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attend to tlie sanitation districts in which the 

 company's development work is situated. 



Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus, associate plant 

 pathologist of the Delaware Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, has accepted a position of 

 head plant pathologist and physiologist at the 

 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Professor V. L. Kellogg, who has been 

 serving as a director of the Belgium Eelief 

 Commission in Brussels during the last eight 

 months, has returned to take up his work at 

 Stanford University. His position with the 

 commission is now being filled by Professor 

 Erank Angell. 



H. H. Whetzel, of the department of plant 

 pathology, Cornell University, has gone to 

 Porto Rico to study fungi and plant diseases. 



MiCHiYA HiRAOKA, prof essor in the Technical 

 High School of Osaka, and Professor Waka- 

 matsu Tokoyama of Port Arthur, are special- 

 izing in mining and metallurgy at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology. 



Professor Milton J. Eosenau, of Harvard 

 University, will deliver the Harrington lectures 

 at the University of Buffalo Medical School 

 during the alumni reunion. May 30, 31 ind 

 June 1. The subjects will be as follows : Two 

 lectures on " Anaphylaxis " and one on " Edu- 

 cation for Public Health Service as a Career." 



The Infants' Hospital, adjacent to the Har- 

 vard Medical School, has been formally opened. 

 The speakers were Dr. Charles W. Eliot, presi- 

 dent emeritus of Harvard University; Drs. J. 

 Collins Warren, John Lovett Morse and 

 Clarence J. Blake. 



M. Maurice Caullery, exchange professor 

 from the University of Paris at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has begun in Erench courses on " The 

 Present State of the Problem of Evolution" 

 and " Biological Problems and Sex." 



Professor L. E. Abrams, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, has been giving Professor Jepson's 

 course in dendrology at the University of 

 California during the first semester. 



A COURSE of six lectures on early American 

 geology is being delivered by Dr. George P. 

 Merrill, head curator of geology. United States 

 ITational Museum, before the department of 



geology, Columbia University, on Thursday 

 afternoon at four o'clock and Friday morning 

 at ten o'clock. The purport of the lectures is 

 to show the gradual growth of the science froni 

 its infancy to the present day. They are ac- 

 companied by lantern slides, portraits, maps, 

 copies of early publications, and personal 

 sketches. There is also in course of delivery 

 before the same department a course of ten 

 lectures on ore deposits by Professor John D. 

 Irving, professor of economic geology, Shef- 

 field Scientific School, Tale University, on 

 Thtu-sday and Saturday mornings at ten 

 o'clock. 



Professor Lawrence J. Henderson is giv- 

 ing at Harvard University a course of five 

 public lectures on " Teleology and Natural 

 Science." 



Dr. Aethur M. Banta, of the Carnegie Sta- 

 tion for Experimental Evolution, addressed 

 the Sigma Xi of Indiana University on 

 January 27, on " Sexual Forms and the Sup- 

 posed Eeproductive Cycle in Oladocera." 



At the 222d meeting of the Elisha Mitchell 

 Scientific Society held at the University of 

 ISTorth Carolina on February 7, the program 

 consisted of an address on " The Lumiere 

 Process of Color Photography," by Professor 

 E. A. Harrington. 



On February 3, Professor "W. H. Bragg de- 

 livered before the Chemical Society, London, 

 a lecture on " The Eecent Work of X-rays 

 and Crystals and Its Bearing on Chemistry." 



A monument is planned in memory of Pro- 

 fessor Angelo Celli. It will stand on the 

 Eoman Campagna, where he made his inves- 

 tigations of malaria. 



Dr. C. Willard Hayes, chief geologist of 

 the United States Geological Survey from 1902 

 to 1911, died on February 9 at his home in 

 Washington, D. C. Dr. Hayes left the survey 

 in 1911 to become vice-president and general 

 manager of the Mexican Aguila Oil Company. 

 He was born in Granville, Ohio, in 1859, and 

 was graduated from Oherlin College in 1883, 

 and in 1887 became assistant geologist of the 

 Geological Survey. 



