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[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1036 



German Plant Culture at its annual meeting, 

 held this year at the University of Gottingen. 



Dr. a. M. Patterson has resigned as editor 

 of Chemical Abstracts, and Dr. J. J. Miller 

 has been elected editor and Dr. E. J". Crane, 

 associate editor of the publication. 



On November 1, Dr. C. W. Stiles changed 

 stations from the TJ. S. Marine Hospital, 

 Wilmington, N. C, back to the Hygienic 

 Laboratory, Washington, D. C. His address 

 until further notice will be: Hygienic Labo- 

 ratory, 25th and E Streets, N. W., Washing- 

 ton, D. C. All communications intended for 

 the International Commission on Zoological 

 Nomenclature should be sent to that address. 



Dr. Harvey W. Wiley celebrated his seven- 

 tieth birthday on October 18 by a dinner 

 party, the guests at which included Professor 

 Charles E. Monroe, who was one of Dr. Wiley's 

 instructors at Harvard University; Dr. W. D. 

 Bigelow, for many years associated with Dr. 

 Wiley in the bureau of chemistry; Dr. G. L. 

 Spencer, who was a student under Dr. Wiley 

 when he taught at Purdue University 40 years 

 ago, and who is widely known as a sugar engi- 

 neer, and Professor Frank W. Clarke, of Wash- 

 ington. 



In recognition of his work on the fossil 

 birds in the collection of the Peabody Museum 

 of Yale University, Dr. E. W. Shufeldt, of 

 Washington, D. C, was, at the regular meet- 

 ing of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences held on October 28, elected an active 

 member of that society. The society has ac- 

 cepted for publication the aforesaid work, it 

 being a description of the fossil birds in the 

 Tale collection, including a revision of all of 

 Professor O. C. Marsh's types (exclusive of 

 the Odontornithes), and other material left 

 undeseribed by him. Several new genera and 

 species of extinct birds are described for the 

 first time. 



Dr. iRvnN Shepard, for twenty years secre- 

 tary of the National Education Association, 

 has for the past fifteen months been connected 

 with the Panama-Pacific International Expo- 

 sition as national secretary of the bureau of 

 conventions and societies. He has been asso- 



ciated with James A. Barr, director of cong- 

 resses, in the work of arranging for a world 

 series of congresses, conferences and conven- 

 tions. On September 11, he was compelled 

 for reasons of health, much to the regret of 

 the exposition authorities, to retire from the 

 active work of the bureau. 



A SERIES of lectures on " Sanitation as Ap- 

 plied to Cities " is being given at the Wor- 

 cester Polytechnic Institute on Monday and 

 Friday afternoons during November by Pro- 

 fessor George C. Whipple, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. The dates and subjects of the lec- 

 tures follow: 



November 2. " The Value of Municipal dean- 

 liness. " 



November 6. "Clean Air." 



November 9. "Clean; Water." 



November 13. "Disposal of Liquid Wastes." 



November 16. "Disposal of Solid Wastes." 



November 20. ' ' The Economics Factor in Sani- 

 tation. ' ' 



November 23. "The Social Factor in Sanita- 

 tion. ' ' 



A COURSE of eight public lectures is being 

 given in the botanical department of Univer- 

 sity College, London, on the role of plants in 

 the protection and growth of the shore, by 

 Professor F. W. Oliver. 



The Harveian Oration, delivered before the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians of London on 

 October 19 by Sir E. Douglas Powell, dealt 

 with advances in knowledge regarding the 

 circulation and attributes of the blood since 

 Harvey's time. 



On October 30, Professor J. C. Bose, of 

 Calcutta, gave a lecture before the Eoyal Soci- 

 ety of Medicine, London, on the modification 

 of response in plants under the action of 

 drugs. 



The second Thomas Hawksley lecture was 

 delivered in the meeting hall of the Institu- 

 tion of Mechanical Engineers on October 30, 

 by Mr. W. B. Bryan, the subject being " Pump- 

 ing and Other Machinery for Waterworks and 

 Drainage." 



The family of Emil du Bois Eeymond has 

 donated the Helmholtz gold medal to the relief 

 fund, with the statement that this medal, repre- 



