JULV 23, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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H. Kiittner. In Madrid, also, a tablet was 

 installed in the Colegio de Medicos the same 

 week, to the memory of F. G. Roel, noted in 

 connection with the first description of pell- 

 agra. His will is said to be such an interest- 

 ing document that the Academy of Medicine 

 is to republish it shortly. 



John Morse Ordway, until three years ago 

 professor of metallurgy at Tulane University, 

 has died, at the age of eighty-six years. 



Mr. Lefferts Buck, an engineer known 

 especially for his work on bridges, died in his 

 home in Hastings, N. T., on July 17, at the 

 age of seventy-two years. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. Frank 

 Kelton Bailey, instructor in physics in the 

 Ohio State University, and of Dr. Theodore 

 K. Wolf, professor of chemistry in Delaware 

 College. 



Dr. T. W. Bridge, F.E.S., professor of 

 zoology at the University of Birmingham, 

 known for his work on ganoid fishes and tele- 

 osts, died on June 30, at the age of sixty-one 

 years. 



Dr. Vittorio Raffaele Matteucci, director 

 of the Eoyal Observatory on Mt. Vesuvius, 

 well known for his studies in seismology, died 

 on July 16, at the age of forty-nine years. 



The heirs of the late Herr Heinrich Lanz, 

 head of the Mannheim engineering firm, have 

 given a million Marks for the establishment 

 of an academy of sciences at Heidelberg. 



The local secretaries for the forthcoming 

 British Association meeting at Winnipeg de- 

 sire to point out that the proposed excursion 

 up the coast of British Columbia to Alaska, 

 now being organized in connection with the 

 Natural History Society of Canada, is un- 

 oificial and is not part of the local committee's 

 arrangements. Those desiring, therefore, to 

 make this journey before the meeting should 

 communicate with Moses B. Cotsworth, Vic- 

 toria, B. C. 



The annual meeting of the British Medical 

 Association will begin in Belfast next week. 

 On July 27, Sir William Whitla will be in- 



ducted into the office of president by Mr. Sin- 

 clair White and will deliver his address. 



A NEW society has been formed in Great 

 Britain, known as the Institution of Mining 

 Electrical Engineers. Local sections have 

 been established at Newcastle and for the 

 Glasgow district of Scotland. The first gen- 

 eral meeting of the society will be held in 

 September. 



M. G. Darboux has been reelected president 

 of the Societe des Amis des Sciences, MM. 

 Aucoc and Picard vice-presidents and Pro- 

 fessor Joubin general secretary. Nature 

 states that the society was founded in 1857 

 by Baron Thenard with the view of assisting 

 unfortunate inventors, men of science and 

 professors and their families. Among the 

 names of past-presidents of the society occur 

 those of Thenard, J. B. Dumas, Pasteur and 

 others. Since its foundation the society has 

 distributed in pensions and grants more than 

 two and a half million francs. This year 

 eighty pensions have been granted to aged 

 scientific men or their widows. The society 

 has assisted the education of some seventy 

 children and has made grants to thirty-five 

 widows. 



The Medical Record states that plans have 

 been completed for the new psychiatric ward 

 of the Johns Hopkins Hospital which is to be 

 built by Mr. Henry Phipps, of New York. 

 The building will be of dark brick and stone 

 to resemble the other buildings of the hospital, 

 but the interior will be quite different from 

 the usual hospital ward. The white coloring 

 common to hospitals will be omitted, and the 

 rooms will be made as homelike as possible. 

 The idea of non-restraint will be carried out 

 as much as possible. The court will be made 

 into a garden, and the windows will be 

 guarded by flower boxes and trellises instead 

 of bars. Extensive arrangements for recrea- 

 tion and exercise will be supplied. 



A COOPERATIVE soil survey of Wisconsin is 

 soon to be begun under the direction of the 

 state Geological and Natural History Survey 

 and the College of Agriculture of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, assisted by the Bureau of 



