October 31, 1913] 



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the practical photographic methods of Frank 

 Morris Steadman. 



The Gresham lecturer on astronomy, Mr. 

 Arthur R. Hinks, F.R.S., delivered a course of 

 four lectures on astronomy in daily use, 

 on October 14, 15, 16 and 17, at the City of 

 London School, Victoria Embankment. The 

 subjects of the four lectures were : " The De- 

 termination of Time," " The Distribution of 

 Time," " The Determination of Position " and 

 " Measurement of the Size and Shape of the 

 Earth." 



The first ordinary meeting of the Medical 

 Society of London for the session 1913-14 was 

 h«ld on October 13, when the new president. 

 Sir David Ferrier, F.E.S., delivered his in- 

 augural address. The Lettsomian lectures of 

 the society will be given on February 2 and 16 

 and March 2 by Dr. F. M. Sandwith, who will 

 treat of the subject of dysentery. 



Dr. Philip Eeese TJhler, since 1891 provost 

 of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, known 

 for his contributions to entomology and geol- 

 ogy, died on October 21, aged seventy-eight 

 years. 



William Theodore Wenzell, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the California College 

 of Pharmacy, of the University of California, 

 died July 31, 1913. 



The thirty-first annual congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union will convene 

 in New York City on November 10, at 8 p.m. 

 The evening session will be devoted to the 

 election of officers and the transaction of 

 other routine business. The meetings, which 

 are open to the public and devoted to the 

 reading and discussion of scientific and pop- 

 ular papers on ornithology, will be held at 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 November 11-13, from 10 o'clock a.m. until 

 4 P.M. each day. Information regarding the 

 congress can be had by addressing the secre- 

 tary, Mr. John H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



The Eush Society for the correlation and 

 support of medical and biological lectures in 

 Philadelphia announces the following lec- 

 tures, which will be held at the College of 



Physicians or at the Medical Laboratories of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



Samuel D. Gross Lecture of the Philadelphia 

 Pathological Society, October 23, at 8:30 p.m. 

 Professor E. G. Conklin, Princeton University, 

 "The Mechanism of Heredity and Development." 



The Fifth Eush Society Lecture, November 18, 

 at 8:30 p.m. Frederick L. HofEman, The Pruden- 

 tial Insurauee Co. of America, ' ' The Incidence of 

 Cancer by Organs and Parts of the Body Af- 

 fected. ' ' 



The Mutter Lecture, December 12, at 8:30 p.m. 

 R. C. Coffey, M.D., Portland, Oregon, "The Surg- 

 ical Treatment of Chronic Constipation. ' ' 



The Sixth Eush Society Lecture, January 27, at 

 8:30 p.m. Professor Sven G. Hedin, M.D., Univer- 

 sity of Upsala, "Colloidal Reactions and their 

 Relations to Biology. ' ' 



The Weir Mitchell Lecture, February 25, at 

 8:30 P.M. Harvey Cushing, M.D., Harvard Univer- 

 sity, ' ' Clinical Types of Dyspituitarism. ' ' 



The Seventh Rush Society Lecture, March 11, at 

 8:30 P.M. John Howland, M.D., Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital, ' ' A Consideration of Certain Aspects of 

 Rachitis." (This lecture is also the annual ad- 

 dress before the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary 

 Medical Society.) 



The Eighth Rush Society Lecture, April 1, at 

 3:30 P.M. Alexis Carrel, M.D., The Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research, ' ' Permanent Active 

 Life of Tissues Outside of the Organism." (This 

 lecture is also the annual address before the 

 Undergraduate Medical Society of the University 

 of Pennsylvania.) 



Annual Address of the Philadelphia Patholog- 

 ical Society, April 23, at 8:30 p.m Richard P. 

 Strong, M.D., Harvard University, "Bubonic 

 Plague. ' ' 



The fifteenth annual conference of the As- 

 sociation of American Universities will be held 

 at the University of Illinois, on November 6, 

 Y and 8. The session of the first day will be 

 given to a meeting of the executive committee 

 and meetings of the conference of deans and 

 similar ofiicers of graduate schools. The pro- 

 gram thus far announced for the other two days 

 is as follows : " The Type of Graduate Scholar," 

 by President John Grier Hibben, of Prince- 

 ton University ; " The Library as University 

 Factor," two papers, one by Mr. Guy Statton 

 Ford, University of Minnesota, and the oth«sr 

 by Wm. D. Johnson, librarian, Columbia 



