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The lecture was given for the benefit of the 

 social service department of the Massachusetts 

 General Hospital. 



Dr. J. G-. ISTeedham, of Cornell University, 

 delivered two addresses at the University of 

 Kansas, in the third week of l^ovember: one 

 before the Entomological Club of the Univer- 

 sity on the " Ecology of Certain Aquatic 

 Larvae," and the other before the students of 

 the university on the " Common Ground of 

 Poet and N"aturalist." 



Professor D. W. Johnson, of Columbia 

 University, addressed the Tale chapter of 

 Sigma Xi at ISTew Haven on liovember 18, on 

 the " Surface Features of Europe as a Factor 

 in the War." 



Since Mr. Donald B. Macmillan has not re- 

 turned from the Arctic in time to present to 

 the members this fall an account of the 

 Crocker Land expedition which he led north 

 in 1913, arrangements have been made to show 

 to members of the museum on the evening of 

 December 9 the motion pictures secured by 

 Sir Douglas Mawson on the Australasian- 

 Antarctic expedition. A brief account of the 

 expedition and a description of the action of 

 the films, will be given by Mr. George H. Sher- 

 wood, curator of education at the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



The Swiney lectures on geology are being 

 delivered this year by Dr. J. D. Falconer, the 

 subject being " Ice and the Ice Age." The 

 courses are given at the Victoria and Albert 

 Museum, London. 



At the age of eighty-five years Sir Allen 

 William Young, the Arctic explorer, died in 

 London, on November 27. 



Professor James McCall, principal of tho 

 Glasgow Veterinary College, died on Novem- 

 ber 1, at the age of eighty-one years. 



Lieut. Gordon Sanderson, known for his 

 work on the Archeological Survey of India, 

 was killed in France on October 13. 



Mr. Donald Ewen, known for his work in 

 metallurgy, has been killed in the war. Nature 

 states that he was serving at the time as a 

 private in the London Scottish Regiment, but 

 an order had been issued for his recall, to take 



up important work at the National Physical 

 Laboratory. 



Dr. Gaston Vasseur, professor of geology 

 in the University of Marseilles, has died at the 

 age of sixty years. 



Professor Sklaree, for many years editor 

 of the Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, 

 died in Berlin, on October 10, at the age of 

 eighty years. 



The annual sessions of the Federation of 

 American Societies for Experimental Biology, 

 formed by the Physiological Society, the Bio- 

 chemical Society, the Pharmacological Soci- 

 ety and the Society for Experimental Pathol- 

 ogy, will be held at the Harvard Medical 

 School in Boston on December 27, 28 and 29. 



The following program has been arranged 

 for the meeting of the Sigma Xi to be held in 

 connection with the meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 at Columbus: Tuesday, December 28, at 12 

 o'clock, meeting of the executive committee at 

 lunch at the Ohio Union. At 4 o'clock at Page 

 Hall, annual convention. At 6 :30 at Ohio 

 Union, annual dinner. 



In connection with the Congress of Clinical 

 Suigeons, meeting in Washington, November 

 26-27, an interesting exhibit of books and pic- 

 tures illustrating the history of surgery has 

 been prepared by Dr. Arnold 0. Klebs at the 

 invitation of Colonel C. C. McCulloch, libra- 

 rian of the Sm-geon General's Office, and may 

 now be seen in the library hall of the Army 

 Medical Museum. 



Adelphi College, Brooklyn, New York, has 

 just been the recipient of an outfit for instruc- 

 tion in astronomy from a friend whose name 

 is withheld. It consists of a telescope of six 

 and a half inches aperture, with driving clock 

 and twelve inches declination and right ascen- 

 sion circles, a six-prism spectroscope which 

 was made to order by Browning, a small tran- 

 sit by Steger of Kiel, and other accessory ap- 

 paratus. The telescope was made by Alvan 

 Clark, in 1877, ten years before his death, and 

 is considered an excellent instrument. The 

 apparatus is in perfect condition, having had 

 the best of care by its former owner. 



