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room of the physics building, in which the lec- 

 tures were given. 



Professoe John Perry, F.E.S., delivered 

 the address at the opening of the new mechan- 

 ical engineering laboratory of the Municipal 

 Technical Institute, Belfast, on November 24. 



A LIFE-SIZED marble statue of ^sciilapius, a 

 replica of one in the Vatican, was presented to 

 the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, by 

 Dr. Richard H. Harte, and accepted on be- 

 half of the college, by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, at 

 the November meeting of the college. 



Memorial exercises in honor of John Bas- 

 com, a former president of the University of 

 Wisconsin, will be held at the university on 

 December 6. President Charles R. Van 

 Hise, of the university, will preside at the 

 exercises and Dean E. A. Birge, a personal 

 friend of Dr. Bascom, will deliver the prin- 

 cipal address. James F. Trottman, of Mil- 

 waukee, president of the university board of 

 ■regents, will speak on behalf of that body, 

 while Judge R. G. Siebecker, of the Wiscon- 

 sin Supreme Court, will represent the alumni. 



A BRASS tablet has been unveiled by the 

 Master of Peterhouse in the College Chapel, 

 Cambridge, in memory of Dr. Arthur Jack- 

 son, who died at Mukden, Manchuria, in Jan- 

 uary last, in his brave efforts to stem the ad- 

 vance of the plague into China. 



Dr. J. P. W. Ross, professor of gynecology 

 in the University of Toronto, died on No- 

 vember Vl, from injuries received in a motor- 

 car accident. 



Dr. William Sutherland, of Melbourne, 

 known for his contributions to molecular 

 physics, has died at the age of fifty-two years. 



Mr. Eugene William Gates, who while en- 

 gaged in the British India Service and after- 

 wards, published several books on ornithology, 

 died on November 16, aged sixty-six years. 



Formal distribution has been made of the 

 California property of the late D. G. Mills. 

 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 

 receives $100,000, the American Museum of 

 Natural History $100,000, the New York Home 

 • for Incurables $100,000, the New York Botan- 



ical Garden $60,000, the American Geograph- 

 ical Society $25,000 and the American Red 

 Cross Society $25,000. 



The annual dinner of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and aiEliated societies will 

 be held at the Hotel Endicott on December 18, 

 and will be followed by the annual meeting of 

 the academy for the reception of reports and 

 election of officers. The address of the re- 

 tiring president. Dr. Franz Boas, who is at 

 present on leave of absence from Columbia 

 University to serve as professor of anthropol- 

 ogy in the University of Mexico, will be pre- 

 sented. This will be followed by an illus- 

 trated address by George Borup, who was one 

 of Admiral Peary's scientific associates on his 

 Polar expedition. 



The Edinburgh University Club has been 

 established in New York City and the inaug- 

 ural dinner will be held at the Astor Hotel on 

 December 27. All graduates and undergrad- 

 uates of the Edinburgh University are in- 

 vited to be present. Particulars regarding the 

 club may be obtained from the interim secre- 

 tary. Dr. W. F. Maloney, 20 E. 69th St., New 

 York City. 



The second International Congress of Ento- 

 mology will be held, as has already been an- 

 nounced, at Oxford on August 5-10, 1912, 

 under the presidency of Professor E. B. Poul- 

 ton, F.R.S. According to a note in Nature 

 the executive committee proposes to find for 

 members of the congress lodgings in the town, 

 or rooms in one or more of the colleges at a 

 moderate charge; rooms in college will be 

 available only for men. The executive com- 

 mittee invites an early provisional notice of 

 intention to join the congress, in order to be 

 able to make the arrangements for the neces- 

 sary accommodation. The proceedings of the 

 first congress are in the press and wiU be 

 published shortly. All communications and 

 inquiries should be addressed to the general 

 secretary of the executive committee. Dr. 

 Malcolm Burr, care of the Entomological So- 

 ciety of London, 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish 

 Square, London, W. 



