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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXX. No. 766 



Mr. Willum Ford Stanley, the maker of 

 scientific instruments and author of contribu- 

 tions to physical and astronomical science, 

 died on August 14, at the age of eighty-one 

 years. Mr. Stanley built and endowed the 

 Stanley Technical Trade Schools at Norwood. 



Dr. Viktor Kremser, chief of division of 

 the Meteorological Institute of Berlin, has 

 died at the age of fifty-one years. 



Mrs. Nelson Morris has endowed with 

 $250,000 an institution in Chicago to be 

 called the Nelson Morris Memorial Institute 

 of Medical Research. It will be connected 

 with the Michael Reese Hospital, of which Dr. 

 John Hormsby is the superintendent and Dr. 

 James W. Jobling chief pathologist. Dr. 

 Jobling will direct the scientific work of the 

 institute. 



The Dallas (Texas) Medical and Surgical 

 Building Association has been organized to 

 erect an office building to be devoted to pro- 

 fessional men entirely and to cost $500,000. 



The Public Health and Marine-Hospital 

 Service has taken steps looking to the estab- 

 lishment of a branch of its Federal Laboratory 

 on the Pacific coast in the zone of squirrel 

 plague infection. 



The general assembly of Georgia has 

 through the initiative of Dr. A. M. Soule, 

 president of the State Agricultural College, 

 appropriated $10,000 for educational work at 

 farmers' institutes throughout the state. 



The fourth International Congress of Aero- 

 nautics will be held from September 18 to 24 

 at Nancy. Proceedings will be divided into 

 three main sections : (1) aerostation, (2) avia- 

 tion, (3) legislation and general subjects. 



A telegram has been received at the Har- 

 vard College Observatory from Professor H. 

 Kobold of Kiel, stating that Perrine's comet 

 was observed by Kopff August 12.42.99 G.M.T. 

 in E.A. 0" 17" 8' Dec. + 35° 32'. The object 

 is visible in a large telescope. 



It appears from the daily papers that at the 

 meeting of the Association of State and Na- 

 tional Food and Dairy Departments, at Denver 

 on August 26, a vote of 57 to 42 was passed 

 in favor of the following resolution: 



Resolved, That this association hereby indorses 

 the report of the Eeferee Board of Consulting 

 Scientific Experts, appointed by Secretary of 

 Agriculture Wilson at the direction of President 

 Roosevelt upon the use of benzoate of soda in food 

 products. 



According to press despatches, valuable de- 

 posits of radium-bearing pitchblende have 

 been discovered on the McCloud Eiver, Cal. 

 It is also reported that pitchblende has been 

 discovered in Cripple Creek district of Colo- 

 rado. 



President Taft has issued a proclamation 

 setting aside the Oregon caves in the Siskiyou 

 National Forest in the state of Oregon as a 

 national monument. The area of the reserva- 

 tion is about four hundred and eighty acres. 



The department of plant pathology of the 

 New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., announces 

 the establishment of a temporary industrial 

 fellowship by the Niagara Sprayer Company 

 of Middleport, N. Y. The purpose of this 

 fellowship is to investigate the value of com- 

 mercial lime-sulphur mixtures as fungicides. 

 The fellowship is established for two years at 

 a salary of $1,000 a year, and with a maximum 

 sum of $500 annually, for the carrying on of 

 the investigations. By the terms of the fel- 

 lowship the College of Agriculture is left per- 

 fectly free to carry on the investigations in 

 any way it may see fit, and to freely publish 

 aU the results at any time. Mr. Errett Wal- 

 lace (Cornell, B.S.A. '08, M.S.A. '09) has been 

 elected to the fellowship. The investigations 

 will be conducted in field laboratories, situated 

 somewhere in the state of New York. The 

 work for the present season is being conducted 

 on the fruit farm of Mr. L. B. Frear, near 

 Ithaca, N. Y. The chief problem for investi- 

 gation at present is to determine the efficiency 

 of the commercial lime-sulphur mixtures as a 

 summer spray for the control of peach and 

 apple diseases. 



It is reported by cable that the debt in- 

 curred by Lieutenant E. H. Shackleton and 

 the members of the family for his Antarctic 

 expedition is to be liquidated by the govern- 

 ment. Premier Asquith has announced in the 



