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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



ing and Mining Journal'; Frederick J. 

 Brockway, assistant demonstrator of 

 anatomy at the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons of Columbia University; 

 F. M. Raoult, the eminent chemist, pro- 

 fessor at Grenoble ; Paul Chaix, profess- 

 or of geography at Geneva; Josef von 

 Fedor, professor of hygiene at Buda 

 Pesth, and Adolph Hirsch, professor of 

 astronomy at Neuchatel. Two men of 

 science lost their lives in the direct pur- 

 suit of knowledge: Dr. P. Kohlstock 

 died at Tien-Tsin, while making re- 

 searches on tropical diseases, and Dr. 

 Menke was murdered by natives while 

 on an exploring expedition to Macquari 

 Island. 



The erection of a memorial to Hux- 

 ley in Ealing, near London, where he 

 was born and received his early educa- 

 tion, is contemplated. A bronze medal- 

 lion portrait has been advocated for the 

 central feature of the design, which may 

 take the form of a simple mural tablet 

 or of a more worthy monument as funds 

 are obtainable. Subscriptions are not 

 confined to the neighborhood or land of 

 Huxley's birth, and those who may be 

 desirous of assisting should communi- 

 cate with the secretary to the fund, 

 Mr. B. B. Woodward, 120 The Grove, 

 Ealing, London, W. 



A MEETING was held at Cambridge 

 University on April 27 to arrange for 

 some acknowledgment of the services to 

 science and the University of Prof. G. 

 D. Liveing. Professor Liveing is now 

 seventy-three years of age. Ii> 1852 he 

 organized the chemical laboratory at 

 Cambridge, which was the first scientific 

 laboratory in the University. — Mr. Her- 

 bert Spencer celebrated his eighty-first 

 birthday on April 27. Mr. Spencer lives 

 quietly at Brighton. His health is fair, 

 but he is unable to undertake much 

 literary work. — A silver loving cup was 

 presented by a number of teacliers to 

 Mr. Thomas Meehan, the veteran horti- 

 culturist and botanist, of Philadelpliia, 

 on the occasion of liis seventy-fifth 

 birthday. 



Dr. Edmund Arthur Engle, pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at Washington 

 University, St. Louis, and dean of the 

 College of Engineering, has been elected 

 president of the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute. — Mr. J. H. H. Teall has suc- 

 ceeded Sir Archibald Geikie as director- 

 general of the British Geological Survey. 



Several important scientific posi- 

 tions under the government will be 

 filled by civil service examination on 

 June 3. These include the positions of 

 plant physiologist and plant pathologist 

 in the Department of Agriculture, with 

 salaries of $1,800 per annum, and the 

 position of ethnologist in the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, with a salary of 

 $1,500. Further particulars can be ob- 

 tained by addressing the Civil Service 

 Commission at Washington, D. C. 



At the last meeting of the Eumford 

 Committee of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences a grant of $300 was 

 awarded to Prof. Arthur A. Noyes 

 in aid of a research on the eff'ect of high 

 temperatures upon the relative conduc- 

 tivity of aqueous salt solutions. — Dr. 

 Edmund B. Wilson, professor of zoology 

 at Columbia University, and Dr. J. 

 Playfair McMurrieh, professor of anat- 

 omy at the University of Michigan, are 

 among the Americans who will attend 

 the International Zoological Congress to 

 be held in Berlin from the 12th to the 

 19th of August. 



The arrangements for the celebra- 

 tion of the bicentennial of the Yale 

 University in October next have now 

 been made pviblic. The addresses in- 

 clude one by President Gilman, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, on 'Yale in 

 its Relation to Science and Letters,' and 

 one by Prof. W. H. Welch, of the same 

 University, on 'Yale in its Relation to 

 Medicine.' 



The United States Department of 

 Agiiculture lias established an agricul- 

 tural experiment station in Porto Rico, 

 which will be under the direction of 

 Mr. Frank D. Gardner, now of the Di- 

 vision of Soils. 



