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Museum, has been designated as the represen- 

 tative of the Smithsonian Institution at the 

 celebration of the one hundredth anniversary 

 of the founding of the Royal Frederick Uni- 

 versity, to be held at Ohristiania, Norway, 

 September 5 and 6, 1911. Dr. Stejneger will 

 also represent the institution at the celebra- 

 tion of the five hundredth anniversary of the 

 founding of the University of St. Andrews, 

 which will occur from September 12 to 15, 

 1911. Dr. Stejneger is a graduate in arts, 

 philosophy and law of the University of Ohris- 

 tiania. 



Dr. a. S. Pearse left the University of the 

 Philippines on August 1, and has returned to 

 the United States. 



Dr. M. C. Smith, of Lynn, Mass., has sailed 

 for Europe, where he expects to study the 

 relation of the thyroid gland and the pituitary 

 body to the development of the teeth and 

 mouth, and to attend the meeting of the 

 French Congress of Stomatology, and the 

 meeting of the British Dental Society. 



Dr. G. W. Crile, of Cleveland, Ohio, spoke 

 to the physicians of San Jose, Cal., in the San 

 Jose high school on July 7 on the subject of 

 " Surgical Shock." 



The German central committee for cancer 

 research has issued an appeal to create a 

 foundation which is to be known as the Ernst 

 V. Leyden foundation for cancer research and 

 repression. 



The French Physical Society and other so- 

 cieties propose to collect a fund to honor the 

 memory of the late M. J. Joubert, of the Pas- 

 teur Institute. The object of the fund is to 

 found a scholarship, tenable at one of the in- 

 stitutions with which he was connected as 

 pupil or teacher. 



Dr. John Beddoe, F.R.S., a practising phy- 

 sician who has made important contributions 

 to anthropology, died on July 19, aged eighty- 

 four years. 



Dr. W. Spring, professor of chemistry in 

 the University of Liege, died on July 17. 



Dr. Charles Nelaton, vice-president of the 

 French Surgical Society, died at his home in 

 Paris on July 23. 



By the will of the late Charles S. Chase 

 $100,000 is bequeathed to the Harper Hospital, 

 Detroit. The income is to be used for the 

 establishment of free beds and for the ofFering 

 of prizes for research work looking toward the 

 cure of cancer. 



Dr. L. D. Mason, of Brooklj-n, vice-presi- 

 dent of the American Society for the Study 

 of Alcohol and other Narcotics, ofPers a prize 

 of $150 for the best essay on " The Biological 

 and Physiological Eelations of Alcohol to 

 Life." The essay must contain original re- 

 search on the inherited effects of alcoholic 

 degeneration. It must be sent to Dr. T. D. 

 Crothers, Hartford, Conn., before July 1, 1913. 



An exposition of inventions, the first to be 

 held in America, will open at St. Louis, on 

 September 11. It is intended for the exhibi- 

 tion, demonstration and promotion of patented 

 machines, appliances, devices, tools and proc- 

 esses of every character. Further informa- 

 tion may be obtained from the manager, Mr. 

 F. W. Payne, St. Louis Coliseum Company, 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



During the week of August 20-27, there will 

 convene in Antwerp, Belgium, the seventh In- 

 ternational Esperanto Congress, in which over 

 2,000 delegates from every country of the 

 world, will take part, all using one common 

 tongue, the international auxiliary language 

 Esperanto. In addition to the regular Es- 

 peranto delegates, several nations will be rep- 

 resented by official government delegates. Mr. 

 Edwin C. Eeed, of Washington, secretary of 

 the Esperanto Association of North America, 

 has been apppointed by the Secretary of State 

 to represent the United States. 



We learn from Nature that a meeting of the 

 British Institution of Mechanical Engineers 

 was held on July 25 and 26, at Ziirich in the 

 Swiss Polytechnikum. Among the papers on 

 the program were : " Electric Traction in 

 Switzerland," by Mr. E. Huber-Stockar, of 

 Ziirich ; " Results of Experiments with Fran- 

 cis Turbines and Tangential (Pelton) Tur- 

 bines," by Professor Franz Prasil, of Ziirich; 

 " Some New Types of Dynamometers," by Dr. 

 Alfred Amsler, of Schaffhausen ; "Eackrail- 



