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be erected at the University of Nebraska, will 

 be named Bessey Hall. 



Henri Fabre, the distinguished French en- 

 tomologist and author, died on October 11 at 

 Serignan where he was born in 1823. 



Dr. Eat Lyman Wilbur, professor of med- 

 icine, has been elected president of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University. He will on 

 January 1 succeed Dr. John Casper Branner 

 who undertook to accept the presidency for a 

 limited period on the retirement of Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan, now chancellor of the univer- 

 sity. Dr. Wilbur graduated from the academic 

 department of Stanford University in 1896. 



The former students of Professor O.-E. A. 

 Winslow have given a dinner in his honor on 

 the occasion of his entrance into his new posi- 

 tion of professor of public health at Tale 

 University. 



The Eev. Dr. E. W. Barnes, fellow and 

 tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been 

 appointed to the mastership of the Temple. 

 He is the author of memoirs on Gamma func- 

 tions, integral functions, linear difference 

 equations and related mathematical subjects. 



The prize fellowship for original work 

 published by women offered by the Federation 

 of University Women has been awarded to 

 Miss M. Wheldale, ISTewnham College, Cam- 

 bridge. 



Dr. H. E. Eobertson, director of the depart- 

 ment of pathology and bacteriology at the 

 University of Minnesota, has declined an 

 offer to become pathologist of the Murphy 

 clinic of Chicago. 



Professor Frederic E. Clements, of the 

 University of Minnesota, and Mrs. Clements, 

 spent the summer again in the west, carrying 

 on further investigations into the relationship 

 of climate and vegetation, for the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. 



Professor A. L. Kroeber, of the University 

 of California, spent part of last summer among 

 the Zuni of New Mexico where he secured 

 over nine hundred specimens illustrating their 

 everyday and religious life. He made a de- 



tailed study of their system of relations and 

 the terms employed to denote relationship. 



A LECTURE on the subject of " Human Evo- 

 lution in the Light of Eecent Discoveries and 

 its relation to Medicine," was delivered on 

 October 13, by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, before a 

 joint meeting of the Medical Society of the 

 District of Columbia and the Anthropological 

 Society of Washington. 



A LECTURE on " The Production of Electric- 

 ity by Living Organisms " was given by Pro- 

 fessor Ulric Dahlgren before the Franklin Li- 

 stitute of Philadelphia on October 14. 



Professor James Dryden, head of the Ore- 

 gon Agricultural College Poultry department, 

 will address the meeting of the Poultry Breed- 

 ers' Association, which will be held at the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition in November next. 

 Professor Dryden's subject will be, " Selecting 

 the Layers." 



We learn from Nature that Professor J. A. 

 Fleming gave a public introductory lecture at 

 University College, London, on " Science in 

 the War and after the War," on October 6. 

 Other public lectures are as follows: "Photo- 

 graphic Surveying," by Mr. M. T. M. Ormsby; 

 " The History of Tools," by Professor W. M. 

 Flinders Petrie; "Final Causes in Animal 

 Psychology," by Mr. Carveth Eead; "The 

 Physiological Action of Light," by Professor 

 W. M. Bayliss; "Steam Turbines," by Mr. 

 W. J. Goudie ; " Eacial Frontiers in Central 

 and Southeastern Europe," by Professor L. W. 

 Lyde ; " An Investigation of the Heating of 

 the House of Commons," by Mr. A. H. 

 Barker; and "The Applications of Electric 

 Heating," by Professor J. A. Fleming. 



Mr. E. M. Barrington, the Irish naturalist 

 and ornithologist, died on September 15, at the 

 age of sixty-sis years. 



Dr. Ugo Schiff, professor of chemistry at 

 Florence, has died at the age of eighty-one 

 years. 



Dr. Charles Frederick Holder, the nat- 

 uralist and author, known for his books on 

 marine zoology and related subjects, died at 



