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and embolism, well described in his great " Handbuch der 

 allgemeinen Pathologie des Kreislaufs und der Ernahrung," 

 published in 18S3. He devoted great attention to the study 

 of '* fibroid " tumours of the uterus and other pathological 

 conditions of the female genital system, which formed the 

 subject of another of his treatises. • He also added greatly 

 to our knowledge of general bone-diseases, such as rickets, 

 osteomalacia, and acromegaly, and especially of the patho- 

 logical changes in the form of the skull caused by rickets. 

 His observations on the nature of a curious frog-like swell- 

 ing under the tongue called " ranula," on hasmatogenous 

 pigmentation of the skin, and on the heart condition he 

 called " segmentatis myocardii," are well known ; but 

 perhaps his discovery of the association of multiple fibrous 

 tumours of the skin with the distribution of cutaneous 

 nerves is that most usually associated with his name as 

 " Recklinghausen's disease." 



Mr. C. k. Brerf.ton, whose death, at the age of fifty- 

 nine years, occurred on Monday last, was for many years 

 associated with Sir John Wolfe Barry, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 in important engineering enterprises, such as the construc- 

 tion of the Barry Docks and railways, the Middlesbrough 

 Docks, Surrey Commercial Docks, and the new bridge 

 across the Thames at Kew. He also did a good deal of 

 engineering work for the Caledonian, North-Eastern, 

 Metropolitan, Metropolitan District, Whitechapel and Bow 

 Railways, parts of the Great Northern and Piccadilly Tube, 

 and for the Government of Natal. In recent years he was 

 in business on his own account. 



The death is announced, in his fifty-ninth year, of Mr. 

 William Earl Dodge Scott, curator of the department of 

 ornithology at Princeton University. He was the author 

 of " Bird Studies," " .Story of a Bird Lover," " Birds of 

 Patagonia," and manv technical papers in scientific 

 journals. Mr. Scott had done field work for the British 

 Museum, the .American Museum of Natural History, and 

 other institutions. 



Dr. Robert ."Vmory, a well-known American writer on 

 physiology and therapeutics, has died at his summer home 

 at Nahant, Mass. He was born in 1842, graduated in 

 medicine at Harvard in 1866, and was appointed in i86q 

 lecturer at Harvard on the physiological action of drugs. 

 He was afterwards professor of physiology at the medical 

 school of Bowdoin College. 



The death is announced, at the age of seventy years, of 

 Mr. John Langton, consulting surgeon to St. Bartholo- 

 mew's Hospital, and a former Hunterian professor of 

 pathology and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons. 

 In 1900 he was Bradshaw lecturer. 



Tx connection with the fourteenth Flemish Congress of 

 Natural and Medical Science, an International Scientific 

 Exhibition will be held in Antwerp on September 17-25 

 next. The exhibits are to be classified as under : — 

 Section i., physico-chemical sciences : including new 

 apparatus and inventions, laboratory installations, lanterns, 

 microscopes, and the scientific applications of photography; 

 collections of chemical productions, geological specimens, 

 and crystals. Section ii., biological science : apparatus for 

 experimental research and demonstration, zoological and 

 botanical collections, fossils, microscopical preparations, 

 and photomicrographs. Section iii., medical science : ex- 

 perimental apparatus, pathological specimens, radiograms, 

 surgical instruments and appliances ; operation-room, 

 sanatorium, and hospital furniture ; electro-medical and 

 X-ray apparatus. Section iv., scientific books and reviews. 

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The twenty-seventh convention of the Association of 

 Oflicial Agricultural Chemists is to be held at Washington 

 on November 10-12, when communications on the 

 following subjects are to be given : — Phosphoric acid ; 

 nitrogen ; potash ; soils ; inorganic plant constituents ; 

 insecticides ; water ; food adulteration ; dairy products ; 

 foods and feeding stuffs ; sugar (chemical methods and 

 molasses methods) ; tannin ; drugs and medicinal plants. 



An International Congress of Tuberculosis is to take 

 place in Rome on September 24-30 of next year. Prof. 

 Guido Baccelli is to be the president, and Prof. v. .Ascoli, 

 of Rome, the general secretary. 



The statue (by Mr. Bruce-Joy) of Lord Kelvin which is 

 to be erected in Belfast is, according to the W'cstm'msler 

 Gazette, in an advanced stage of completion. Lord Kelvin 

 is represented as holding in his right hand the design of 

 a gyroscope, and by the side of the effigy is a model of 

 the Kelvin compass. The statue is to be cast in bronze, 

 and will stand on a pedestal 12 or 13 feet high. 



A GRANITE obelisk erected in the parish churchyard of 

 Forfar to the memory of George Don, the Scottish botanist, 

 was unveiled last week by Mr. G. Claridge Druce, who 

 gave an address on Don's achievements as a botanist. 



According to the Lamet, the remainder of her estate 

 (in addition to a million francs already bequeathed) has 

 been left to the Pasteur Institute in Paris by the widow 

 of the .Marquis de Beauregard de Maubreuil d'Orvault. 



The New York correspondent of the Times, writing on 

 September 12, states that Prof. Macmillan, who accom- 

 panied Commander Peary on his last voyage, reports from 

 Labraclor that he has made a successful exploration of the 

 region westward from Davis Inlet to George River and 

 the home of the Nasquapee Indians. Three lakes, the 

 largest of which, called Misternipi, was twent)-five miles 

 wide, were discovered. 



The ,\merican Philosophical Society gives notice that in 

 December next it will award its Magellanic gold medal 

 " to the author of the best discovery, or most useful inven- 

 tion, relating to navigation, astronomy, or natural philo- 

 sophy (mere natural history only excepted)." Candidates 

 for the award, who may be of any nationality, must send 

 their claims (in English, French, German, or Latin) to 

 reach the society in Philadelphia by November i, but the 

 award will not be made for any communication already 

 published or for which a prize has been given elsewhere. 

 Each MS. must bear a motto, device, or other signature, 

 the author sending the society a sealed letter giving his 

 real name and address in addition to the motto, &c., upon 

 his essay. 



\ Reuter message from Paris states that a private con- 

 ference of the official delegates of the various Governments 

 at the Pure Food Congress has arranged to make certain 

 methods of analj'sis international, with the consequence 

 that when any food is in future submitted to an analytical 

 test it will have to conform to that international standard. 



In the June issue of the /'/n/i/i/iiiu- Journal of Science 

 Messrs. R. B. Bean and F. S. Planla publish the third 

 of their studies of Filipino racial types at Taytay, this 

 portion of the memoir being devoted to women. In 

 measurements of the body, the greatest differences appear 

 between the Primitive and the Iberian types, the women 

 approximating to the former and the men to the latter. 

 Between these comes the .'^ustraloid type", which in the 

 crural index resembles the Negrito. In head measure- 



