April 19, 1906] 



NA TURE 



NOTES. 

 We regret to announce that Prof. W. K. R. Weldon, 

 F.R..V, Linacre professor of comparative anatomy, Oxford, 

 died suddenly on Friday last, April 13, at the earlj age 

 of forty-five. 



The Uniyersit) of Berlin has announced the award of a 

 prize of 50J. for the best physical or mathematical research 

 presented to the philosophical faculty for the doctor's 

 degree in 1906. 



The eighty-ninth annual meeting of the Swiss Scientific 

 Society will be held this year at St. Gall from July 29 

 to August 1 under the presidency of Dr. Ambiihl. The 

 programme will include an excursion to Mt. Sentis. 



On behalf of the family of the late Prof. Manuelli, of 

 Modena, Herr T. Waitzfelder has presented the Munich 

 .Museum with an interesting collection, in which are some 

 original pieces of apparatus used by Galvani and other 

 Italian investigators, together with some pieces of 

 alchemistic apparatus. 



The Schleswig-Holstein Board of Agriculture has 

 elected Dr. Hans Wehnert to succeed Prof. Adolf Emmer- 

 ling as director of the agricultural chemistry laboratory at 

 Kiel. Dr. Wehnert studied at Brunswick Technical High 

 School and Rostock University, and has had a wide ex- 

 perience as a manufacturer's chemist. 



Mr. Edgar R. Waite has resigned his position as 

 zoologist, Australian Museum, Sydney, consequent upon 

 his appointment to the curatorship of the Canterbury 

 Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. Before he left 

 England for Sydney in 1X02 Mr. Waite was an active 

 secretary of the York-hire Naturalists' I'nion, and also 

 editor of the Naturalist. 



A correspondent of the Daily Mail, at Entebbe 

 (Uganda), reports on April 10 that Lieut. Forbes Tulloch, 

 who accompanied the Royal Society's commission sent 

 there to investigate sleeping sickness, has accidentally con- 

 tracted the disease, and has left for England in charge 

 of Lieut. Grav. The message -late- that the commission's 

 laboratorv has been closed, and all the inoculated monkeys 

 shot to avert further accidents. 



A message from a correspondent of the Times in Athens 

 states that a telegram from Sparta announces the discovery 

 of the famous sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, before whose 

 altar the Spartan youths were scourged when initiated into 

 the privileges of manhood. The site is on the bank of the 

 Eurotas. Votive offerings of ivory and terra-cotta and 

 quantities of small leaden figures have also been found, as 

 well as pottery, which confirms the belief that this was 

 one of the most ancient Spartan shrines. 



The council of the Institution of Naval Architects has 

 nominated Mr. Sidney W. Barnaby to represent that insti- 

 tution on the sectional committee on screw threads and 

 limit gauges of the Engineering Standards Committee in 

 the place of Mr. McFarlane Gray, resigned. The Secre- 

 tary of State for India has nominated Mr. A. Brereton to 

 represent the India Office on the sectional committee on 

 locomotives in the place of Sir Frederick R. Upcott. 



On Thursday next, April 26, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell 

 will deliver the first of two lectures at the Royal Institu- 

 tion on "The Digestive Tract in Birds and Mammals." 

 The Friday evening discourses will be resumed on April 27, 

 when Prof. J. W. Gregory wdll deliver a discourse on " Ore 

 Deposits and their Distribution in Depth." The discourse 

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.,n May 4 will be given b) the Hon. C. A. Parsons, on 

 " The Steam Turbine on Land and at Sea," and on May n 

 by Prof. J. H. Poynting, on "Some ..stronomical Con- 

 sequences of the Pressure of Light." 



Hermann Schnaus, 01 1 the most thorough and 



earnest German writers on photography, died on March 14 

 from paralysis. Beginning life as a bookseller's assistant, 

 first in Jena and afterwards in Bonn, Frankfurt, and 

 Zurich, Schnaus in 1881 entered the photographic pub- 

 lishing firm of Liesegang, at Dusseldorf. After editing 

 Photo gfa f his che Archivs. the first German periodical de- 

 voted to photography, Schnaus founded first Dei Amateur- 

 photograph (now Photographische Welt) and afterwards 

 Appollo, and in 1905 took over the editorship of the Photo- 

 graphische Industrie, to the pages of which he had 

 assiduously contributed from its inception. 



From the Chemiker Zeitung we learn that the Syndicate 

 of French Sugar Manufacturers, 42 rue du Louvre, Paris, 

 is offering for competition a prize of 100,000 francs For a 

 new application of sugar in the industries, other than the 

 food industry. A condition of the award is that the sug- 

 gestion shall have been tried in France, and, according to 

 official statistics, have caused an increase in the consump- 

 tion of sugar in France of at least 100,000 tons in the 

 year. The support of the syndicate is promised in the 

 event of a diminution or the complete abolition of the 

 present sugar tax being riecessarj for the successful de- 

 velopment of the proposed application. Foreigners are not 

 prevented from taking part in the competition. 



On March 17, at Baden-Baden, Prof. Adolf Emmerling, 

 director of the agricultural chemistry laboratory of the 

 Board of Agriculture of the province of Schlc-swig-Holstein, 

 died in his sixty-fourth year. After graduating at Frei- 

 burg in 1865, Prof. Emmerling was for nearly four years 

 an assistant in the chemical laboratorv of Freiburg Uni- 

 versity, and for a further two years under Bunsen at 

 Heidelberg ; from thence he went to Kiel to direct the 

 work of wdiat was then the agricultural chemistry labor- 

 atorv of the agricultural Gewerbeverein, which position he 

 held until his death. His numerous scientific researches 

 were published mainly in the Berichte of the German 

 Chemical Society and the " Landwirtschaftlichen-Versuchs- 

 stationen " ; these included a number of new experimental 

 methods and descriptions of new apparatus. Prof. 

 Emmerling, who was a Knight of the Order of the Red 

 Eagle, received the title of professor in 1882, and that of 

 Geheimer Regierungsrat in 1900. 



Sir Thomas Browne, the author of " Religio Medici," 

 who lived at Norwich in the middle of the seventeenth 

 century, was buried in the church of St. Peter Mancroft 

 during the early part of the last century. It is believed 

 that his skull was abstracted from the grave and is now 

 preserved at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. We 

 learn from the Times that recently there has been a con- 

 siderable expression of opinion in Norwich that the skull 

 ought to be returned to the tomb whence it was taken. 

 The hospital governors on Saturday unanimously passed 

 a resolution agreeing to this course, on condition that the 

 tomb shall be opened in the presence of representatives of 

 the hospital with the view of satisfying them that the re- 

 mains therein are without a skull. 



An earthquake as severe as that of March 17 occurred 

 in South Formosa in the morning of April 14. Kagi wa- 

 again the town which suffered the most damage. By the 

 disturbance on March 17 1228 persons were killed and 



