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ing love of beauty, broad humanity and loyalty 

 and devotion to the best ideals of the physician 

 and the student of man and of nature. 



We desire to express our sympathy with Mrs. 

 Herter and her children in their bereavement and 

 that a copy of this minute be transmitted to them. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor Alfred G. Compton, professor of 

 physics at New York City College, with which 

 institution he has been connected as instruc- 

 tor since his graduation in 1853, has at his 

 request been retired on a pension. 



Sir Thomas Crosby has been elected Lord 

 Mayor of London. He is the first physician to 

 occupy that office though he has had 723 

 predecessors. 



Professor F. P. McKibben, head of the de- 

 partment of civil engineering at Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed consulting engi- 

 neer by the state committee which is investi- 

 gating the causes of the disaster at the Austin 

 dam. 



The Alvarenga prize, of the Philadelphia 

 College of Physicians, valued at $180, was 

 awarded to Dr. Francis D. Patterson for his 

 thesis on " Parathyroid Glandules." 



W. H. Brown, Ph.D. (Hopkins '10), has 

 gone as botanist to the Bureau of Science in 

 Manila. 



Dr. Charles Sheard has retired from the 

 chair of preventive medicine at the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto. 



The Geographical Society of France has 

 entrusted to Mr. E. Jarry Desloges the erec- 

 tion of an observatory, more or less temporary, 

 on the high plateaus of North Africa. 



Mr. Eoy C. Ajv^deews will leave during the 

 last week of November on an expedition to the 

 orient on behalf of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. He will visit the whaling 

 stations of southern Korea, then outfit at 

 Seoul and travel into the mountains of north 

 Korea, a region unknown zoologically. 



Dr. Albrecht Kossel, who has been giving 

 the Herter lectures at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, will return to Germany on October 24. 



The program of the Geological Conference 

 of Harvard University on September 17 con- 

 sisted of papers on the shoreline changes in 

 northern and southern Sweden, by Professor 

 D. W. Johnson, and on the landslide at St. 

 Alban, Quebec, by Professor Charles Palache. 



Professor Willy Kukenthal, visiting pro- 

 fessor at Harvard University, lectured to the 

 Zoological Club on October 19 on his studies 

 on whales. 



The Harveian oration before the Eoyal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of London was delivered by 

 Dr. C. Theodore Williams, on October 18. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that a committee consisting of 

 Provost Edgar Fahs Smith, Ph.D., Dr. S. 

 Weir Mitchell, Sir William Osier and Drs. 

 William Pepper, Clarence Payne Franklin and 

 Swithin Chandler, Philadelphia, has been 

 formed to take up the project of erecting at 

 Philadelphia a fitting monument to John Mor- 

 gan, founder of the first medical school in the 

 United States, and director general of the 

 hospitals and physician-in-chief of the Amer- 

 ican Army during the revolutionary war. 



We learn from Nature that it is proposed to 

 erect a memorial to Mungo Park and Eichard 

 Lander. A committee has been formed con- 

 sisting of Lord Curzon, Sir George T. Goldie, 

 Lord Scarbrough, Major Leonard Darwin, Sir 

 Walter Egerton and Sir Hesketh Ball to take 

 the necessary steps to secure funds for this 

 purpose. Both explorers have been honored in 

 their native towns of Selkirk and Truro, but 

 no record of any kind exists in the land to 

 which their lives were consecrated and sac- 

 rificed. 



In the issue of Science for October 6 the 

 age of Mr. Edward Whymper is given as 61, 

 while it should be 71, as he was born on April 

 27, 1840. 



Sir Herbert Hope Eisley, known for his 

 anthropological studies in India, died on Sep- 

 tember 30, at the age of sixty years. 



Dr. Wilhelm Dilthey, formerly professor 

 of philosophy in the University of Berlin, died 

 on October 5 at the age of 77. 



