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bers of the senate of the university. The me- 

 morial, which is a bronze tablet attached to 

 one of the pillars of the upper portico, near a 

 marble memorial of Victor Emanuel II., rep- 

 resents Eustachius in his professor's robes in 

 the act of lecturing; he holds in his left hand 

 a human skull and the right arm rests on 

 tables showing the structure of the ear. 



John Oeen Eeed, professor of physics in 

 the University of Michigan, and until a year 

 ago dean of the college of literature, science 

 and arts, died on January 23, at the age of 

 sixty years. 



Charles Victor Mapes, an industrial agri- 

 cultural chemist of New York City, died on 

 January 23, in his eightieth year. 



Dr. Alfred J. Noble, superintendent of the 

 Michigan State Hospital in Kalamazoo, an 

 authority on insanity, died on January 20, 

 aged fifty-eight years. 



The death is announced at the age of forty- 

 nine years of Professor Donaldson Bodine, 

 who held the chair of geology and zoology at 

 Wabash College. 



Mr. a. D. Daebishire, lecturer on genetics 

 in the University of Edinburgh, known by his 

 experiments bearing on the laws of heredity, 

 and his book on " Breeding and the Mendelian 

 Discovery," died on December 26, 1915. 



Mr. H. a. Taylor, a distinguished English 

 electrical engineer, known especially for his 

 work on submarine cables, has died at the age 

 of seventy-four years. 



Dr. Fritz Kegel, professor of geography at 

 Wiirzburg, died on December 2, aged sixty-two 

 years. 



Dr. George Oliver, an English physician, 

 known for his valuable researches on the circu- 

 lation of the blood, has died at the age of 

 seventy-four years. 



The ninth annual meeting of the Illinois 

 Academy of Science will be held at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Urbana, Friday and Satur- 

 day, February 18 and 19, 1916. The program 

 will be as follows: 



Friday, 1 o 'clock P.M. — Meetings of all committees. 

 Friday, 2 o'clock p.m. — Business and symposium 



on astronomy. 



Friday, 6 o'clock P.M. — ^Dinner. Ten minute ad- 

 dress upon the work, policy and value of the 

 academy. 



Friday, 8 o'clock p.m. — President's address and re- 

 ception. 



Saturday, 9 o 'clock a.m. — General papers and sec- 

 tional meetings. 



Saturday, 12 noon — Luncheon. 



Saturday, 1:30 o'clock P.M. — Inspection of the 

 university buildings. 



Saturday, 2:30 o'clock P.M. — General papers, elec- 

 tion of officers and other business. 



If papers presented render it advantageous, the 

 academy will be divided into the following 

 sections: (1) astronomy, mathematics, physics ; 

 (2) bacteriology, botany; (3) zoology, physiol- 

 ogy, medicine; (4) chemistry, agriculture; (5) 

 geology, geography; (6) archeology. The fol- 

 lowing are the Urbana committees : Hotels, 

 Professor S. A. Forbes, chairman; Local Ar- 

 rangements, Professor G. D. Beal, chairman; 

 Entertainment, Professor C. R. Richards, 

 chairman; Publicity, W. H. Stoek, chairman; 

 Papers, W. S. Bayley, chairman. 



On January 7 and 8, a number of profes- 

 sional geologists of the southwest met at 

 Norman, Oklahoma, for a two days' conference. 

 The conference was called for the purpose of 

 presenting and discussing various topics of in- 

 terest to those geologists engaged in the 

 petroleum industry. The conference was at- 

 tended by forty visiting geologists and fifty 

 major students and members of the faculty of 

 the department of geology of the University 

 of Oklahoma. The meeting was presided over 

 by Charles H. Taylor, head of the department 

 of geology of the University of Oklahoma, who 

 was responsible for calling the conference. A 

 number of profitable papers were read. Dr. 

 van Waterschoot van der Gracht, director of 

 the Netherlands Geologic Service, presented a 

 paper on the Salt Domes of Northern Europe. 

 Mr. E. L. DeGolyer, chief geologist for the 

 Pearson Syndicate, presented a paper on the 

 geology of Northwest Texas. Mr. A. W. Mc- 

 Coy, instructor of geology at the University 

 of Oklahoma, read a paper on Capillarity 

 Underground. Other geologists who appeared 

 on the program were Dr. J. A. Udden, director 

 of Texas Geological Bureau; C. W. Shannon, 



