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tember 24. A committee has been 

 formed to collect a fund for the erection 

 of a monument. — Professor Max Bar- 

 tels, of Berlin, known for his publica- 

 tions on ethnology, died on October 22, 

 at the age of sixty-two years. — Major 

 Henry F. Alvord, chief of the dairy 

 division of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, died at St. Louis 

 on October 1, as the result of a stroke 

 of paralysis. 



Professor Simon Newcomb has 

 been elected a corresponding member 

 of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. — 

 The medal of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry, awarded every second year for 

 services to applied chemistry, has been 

 presented to Dr. Ira Remsen, president 

 of the Johns Hopkins University.— It 

 is reported that the Nobel prize for 

 medicine will this year be awarded to 

 Dr. Robert Koch. He has been pre- 

 sented with a portrait bust and a 

 Festschrift on the occasion of his 

 sixtieth birthday. — Columbia Univer- 

 sity has conferred the degree of D.Sc. 

 on Sir William Ramsay, the retiring 

 president, and on Mr. W. H. Nichols, 

 the president-elect, of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry. — A memorial tablet 

 to Dr. Jesse Lazear, who died in Cuba 

 in 1900 while investigating the causes 

 of yellow fever, has been unveiled at 

 the new surgical building of the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital. — King Edward has 

 directed that a new medal be struck 

 for service in polar regions. The 



officers and crew of the Antarctic ex- 

 ploration ship Discovery will be the 

 first recipients of the medal. 



The St. Petersburg Institute of Ex- 

 perimental Medicine has sent an ex- 

 pedition to the shores of the Black Sea 

 to inquire into the prevalence of ma- 

 laria, especially in the neighborhood of 

 Gagory.— The Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine proposes to despatch 

 a second yellow fever expedition to 

 the Amazon in view of the necessity 

 of investigating still further this 

 malady. The late Dr. Walter Myers 

 was selected by the school, together 

 with Dr. Herbert Durham, to under- 

 take an expedition to Para to investi- 

 gate the disease, only a few years ago. 

 Both members of the expedition were 

 attacked by the malady and Dr. Myers 

 died. The expedition will probably 

 start at the end of the year.— Professor 

 Robert Koch has recently returned 

 from Detmond, where he was engaged 

 in investigating an outbreak of typhoid 

 fever for the German government, and 

 has since been at Paris, where he was 

 entertained by the Pasteur Institute. 

 In the course of the winter he will 

 proceed to German East Africa in 

 order to continue those studies of trop- 

 ical and other diseases which he had 

 not completed during his recent visit 

 to Rhodesia. In particular he will 

 continue to investigate the part played 

 by ticks in conveying the infection of 

 various cattle diseases. 



