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Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Dr. Goldsclimidt, of 

 Muiiicli, known for his experiments on Mende- 

 lian heredity in animals; Dr. Hartmann, of the 

 Berlin Institute for Infectious Diseases, known 

 for his work on protozoa, and Dr. Warburg, 

 son of the director of the Eeichsanstalt, who 

 will have charge of work on cell physiology. 

 It was noted last week that Dr. Carl Correns 

 will be director of the institute. 



Dr. David Hilbeet and Dr. Felix Klein, 

 professors of mathematics at Gottingen, have 

 been elected corresponding members of the 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Max Planck, professor of mathematics, 

 has been elected rector of the University of 

 Berlin. 



Countess Peoskowia Uwarow, of Moscow, 

 known for her work in archeology, has been 

 given an honorary doctorate by the University 

 of Konigsberg. 



Dr. Wilhelm Alexander Freund, the dis- 

 tinguished German gynecologist, has celebrated 

 his eightieth birthday. 



M. Emil Boutroux, of Paris, and Professor 

 Alois Eiehl, of Berlin, both distinguished for 

 their contributions to philosophy, will make 

 addresses at the opening of the graduate school 

 of Princeton University. 



Dr. W. F. G. Swann, demonstrator in phys- 

 ics in the University of Sheffield, has been 

 appointed physicist in the laboratory of the 

 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Professor C. W. Thompson, chief of the 

 bureau of research in agricultural economics 

 at the University of Minnesota, has taken 

 charge of work in the rural organization serv- 

 ice of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Db. Henry Carter Adams, professor of po- 

 litical economy at the University of Michigan, 

 has accepted the post of general fiscal ad- 

 viser to the Republic of China. 



Major B. K. Ashford has been appointed 

 president of a board for the study of tropical 

 diseases in Porto Eico under the medical de- 

 partment of the army. 



The Annalen der Naturphilosophie will 

 hereafter be named the Annalen der Natur- 

 tmd Kulturphilosophie. Professor E. Gold- 

 scheid will be associated with Professor Ost- 

 wald in editing the periodical. 



At Princeton University Professor Henry 

 B. Fine has returned from a year's leave of 

 absence in Europe and resumed his duties as 

 head of the department of mathematics and 

 dean of the department of science. Professor 

 George A. Hulett, who was last year acting as 

 chief of the department of chemistry in the 

 United States Bureau of Mines, has resumed 

 his professorship of physical chemistry. The 

 members of the faculty on leave of absence 

 this year include : Professor Norman Kemp 

 Smith, head of the department of philosophy 

 (first term) ; Professor Augustus Trowbridge, 

 of the department of physics, and Professor 

 Oswald Veblen, of the department of mathe- 

 matics. 



Professor M. A, Carleton, cerealist of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, has recently 

 resumed his duties in that department, after 

 a year and three months' leave of absence as 

 general manager of the Pennsylvania Chestnut 

 Tree Blight Commission. 



Professor A. E. Kennelly, of Harvard 

 University, represented the U. S. Committee 

 and the U. S. Bureau of Standards at the 

 International Illumination Commission in 

 Berlin, Aug-ust 26-30, and at the Interna- 

 tional Electrotechnical Commission, Berlin, 

 September 1-5. 



Professor Augustus D. Waller, M.D., 

 F.E.S., of the University of London, will lec- 

 ture before the Harvey Society at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine, at 8.30 p.m., Oc- 

 tober 4, 1913, on " A Short Account of the 

 Origin and Scope of Electrocardiography." 

 Professor Waller brings from London his ovm 

 apparatus especially for this lecture and will 

 give a series of demonstrations. The lecture 

 is open to the public. 



A course of three lectures dealing with the 

 early history of medicine wiU be given before 

 the Eoyal Society of Medicine, London. The 

 first lecture will be on October 10, by Professor 



