SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1042 



division of mining and mineral resources 

 until 190Y. 



Peofessoe Eugen Obeehummee, of the 

 University of Vienna, v7ho has been ap- 

 pointed visiting Austrian professor to Co- 

 lumbia University, is expected to lecture dur- 

 ing the second semester of the present year. 

 Dr. Oberhummer visited the United States in 

 1910 and lectured in the geography depart- 

 m.ents at Harvard, Tale, Columbia, Johns 

 Hopkins, Chicago, Wisconsin and other Amer- 

 ican universities. 



Peofessoe Geoege R. Lyman, of the biol- 

 ogy department, has resigned from the fac- 

 ulty of Dartmouth College, to accept a posi- 

 tion as plant pathologist in the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Mr. F. E. Watson has been appointed an 

 assistant in the department of invertebrate 

 zoology of the American Museum of Natural 

 History. He will devote the greater portion 

 of his time to Lepidoptera. Mr. Adolph 

 Elwyn, v^ho for the past nine years has been 

 assistant in the department of anatomy and 

 physiology, has resigned his position to be- 

 come instructor in histology and biology at 

 the Long Island College Hospital. Mr. Clar- 

 ence E. Halter has been appointed to succeed 

 Mr. Elwyn. 



Peofessoe William L. Beay, of Syracuse 

 University, has been granted leave of absence 

 for the current year and will spend the winter 

 with his family in the Bronx, New York. 

 During the summer and early fall. Professor 

 Bray has been making a general survey of 

 the vegetation of New York state with a view 

 to the preparation of a bulletin to be published 

 by the New York State College of Forestry. 

 The results of the field exploration and col- 

 lections will be worked up at the New York 

 Botanical Garden during the winter. 



Me. William B. Petees, of the department 

 of preparation of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, and Mr. Prentice B. Hill, 

 assistant in the department of geology, have 

 returned from Weyer's Cave, Virginia, where 

 they secured a quantity of material from 



grottoes which have lately been discovered in 

 the cave. This is to be used, together with the 

 collection made last year, in the reproduction 

 of a typical grotto in the museum, work on 

 which is progressing. 



Dr. Arthur G. Webster, of Clark Univer- 

 sity, addressed the Chicago Chapter of the 

 Sigma Xi at its regular autumn quarter meet- 

 ing on December 5, upon the topic " The 

 Role of Chance in Scientific Discovery." 



The Miitter Lecture on Surgical Pathology 

 for 1914 was given in the Thompson Hall of 

 the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, on 

 December 4, by Dr. Fred H. Albee, of New 

 York City, on " The Fundamental Principles 

 Involved in the Use of Bone Grafts in Sur- 

 gery." 



The will of the late Dr. Charles Sedgwick 

 Minot, StiUman professor of comparative 

 anatomy at the Harvard Medical School, con- 

 tains a bequest of $1,000 for the improvement 

 and increase of the embryological collection 

 which he established at the Harvard Medical 

 School, to which he left his scientific appa- 

 ratus, books and pamphlets. Dr. Minot also 

 bequeathed $2,000 to the Boston Museum of 

 Natural History for its library. 



Dr. Albert Charles Peale, geologist of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey from 1871 to 1898, 

 subsequently and till recently aid in the sec- 

 tion of paleontology of the U. S. National 

 Museum, died on December 6, aged sixty-five 



Peofessoe Ajstgelo Celli, who held the chair 

 of hygiene at the University of Home and was 

 at the same time chief of the National Board 

 of Health and senator, has died at the age of 

 fifty-seven years. 



De. Alexander Campbell Frasee, professor 

 emeritus of logic and metaphysics in Edin- 

 burgh University, a distinguished writer on 

 philosophical subjects, has died at the age of 

 ninety-five years. 



Nils Ci-ieistoffer Duner, formerly director 

 of the observatory at Upsala, Sweden, died on 

 November 10, in his eightieth year. 



