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[N. S. Vol. XXXIII. No. 854 



Dr. Alfred Tozzer, of Harvard University, 

 has been made a corresponding member of the 

 Societe des Americanistes de Paris. 



President Taft has designated Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor Nagel and Mr. Chandler 

 P. Anderson, counsellor of the State Depart- 

 ment, to confer with representatives of Great 

 Britain, Japan and Russia and to negotiate a 

 treaty for the protection of seals and other 

 mammals in the North Pacific Ocean. 



Dr. Issa Tanimura, an honorary fellow in 

 the College of Agriculture of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed by the government 

 of Japan a special commissioner of agricul- 

 ture to investigate the live-stock industry in 

 this country. 



Mr. C. H. T. Townsend has accepted an ex- 

 tension of contract from the Peruvian govern- 

 ment, as entomologist of state, to December 

 31, 1912 , and expects to conduct extended 

 parasite work against cotton insects, especially 

 the white scale and the square weevil. A lab- 

 oratory will be established at Piura, in north- 

 ern Peru, for the accommodation of the work, 

 and a corps of assistants will be provided. 



Dr. L. J. Cole, professor of experimental 

 breeding at the University of Wisconsin, will 

 leave on May 6 for a summer's work in west- 

 ern Europe. His trip will include an inspec- 

 tion tour of all the experiment stations and 

 agricultural colleges. 



Professor C. 0. Thomas, of the engineering- 

 school of the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been appointed the university's delegate to the 

 one hundredth anniversary of the foundation 

 of the University of Breslau, which will be 

 held from August 1 to 3, 1911. 



Leave of absence has been granted by the 

 board of trustees of Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute to Professor Harold B. Smith for a 

 period of two years. About one year will be 

 spent in travel. The second year will be spent 

 in special resident study at Berlin and Zurich, 

 and in the investigation of as many European 

 educational institutions as possible. This 

 leave of absence follows fifteen consecutive 

 years of active work on the part of Professor 



Smith as head of the electrical engineering de- 

 partment of the institute. 



During the Easter recess Professors Gilbert 

 van Ingen and William J. Sinclair led an ex- 

 pedition of Princeton students to Torktown, 

 Va., for field work on the Miocene formation 

 at that place. 



Professor Svante Arrhenius, delivered 

 three lectures at Harvard University on April 

 25 and 28 and May 1. The titles were " The 

 Mutual Relations of the Exact Sciences " ; 

 " The Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation," 

 and " Adsorption." A dinner in his honor was 

 given by members of the scientific departments 

 at Harvard on May 3. 



Professor E. F. McCampbell, of the depart- 

 ment of bacteriology of the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, delivered the annual chapter lecture of 

 the Sigma Xi society of that institution on 

 Wednesday evening, April 26, on the subject, 

 " The Poisonous Secretions of Animals." 



Dr. George T. Moore, of Washington Uni- 

 versity, delivered the Sigma Xi address at the 

 University of Missouri on " Modern Botany, 

 its Development and Application." 



Lady Kelvin has made a gift of £500 to the 

 University of Glasgow for a prize in memory 

 of the late Lord Kelvin. The prize, which will 

 be accompanied by a gold medal, wiU be 

 awarded once in three years to a doctor of 

 science whose dissertation contains evidence of 

 distinguished original experimental work. 



The freedom of the City of London has been 

 conferred 178 times since the year 1757, the 

 recipients including four scientific men : Ed- 

 ward Jenner, Sir George Arey, Sir Henry 

 Bessemer and Lord Lister. 



Dr. Herman Knapp, professor emeritus of 

 ophthalmology in Columbia University, emi- 

 nent for his contributions to this subject, died 

 on April 30, in his eightieth year. 



Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, born in Finland 

 in 1873, formerly instructor in botany at 

 Stanford University, and recently director of 

 the Tezonapa Botanical Station and botanist 

 of the Mexican government, has been mur- 

 dered by brigands in the Mexican insurrection. 



