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been appointed Romanes lecturer at Oxford 

 for the coming year. 



Dr. Hermann Struve, director of the ob- 

 servatory and professor of astronomy at the 

 University of Berlin, has been elected mem- 

 ber of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. H. H. Jepfcott has been appointed 

 assistant in the metrological department of 

 the British National Physical Laboratory. 



Lord Kelvin distributed the prizes to the 

 prizemen of St. George's Hospital Medical 

 School on October 28. 



A Japanese imperial medical commission 

 has been making a tour of the health de- 

 partments of the principal cities of this coun- 

 try and Europe. The commission consists of 

 Dr. Takamine, professor of chemistry in the 

 Imperial University at Tokio; Professor Tan- 

 va, of the department of pharmacy, and Dr. 

 Sato, chief surgeon at the university. 



Dr. W. a. Kellerman, head professor of 

 botany in the Ohio State University, will 

 spend January, February and March in 

 Guatemala, studying and collecting the para- 

 sitic species of fungi of the native and culti- 

 vated plants of that country. 



Captain Scott, R. N., and the officers of 

 the Discovery Antarctic expedition were pres- 

 ent at the opening of the Antarctic Exhibi- 

 tion of water colors, photographs and other 

 articles of interest used in the South Polar 

 regions during their recent expedition, which 

 took place at the Bruton Galleries on Novem- 

 ber 4. Sir Clements Markham, president of 

 the Royal Geographical Society, opened the 

 exhibition. 



Major Powell Cotton is about to start on 

 an eighteen months' African expedition to ex- 

 plore the country lying between the Nile and 

 the Zambesi. 



Sir John Murray gave this week at Har- 

 vard University two lectures on ' Problems in 

 Oceanography.' 



On November 16 Dr. J. H. Woods, gave 

 the first of three public lectures arranged by 

 the Harvard Anthropological Society, speak- 

 ing on ' Ghost Worship and Buddhism in 

 India.' The other lectures in the series will 

 be as follows : on December 2, ' The Charac- 



teristics of Primitive Culture,' Dr. Franz 

 Boas, of Columbia University; on December 

 7, ' The Maya Hieroglyphs of Central Amer- 

 ica,' Mr. C. P. Bowditch, '63. 



Dr. George T. Moore, director of the 

 Laboratory of Plant Physiology of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, addressed the 

 American Philosophical Society, at Phila- 

 delphia, on October 21, on ' A new method for 

 the purification of water supplies.' 



Dr. D. W. Johnson, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, has just completed 

 a report on the ' Relation of the underground 

 waters to the law.' It will be published in the 

 reports of the eastern section of the Division 

 of Hydrology of the United States Geological 

 Survey. 



The United States Geological Survey has 

 just completed an arrangement with Dr. T. L. 

 Watson, the recently appointed state geologist 

 of Virginia, for cooperation in the investiga- 

 tion of the artesian waters of that' state. 

 These investigations will be carried on during 

 the winter and following summer by Mr. M. 

 L. Fuller, of the United States Survey, in con- 

 junction with Dr. Watson, of the State Sur- 

 vey, and a joint report will be prepared early 

 in the fall of 1905. 



In addition to the commemoration of the 

 two hundredth anniversary of the death of 

 John Locke at the Johns Hopkins University, 

 to which we have already called attention, the 

 event was commemorated at the George Wash- 

 ington University, on November 12, under the 

 auspices of the Society for Philosophical In- 

 quiry. The program was as follows : 



■' Locke on Government ' : President Needliam, of 

 the George Washington University. 



' Locke's Influence on Modern Psychology ' : 

 The Rev. Dr. E. A. Pace, of the Catholic University 

 of America. 



Locke's Metaphysics of Causality and Space ' : 

 Dr. Wm. T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Educa- 

 tion. 



' Locke's Personality ' : Hon. Frank Warren 

 Hackett. 



' Locke as a Physician ' : Dr. William Osier, of 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Samuel W. Woodhouse, M.D., died in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., on October 23, in his 

 eighty-fourth year. He made explorations 



