November 24, 1911] 



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Dr. Gustav Forster lias been appointed ob- 

 server at the Geodetic Institute at Pottsdam. 



A FOOD and drug laboratory has been organ- 

 ized in connection with the department of 

 chemistry at the Montana State College, at 

 Bozeman. Provisions for equipment and 

 maintenance were made in the pure food law 

 passed by the last Montana legislature. The 

 organization of the laboratory staff is as fol- 

 lows: W". M. Cobleigh, state chemist; 0. E. 

 Millet, director of drug analyses; Drury L. 

 Weatherhead, food analyst; D. B. Swingle, 

 bacteriologist. 



The seven hundredth meeting of the Philo- 

 sophical Society of Washington will be held at 

 the Cosmos Club on Saturday evening, No- 

 vember 25, 1911, at 8 :30 o'clock, when the 

 address of the retiring president, Dr. Arthur 

 L. Day, will be given on " Geophysical Re- 

 search." 



President Charles E. Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, delivered four lec- 

 tures at the Lowell Institute of Boston last 

 week, the first on " Some Aspects of Con- 

 servation," on November 15. He also spoke 

 at Harvard University on " Concentration in 

 Industry." 



Dr. Heinrich Eies, professor of economic 

 geology in Cornell University, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on the " Mineral Eesources of 

 Western Canada" to the students of geology 

 and engineering at the University of Virginia, 

 on November 1. 



The fifth lecture of the series before the 

 Harvey Society will be delivered by Professor 

 W. T. Sedgwick, of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, on Saturday, November 

 25, at 8.30 p.m., at the New York Academy of 

 Medicine, lY West 43d Street. The subject is : 

 " Illuminating Gas and the Public Health." 



Mr. John Brown, F.E.S., who retired from 

 business in 1882 to engage in scientific work, 

 died on November 1, at sixty-one years of age. 



Dr. Max Jaffe, professor of pharmacology 

 at the University of Konigsberg, has died at 

 the age of seventy years. 



The death is announced of M. E. F. Andre, 

 for many years editor of La Revue Horticole 



and the author of works on landscape garden- 

 ing. 



The American Society of Naturalists will 

 hold its twenty-ninth annual meeting at 

 Princeton University on Thursday, December 

 28. At the morning session a series of in- 

 vited papers will be presented on The Eelation 

 of the Modern Study of Genetics to the Prob- 

 lems of Evolution. These papers will be fol- 

 lowed by an open discussion. Special papers 

 on studies in evolution and heredity have been 

 invited for the afternoon session. On Thurs- 

 day evening the naturalists will give their 

 annual dinner at which the president. Pro- 

 fessor H. S. Jennings, will deliver his address. 



The Eastern and Central Branches of the 

 American Society of Zoologists will hold a 

 joint meeting at Princeton University, Prince- 

 ton, N. J., during Convocation Week, De- 

 cember, 1911, in connection with the meeting 

 of the American Society of Naturalists and 

 the Association of American Anatomists. A 

 preliminary program will be mailed to mem- 

 bers of the American Society of Zoologists 

 about December 10, 1911. Members expecting 

 to present papers at this meeting should send 

 the titles to Professor Eaymond Pearl, Orono, 

 Maine. 



The New York State Teachers' Association 

 and affiliated societies will meet at Albany on 

 November 27, 28 and 29. One of the associa- 

 tions is the Science Teachers' Association, of 

 which Mr. L. S. Hawkins, of the Potsdam 

 Normal School, is president. The sections and 

 their chairmen are as follows : Physics and 

 Chemistry — H. A. Carpenter, West High 

 School, Eochester. Biology — G. A. Bailey, 

 Geneseo Normal School. Earth Science — J. 

 H. Cook, Albany High School. Agriculture 

 ■ — H. Sibley, Eochester. 



As in previous years, the Museum of Ver- 

 tebrate Zoology of the University of California 

 was active during the past spring and summer 

 in carrying on zoological field work. This 

 year the work was conducted entirely within 

 the state of California, in accordance with the 

 principle that a knowledge of the native fauna 

 is of first importance to a state institution of 



