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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 974 



Commissioner P. P. Claxton as ex-oificio chair- 

 man and Mr. D. W. Springer as ex-offieio 

 secretary. 



The fourteenth course of Lane Medical Lec- 

 tures will be delivered in Lane Hall, San 

 Francisco, on the evenings of September 3, 4. 

 5, 8 and 9, by Professor Sir Edward Schafer, 

 professor of physiology. University of Edin- 

 burgh. The subjects are as follows: 



September 3 — On internal secretion in general. 



September 4 — On the thyro-parathyroid glands. 



September 5 — On the adrenal glandular appa- 

 ratus. 



September 8 — On the pituitary body. 



September 9 — The influence of internal on other 

 secretions. 



Methods of Resuscitation. (To be delivered at 

 Stanford University.) 



Among the lectures at the University of 

 Chicago were those by Professor Carl Schroter, 

 of the University of Zurich, who gave on 

 August 6 and 7 two illustrated lectures on 

 " The Lake Dwellings and Lake Dwellers of 

 Ancient Switzerland " and " The Alpine Flora 

 of Switzerland." On August 20 Professor 

 Stephen A. Forbes, of the University of Illi- 

 nois, gave an illustrated lecture in Kent The- 

 ater on " Fish and Their Ecological Rela- 

 tions," and Professor William Morton Wheeler, 

 of Harvard LTniversity, discussed in two lec- 

 tures this week " The Habits of Ants." 



Professor Mel T. Cook, of the New Jersey 

 Agricultural Station, while a visitor at the 

 Biological Laboratory, recently gave a lecture 

 on insect galls. 



The town of Sanseverino in Italy will hold 

 a celebration in September in honor of the 

 quadricentenary of Bartolomeo Eustachio, the 

 anatomist. A marble tablet will be unveiled 

 and there will be a medical congress. 



Mr. C. Leslie Reynolds, superintendent of 

 the National Botanical Gardens in Washing- 

 ton, with which he had been connected for 

 forty years, has died at the age of fifty-five 

 years. 



Mr. Frederick G. Plujimer, geographer of 

 the United States Forest Service, died on 

 August 18, aged sixty-nine years. 



The death is announced of Mr. T. H. Eus- 

 sell, of Birmingham, the author of a work on 

 mosses and liverworts. 



Dr. Hermann Credner, professor of geology 

 at Leipzig and director of the Saxony Geolog- 

 ical Survey, has died at the age of seventy-two 

 years. 



Dr. von Vogel, who had performed an 

 important service in the organization of the 

 Bavarian military health service, has died at 

 the age of seventy-nine years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for entomological 

 assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, for service in the 

 field, at $2,250. The duties of this position 

 will be to conduct a special investigation of 

 the means of control of malaria-transmitting 

 mosquitoes. It is desired to secure the ser- 

 vices of a person who is familiar with the 

 methods of control and eradication of mos- 

 quitoes in tropical and subtropical countries. 

 Familiarity with the appearance and details 

 of chronic malaria will also be of value. 

 Other civil service examinations are: for as- 

 sistant in botanical laboratory work in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, at a salary of 

 $1,500; for electrometallurgist in the Bureau 

 of Mines at a salary ranging from $1,800 to 

 $3,000; and for publicity expert in the Office 

 of Public Eoads, at a salary of $8 per day 

 when employed. 



The International Geological Congress will 

 hold its next meeting in Brussels in 1917. 



The International Solar Union, at its meet- 

 ing at Bonn on August 5, passed the following 

 resolution : 



That, in collecting material for a report, the 

 chairman of a committee may employ the method 

 proposed in Science, Vol. 37, page 795. 



It will be remembered that Dr. E. C. 

 Pickering, director of the Harvard College 

 Observatory, there suggested a standard form 

 of committee meetings by correspondence. 



For the first time in the history of the 

 British Association psychology will be rep- 

 resented as an independent subject at the 



