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the Eoyal Institution, for a term of three 

 years. 



The following have been appointed special 

 lecturers on economic geology at McGill 

 University, for the year 1912: Dr. W. Lind- 

 gren. United States Geological Survey; Dr. 

 E. Haanel, Department of Mines, Ottawa; 

 J. A. Dresser, Esq., M.A., the Canada Iron 

 Corporation, Sault Ste. Marie. 



Dk. V. A. Moore, director of the State Vet- 

 erinaiy College, Cornell University, has been 

 elected foreign correspondent of the Central 

 Society of Veterinary Medicine of Paris. 



As corresponding members of the Munich 

 Academy of Sciences, there have been elected 

 Dr. Bauschinger, professor of astronomy at 

 Strasburg; Dr. Planck, professor of theoret- 

 ical physics at Berlin; Dr. von Kries, pro- 

 fessor of physiology at Freiburg; Dr. Eoixx, 

 professor of anatomy at Halle, and Dr. 

 Wiechert, professor of geophysics at Got- 

 tingen. 



The organizing committee for the Imper- 

 ial University Congress to be held in London 

 next July, have appointed Dr. Alexander Hill, 

 M.D., to be secretary to the congress, in the 

 place of the late Dr. E. D. Eoberts. Dr. HiU 

 was formerly master of Downing College, 

 Cambridge. 



The special board for biology and geology 

 at Cambridge University has adjudged the 

 Walsingham Medal for 1911 to Mr. E. H. 

 Compton, Gonville and Caius, for his essay en- 

 titled " An Investigation of the Seedling 

 Structure in Leguminosse " ; and a second 

 Walsingham Medal to Mr. Walter Stiles. Em- 

 manuel, for his essay entitled " On the Podo- 

 carpeje." 



Professor Egbert Orton Moody, of the de- 

 partment of anatomy of the University of 

 California, is spending a sabbatic leave of ab- 

 sence in Europe. 



Mr. W. H. Long, recently of the editorial 

 staff of the Experiment Station Record, has 

 accepted a position as forest pathologist in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry. He will have 

 charge of the work in forest pathology in Na- 

 tional Forest District 3, which comprises the 



national forests in the states of Arizona, New 

 Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Florida. 



Mr. a. F. Vass has been appointed and has 

 assumed his duties as assistant bacteriologist 

 at the Oregon Agricultural College and Ex- 

 periment Station. Mr. Vass is a graduate of 

 the Kansas State Agricultural College and 

 received his master's degree from the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin in soil bacteriology. 



Dr. Alfred Irving Ludlow, a graduate of 

 Adelbert College and of the medical depart- 

 ment of Western Eeserve University, pro- 

 fessor of general pathology in the Dental 

 School of Western Eeserve University, and 

 demonstrator of surgery in the medical de- 

 partment, and Mrs. Ludlow, sailed on Decem- 

 ber 19, for Seoul, Korea, to engage in medical 

 educational work. He will be one of those in 

 charge of the Severance Hospital and Medical 

 College. The new building of the Medical 

 College will be completed the first of the year 

 and will furnish accommodations for a hun- 

 dred students. 



According to a dispatch from St. Peters- 

 burg to the daily papers the Eussian ban 

 against the order of the Jesuits has proved a 

 bar against the entry into that country of 

 Father Pigot, who is particularly anxious to 

 visit the Pulkova Observatory, in order to in- 

 vestigate seismological questions with Prince 

 Galitzine. The British embassy, on behalf of 

 the meteorological office in London, made spe- 

 cial representations at the ministry of the 

 interior, asking that the anti-Jesuit law might 

 be relaxed, but all efforts have been unavailing. 

 Dr. E. G. Cooley, who as a representative 

 of the Commercial Club of Chicago has re- 

 cently visited Germany and has made an ex- 

 haustive study of conditions of vocational 

 education in that country, has given a series 

 of lectures at the University of Illinois on 

 " Vocational Education in Germany." In 

 addition to his regular lectures he held an 

 informal conference with the faculty of the 

 College of Engineering. 



Mr. E. J. ToDNG, of the North Chicago 

 Works of the Illinois Steel Company, who is 

 a member of the committee on safety devices 



