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pital, but they will accept no personal fee for any 

 such service. 



It is not expected that this radical innovation in 

 medical teaching will deprive the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School of such advantages as are still to 

 be gained from the services of other men who are 

 practitioners of medicine and surgery. In the 

 conduct of the dispensary, in the teaching of stu- 

 dents and in the cultivation of the specialties men 

 simultaneously engaged in practise will to some ex- 

 tent continue to be utilized. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Egbert Broome, the authority on South 

 African paleontology, is visiting America for 

 a year of scientific research especially upon 

 the ancient vertebrates of the Permian period. 

 He has accepted a temporary appointment 

 upon the staff of the American Museum of 

 Natural History for this purpose, and has 

 brought with him his private collection of 

 South African Permian reptiles. 



The Hon. Bertrand Eussell, who will this 

 year lecture at Harvard University, and Pro- 

 fessor Etienne Boutroux, of the University of 

 Paris, have been appointed Woodward lecturers 

 at Tale University. 



Sir William Christie, formerly astronomer- 

 royal, has been elected Master of the Clock- 

 makers' Company, London. 



Professor Eaymond Dodge, of Wesleyan 

 University, Middletown, Connecticut, is spend- 

 ing the current academic year in research in 

 physiological psychology at the Nutrition 

 Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, Boston. A special laboratory has 

 been equipped with an Einthoven string gal- 

 vanometer and other apparatus of a similar 

 order of precision, including much apparatus 

 devised by Professor Dodge. 



Dr. F. B. Sumner has been appointed biol- 

 ogist in the Scripps Institution for Biological 

 Eesearch of the University of California. 



Dr. G. F. Paddock has been appointed assist- 

 ant in the Lick Observatory of the University 

 of California. 



Dr. Orland E. White, recently an instructor 

 in botany at South Dakota State College and 

 an assistant and graduate student in the 



laboratory of genetics, Bussey Institution of 

 Harvard University, has accepted the appoint- 

 ment as plant breeder to the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. 



Father Theodor Angehrn, S.J., has been 

 appointed director of the Haynald Observatory, 

 Kalocsa. 



Dr. Giuseppe Bastianelli, Eome, is visiting 

 the medical institutions of the United States. 



Professor W. M. Hays, former assistant 

 secretary of agriculture, has gone to Argentina 

 as a consulting adviser to the secretary of 

 agriculture of that country. His services were 

 secured with a view to the inauguration of a 

 plan for rural education. It is expected that 

 he will be absent from this country six months 

 or more. Mrs. Hays accompanied him. 



Dr. Frank E. Ldtz, accompanied by Mr. 

 Charles W. Leng, has been in Cuba on an 

 entomological collecting trip on behalf of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. After 

 a period of study in Havana where facilities 

 for work were accorded by Professor Carlos 

 de la Torre, the expedition established field 

 headquarters in Pinar del Eio. 



With the sanction of the British secretary 

 of state, Sir Aurel Stein has undertaken an 

 expedition into Central Asia, which he expects 

 to occupy him for nearly three years. Pro- 

 ceeding to Chinese Turkestan by a hitherto 

 unexplored route, he plans to spend the winter 

 in the desert, afterwards extending his work 

 further east towards the western borders of 

 China. 



Dr. W. J. Humphreys, professor of physics 

 in the United States Weather Bureau, lectured 

 at the University of Illinois on October 23. 

 His subject was "The Temperature Effects of 

 Volcanic Dust in the Atmosphere." 



At a joint meeting of the Philadelphia Sec- 

 tion of the Illuminating Engineering Society 

 and the Philadelphia Photographic Society 

 held at the Engineers Club on October lY, Dr. 

 A. W. Goodspeed read a paper entitled " A 

 simple unit method for measuring the actinic 

 effect of illuminants both primary and sec- 

 ondary." This paper embodied an analysis of 



