been associated with the University of 

 California, the Academy of Sciences and 

 •other institutions of research as collector, 



curator, etc., and was a special associate of 

 the late Dr. A. Kellogg, in his botanical ex- 

 peditions. He published an early report on 

 collections made in Alaska under the super- 

 vision of Professor George Davidson, and was 

 especially interested in conchology. 



Mr. E. E. Wilson, formerly assistant in the 

 radiography department of the London Hos- 

 pital, died on March 2, as the result of disease 

 contracted by exposure to Eontgen rays. 



The formal opening of the Chemists' Build- 

 ing, 50-54 E. Forty-first Street, New York 

 City, took place on March 17, 18 and 19. At 

 the dedication exercises the program was as 

 follows : 



Address by the president of the Chemists ' Build- 

 ing Company, Dr. Morris Loeb. 



Address by the honorary president of the Eighth 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry, Dr. 

 Edward S. Morley. 



Address by the president of the American Chem- 

 ical Society, Professor Alexander Smith. 



Letter from the president of Johns Hopkins 

 University, past president of the Society of Chem- 

 ical Industry. 



Address by the president of tlie American Elec- 

 trochemical Society, Professor William H. Walker. 



Address on Chemical Education by Professor 

 Wilder D. Bancroft. 



Unveiling of Rumford Memorial by Professor 

 Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. 



Address by the president of the Chemists' Club, 

 Dr. Eussell W. Moore. 



We hope to publish a full account of the 

 building, of the exercises and of the scientific 

 program of the following days. 



A CONGRESS of technology which will give 

 in the papers to be presented a record of the 

 place and practical achievements of science 

 in modern life, will be held in the buildings 

 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 in Boston, on April 10 and 11. The sessions 

 will be open to the public. This occasion also 

 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the granting 

 of the institute's charter, and the congress is 

 therefore in part a celebration of this anni- 

 versary. During these fifty years the world 

 has seen that " advancement, development and 

 practical application of science in connection 



