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St. Louis. Dr. Jacques J. Bronfenbrenner, 

 formerly assistant in pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy, has been appointed director of the patho- 

 logical laboratory of the Western Pennsyl- 

 vania Hospital, Pittsburgh. Dr. Eichard 

 Vanderhorst Lamar, formerly associate in 

 pathology and bacteriology, has been appointed 

 professor of pathology at the University of 

 Georgia. 



Professor Egbert E. Bensley, of the de- 

 partment of anatomy in the University of 

 Chicago, has been made one of the editors of 

 the Internationale Monatsschrift fur Anat- 

 omie und Physiologie, published in Leipzig. 



Dr. George Pay Gracey, professor of chem- 

 istry and toxicology in the University of 

 Texas, has resigned to enter practise in 

 New York as a specialist on diseases of the 

 eye. 



H. N. CoNOLLY, formerly field agent in hor- 

 ticulture of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute, has accepted a position in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. 



Mr. a. E. Hinks, F.E.S., chief assistant at 

 the Cambridge Observatory, and university 

 lecturer in surveying and cartography, has 

 been appointed assistant secretary of the 

 Eoyal Geographical Society. 



Mr. L. G. Huntley, of the Associated Geo- 

 logical Engineers, is at present engaged in a 

 study of the Pelican Portage gas field and 

 other localities in central Alberta for the city 

 of Edmonton. 



Frederick Anderegg, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Oberlin College, has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence, for study and travel 

 in Europe. 



Mr. Paul C. Miller and Mr. M. G. Mehl 

 have returned from a two-months' expedition 

 in the Eed Beds of Texas, the fourth into that 

 region by the paleontologieal department of 

 the University of Chicago. 



Mr. G. N. Wolcott, who is the traveling 

 entomologist supported by the Porto Eico 

 Sugar Growers' Association, is collecting para- 

 sites of the white grub, to introduce into Porto 

 Eico, where the white grubs are a very serious 



pest in the cane fields. Mr. Wolcott has his 

 chief headquarters in the United States at the 

 University of Illinois. 



Dr. W. D. Mawson, who is in charge of the 

 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, which is 

 now working on the Antarctic continent, south 

 of Australia, has sent a wireless message to 

 Professors David and Haswell, of Sydney, ask- 

 ing them to arrange for Mr. E. E. Waite, 

 curator of Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, 

 New Zealand, to report on the fishes of the 

 expedition. Last year Mr. Waite joined Dr. 

 Mawson's vessel, the Aurora, in an exploring 

 expedition in the Southern Ocean, touching 

 at the Macquarie and Auckland Islands, and 

 obtained a number of specimens of fishes. He 

 is now working on these, and further speci- 

 mens will be sent to him from Adelie Land. 

 Mr. Waite also reported on the fishes for Sir 

 Ernest Shackleton's expedition in the Nimrod. 



A statue of Lord Kelvin was unveiled on 

 June 19 in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast. The 

 chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast, 

 the Earl of Shaftesbury, presided and Sir 

 Joseph Larmor, M.P., F.E.S., delivered an 

 address. The statue is the work of Mr. Bruce 

 Joy. We learn further from Nature that the 

 statue of Lord Kelvin erected by the contribu- 

 tions of his fellow-citizens in Glasgow and the 

 west of Scotland has been placed in position 

 by the side of the new Kelvin Avenue, which 

 traverses the Kelvingrove Park beneath Gil- 

 morehill, close to the University of Glasgow. 

 The statue will be unveiled on October 8 next, 

 by the Eight Hon. A. Birrell, lord rector of 

 the university, and an address on Kelvin will 

 be delivered by the Eight Hon. A. J. Balfour, 

 Gifford lecturer in the university. The Kel- 

 vin memorial window in Westminster Abbey 

 will be unveiled on July 15. 



At the twenty-fifth reunion of the class of 

 1888 of Washington and Jefferson College, on 

 June 17, a library memorial fund was estab- 

 lished in honor of Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, U.S.A., 

 a member of the class, who left before gradua- 

 tion to study medicine and who afterward 

 became a member of the commission to in- 

 vestigate the role of the mosquito in the trans- 



