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the Thirty-Ninth Sheffield Lecture Course for 

 1905, as follows : 



January 20 : 'A Journey in Turkestan,' Pro- 

 fessor AVilliam M. Davis. 



January 27: 'Reconnaissance Methods of Ex- 

 ploration in a Mountainous District,' Jlr. Howard 

 W. Dul^ois, M.E. 



February 3 : ' Powerful Discharges of Elec- 

 tricity,' Professor John Trowbridge. 



February 10: ' Bahaman Bird-Life, with special 

 reference to the Nesting Habits of the Flamingo,' 

 Mr. Frank M. Chapman. 



February 17 : ' The Relation of the Engineer to 

 Society,' Colonel Henry G. Prout. 



February 24: 'The Destruction of Pompeii as 

 interpreted by the Cataclysm of Martinique,' Pro- 

 fessor Angelo Heilprin. 



March 3: 'Alchemy,' President Ira Remsen. 



]\Iarcli 10: 'Impressions of Spanisli America,' 

 Dr. Rudolph Schwill. 



March 17: 'Infectious Disease and Immunity,' 

 Dr. Sinuni Flexner. 



March 24 : ' The Physical Constitution and 

 Properties of the Earth,' Professor Robert S. 

 Woodward. 



The thirty-second annual meeting of the 

 American Public Health Association was held 

 last week in Havana under the presidency of 

 Dr. Carlos J. Finley. 



Dr. Arthur V. Meigs has been elected presi- 

 dent of the College of Physicians of Phila- 

 delphia. 



The twenty-ninth anniversary of the 

 foundation of the Johns Hopkins University 

 will be celebrated on February 22, when Dr. 

 William Osier will deliver the principal ad- 

 dress. 



In a recent issue we stated that Professor 

 Barnard, of the Yerkes Obsei'vatory, was to 

 spend the next few months in photographing 

 the sun, at Mt. Wilson, Cal. The observatory 

 is primarily for solar research, but Professor 

 Barnard's work will be the photography of 

 the milky way and the different nebulosities in 

 the heavens, for the observation of which the 

 Bruce photographic telescope is especially 

 designed. 



At the annual meeting of the board of man- 

 agers of the New York Botanical Garden, held 

 last week, a report on behalf of the scientific 



directors was presented by Professor L. M. 

 Underwood, chairman, which recommended 

 the erection of four life-size statues on the 

 piers at the front entrance of the museum 

 building, as provided in the original plans of 

 the architect. These statues are to commem- 

 orate the work of Samuel Latham Mitchell, 

 David Hosack, John Torrey and John Strong 

 Newberry as the pioneers of botanical science 

 in New York city. The recommendation was 

 approved, and the making of arrangements to 

 carry it into effect was referred to a committee 

 composed of Mr. Charles F. Cox, chairman ; 

 Judge Addison Brown and Professor Under- 

 wood. 



Professor James Weir Mason, professor of 

 mathematics at the College of the City of 

 New York from 1879 to 1903, died on January 

 10 at the age of sixty-nine years. 



The trustees of the Elizabeth Thompson 

 Science Fund announce that income for 

 grants is now available. Applications should 

 reach, before February 14, 1905, the Secre- 

 tary of the Board of Trustees, Dr. C. S. 

 Minot, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 

 Mass., U. S. A. The trustees are disin- 

 clined, for the present, to make any grant 

 to meet ordinary expenses of living or to pur- 

 chase instruments such as are found com- 

 monly in laboratories. Decided preference 

 will be given to applications for small amounts, 

 and grants exceeding $300 will be made only 

 imder very exceptional circumstances. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on February 15, 1905, 

 to fill two vacancies, at $1,000 to $1,200 per 

 annum each, in the position of hydrologic aid. 

 Geological Survey, and vacancies as they may 

 occur in any branch of the service requiring 

 similar qualifications. 



The New York Medical Record states that 

 the commission appointed by Harvard Uni- 

 versity, under the terms of the bequest of 

 $100,000 by Mrs. Caroline Brewer Croft, to 

 study cancer has prepared a report of its 

 labors during the past four years. This re- 

 port, which is now in the hands of the printer, 

 will, if the advance statements of its contents 

 are correct, contain little that is new. Its 



