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Dr. Isadoee Dyer, dean of the college of 

 medicine of Tulane University, and an au- 

 thority on leprosy, addressed the senate com- 

 mittee on February 17 in Washington on a 

 national leprosorium. 



Professor H. V. Tartar, head of the Ore- 

 gon Experiment Station department of chem- 

 istry, has been granted a two-year leave of ab- 

 sence to pursue research work at eastern uni- 

 versities. 



An expedition for the study of echinoderms 

 and siphonophores, under the auspices of the 

 department of marine biology of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, will leave New 

 York for Tobago, British West Indies, on 

 March 10. The investigators are Dr. Hubert 

 Lyman Clark, of Harvard University; Pro- 

 fessor Th. llortensen, of Copenhagen, and 

 Dr. Alfred G. Mayer. Professor E. Newton 

 Harvey, of Princeton University, will visit 

 Japan under the auspices of the same agency. 



Mr. H. U. Hall, leader of .+he University 

 of Pennsylvania Museum's expedition to Si- 

 beria, has arrived in Philadelphia, after an 

 absence of nearly two years. The expedition 

 covered some hitherto unknown parts of Si- 

 beria and experienced a great number of hard- 

 ships. Many collections of ethnological speci- 

 mens have been brought home to the museum. 



Knud Easmussen, the Danish explorer, pro- 

 poses to sail on his next expedition from 

 Copenhagen to Greenland, about April 1. 

 The region he proposes to explore is the deso- 

 late country between Peary Land and Green- 

 land, and to the north of Etah, where Donald 

 B. MacMillan and his fellow-explorers are ice- 

 bound for the present winter. 



Professoe S. J. Barnett asks us to state 

 that the $300 grant to him from the trustees 

 of the Ohio State University was not made 

 for work on the cause of the earth's magnet- 

 ism, as reported, but for experiments on the 

 magnetic efPects of rotating nickel and cobalt. 



At the meeting of the New York Section of 

 the American Chemical Society on March 10, 

 Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, chief of the bureau of 



chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, 

 made an address on " The Development of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry." 



Before the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington on March 4, the address was given by 

 the retiring president, Dr. W. S. Eichelberger, 

 on " The Distances of the Heavenly Bodies.'' 



Dr. Charles E. Stockard, professor of 

 anatomy in the Cornell University Medical 

 College, gave, on March 1, the second in a 

 series of public lectures before the Yale Chap- 

 ter of Sigma Xi. His subject was " Experi- 

 mental Studies on the Influence of Alcohol in 

 Development and Inheritance." 



Dr. George T. Moore, director of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, delivered recently an 

 address before the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society at Boston, on " The Missouri 

 Botanical Garden." 



The next Harvey lecture at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine will be given Saturday 

 evening, March 11, by Professor Henry A. 

 Christian, of Harvard University, on " Some 

 Phases of the Nephritis Problem." 



Dr. Louis Duncan, of the consulting engi- 

 neering firm of Duncan, Young and Com- 

 pany, New York City, distinguished for bis 

 work in applied electricity, associate professor 

 of applied electricity at the Johns Hopkins 

 University from 1887 to 1899, and head of the 

 department of electrical engineering at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 

 1902 to 1904, has died in his fifty-fourth year. 



Charles G. Carroll, Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins), for the past eleven years head of the 

 department of chemistry. University of Arkan- 

 sas, died at Fayetteville, on February 23, of 

 tubercular meningitis. 



Dr. Henry Baird Favill, professor of clin- 

 ical medicine in the Rush Medical College and 

 professor of medicine in the Chicago Poly- 

 clinic, died from pneumonia on February 20, 

 aged fifty-five years. 



A. S. Marsh, who held a studentship in 

 botany in Caius College, Cambridge, and had 

 made valuable contributions to plant ecology, 

 has been killed in the war. 



