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session. The first of these lectures -will be 

 delivered on November 18, by Dr. E. J. Rus- 

 sell, who has chosen as his subject, " The Prin- 

 ciples of Crop Production." The titles of the 

 two later lectures to be delivered on February 

 3 and May 18, by Professor W. H. Bragg and 

 Professor F. Gowland Hopkins, respectively, 

 will be announced later. 



The annual commemoration of the benefac- 

 tors of the Eoyal College of Physicians of 

 London took place on October 18, when the 

 Harveian Oration was delivered by Dr. Sid- 

 ney Coupland. The usual dinner was not held. 

 A GRANITE boulder has been placed on the 

 campus of Cornell University to serve as a 

 memorial of the late Ralph Stockman Tarr, 

 professor of geology and physical geography, 

 1892-1912. The stone stands almost under 

 one of the windows of the lecture room in 

 McGraw Hall where Professor Tarr met his 

 classes for many years. A bronze memorial 

 tablet will be set into the eastern side of the 

 boulder. The tablet has been designed by Mr. 

 H. S. Gutsell, of the college of architecture. 

 It will bear a portrait bust in low relief and 

 the inscription: 



Ealph Stockman Tarr 

 1864-1912 

 Scientist — Writer — Teacher 

 This boulder, a relic of the ice age, symbolic of 

 hia research in glacial geology and of the enduring 

 value of his work, is placed here as a memorial 

 of their friend and adviser by his students. 



Nathan Frederick Merrill, professor 

 emeritus in the University of Vermont, died 

 on October 26 at the age of sixty-six years. 

 He was for thirty years professor of chemis- 

 try in the University of Vermont. 



Andrew Ferrari, a chemist known for re- 

 search work in glass manufacture, died at 

 Hartford, Conn., on October 26. used seventy- 

 six years. 



Alice Gertrude MoCloskey, A.B. (Cor- 

 nell, '08), assistant professor of rural educa- 

 tion in the college of agriculture, Cnrnell Uni- 

 versity, died on October 19. 



Dr. John Medley Wood, director of the 

 Natal Herbarium and formerly director of the 



Natal Botanic Garden, died on August 25, at 

 the age of eighty-six years. 



Major A. J. N. Tremearne, an Australian 

 by birth, known for his publications on the 

 anthropolog,y of the African races, was killed 

 in Flanders on September 25. 



Professor Schmidt-Rimpler, formerly ordi- 

 nary professor of ophthalmology, died at Halle, 

 on September 23, aged seventy-seven years. 



Dr. Tiefenbacher, emeritus professor of 

 railway engineering in the Vienna School of 

 Technology, has died at the age of seventy- 

 two years. 



According to Nature the third annual meet- 

 ing of the Indian Science Congress will be 

 held in Allahabad from January 13-15, 1916, 

 when Sir Sidney Burrard, F.R.S., will be 

 president. The chief sections will be physics, 

 chemistry, zoology, botany, agriculture and 

 ethnology, and the presidents of the respective 

 sections Dr. Simpson, of the Meteorological 

 Department ; Dr. Sudborough, of the Research 

 Institute, Bangalore; Dr. Woodland, of Alla- 

 habad ; Dr. Howard, of Pusa ; Mr. Coventry, of 

 Pusa; and Mr. Burn. It is hoped that the 

 local committee will persuade Dr. Bose to give 

 a public lecture on his own researches. The 

 local secretaries for this year are Dr. Hill, of 

 Muir College, and Mr. P. S. Macmahon, of the 

 Canning College, Lucknow, to the latter of 

 whom all communications should be addressed. 

 The congress is under the general control of 

 the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Leading Philadelphia physicians are working 

 out a plan to make Philadelphia a great center 

 of advanced research and study in medicine. 

 More than one hundred physicians have joined' 

 the Cooperative Association for Post-graduate 

 Teaching of Medicine, which is the temporary- 

 organization to bring about this advance irt 

 Philadelphia's medical life. Dr. David Eeis- 

 man, 1715 Spruce Street, is chairman, and 

 Dr. George P. Mueller, 1Y29 Pine Street, is 

 temporary secretary. Dr. J. M. Anders is 

 chairman of the executive committee, -on which 

 are the following physicians : W. M. L. Coplin, 

 F. X. Dercum, P. B. Hawke, Edward Martin, 

 Charles K. Mills, George P. Muller, K. M. 



