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struetion of a psychopathic hospital in New 

 York city. 



At the Founder's Day celebration of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, the degree of 

 D.Sc. was conferred on President Alex. C. 

 Humphreys, of Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology. The address was made by Dr. S. 

 Weir Mitchell. 



Dr. E. a. Kjinnelly, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, lectured on February 18 before the New 

 York Electrical Society on the laying of the 

 cable across the Gulf of Mexico. 



Professor Charles A. Doremus, of the 

 City College, New York city, lectured at the 

 college on February 21 on the life and scien- 

 tific work of Robert Bunsen. The lecture 

 was given under the auspices of the Cooper 

 Union Chemical Society. 



John H. Bare, professor of machine design 

 at Cornell University, is to become manager 

 of the Smith Premier typewriter works at 

 Syracuse. 



The Executive Committee of the Illinoia 

 Wesleyan has granted Professor J. Culver 

 Hartzell eighteen months leave of absence to 

 pursue his investigation on conditions of fos- 

 silization in Germany. He sails from New 

 York on March 18. 



Reuter's agency states that Dr. Sven Hedin, 

 the Swedish explorer, delivered a lecture on 

 February Y, to the Geographical Society of 

 Berlin upon his recent journeys in Central 

 Asia and Tibet. During his lecture Dr. 

 Sven Hedin gave some description of the 

 Chinese writings he had discovered in a ruined 

 city on the shores of Lake Lak-nor. The 

 sinologist. Dr. Himle, of Wiesbaden, to whom 

 they had been sent for translation, was of 

 opinion that they pointed to the existence of 

 a flourishing Chinese community about A. D. 

 250 on the spot marked by these ruins. At 

 the conclusion of the lecture Professor Hill- 

 man announced that the German Emperor had 

 conferred on Dr. Sven Hedin the second class 

 with the star of the Prussian Order of the 

 Crown. Dr. Sven Hedin was elected an 

 honorary member of the Berlin Geographical 

 Society, and was presented with the golden 



' Nachtigal ' medal which was founded in mem- 

 ory of a well-knovm Central African explorer. 



Dr. George B. Shattuok, professor of phys- 

 iographic geology of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, and secretary of the Baltimore geo- 

 graphical Society, has been authorized by the 

 directors to organize an expedition for a sys- 

 tematic scientific survey of the Bahama 

 Islands. 



Dr. F. B. Loomis, of Amherst College, will 

 this summer conduct an expedition for the 

 collection of fossils to the Bad Lands of 

 South Dakota. 



The Imperial Academy of Science of St. 

 Petersburg wiU send an expedition to search 

 for Baron Toll, who is exploring the Siberian 

 coast line, and who was reported on November 

 21 to have been cut off from the coast by early 

 winter ice in New Siberia. Lieut. Koltchak, 

 who was with Baron Toll will command the 

 expedition. 



The Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 

 has arranged a course of lectures on science 

 and travel for Saturday afternoons at three 

 o'clock, as follows : 



Marcli 7 — ' The Crow Indians of Montana,' 

 Mr. S. C. Simms, Assistant Curator, Division of 

 Ethnology. 



March 14 — ' Diamonds and Diamond Mining,' 

 Professor O. C. Farrington, Curator, Department 

 of Geology. 



March 21 — ' The English Sparrow,' Dr. J. 

 Rollin Slonaker, University of Chicago. 



March 28 — ' A Tour of the Plant World — Japan,' 

 Dr. C. P. Millspaugh, Curator, Department of 

 Botany. 



April 4 — ' Swimming Reptiles,' Dr. S. W. Willis- 

 ton, Associate Curator, Division of Paleontology. 



April 1 1 — ' Mining in the Southern Appalach- 

 ians,' Mr. Henry W. Nichols, Assistant Curator, 

 Department of Geology. 



April 18 — ' Our Household Insects,' Mr. W. J. 

 Gerhard, Assistant Curator, Division of Ento- 

 mology. 



April 25 — ' Experimental Agriculture in Russia,' 

 Mr. Frederick W. Taylor, Chief of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. 



The medical papers of Ithaca state that 

 the epidemic of typhoid fever at Ithaca has 

 resulted in the death of ten students of Cor- 

 nell University. Ten professors and instruct- 



