December 20, 1901c] 



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Professor Alfred C, Haddon, of Cam- 

 bridge University, lectured before the New 

 York Academy of Sciences and the American 

 Ethnological Society on December 11, his sub- 

 ject being ' The Ethnography of British New 

 Guinea.' Professor Haddon sailed for England 

 on December 14. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, has nominated Professor E. G. Conklin, 

 of the Biological Department of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, for vice-president ; and Dr. J. 

 P. Moore, of the same department, for corre- 

 sponding secretary. 



Sir William Eoberts- Austen, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., will deliver the tenth 'James Forrest ' 

 lecture at the Institution of Civil Engineers 

 on April 17, 1902, the subject being 'Metal- 

 lurgy in Relation to Engineering.' 



Dr. N. Sieber-Schumow, a woman, has 

 been temporarily appointed to fill the place of 

 the late Professor Nencki as head of the De- 

 partment of Biological Chemistry in the Imper- 

 ial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St. 

 Petersburg. 



The Board of Overseers of Harvard College 

 has voted that ' a joint committee of the cor- 

 poration and this board be appointed to confer 

 with Mr. Alexander Agassiz and request him to 

 sit for a portrait to be placed in the museum as 

 a gift from friends of his and of the university, 

 there to remain a memorial of the great service 

 rendered by Professor Agassiz to that depart- 

 ment.' 



An oil painting of Professor John Johnson, 

 LL.D., who was professor of natural science at 

 Wesleyan University from 1837 to 1879, has 

 been presented to the library. 



As a memorial of the late Professor Dickson, 

 there have been presented to the Glasgow Uni- 

 versity library 388 volumes of Migne's 'Pa- 

 thology,' a. work which Dr. Dickson long de- 

 sired to acquire for the library. 



A PORTRAIT of Mr. G. D. Liveing, professor 

 of chemistry at Cambridge University, was pre- 

 sented to St. John's College on December 7, as 

 a testimonial in recognition of his valuable ser- 

 vices to science, to the university and to the 

 town. The portrait, which is by Sir George 

 Eeid, is of three quarters length. Arrange- 



ments have also been made for a bronze bust of 

 Professor Liveing, by Miss Edith Bateson, which 

 will be placed in the chemical laboratory during 

 next year. 



Dr. Charles J. Essig, professor in the den- 

 tal department of the University of Pennsylva- 

 nia, has died at the age of seventy-four years. 

 In 1878 he organized the dental department of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, and was for 

 many years its dean and secretary. He was the 

 editor of ' The American Text-Book of Pros- 

 thetic Dentistry,' and the author of a well- 

 known treatise on dental metallurgy. 



Mr. William Rich Hutton, a well-known 

 civil engineer, died on December 11 at the age 

 of seventy-five. He was a member of the Am- 

 erican Society of Civil Engineers, the Institu- 

 tion of Civil Engineers of London and of the 

 Soci6te des Ingenieurs Civils de France. 



Miss H. M. Gould has given $5,000 to New 

 York University for the establishment of a mu- 

 seum of pedagogy, with the understanding that 

 this should be applied in the first place to an 

 exhibit of the work done for education by New 

 York University, and that this should form an 

 exhibit at the World's Fair at St. Louis in 1903, 

 and afterwards become the property of the 

 School of Pedagogy. 



The Association of American Universities 

 will hold its annual meeting at Chicago, during 

 the last week of February next. 



An election for officers of the Botanical Sec- 

 tion of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadephia, December 9, 1901, resulted in the 

 choice of the following persons: Director, Benj. 

 H. Smith ; Vice- Director, Joseph Crawford ; 

 Corresponding Secretary, John T. Pennypacker ; 

 Recorder, John W. Harshberger ; Treasurer and 

 Curator, Stewardson Brown; Directors, Benj. 

 H. Smith, Joseph Crawford, Stewardson Brown, 

 Ida A. Keller, John T. Pennypacker. 



Mr. Frederic A. Lucas, curator of the 

 Division of Comparative Anatomy at the U. S. 

 National Museum, lectured before the Woman's 

 College of Baltimore, December 8, on ' Dino- 

 sauria.' Sir Robert Ball, of the University of 

 Cambridge, Eng., lectured on December 6, his 

 subject being 'Other Worlds than Ours.' 



