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granted leave of absence during the second 

 LaK of the present academic year; they will 

 ■spend most of their time in Paris. Professors 

 E. J. Wilczynski, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, and C. L. Bouton and J. L. Love, of 

 Harvard University, are also spending the 

 present half-year abroad on leaves of absence. 



Peofessor ECarold B. Smith, director of the 

 ■department of electrical engineering at the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, lectured be- 

 fore the Cornell branch of the American Insti- 

 tute of Electrical Engineers on March 31. 

 His subject was " Some Engineering Develop- 

 ments of the Electric Field of Force." 



On April 5, 1911, the University of Penn- 

 sylvania Chapter of the Society of the Sigma 

 Xi initiated sixty-eight new members. Thirty- 

 three of them are alumni of the university 

 who graduated before the organization of the 

 •chapter and have since attained prominence 

 in scientific work. Eleven are members of the 

 faculty and twenty-four are undergraduates. 

 The address to the initiates on " The Two 

 Eields of Activity of the Learned Professions," 

 •was made by Professor I. J. Schwatt, presi- 

 dent of the chapter, and the society was ad- 

 dressed by Professor Allen J. Smith, dean of 

 the medical department, on the subject, 

 •" Schools of Applied Science in Relation to 

 the Graduate School." 



Mr. Henry A. Purdie, of Boston, one of 

 the founders of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union and long identified with the ornithol- 

 ogy and botany of New England, died at the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital on March 29 

 and was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 

 Cambridge, April 1. 



Mr. Bernard Amend, president of the firm 

 of Eimer & Amend, and a former student of 

 von Liebig, died in New York City on April 

 6, at the age of ninety years. 



Alphonse Louis Piuart, a French traveler 

 and philologist, died at Boulogne (Seine) on 

 February 13, at the age of fifty-nine years. 



The biological laboratory of the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries at "Woods Hole, 

 Mass., will open early in the coming June, for 

 the twenty-seventh season since its establish- 



ment in the present quarters. A limited num- 

 ber of research rooms and tables will, as usual, 

 be placed at the disposal of those qualified to 

 conduct investigations in the various branches 

 of marine biology. Applications should be 

 sent at an early date either to the commis- 

 sioner of fisheries, Washington, D. 0., or to 

 the director of the laboratory. Woods Hole, 



The twentieth session of the Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory of Stanford University will 

 begin Wednesday, May 31, 1911. The regular 

 course of instruction will continue six weeks, 

 closing July 11. Investigators and students 

 working without instruction may make ar- 

 rangements to continue their work through 

 the summer. The laboratory will be under 

 the general supervision of Professor F. M. 

 McFarland, instructor in charge. 



The Society of College Teachers of Educa- 

 tion has entered into an agreement with the 

 University Press of Chicago whereby the edi- 

 torial management of the School Review will 

 henceforth be under the control of an editorial 

 committee elected by the society. This edi- 

 torial committee consists of Professor M. V. 

 O'Shea, president of the society and chair- 

 man of the department of education, of the 

 University of Wisconsin; Professor E. O. 

 Holland, secretary of the society and professor 

 of education in the University of Indiana; 

 Professor William C. Bagley, director of the 

 school of education, University of Illinois; 

 Professor Frederick E. Bolton, director of the 

 school of education, University of Iowa, and 

 Professor Paul H. Hanus, head of the depart- 

 ment of education. Harvard University. To 

 this editorial committee representing the So- 

 ciety of College Teachers of Education has 

 been added Professor Willard C. Gore, Pro- 

 fessor Frank N. Freeman and Professor 

 Franklin W. Johnson, all of the faculty of the 

 school of education of the University of Chi- 

 cago. Professor Gore has been elected by the 

 committee managing editor of the Review. 

 As a result of this agreement, the School 

 Review will become the organ of the Society 

 of College Teachers of Education. It is 



