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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1109 



livered by Dr. Joseph Barrell, professor of 

 structural geology in Tale University. 



Dean Shenehan, of the College of Engi- 

 neering of the University of Minnesota, lec- 

 tured on March 20 and 21 to the engineering 

 students of Purdue University. 



Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz has completed 

 arrangements with Provost Smith for the lec- 

 ture course by professional engineers imder the 

 joint auspices of the Illuminating Engineering 

 Society and of the university, to be held at the 

 University of Pennsylvania in September, 1916. 



The alumni of the Michigan College of 

 Mines are raising an endowment fund for the 

 college, to be known as the " George A. Koenig 

 Memorial Eund." Dr. Koenig was from 1892 

 to 1914 professor of chemistry at the college. 



EoEEiGN papers announce the death of E. W. 

 Pawlow, the Russian surgeon. It may be that 

 the death of Ivan Pawlow, the physiologist of 

 the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 

 cabled to this country and printed in Science, 

 was an error due to confusion with E. W. 

 Pawlow. 



Charles Jeptha Hill Woodbury, a widely 

 known engineer of Boston, died on March 20, 

 aged sixty-four years. 



John Wesley Judd, E.R.S., professor of 

 geology from 1876 to 1905 and dean of the 

 Royal College of Science, London, for the last 

 ten years of that period, died on March 3, at 

 the age of seventy-six years. 



Dr. Ernst Mach, emeritus professor of the 

 history and theory of inductive science at 

 Vienna, has died at the age of seventy-eight 

 years. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 E. Heckel, professor of botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Marseilles; Professor Vladimir A. 

 Tichomirov, professor of pharmacy and ma- 

 teria mediea at Moscow University and Rus- 

 sian Councillor of State; and Dr. Fritz 

 Schmid, since 1889 director of the Swiss Bu- 

 reau of Health. 



The ISTaples Table Association for Pro- 

 moting Laboratory Research by Women an- 

 nounces an eighth prize of one thousand dol- 

 lars for the best thesis written by a woman on 



a scientific subject. This thesis must embody 

 new observations and new conclusions based on 

 independent laboratory research in biological 

 (including psychological), chemical, or phys- 

 ical science. The theses offered in competi- 

 tion must be in the hands of Dr. Lilian Welsh, 

 Goucher College, Baltimore, Md., before Eeb- 

 ruary 25, 1917. The examiners are Dr. Wil- 

 liam H. Howell, Dr. Elmer P. Kohler and Dr. 

 Henry Crew. 



Professor Herbert Osborn, of Ohio State 

 University, director of the Lake Laboratory, 

 Cedar Point, Ohio, will be absent on leave 

 next summer. The acting director will be Dr. 

 E. H. Krecker, of the Ohio State University. 

 Others on the stafE will be Professor J. H. 

 Schaffner, Ohio State; Professor S. R. Wil- 

 liams, Miami University; Professor EuUmer, 

 Baldwin- Wallace, and Professor Z. P. Metcalf, 

 of the E"orth Carolina College. The labo- 

 ratory will open on June 19. The course of 

 instruction will continue until July 28 but the 

 laboratory will be at the disposal of inde- 

 pendent workers at least until the middle of 

 August. The laboratory is well situated for 

 the study of the fauna and flora of the Lake 

 Erie region and any biologists interested will 

 be welcomed. 



We learn from Nature that the third Indian 

 Science Congress met at Lucknow on January 

 13-15. About seventy papers were read and 

 more than 300 visitors attended the meetings. 

 The presidential address was delivered by Sir 

 S. G. Burrard, E.R.S., who took as his sub- 

 ject " The Plains of ISTorthern India, and their 

 Relationship to the Himalaya Mountains." 

 Sir A. G. Bourne, E.R.S., has been elected 

 president for 1916-17, and the next meeting 

 will probably be held at Bangalore. 



A conference on Graduate Medical Educa- 

 tion was held at the University of Minnesota 

 on March 15, participated in by members of 

 the graduate faculty at Minneapolis and those 

 connected with the Mayo Eoundation, Roch- 

 ester, Minn. The program was as follows: 



Afternoon Session 



1. Address by President George E. Vincent. 



2. Communication from Dean Gruy Stanton Ford. 



