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dium vapor. To Professor N. A. Kent, of 

 Wabash College, $100, additional, in aid of a 

 research on the circuit conditions influencing 

 electric spark lines. To Professor A. L. Clark, 

 of Bates College, $150, additional, in aid of a 

 research in the molecular properties of vapors 

 in the neighborhood of the critical point. 



De. J. Steindachner, director of the Nat- 

 ural History Museum at Vienna, celebrated 

 on November 11 his seventieth birthday. 



A CHAPTER of the Scientific Society of the 

 Sigma Xi has recently been organized at the 

 University of Indiana with Dr. W. L. Bryan 

 as president. 



Mr. David Hale Newland has recently been 

 appointed assistant state geologist of New 

 York, as the result of civil service examina- 

 tions. Mr. Newland, who will have special 

 charge of inorganic and economic geology, 

 graduated from Hamilton College about ten 

 years ago, subsequently studied two years in 

 Germany, was fellow in geology at Columbia 

 University, assistant on the New York State 

 Geological Survey, and for several years past 

 has been on the editorial staff of the Engi- 

 neering and Mining Journal. 



Dr. Henry Montgomery, for ten years past 

 professor of geology and biology and curator 

 of the museum at Trinity University, has 

 been appointed curator of the museum at the 

 University of Toronto. 



After the conclusion of his course of lec- 

 tures at the Lowell Institute, Boston, on ' Se- 

 lected Chapters in Physiography,' Professor 

 Albrecht Penck gave three lectures before the 

 . Harvard Geological Conference on the ' Alps 

 in the Great Ice Age,' the first considering 

 Climatic Variations of the Ice Age (Novem- 

 ber 28) ; the second. Glacial Sculpture of the 

 Alps (November 29), and the third, Man and 

 the Ice Age (November 30). These lectures 

 presented the chief results contained in the 

 monograph ' Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter,' the 

 joint work of Professors Penck and Briickner, 

 now nearing completion. Professor Penck 

 also gave an illustrated lecture before the Sec- 

 tion of Geology and Mineralogy of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, on December 2, 

 on 'The Surface Features of the Alps.' 



Dr. Pranz Boas, of Columbia University 

 and the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, lectured at Harvard University on De- 

 ceniber 2, under the auspices of the Anthro- 

 pological Society on ' Characteristics of Primi- 

 tive Culture.' 



At University College, London, Professor 

 W. P. E. Weldon is giving a course of eight 

 lectures on ' Current Theories of the Heredi- 

 tary Process ' and Mr. G. U. Yule is giving a 

 course of six Newmarch lectures on ' The 

 Vital Statistics of England.' 



On November 13 the monument erected to 

 the memory of Professor Oilier, the distin- 

 guished Preneh surgeon, by international sub- 

 scription, was unveiled at Lyons in the pres- 

 ence of M. Chaumie, minister of public 

 instruction. 



The Danish Parliament has voted a pension 

 of about $1,000 a year to the widow of the 

 late Professor Finsen. 



The portraits of Professor Osborne Key- 

 nolds and Professor A. S. Wilkins, -by the 

 Hon. John Collier, were formally presented 

 to the Victoria University of Manchester on 

 November 18. 



The death is announced of Dr. W. L. Cole- 

 man, of . Houston, Texas, knowij for his work 

 on yellow fever. 



The cornerstone of the central building of 

 the Eockefeller Institute for Medical Eesearch 

 was laid on December 3 by Dr. Simon Flexner, 

 director of the institute. The building, which 

 is at Sixty-fifth Street and Avenue A, will 

 have a frontage of one hundred feet, will be 

 five stories in height and will cost $345,000. 



At the monthly meeting of the Zoological 

 Society of London it was announced that the 

 total number of visitors to the society's gar- 

 dens during the months of August, September 

 and October had been 256,630, showing an in- 

 crease of 7,236 as compared with the corre- 

 sponding period in 1903. 



The New York Evening Post states that 

 preparations are being advanced for the expe- 

 ditions to be sent by the University of Cali- 

 fornia, through the aid of Mr. William H. 

 Crocker, to observe the next total eclipse of 



