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ration in order to qualify themselves as field 

 taxidermists. Dr. Mearns recently sailed from 

 New York on the Mauritania for London. 

 From there the party will go to Aden, Arabia, 

 on the Gulf of Aden, where they will outfit. 

 They will then cross the Gulf of Aden and 

 plunge directly into the wilderness. 



The Entomological Society of America offers 

 each year at its annual meeting held during 

 convocation week an evening lecture dealing 

 with some phase of insect morphology or ecol- 

 ogy of particular interest to zoologists and 

 entomologists. This lecture will be given this 

 year by Professor John Henry Comstock, of 

 Cornell University, on Wednesday evening, 

 December 27. His subject will be, " On Some 

 Biological Features of Spiders." The lecture 

 will be illustrated with lantern slides. 



On November 16 the New York Academy of 

 Medicine held its anniversary meeting. The 

 address of the evening was made by Dr. James 

 Ewing, New York City, who took for his sub- 

 ject " The Medical Profession and the Public." 



Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark 

 University, delivered the address at the inau- 

 guration of Dr. George E. Myers, principal of 

 the State Manual Training Normal School at 

 Pittsburg, Kansas. The subject of the address 

 was " Educational Efficiency." 



Professor Joseph Jastrow, of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, will give a public lecture 

 " On the Trail of the Subconscious," at the 

 university on December 4, vmder the auspices of 

 the university association for research and Phi 

 Beta Kappa. 



On the evening of November 18 Professor 

 W. Johannsen, of the University of Copen- 

 hagen, lectured before the Indiana Chapter of 

 Sigma Xi and invited guests on the subject 

 " Selection in the Light of Pure Line Work." 

 The lecture was followed by a formal reception. 

 The officers of the Indiana Chapter of Sigma 

 Xi for the current year are: President, Dr. J. 

 W. Beede; vice-president. Dr. C. E. May; 

 recording secretary. Dr. Ferd. Payne; corre- 

 sponding secretary. Miss Mary Harmon; treas- 

 urer. Dr. F. C. Mathers. 



Professor S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia 

 University, has been lecturing in Philadelphia 

 on successive Saturdays, beginning November 

 4 on the subject of "Astronomy." The titles of 

 the lectures are (1) " Common Things about 

 the Earth," (2) "The Sun— Typical Star," 



(3) " Evolution Revealed by the Spectroscope," 



(4) "The Moon, a Worn-out World," (5) 

 " Fragments of other Worlds," (6) " Is Mars 

 Inhabited?" 



The first lecture in the season's course of the 

 Montreal Branch of the Archeological Insti- 

 tute of America was delivered in the chemistry 

 building at McGill University, Montreal, by 

 Harlan I. Smith, dominion archeologist, on the 

 subject " The Archeology of Western Canada." 



The eighty-sixth Christmas course of ju- 

 venile lectures, founded at the Royal Institu- 

 tion in 1826 by Michael Faraday, will be deliv- 

 ered this year by Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, 

 F.R.S., secretary of the Zoological Society, on 

 " The Childhood of Animals." 



The Berthelot memorial lecture of the 

 Chemical Society was delivered by Professor 

 H. B. Dixon, F.R.S., on November 23. 



The annual Huxley memorial lecture of the 

 Royal Anthropological Institute was de- 

 livered on November 23 by Professor F. von 

 Luschan, whose address was on " The Early 

 Inhabitants of Western Asia." 



Professor Karl Pearson is preparing a 

 memoir on the life and work of the late Sir 

 Francis Galton. 



Surgeon General Walter Wyman^ of the 

 U. S. Public Health and Marine Hospital 

 Service, died on November 21, aged sixty- 

 three years. 



Mr. Daniel F. Drawbaugh, the American 

 inventor, has died at the age of eighty-four 

 years. 



Sir Samuel Wilkes, an eminent London 

 physician, author of works on pathological 

 anatomy, died on November 8, at the age of 

 eighty-seven years. 



Dr. R. D. Roberts, registrar of the Board 

 of Extension of University Teaching, Uni- 

 versity of London, at one time university lee- 



