December 15, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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the department of entomology at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been elected an honorary fellow 

 of the Entomological Society of London. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. John A. Wyeth will be 

 presented to the gallery of presidents of the 

 New York Academy of Medicine by subscrip- 

 tion of members. 



A PORTRAIT of Professor James Geikie, sub- 

 scribed for by members of the Eoyal Scottish 

 Geographical Society, was unveiled by the 

 president at the meeting- of the society on 

 November 11. A replica of the portrait was 

 presented to Mrs. Geikie. 



Mr. 0. O. Lampland, of the Lowell Observ- 

 atory, has recently been elected an honorary 

 member of the Sociedad Astronomico de 

 Mexico and Mr. E. C. Slipher, of the same 

 observatory, has received its medal for his 

 planetary photographs. Dr. Lowell has been 

 an honorary member and a medallist of the 

 society for several years. 



Professor Henry M. Howe, of the depart- 

 ment of metallurgy, Columbia University, has 

 been elected honorary member of the Cleve- 

 land Institution of Engineers, Great Britain. 



Mr. N. C. Nelson, instructor in anthropol- 

 ogy in the University of California, has been 

 appointed assistant curator in the department 

 of anthropology in the American Museum of 

 Natural History. He will assume his duties 

 next June and give special attention to North 

 American archeology. 



Professor J. Konig has retired as director 

 of the agricultural experiment station at 

 Miinster, after 40 years of service and has 

 been succeeded by Professor A. Borner, form- 

 erly vice-director. 



Naval Constructor Holden A. Evans has 

 resigned from the navy to become vice-presi- 

 dent of a shipbuilding company. 



Professor Eichard T. Ely, head of the de- 

 partment of political economy of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, has been appointed to rep- 

 resent the United States on the international 

 commission appointed to study government 

 crop reporting in Europe and America, by the 

 International Statistical Institute, recently 



held at The Hague. Statisticians generally 

 have long been dissatisfied with the character 

 of crop reports, and the purpose of the com- 

 mission is to bring about an accurate and 

 uniform method of crop reporting in all 

 countries. 



President H. S. Drinker and Professor J. 

 W. Richards, of Lehigh University, were 

 among the thirty-eight engineers who at- 

 tended the recent meeting in Japan of the 

 American Institute of Mining Engineers. 



Associate Professor Charles J. Chamber- 

 lain, of the department of botany of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, is at present doing re- 

 search work in the far east. In the course of 

 his investigations Professor Chamberlain will 

 visit eastern and southern New Zealand, east- 

 ern and western Australia and southern and 

 western Africa. 



Professor Walter B. Cannon, of Harvard 

 Medical School, gives the sixth of the Harvey 

 lectures at the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine on December 16, his subject being " A 

 Consideration of the Nature of Hunger." 



Professor Eric Doolittle delivered a lec- 

 ture before the University of Pennsylvania 

 Chapter of the Sigma Xi, on December 11, in 

 the Randal Morgan Laboratory of Physics. 

 His subject was " The Recent Discoveries in 

 Stellar Astronomy." 



The memory of Benjamin Franklin, founder 

 in 1740 of the University of Pennsylvania, is 

 to be honored by the erection of a bronze 

 statue at a cost of $10,000, on the tenth anni- 

 versary of the class of 1904, college, in June, 

 1914. The statue will be placed in front of 

 the gymnasium on Thirty-third Street, near 

 Spruce. The statue will be of heroic propor- 

 tions, and will represent Franklin as he first 

 appeared in Philadelphia as a runaway print- 

 er's apprentice. It has been modeled by Dr. 

 R. Tait Mclvenzie, professor of physical edu- 

 cation, who has modeled several medallions 

 for the university and figures of athletes 

 which have attained celebrity for their life- 

 like postures. The base of the statue has been 

 designed by Professor Henry Cret, of the 

 architectural school. 



