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long and distinguished services which he has 

 rendered to the Owens College and of his 

 many valuable original contributions to phys- 

 ical science and engineering. 



Dr. H. S. Jennings, assistant professor of 

 zoology in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 has returned from the Zoological Station at 

 Naples, Italy, where he has spent the past 

 year conducting investigations on the beha- 

 vior of the lower organisms as a research as- 

 sistant of the Carnegie Institution. 



Mr. Robert T. Hill, late of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has just returned from an 

 extensive exploration trip in Mexico, which 

 country he has been studying for many years, 

 in order to ascertain its geologic evolution and 

 history and relations to the geographic fea- 

 tures of the United States and Central Amer- 

 ican region. Mr. Hill's address will continue 

 to be 1738 Q Street, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Frederick V. Coville, botanist of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, and 

 Mr. Albert F. Potter, grazing expert of the 

 Bureau of Forestry, have gone to the south- 

 west grazing districts with a view to studying 

 the ranges. 



The Mackinnon studentships of the Royal 

 Society have been filled by the election of Mr. 

 Bryan Cookson for research in astronomy, 

 especially for a new determination of the con- 

 stant of aberration, and Mr. L. Doncaster for 

 work on the subject of variation and natural 

 selection in plants and animals. 



A BANQUET was given to Mr. Chamberlin, 

 the well-known British political leader, on 

 June 30, by the Royal Institute of Public 

 Health, in recognition of his services to pre- 

 ventive and tropical medicine. 



At the second annual meeting of the British 

 Academy, on June 29, Lord Reay was reelected 

 president. 



Jerome Sondericker, associate professor of 

 applied mathematics at the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology, died on July 22 at Wil- 

 mington, Vt. 



Dr. Isaac Roberts, eminent for his work in 

 astronomy, especially for his study of star 



clusters and nebulae, has died at the age of 

 seventy-five years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. L. Nie- 

 milowicz, professor of physiological chemistry 

 at the University of Lemberg. 



The treasurers of the Institute of Medical 

 Sciences Fund, London, have received the fol- 

 lowing additional donations: Lord Howard de 

 Walden, £3,000 ; the Company of Fishmongers, 

 1,000 guineas; Dr. C. Theodore Williams £100. 



The British Medical Association is holding 

 its seventy-second annual meeting at Oxford 

 this week. Dr. G. D. Griffiths is the retiring 

 president and Dr. W. Collier, the president- 

 elect. The address in medicine is by Sir 

 William S. Church and the address in surgery 

 by Sir William Macewen. 



The Optical Society of London, of which 

 Dr. R. T. Glazebrook is president, proposes 

 holding an optical convention in London nest 

 year. 



Nature states that a large deputation has 

 waited on Lord Londonderry, president of the 

 Board of Education, to urge the compulsory 

 teaching of hygiene in elementary and sec- 

 ondary schools. The deputation was in sup- 

 port of a petition which has been signed by 

 nearly fifteen thousand medical practitioners. 

 The petitioners urged the central educational 

 authorities of the United Kingdom to consider 

 ' whether it would not be possible to include 

 in the curricula of the public elementary 

 schools, and to encourage in the secondary 

 schools, such teaching as may, without devel- 

 oping any tendency to dwell on what is un- 

 wholesome, lead all the children to appreciate 

 at their true value healthful bodily conditions 

 as regards cleanliness, pure air, food, drink, 

 etc' The petitioners remark that a wide- 

 spread ignorance prevails concerning not only 

 the nature and properties of alcohol, but also 

 its effects on the body and the mind. Central 

 education authorities are therefore asked to 

 include in the simple hygienic teaching desired 

 elementary instruction at an early age on the 

 nature and effects of alcohol. Dr. Farquhar- 

 son, M.P., introduced the deputation, and short 

 speeches in support of its objects were made by 

 Sir W. Broadbent, Dr. D. Griffiths, Sir T. 



