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which he outlined the research work in prog- 

 ress at the Massachusetts Institute as well as 

 the general policy of the department. 



Professoe Svante Aerhenius, of Stock- 

 holm, delivered a lecture before the Scientific 

 Association of the Johns Hopkins TTniversity 

 on the evening of March 24 on " The Laws of 

 Adsorption." In this lecture Arrhenius gave 

 an account of some of his recent work in this 

 field. 



Dr. Victor Goldschmidt, professor of crys- 

 tallography at the University of Heidelberg, 

 has visited the University of Michigan and 

 has given several lectures before classes in 

 mineralogy and geology. 



Professor W. H. Freedman, of Pratt Insti- 

 tute, Brooklyn, lectured at the University of 

 Vermont on March 27 on " Some Eecent 

 Engineering Achievements," and on March 

 29 on " Wireless Telegraphy." 



Dr. Henry P. Bowditch's books and scien- 

 tific apparatus and the sum of $4,000 are be- 

 queathed to Harvard College for the Medical 

 School by the provisions of his will. The be- 

 quest of $4,000 is "to be added to the fund 

 left by my father, J. Ingersoll Bowditch, the 

 income of which shall be expended under the 

 direction of the professor of physiology for 

 the purpose of original investigation." 



A BRONZE tablet in honor of Albert Ben- 

 jamin Prescott, formerly director of the Chem- 

 ical Laboratory of the University of Michigan, 

 was put in place at the entry of the new chem- 

 ical building at the university on March 15. 



Mrs. Ellen Henrietta Swallow Eichards, 

 instructor in sanitary engineering in the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, well 

 known for her valuable contributions to sani- 

 tary problems, has died at the age of sixty-nine 

 years. Mrs. Richards was the wife of Dr. 

 Eobert H. Eichards, professor of mining engi- 

 neering at the institute. 



Edward Fitch Cushing, Ph.B. (Cornell, 

 '83), M.D. (Harvard, '88), one of the foremost 

 physicians and public men of the city of 

 Cleveland, died on March 23, at the age of 

 forty-nine years. He had practised medicine 

 in Cleveland for the last eighteen years and 



was professor of the diseases of children in 

 Western Eeserve University. Dr. Cushing 

 was the fourth of his family to follow the 

 medical profession. His great-grandfather 

 was a physician in New England; his grand- 

 father, Erastus Cushing, and his father, 

 Henry Kirke Cushing, were both physicians in 

 Cleveland. His brothers are WiUiam E. 

 Cushing, a lawyer and trustee of Western Ee- 

 serve University; Henry P. Cushing, professor 

 of geology in Western Eeserve University, 

 and Harvey Cushing, professor of surgery in 

 the Johns Hopkins University. 



At a special meeting lately held in the Ber- 

 lin Eoyal Museum of Natural History, as we 

 learn from Nature, the committee for the 

 exploration of the dinosaur-bearing deposits of 

 German East Africa exhibited a few of the 

 more remarkable specimens already received. 

 The collection consists chiefly of the remains 

 of Sauropoda, some much larger than the 

 gigantic species of North America. One 

 humerus measures more than two meters in 

 length, and some of the cervical vertebrae are 

 twice as large as those of Diplodocus. The 

 leader of the exploring party. Dr. W. Janensch, 

 reports the discovery of two new localities in 

 which dinosaurian bones are abundant. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine, which, in 

 deference to the representations of the BritisJi 

 government, recently agreed ^g aesignate the 

 disease known as Maltese fever by the term 

 " Mediterranean fever," has decided to adopt 

 as its scientific appellation the name Melito- 

 coccie. 



Mrs. John H. Caswell, of New York, has 

 presented to Trinity College the valuable col- 

 lection of minerals gathered during his life- 

 time by the late John Henry Caswell. Mr. 

 Caswell was graduated from Columbia Uni- 

 versity in 1865, and after three years' study in 

 Germany became assistant in mineralogy in 

 the newly organized Columbia School of 

 Mines. In 1877 his business interests com- 

 pelled him to give up the career of a scientific 

 man, but he maintained his interest in min- 

 eralogy, and his collection became valuable. 

 It contains about 4,000 specimens scientifically 

 arranged and illustrates very completely the 



