August 13, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



203 



1909, on "Eelief Measures in Industrial 

 Crises." 



The following doctorates are reported by 

 Nature to have been conferred by tbe Uni- 

 versity of London upon internal and external 

 students for the theses mentioned and other 

 papers : Mr. P. Hartley, " On the Nature of 

 the Fat contained in the Liver, Kidney and 

 Heart"; Mr. E. T. MeUor, "The Geology of 

 the Neighborhood of Middelburg, etc." ; Mr. J. 

 Stephenson, " Studies on the Aquatic Oligo- 

 ehaeta of the Punjab " ; Mr. W. Makower, " On 

 the Active Deposit of Eadium " ; and Mr. H. 

 Stansfield, " The Echelon Spectroscope, its 

 Secondary Action and the Structure of the 

 Green Mercury Line." 



It is stated in the Nation that the publica- 

 tion of the complete works of Alessandro Volta 

 is now assured by the action of the Italian 

 government in contributing $3,000 towards the 

 necessary expenses. A committee appointed 

 jointly by the Eeale Instituto Lombardo deUe 

 Scienze and the Eeale Accademia dei Lincei 

 will have charge of this edition, which, it is 

 exi)ected, will consist of jBve volumes, and be 

 finished within two years. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the dedication of the 

 monument in the court of honor of the College 

 of Medicine of Paris to Professor Brouardel, 

 the lamented dean of the college, took place 

 on July 20. The monument, by the sculptor 

 Denys Puech, consists of a stela on which is 

 the marble bust of Brouardel, wearing the 

 insignia of his ofiice. At the foot are two 

 allegorical figures representing hygiene and 

 legal medicine. 



Dr. Egbert Edward Carter Stearns, known 

 for his work on the geographical distribu- 

 tion and variation of mollusca and for other 

 work in natural science, honorary associate in 

 zoology of the TJ. S. National Museum, has 

 died at Los Angeles, in his eighty-third year. 



Dr. Joseph Frederick Whitea%t:s, paleon- 

 tologist and zoologist of the Canadian Geo- 

 logical Survey, died at Ottawa, on August 8, 

 in his seventy-fourth year. 



Captain Engelstad, of the Norwegian Navy, 

 was taking meteorological observations during 



a tliunderstorm, on July 24. when he happened 

 to touch the winch holding the copper wire 

 attached to the kite, which was a thousand 

 yards high, and was struck dead. 



The death was also announced of Professor 

 G. Arth, professor of industrial chemistry in 

 the University of Nancy, and of Dr. Eugen 

 von Gothard, the Hungarian astronomer. 



It is proposed to invite the British Associa- 

 tion to meet in Australia in 1913. The Uni- 

 versity of Melbourne is communicating with 

 the different Australian universities with a 

 view to formulating definite proposals. It is 

 suggested that the invitation should proceed 

 from the commonwealth. 



The trustees of the fund of $1,250,000 left 

 by Henry Barnato to found a hospital in 

 memory of his brother Barney Barnato and 

 his cousin, Woolf Joel, have decided to devote 

 the sum to the building and endowing of a 

 cancer hospital in London. 



The sum of £6,500 will be appropriated by 

 the British government to the Eoyal Society 

 for the expenses of the aeronautical section of 

 the National Physical Laboratory. 



The daily papers report that a reflecting 

 telescope with a mirror of forty inches has 

 been shipped from Cambridge to Flagstaff 

 Observatory for Mr. Percival Lowell's Observ- 

 atory. It is designed especially for planetary 

 photography and will first be used in photo- 

 graphing Mars when the planet wiU be near- 

 est the earth nest month. 



The Field Museum of Natural History has 

 secured, for its botanical department, the pri- 

 vate herbarium of Dr. J. T. Eothrock, of 

 Pennsylvania. This is the last private her- 

 barium covering the exploration period of 

 North America and contains very full and 

 valuable series of the early collections of the 

 great west, Mexico and Florida. Dr. Eothrock 

 having been the botanist of the survey of the 

 territories and an intimate of Dr. Asa Gray, 

 Dr. Torrey, Dr. Thurber and other early bot- 

 anists, he was able to secure a large amount 

 of material covering the period dating from 

 1840 to 1880. The herbarium is especially 

 rich in types and co-types of the plants of 

 western North America. 



