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Professor H. M. Hubd, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, will give the address before 

 the Medical School of Tale University at the 

 approaching commencement, his subject be- 

 ing ' The Duty and Eesponsibility of the Uni- 

 versity in Medical Education.' 



The Croonian lectures before the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians of London will be de- 

 livered by Dr. C. E. Beevor on June 9, 11, 

 16 and 18. The subject will be muscular 

 movements and their representation in the 

 central nervous system. The first course of 

 FitzPatrick lectures founded by Mrs. Fitz- 

 Patrick in memory of her late husband, Dr. 

 Thomas FitzPatrick, will be delivered by Dr. 

 •J. F. Payne on June 23 and 25. He has 

 chosen for his subject English Medicine in 

 the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Periods. 



Dr. W. M. Bayliss, assistant professor of 

 physiology at University College, London, is 

 bringing an action for libel and slander 

 against the Hon. Stephen Coleridge, on the 

 ground of certain statements made in a 

 speech on May 1, at the annual meeting of 

 the National Antivivisection Society. 



Professor J. H. Gore, of the Columbian 

 University, has accepted the position of com- 

 missioner general for the Siamese govern- 

 ment at the St. Louis Exposition. The 

 Siamese government will erect on the grounds 

 a reproduction of one of the most striking 

 buildings of Siam. 



An expedition in charge of Dr. F. A. Cook, 

 of Brooklyn, is to explore Mount McKinley 

 and other Alaskan mountains under the aus- 

 pices of the Geographical Society of Phila- 

 delphia and the Arctic Club, of New York. 



Professor Jacob Eeighaed, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, has been granted leave of 

 absence for the last eight weeks of the aca- 

 demic year in order that he may investigate 

 the habits and methods of artificial propaga- 

 tion of the black bass. A laboratory has been 

 fitted up at the state bass hatchery at Mill 

 Creek in Kent County, where Professor Eeig- 

 hard is working under the auspices of the 

 Michigan Fish Commission. 



The British Institution of Civil Engineers 

 has presented to the Italian government a 



bust of George Stevenson to be placed in the 

 railway station at Rome. 



A COMMITTEE, Consisting of Professors W. 

 K. Brooks, W. H. Howell, W. T. Sedgwick, 

 E. A. Andrews and Theodore Hough, has 

 arranged for a portrait of the late Professor 

 H. Newell Martin, for many years professor 

 of physiology in the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity. It is to be a Copley print, a sepia-tone 

 platinotype 14 x 11 inches, made by Messrs. 

 Curtis and Cameron, of Boston. The cost of 

 the picture is $5, and it may be obtained from 

 Dr. Theodore Hough, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Boston, Mass. 



The death is announced of Mr. Clarence 

 Bartlett, who recently retired from the post 

 of superintendent of the London Zoological 

 Gardens ; of M. Worms de Eomilly, the French 

 physicist, and of Professor Wigburgh, of the 

 School of Mines of Stockholm. 



The first conversazione of the Royal Society 

 was held on the evening of Friday, May 15, 

 at Burlington House. 



A geographical society has been founded at 

 St. Petersburg in connection with the uni- 

 versity, with Professor Brunov as president. 



The International Association of Botanists 

 has held its first congress at Leyden under the 

 presidency of Professor Goebel, of Munich. 



Mr. H. L. Florence has given £1,000 to the 

 Cancer Research Fund, London. 



The Canadian government has declined to 

 make further contribution to the Marconi 

 system of trans-Atlantic telegraphy, the min- 

 ister of finance stating in the House of Com- 

 mons that it had not been as successful as 

 expected. 



A UNIFORM time, based on the 30th meridian, 

 or two hours east of Greenwich, has been 

 adopted by all the South African govern- 

 ments, with the exception of German South- 

 west Africa. 



The Gulf Biologic Station, established by 

 the state of Louisiana at the mouth of the 

 Calcasieu River in Cameron Parish (county), 

 will be opened on July 1, 1903. A large 

 laboratory building has been erected and all 

 necessary equipment for investigation of 



