Septembee 26, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. G. S. Fullerton, professor of philos- 

 ophy at Columbia University and exchange 

 professor with Austria, will lecture at Vienna 

 six weeks in the autumn and six weeks in the 

 spring. He will lecture also at Graz and 

 Innsbruck. 



The Walker prizes in natural history of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History have been 

 awarded this year as follows : the first prize, 

 amounting to $100, to Dr. Reynold A. Spaeth, 

 for his essay on " An Experimental Study 

 Concerning the Chromatophores of Fishes," 

 and the second prize of $50 to Professor O. D. 

 Von Engeln, for his essay on the " Effects 

 of Continental Glaciation on Agriculture." 

 Prizes for 1914 and 1915 will be awarded for 

 original and unpublished research work in any 

 biological or geological subject. The memoirs 

 must be in the hands of the secretary on or 

 before April 1. 



The University of Munich has awarded a 

 prize of 3,000 Marks to Dr. Joseph Golling 

 for his research entitled anthropological in- 

 vestigations on the bones of the nose in man. 



Professoe Neuberg has been appointed a 

 demonstrator in the chemistry division of the 

 Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Experimental 

 Therapy in Dahlem, near Berlin. 



Dr. E. Lowenherz, decent for chemistry at 

 Konigsberg, has been appointed curator of the 

 chemical museum of the Berlin Technological 

 Institute. 



Professor A. Kolb, of the Technical Insti- 

 tute of Darmstadt, has retired to engage in 

 industrial chemical work in Berlin. 



Me. H. L. Viereck, formerly with the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology at Washington, is at 

 present working with the Minnesota state 

 entomologist. Professor F. L. Washburn. 



The annual meeting of the Association 

 of Military Surgeons of the United States was 

 held in Denver, Colo., September 16-19, under 

 the presidency of Surgeon W. C. Braisted, 

 U.S.N. 



At the twenty-third annual meeting of the 

 American Electrotherapeutic Association, held 

 in New York on September 2, 3 and 4, the 



following officers were elected : president, Dr. 

 George E. Pf abler, of Philadelphia; vice- 

 presidents. Dr. Albert C. Geyser, of New 

 York, Dr. Frank B. Granger, of Boston, 

 Dr. John D. Torbett, of Marlin, Texas, 

 Dr. William L. Clark, of Philadelphia, and 

 Dr. Frederick P. Tice, of Roanoke, Va. 



President Schorman, who has been on leave 

 of absence from Cornell University for the 

 past year, representing the United States at 

 Athens as minister to Greece, has returned to 

 the university. 



Professor B. K. Emerson, owing to an 

 injury to his knee, will be unable to conduct 

 the New England Intercollegiate Geological 

 Excursion which was planned for the vicinity 

 of Dalton, Mass., and consequently the meet- 

 ing will not be held this year. 



We learn from Nature that a ship has been 

 purchased for an Austrian expedition to the 

 South Polar regions, and that funds are being 

 collected in aid of the object. The expedition 

 is to be under the leadership of Dr. F. Konig, 

 of Graz, and the proposal is that it shall leave 

 Trieste in May next. A large donation to the 

 funds has been given by the Vienna Academy 

 of Science, and the Austrian Geographical 

 Society has promised an annual subsidy. 



The Philadelphia Alumni Society of the 

 medical department of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania has issued an appeal for funds to 

 endow a scholarship which it is planned to es- 

 tablish in memory of the late Dr. Roland G. 

 Curtin. 



King George received recently at Bucking- 

 ham Palace the members of the Scott Expedi- 

 tion and presented them with the antarctic 

 medal and clasp. He also presented Lady 

 Scott, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Bris- 

 senden with the medal and clasps which had 

 been awarded to their late husbands, and to 

 Mrs. Bowers the medal and clasp awarded to 

 her son, the late Lieut. H. R. Bowers. At the 

 request of the late Captain Oates's mother, the 

 medal and clasp awarded to her son were re- 

 ceived on her behalf by Commander Evans. 



A memorial to the lost Russian explorer. 

 Baron E. von Toll, is to be set up on the west 



