JrLv 7, 1910] 



NATURE 



15 



TiiK Journal of the American Medical Association 

 ^l;^tes that a bronze relief portrait of Prof. W. Osier, 

 F-R-S., has been placed in Osier Hall of the Medical and 

 Chirurgical Faculty, Baltimore. It is an enlargement of 

 the small one now in the Johns Hopkins Medical Library. 



Mr. C. O. Waterfiouse, I.S.O., who for the period of 

 forty-four years was in the service of the trustees of 

 ilic British Museum, has just retired from the position of 

 assistant-keeper in charge of the insect section of the Zoo- 

 lugiral Department of the Natural History Museum. To 

 mark the occasion of his retirement, he was last week 

 presented by many colleagues and friends with an 

 illuminated address, a Sheraton bureau-bookcase, a gold 

 watch, and an aneroid barometer. 



Prof. Angelo Mosso asks uS to announce that the 

 Monte Rosa laboratories, which are equipped with all 

 JKcessary scientific instruments, will re-open on July 15, 

 and that the Royal Society has at its disposal nominations 

 for two workers in botany, bacteriology, zoology, physio- 

 logy, terrestrial physics or meteorology. 



The banquet to the five past-presidents of the Chemical 

 Society CProf. W. Odling, F.R.S., Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 

 F.R.S., Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., Dr. Hugo Miiller, 

 F.R.S., and Dr. A. G. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S.) who 

 have attained their jubilee as fellows of the society is to 

 take place at the Savoy Hotel on Friday, November 11 

 next. .Applications for tickets must be made to the 

 assistant secretary of the society by, at latest, November 4. 

 It will be remembered that the banquet was postponed 

 from May 26 in consequence of the death of the King. 



\ Reuter message from Catania states that a strong 

 shock of earthquake was felt on Sunday morning in 

 Sicily, at Giarre, Linguaglossa, and Zafferana. A slight 

 shock was experienced at Mimeo. 



The twenty-first annual conference of the Museums 

 .Association was opened on Tuesday at York, when the 

 president. Dr. Tempest .Anderson, delivered an address on 

 " Volcanoes and their Museum Treatment," and papers 

 were read by Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S. , Dr. Scharff, Dr. 

 E. I,. Gill, and Mr. L. E. Hope on, respectively, 

 '■ Palaeontology Exhibits at the Japan-British Exhibi- 

 tion," ■' Cleaning Bones by a Dry Sand Process," " A 

 Method of Exhibiting Corals," " A Simple Way of Exhibit- 

 ing the Reverse of Coins and Medals," and " The Natural 

 History Records Bureau at the Carlisle Museum." 



.A.v exhibition of Hygiene was opened at Buenos .Aires 

 on July 3. The British section is reported to be small. 

 It is divided into twenty-nine sub-sections, and contains 

 specimens of surgical instruments, orthopaedic appliances, 

 and drugs. The French section is incomplete. Italy 

 exhibits numerous health foods. Chile furnishes exhaustive 

 bacteriological laboratories, mainly for veterinary research. 

 The Argentine Asistencia Publica displays first-aid and life- 

 saving appliances, preventives, &c. The promised agri- 

 cultural and railway exhibitions are expected to be opened 

 this week. 



The fifth meeting of the International Congress of 

 Mathematicians will take place at Cambridge in 1912. 

 In connection with one of the sections of the con- 

 gress, an International Commission on Mathematical 

 Teaching has been constituted, which includes dele- 

 gates appointed by tilt various Governments interested in 

 the congress, and a series of national sub-commissions 

 has been established to assist the International Commission. 

 The President of the Board of Education has appointed 

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Sir George Greenhill, F.R.S., Prof. W. W. Hobson, 

 F.R.S., and Mr. C. Godfrey to be the British delegates, 

 and he has further appointed an advisory committee to 

 assist the commission in the collection of reports and 

 papers on the teaching of mathematics, and this com 

 mittee, which is to act also as the British sub-commission, 

 has been constituted as follows : — Mr. C. E. Ashford, 

 Sir G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., Mr. C. Godfrey, Sir George 

 Greenhill, F.R.S., Mr. G. H. Hardy, F.R.S., Prof. W. W. 

 Hobson, F.R.S., Mr. C. S. Jackson, Sir Joseph Larmor, 

 F.R.S., Prof. A. E. H. Love, F.R.S., and Prof. G. A. 

 Gibson. Mr. C. S. Jackson is honorary secretary to the 

 sub-commission. 



The programme of the joint summer meeting of the 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the American 

 Society of Mechanical Engineers is now available. As 

 has already been announced, the meeting will take place 

 in Birmingham and London on July 26 to 30. The 

 following papers are to be read and discussed : — In 

 Birmingham : English running-shed practice, by Mr. C. W. 

 Paget ; engine-house practice, or the handling of loco- 

 motives at terminals to secure continuous operation, by 

 Mr. F. H. Clark ; handling locomotives at terminals, by 

 Mr. F. M. Whyte ; handling locomotives, by Mr. H. H. 

 Vaughan ; American locomotive terminals, by Mr. W. 

 Forsyth ; high-speed tools, and machines to fit them, by 

 Mr. H. I. Brackenbury ; tooth-gearing, by Mr. J. D. 

 Steven ; interchangeable involute gearing, a joint paper by 

 Members of the Committee of the A.S.M.E. on standards 

 for involute gears. In London : electrification of 

 suburban railways, by Mr. F. W. Carter; cost of elec- 

 trically-propelled suburban trains, by Mr. H, M. Hobart ; 

 economics of railway electrification, by Mr. W. B. Potter ; 

 electrification of trunk lines, by Mr. L. R. Pomeroy ; 

 electrication of railways, by Mr. G. Westinghouse. 



In connection with the summer meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of Technical Institutions, the Mayor and Mayoress of 

 Salford are to give a garden-party in Peel Park, Salford, 

 and hold a reception in the Royal Museum and Art 

 Galleries on Thursday, July 14. 



The sixty-ninth annual meeting of the Medico-psycho- 

 logical Association of Great Britain and Ireland will be 

 held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 

 July 21 and 22, under the presidency of Dr. John Mac- 

 pherson. Dr. C. H. Bond, 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish 

 Square, W., is the honorary general secretary. 



An International Congress of Forensic Medicine will be 

 held at Brussels on August 4 to 10. The programme 

 will include psychological medicine, bacteriology, toxi- 

 cology, and legislation in relation to legal medicine. 

 Governments, academies of medicine, universities, and 

 associations of chemists and toxicologists have been invited 

 to send delegates. There will be an exhibition of apparatus 

 and medical instruments in connection with the congress. 

 The general secretary is Dr. C. Moreau, rue de la 

 Gendarmerie, 6, Charleroi. 



According to the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 

 the second International Congress on Industrial Diseases 

 is to be held in Brussels on September lo to 14 next. 

 Among the questions to be discussed are : — Can industrial 

 diseases be distinguished from accidents? What should 

 be their distinctive characteristics ? What medical equip- 

 ment is provided in mines, factories, workshops, &c. ? 

 the present state of the problem of ankylostomiasis ; the 

 eye and eyesight in connection with industrial diseases ; 

 work in compressed air. 



