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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXX. No. 760 



Dr. W. Stirling, professor of physiology in 

 the University of Manchester, has been elected 

 a foreign corresponding member of the Turin 

 Academy of Medicine. 



We learn from Nature that the council of 

 the Royal Society has awarded the Mackinnon 

 studentships for the year 1909 as follows : one 

 in physics to Mr. E. D. Kleeman, of Emmanuel 

 College, Cambridge, for the continuation of 

 his researches on radio-activity, which he pro- 

 poses to conduct at the universities of Cam- 

 bridge, Leeds and Manchester; the other, in 

 biology, has been renewed for a second year 

 to Mr. D. Thoday, of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, for research into the physiological con- 

 ditions of starvation in plants and its relation 

 to the responsiveness of protoplasm to stimu- 

 lation, especially to stimuli affecting respira- 

 tion. 



Professor J. H. Jeans, whose resignation 

 from the chair of mathematics at Princeton 

 University has been announced, will return to 

 his home in Cambridge, England. 



Mr. H. C. Sims, of the Field Museum of 

 Natural History, has started for the Ilongo 

 country in the Philippines to continue the 

 work which was interrupted by the death of 

 Dr. William Jones. 



Professor Charles E. Bessey, of the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, is giving a course of 

 lectures at the Marine Station at Orcas Island 

 at Olga on Puget Sound. During August he 

 expects to join Professor E. A. Bessey in a 

 botanizing expedition in the Rocky Mountains. 



Professor William H. Hobbs, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, expects to join Professor 

 Tarr and Professor Martin in the Yakutat Bay 

 region of Alaska and afterwards to attend the 

 Winnipeg meeting of the British Association. 



Dr. Roland B. Dixon, assistant professor of 

 anthropology in Harvard University, is spend- 

 ing the summer in New Zealand and Australia. 



Dr. R. M. Strong, of the department of 

 zoology of the University of Chicago, will sail 

 for Europe on August 1. He plans to return 

 about the end of March, 1910. 



The magnetic survey yacht Carnegie will 

 leave New York early in August for a cruise 

 of six to seven months embracing Hudson 

 Bay, the North Atlantic and return via Ma- 

 deira and Bermuda. Mr. W. G. Peters will 

 be in command, Captain C. E. Littlefield, the 

 sailing master. Dr. C. C. Craft, surgeon and 

 observer, Messrs. J. T. Ault, E. Kidson and 

 R. R. Tafel, magnetic observers, and E. D. 

 Smith, observer-engineer. Besides the scien- 

 tific party and the sailing master, the Car- 

 negie carries a crew consisting of two watch 

 officers, eight seamen and two cooks. The 

 director. Dr. L. A. Bauer, will accompany the 

 vessel as far as St. Johns, Newfoundland, 

 and possibly to some point in Labrador. 

 Mr. D. E. Smith, graduate of the Univer- 

 sity of Maine, 1905, and connected for the 

 past three years with the Technologic Branch 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey as expert on 

 gas engines and gas producers, has been ap- 

 pointed observer-engineer on the Carnegie. 

 He will have special charge of the machinery 

 installation. The Carnegie is equipped with 

 a four-cylinder Craig internal combustion 

 engine of 150 horse power, sufficient to drive 

 the vessel six knots in calm weather. The 

 gas producer was furnished by the Marine 

 Producer Gas Co., of New York. Both the 

 engine and the producer are constructed 

 practically of non-magnetic materials. 



The Joseph Eichberg fund for the establish- 

 ment of a memorial chair of physiology in the 

 medical department of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati, now amounts to $45,000. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that a memorial to Kussmaul 

 was unveiled at Freiburg,' May 15, with much 

 ceremony, and the German journals of the 

 first week in June contain views of the bust 

 that surmounts the shaft and the allegorical 

 figure on the base representing the art of heal- 

 ing. A tablet to Auenbrugger, the " father 

 of percussion," has also recently been installed 

 at Vienna, and a large statue of Pettenkofer 

 unveiled at Munich. A memorial to Mikulicz 

 was also unveiled at Breslau on May 27; it 

 stands in front of the clinic he made famous, 

 and the address was delivered by his successor. 



