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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



would be distinct from the interna- 

 tional affiliation for the sake of holding 

 popular congresses. The delegates 

 seemed not wholly of one mind in re- 

 gard to this. The American members 

 of the international committee as at 

 present provisionally organized are 

 Messrs. van AVagenen, Woods, Pearl 

 and Kellogg. 



It will not be possible to present 

 here ever so slight a report of the 

 papers read at the congress, and of the 

 no less important and animated dis- 

 cussions which most of these papers 

 aroused. It must suffice to say that 

 these papers ranged over a wide field of 

 biologic, medical and sociologic study, 

 with the subject of heredity ever being 

 the special one chiefly in evidence. 

 The papers and discussions ran also 

 a long gamut between the extremely 

 speculative and the extremely practical. 

 But there was in most of them a grati- 

 fying tendency to hug closely the shore 

 of real scientific ground. To different 

 nations the term eugenics seems to have 

 different nuances of meaning, but there 

 is in them all a sufficient commonness 

 to make desirable international con- 

 sideration of eugenics problems. 



The inauguration of this new series 

 of international congresses is another 

 witness of the growth of that best type 

 of internationalism that leads scientific 

 men to step unhesitatingly across 

 political imaginary lines whenever they 

 feel that they can work more effectively 

 together than apart. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We regret to record the death of 

 M. Jules Henri Poincare, the great 

 mathematician and man of science; of 

 M. Floris Osmond, eminent for his 

 contributions to the metallurgy of steel, 



and of Mr. Andrew Lang, Known for 

 his contributions to anthropology as 

 well as for his literary and critical 

 work. 



The presidents of the Royal Society 

 and the Royal College of Surgeons 

 have formed a large and representative 

 committee for the purpose of estab- 

 lishing a memorial to the late Lord 

 Lister. — A committee representing the 

 engineering societies of the British 

 Empire and the United States has been 

 formed to carry into effect a proposal 

 for the erection in Westminister Abbey 

 of a memorial window to the late Lord 

 Kelvin. 



Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks, of 

 Cornell University, has been appointed 

 financial adviser to the Chinese repub- 

 lic — Professor Charles Lincoln Edwards 

 has been appointed naturalist of the 

 Park Department of the City of Los 

 Angeles, with the commission to plan 

 a Zoological Park and Aquarium. 



The following lectures will be de- 

 livered at the International Congress of 

 Applied Chemistry to be held in New 

 York in September: ''The Role of the 

 Infinitely Small in Biological Chem- 

 istry," by M. G. Bertrand, of Paris; 

 ' ' Oxidation of Atmospheric Nitrogen 

 in Norway," by Dr. S. Eyde, of Chris- 

 tiania ; ' ' The Most Recent Problems of 

 Chemical Industry," by Dr. C. Duis- 

 berg, of Elberfeld; "Permanent Fire- 

 proofing of Cotton Goods," by Pro- 

 fessor W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., of Man- 

 chester; "Synthetic Ammonia," by 

 Dr. H. A. Bernthsen, of Ludwigshafen; 

 "The Photochemistry of the Future," 

 by Mr. G. Ciamician, of Bologna, and 

 ' ' Priestley in America, ' ' by President 

 Ira Remsen, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



