December 13, 1901.] 



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be organized in tlie Philippines. Professor 

 Lamson-Scribner will sail for the Philippines 

 with his family on February 1. 



Mr. Edwin Eeynolds, of Milwaukee, has 

 been elected president of the American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers. 



Dr. Joseph Larmor, lecturer in mathematics 

 in Cambridge University, has been nominated 

 by the council as junior secretary of the Royal 

 Society. 



Professor William B. Scott, Blair pro- 

 fessor of geology at Princeton University, has 

 returned from his visit to the Argentine Re- 

 public, where he spent six months in investiga- 

 tions preparatory to his work in publishing the 

 reports of the Princeton Patagonian expedi- 

 tions. 



Professor E. W. Morley, professor of 

 chemistry in Adelbert College, has returned 

 from Paris, where he went to be present at the 

 International Conference of Weights and Meas- 

 ures during October. 



Dr. Maxwell Sommerville, professor of 

 glyptology in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 has returned from an expedition to the Orient. 

 He has brought with him valuable collections, 

 which will soon be added to the great collection 

 which he presented to the museum several years 

 ago. 



D. I. BuSHNELL, Jr., has returned from St. 

 Louis, where he explored a number of small 

 mounds in that part of Forest Park that is to 

 be occupied by the Fair in 1903. A knowledge 

 of them is thus secured before their total de- 

 struction. 



An oil portrait of Dr. Edward G. Janeway 

 was unveiled at the anniversary meeting of the 

 New York Academy of Medicine on November 

 26. An address was given by Dr. R. H. Fitz, 

 of Harvard University, whose subject was 

 ' Some Surgical Tendencies from a Medical 

 Point of View.' 



Dr. Herman Strecker, a sculptor and en- 

 tomologist, died at his home at Reading, Pa., 

 on November 30, aged sixty-five years. Dr. 

 Strecker was the author of a work on ' Native 

 and Exotic Butterflies and Moths,' and owned 

 a collection, said to contain 375,000 specimens. 



The little son of Professor T. D. A. Cockerell 

 died at East Las Vegas from diphtheria on 

 November 25. Though only eight years old, 

 he had made a number of little discoveries of 

 his own. Thus he discovered the larva of 

 Picris occidentalism and raised the butterfly. He 

 also found the first psocid recorded from New 

 Mexico, and collected at least three new in- 

 sects : a new bee of the genus Epeolus, described 

 by Professor Cockerell ; a new meloid beetle, 

 now in the National Museum, not yet described ; 

 and a new grasshopper of the genus Melanoplus, 

 described by Mr. Scudder, and about to be 

 published. 



Sir William MacCormac, the eminent 

 British surgeon, died on November 4, at the 

 age of sixty-five years= 



M. GuiLLAUME TiBERGHiEN, for fifty years 

 professor of philosophy in Brussels University, 

 died on November 28, aged eighty-two years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Federico 

 Horstman y Cantos, for forty years professor of 

 anatomy in, and for a long time dean of the 

 Medical Faculty of, the University of Havana. 



An examination will be held on January 21, 

 to fill the position of assistant in the Division 

 of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, at a salary of $1,200 a year. The chief 

 subject is the economic entomology of the 

 orchard. 



The executive committee of the trustees of 

 the Washington Memorial Institute met at 

 Washington on December 7. 



At a meeting of the council of the Royal 

 Society on November 7, the following resolu- 

 tion was passed : "That in the opinion of this 

 council it is desirable that the secretaries should 

 not be so re-elected as to hold office for a period 

 exceeding ten consecutive years, this resolution 

 not to apply to the present holders of office." 

 A memorial supporting this resolution was 

 signed by 130 fellows, a counter-memorial hav- 

 ing the support of less than thirty. 



The twenty-fifth general meeting of the 

 American Chemical Society will be held at 

 Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., December 30 and 31, 1901. 

 The opening session will be called to order at 

 10 a. m., Monday, December 30. The visiting 



