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SCIENCE. 



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Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens, of San Jose, 

 California, associate in experimental mor- 

 phology at Bryn Mawr College, lias been 

 awarded the prize of $1,000 offered every two 

 years by the Association for Maintaining the 

 American Woman's Table at the Zoological 

 Station at Naples and for Promoting Scien- 

 tific Research by Women. This is the second 

 award of the prize which is offered for the best 

 thesis written by a woman on a scientific sub- 

 ject. Miss Stevens graduated from Stanford 

 University in 1899, and received the degree 

 of doctor of philosophy from Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege in 1903. During the past year she has 

 held a Carnegie assistantship in addition to 

 her position at Bryn Mawr. The thesis which 

 won the prize is on ' The Germ Cells of the 

 Aphis rosea and the Aphis cenotherce.' 



The Smithsonian Institution has made a 

 grant of $250 from the Hodgkins Fund to 

 Professor W. P. Bradley, of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, for an experimental study of the flow 

 of air at high pressure through a nozzle. The 

 subject of this investigation is of fundamental 

 importance in coimection with the usual 

 method of liquefying air. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, instructor in zoology 

 at the University of Michigan, has been 

 g'ranted leave of absence for a year. He will 

 spend the year abroad, continuing his work 

 on variation from the biometrical standpoint, 

 having received a gi'ant for this purpose from 

 the Carnegie Institution. 



Sir William Huggins, president of the 

 Eoyal Society, made one of the speeches at 

 the anniversary banquet of the Eoyal Acad- 

 emy of Arts, held on April 29. 



Professor John Adams, head of the depart- 

 ment of education of the University of Lon- 

 don, is to deliver a course of lectures in the 

 School of Education of the University of 

 Chicago during the summer quarter. 



Professor John Dewey, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, lectured at Harvard University on 

 May 5, his subject being ' Knowledge and 

 Action.' 



The following provisional program of public 

 evening lectures at the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., has been ar- 



ranged; other lectures will be announced 

 later : 



Jime 30, ]\Iiss Adele M. Fielde, ' The Power of 

 Kecognition among Ants.' 



July 5, Dr. A. J. Carlson, 'The Physiology of 

 the Heart." 



July 7, Professor A. P. Mathews, ' The Chemical 

 Basis of Life.' 



July 12, Professor H. S. Jennings, 'The Be- 

 haA'ior of Lower Organisms.' 



July 14, Dr. R. M. Yerkes, 'The Behavior of 

 Higher Organisms.' 



July 19, Professor A. D. Mead, ' Some Observa- 

 tions on the Natural History of Marine Animals.' 



July 21, Miss Katherine Foot and Miss E. C. 

 Strobell, ' Maturation and Fertilization of the 

 Egg of AUolobophora foctida.' 



July 2G, Professor W. B. Scott, ' Miocene Un- 

 gulates of South America.' 



A marble memorial of the late Professor 

 Giulio Bizzozzero is to be placed in the Insti- 

 tute of General Pathology at Turin. 



Dr. Joseph Everett Dutton died in the 

 Congo on February 27 at the age of twenty- 

 nine years. He was sent to Africa by the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to in- 

 vestigate trypanosomiasis and tick fever. 



We regret also to learn of the death of 

 Professor Otto Struve, director of the Poul- 

 kowa Observatory from 1862 to 1890, which 

 took place on April 14, at the age of eighty- 

 five years. 



Plans have been filed for a fifteen-story 

 building to cost $975,000, which Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie is to present to the Associated So- 

 cieties of Engineers of New York. It is to 

 be erected on the large plot from 25 to 33 

 West Thirty-ninth Street, and immediately 

 adjoining it in the rear, facing at 32 and 34 

 West Fortieth Street, will be a thirteen-story 

 club-house, which is to cost an additional 

 $375,000, also part of Mr. Carnegie's gift. 



M. Emmanuel Drake del Castillo has be- 

 queathed to the Paris Natural History Mu- 

 seum a herbarium, a botanical library and the 

 sum of $5,000. 



The London Times says that an offer has 

 been made by certain of the companies en- 

 gaged in the production of phonographic 

 records to deposit in the British Museum 



