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been invited to give in the spring the Hitch- 

 cock lectures at the University of California. 



Dr. E. Newton Haevey, assistant professor 

 of physiology at Princeton University, will 

 leave for Japan about March 18 to study the 

 production of light by luminous animals. The 

 trip is under the auspices of the department of 

 marine biology of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. 



Dr. C. J. Marshall, professor of veterinary 

 medicine in the veterinary school of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, will sail from ITew 

 York on the steamer Rotterdam on March 7, 

 visiting England and France to make observa- 

 tions in the hope that the information obtained 

 will be of service to America. 



Andrew H. Patterson, head of the depart- 

 ment of physics at the University of North 

 Carolina, is on leave of absence from that in- 

 stitution and is with a corporation in New 

 York City. 



To further the work begun by Dr. Samuel J. 

 Barnett, of the department of physics of the 

 Ohio State University, as to the cause of the 

 earth's magnetism, the board of trustees of 

 the university has appropriated $300. 



The survey of the fish of Oneida Lake begun 

 last summer by the New York State College 

 of Forestry, at Syracuse, will be continued this 

 summer. This work, under the supervision of 

 Dr. C. C. Adams, was carried on with the co- 

 operation of Professor T. L. Hankinson and 

 Frank C. Baker. Beginning in June, the work 

 will be continued by Messrs. Adams and Hank- 

 inson. Last summer the western half of the 

 lake was covered and this season the remainder 

 of the lake will be sm-veyed. Mr. Frank C. 

 Baker's report on the relation of molluscs to 

 Oneida Lake fish is completed and will soon be 

 published by the college. 



The board of health will celebrate the semi- 

 centennial of its sanitary control of New York 

 City and adjacent counties by a commemora- 

 tion dinner to be given March 9. Among the 

 speakers expected are the mayor of New York ; 

 the State Commissioner of Health; Surgeon- 

 General William C. Gorgas, U. S. Army; Dr. 



Walter B. James; Mr. Henry Bruere, and Dr. 

 Stephen Smith. 



Dr. MATTHLiS NicoLL, Jr., has been ap- 

 pointed director of the division of public 

 health education in the New York state de- 

 partment of health, and in addition will have 

 supervision of epidemiologic investigations in 

 the southern and eastern parts of the state. 

 He succeeds Dr. O.-E. A. Winslow called to the 

 Anna M. E. Lauder professorship in public 

 health at Yale University. 



A LECTURE on the history of science was 

 given by Professor George Sarton, formerly 

 of the University of Ghent, and editor of Isis, 

 in the Doremus Lecture Theater, on February 

 24, at the College of the City of New York. 



On February 8, Professor George H. Shull, 

 of Princeton University, addressed the Gradu- 

 ate Club of Eutgers College on " Practical 

 Application of the ' Pure-Line ' Idea of 

 Johannsen." 



On the evening of February 8, 1916, Dr. 

 Benjamin L. Miller, professor of geology in 

 Lehigh University, lectured before the Harris- 

 burg Natural History Society on his recent 

 travels in South America. 



Dr. Henry L. Elsner, professor of medi- 

 cine in Syracuse University College of Medi- 

 cine, died suddenly of heart failure on Febru- 

 ary 17. Dr. Eisner was a graduate of the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia 

 University, and had achieved eminence both 

 through practise and his critical contributions 

 to scientific medicine. A work on " Prognosis," 

 which has received high commendation from 

 critics of repute, is just passing through the 



Me. George Strickland Criswick, assistant 

 in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 

 1855 to 1896, died on January 26. 



Dr. H. Klaatsch, associate professor of 

 anthropology at Breslau, died on January 7, 

 at the age of fifty-two years. 



Edmond Heckel, professor of materia med- 

 ica at Marseilles, has died, aged seventy-three 

 years. 



The Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl- 

 vania has established a fellowship amounting 



