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SCIENCE 



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Composition of Charnwood Rocks 2 



Igneous and Associated Sedimentary Eocks 



of Glensaul 15 



List of Characteristic Fossils 5 



Sutton Bone Bed 15 



Benbridge Limestone 20 



Section D — Zoology 



Index Animalium 75 



Table at the Zoological Station at Naples ... 30 



Belmullet Whaling Station 20 



Secondary Sexual Characters in Birds 10 



Section E — Geography 



Equal Area Maps 20 



Calculation of Areas on the Spheroid 25 



Section G — Engineering 



Gaseous Explosions 60 



Section B — Anthropology 



Glastonbury Lake Village 5 



Age of Stone Circles 15 



Anthropological Notes and Queries 40 



Artificial Islands in Highland Lochs 13 



Physical Character of Ancient Egyptians ... 40 



Excavations in Easter Island 15 



Anthropometric Investigations in British Isles 5 



Section I — Physiology 



The Ductless Glands 35 



Table at the Zoological Station at Naples . . 20 



Anesthetics 20 



Calorimetric Observations 40 



Section K — Botany 



Structure of Fossil Plants 15 



Experimental Study of Heredity 35 



Survey of Clare Island 20 



Jurassic Flora of Yorkshire 20 



Section L — Education 



Mental and Physical Factors 5 



Overlapping 5 



Industrial and Poor Law Schools 10 



Influence of School Books on Eyesight 5 



Corresponding Societies Committee 



For Preparation of Beport 25 



Special Grant 

 Collections to Illustrate Natural History, etc., 



of the Isle of Wight 40 



Total £1,050 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the meeting of the corporation of Yale 

 University on September 18, Sir William 

 Osier, regius professor of medicine at Ox- 

 ford, was appointed Silliman lecturer for 

 1912, and Dr. Joseph P. Iddings, until 1908 

 professor of petrology in the University of 

 Chicago, and now engaged in geological re- 

 search, was appointed lecturer for 1913. 



Dr. Simon Flexnee, director of the labora- 

 tories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, has been awarded the Cameron 

 Prize in practical therapeutics by the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh in recognition of his 

 work in cerebrospinal meningitis. In accord- 

 ance with custom Dr. Plexner has been in- 

 vited to deliver an address at the University 

 of Edinburgh during the coming academic 

 year. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation notes that the tenth volume of the 

 ArcMv fur Orthopddie is dedicated to Gustav 

 Zander on the occasion of his seventy-fifth 

 birthday. The first nine articles describe 

 Zander's work and apparatus for medico-me- 

 chanical exercises and the opening of his in- 

 stitute at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1865 and of 

 similar institutions on this model in other 

 countries. The benefits of these mechanico- 

 therapeutic exercises in the various internal 

 infections are emphasized by different au- 

 thors. From 1880 until recently Zander was 

 decent of medical gymnastics at the Univer- 

 sity of Stockholm. 



The Belgian Academy of Sciences has 

 elected as foreign members Professors Emil 

 Fischer and Simon Schwendener, of Berlin, 

 and Professor J. Pawlaw, of St. Petersburg. 



As a memorial to Noah Porter, formerly 

 president and professor of philosophy at Yale 

 University, it is proposed to erect a gate at 

 the south end of University Avenue at a cost 

 of $18,000. 



Dr. Jacques Hadamard, professor of an- 

 alytical and higher mechanics in the Univer- 

 sity of Paris, will give at Columbia Univer- 

 sity during the month of October courses on 

 the calculus of variation and partial differ- 



