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1881, professor of meelianical engineering in 

 Columbia University, and dean of the Faculty 

 of Applied Science ; William Stewart Plalsted, 

 M.D., 1877, professor of surgery in Johns Hop- 

 kins University, and surgeon-in-chief at the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital; Nathaniel Lord 

 JBritton, E.M., Ph.D., 1879, emeritus professor 

 of botany in Columbia University, and direct- 

 or of the Nevs' York Botanical Garden; Moses 

 Allen Starr, M.D., 1880, professor of neurology 

 in Columbia University, consulting physician 

 at the Presbyterian Hospital; Luther Emmett 

 Holt, M.D., 1880, Carpentier professor of 

 pediatrics in Columbia University, and attend- 

 ing physician at Babies' and New York 

 Foundling Hospitals; Michael Idvorsky 

 Pupin, A.B., 1883, professor of electro-me- 

 chanics in Columbia University; George Sum- 

 ner Huntington, M.D., 1884, professor of 

 anatomy in Columbia University; Ernst 

 Joseph Lederle, Ph.B., 1886, Ph.D., 1896, 

 .former commissioner of health of the City 

 of New York. 



Dr. Albrecht Pence, professor of phys- 

 ical geography at the University of Vienna, 

 who came to this country to attend the Inter- 

 national Geographical Congress and the In- 

 ternational Congress of Arts and Science, has 

 been visiting Washington, Baltimore and New 

 York, and is about to give a course of Lowell 

 lectures in Boston. 



Dr. L. Manouvrier, director of the anthro- 

 pological laboratory of the £cole des Hautes 

 Etudes and professor in the Ecole d'Antro- 

 pologie de Paris, gave an address before the 

 Anthropology Club of Yale University on Oc- 

 tober 17. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that the movement for a 

 memorial to Dr. William Osier is taking the 

 direction of a great medical and library build- 

 ing. It is thought that the collections will 

 be national — possibly international — in extent. 



Mr. Frank Springer, of Las Vegas, New 

 Mexico, has been elected a foreign correspond- 

 ent of the Geological Society of London, in 

 recognition of his work on Crinoids. 



Dr. Yersin has resigned the position of 

 director of the Medical School of Hanoi, to 



become head of the Pasteur Institute of Nha 

 Trang. 



The British Secretary of State for the Col- 

 onies has authorized the conduct of a mineral 

 survey of Nigeria, under the supervision of 

 Professor Wyndham Dunstan, F.E.S., director 

 of the Imperial Institute. 



Nature states that Mr. H. Martin Leake, of 

 Christ's College, Cambridge, has been ap- 

 pointed economic botanist to the government 

 of the United Provinces, India, and proceeds 

 at once to the botanic gardens, Saharanpur, 

 N. W. P. 



Dr. E. C. Eichardson, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, has been elected president of the 

 American Library Association. 



The annual address before the Geographical 

 Society of Philadelphia was given on Novem- 

 ber 2 by the president of the society, Mr. 

 Henry G. Bryant. His subject was ' Mexico 

 and its People.' 



Captain Robert F. Scott, of the British 

 National Antarctic Expedition, will address 

 the opening meeting of Eoyal Geographical 

 Society. 



Professor F. H. Getjian, of Johns Hopkins 

 University, is giving a course of sixty lec- 

 tures on physical chemistry at the College of 

 the City of New York. 



Sir Cpiarles Bruce made the introductory 

 address at the opening session of the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine on October 7. 



Among those who will lecture in the public 

 course at the College of the City of New York 

 are Dr. William H. Maxwell, William Bar- 

 clay Parsous and Dr. LI. W. Wiley. 



John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, 

 and died on October 28, 1704. The two 

 hundredth anniversary of his death was com- 

 memorated at the Johns Hopkins University 

 on November 1. It was expected that ad- 

 dresses would be made by Principal C. Lloyd 

 Morgan, of Bristol, England; Professor F. J. 

 E. Woodbridge, Columbia LTniversity; Dr. 

 William Osier, Johns Hopkins University; 

 Professor J. McB. Sterrett, George Washing- 

 toii LTniversity, and Dr. William T. Harris, 

 United States "Commissioner of Education. 



