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The monument erected to the memory of 

 Professor Tillaux, of Paris, will be dedicated 

 on October Y, 1909, at the amphitheater of 

 anatomy of the hospitals. 



Among the civil service examinations to be 

 held by the state of New York on September 

 18 is one for inspector of drawing and indus- 

 trial training at a salary of $2,500 and for 

 assistant sanitary chemist at a salary of from 

 $1,200 to $1,500. 



The Imperial Cancer Eesearch Pund has 

 received from the Duke of Bedford, vice-presi- 

 dent, a further donation of £1,000. 



We learn from Nature that at the meeting 

 of the Eoyal Horticultural Society on August 

 31, there was an exhibition on behaK of Pro- 

 fessor Sargent and Harvard University of 

 photographs illustrating the flora, fauna and 

 scenery of central and western China. The 

 photographs are from the large collection 

 taken by Mr. E. H. "Wilson during his last 

 (third) journey to China. 



Dr. Charles H. Fraziee has resigned the 

 deanship of the medical school of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. He retains his connec- 

 tion with the school as professor of clinical 

 surgery. 



Dr. E. a. Eelanger has been appointed as- 

 sociate professor of physiology at the Johns 

 Hopkins University to succeed Dr. Percy M. 

 Dawson, who has resigned to take up the 

 study of theology. 



Mr. Lee I. Knight, of the botanical staff of 

 the University of Illinois, has been appointed 

 associate professor of botany at Clemson Col- 

 lege, South Carolina. 



Me. Wilmar E. Davis, of the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of botany at Kansas Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Manhattan, Kansas. 



Dr. Thomas H. Bryce, lecturer on anatomy 

 at Queen Margaret's College, Glasgow, has 

 been appointed to the chair of anatomy at the 

 University of Glasgow in the place of Pro- 

 fessor Cleland. 



Dr. Karl Marbe, of the Frankfort Acad- 

 emy, has been called to the chair of philosophy 

 at Wiirzburg. 



The graduates of the courses in chemistry 

 at the University of Wisconsin will hold posi- 

 tions in chemical laboratories all over the 

 country this year, 47 having recently received 

 appointment in 17 different states. Of these 

 14 will remain in Wisconsin, six being in the 

 university, three in colleges and normals, three 

 in high schools and two in commercial posi- 

 tions. The Bureaus of Soils and of Standards 

 at Washington have appointed five Wisconsin 

 chemists to government positions, while four 

 others go to Missouri. New York, Michigan 

 and Illinois have each given three collegiate 

 or commercial positions to Wisconsin men, 

 while the states of Washington, Pennsylvania, 

 South Dakota and Iowa have appointed two 

 Wisconsin graduates each, and Oregon, Indi- 

 ana, Arizona, Ohio, California,. Oklahoma and 

 Kansas have each a man from the Wisconsin 

 state university chemistry department. 



We learn from Nature that meetings of two 

 special commissions appointed by the Inter- 

 national Meteorological Committee at Paris 

 in 1907 were held in London during the week 

 commencing June 21. The appointment of 

 the first commission arose out of a proposal 

 made at Innsbruck by the Rev. Lowis Froc, 

 S.J., director of the Zi-ka-wei Observatory, 

 for the general adoption of a code of maritime 

 weather signals now in use in far eastern 

 waters, and a further proposal made at Paris 

 by Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of the 

 United States Weather Bureau, in favor of 

 an international system of maritime weather 

 signals. To this commission the question of 

 an understanding as to the projection and 

 scale of charts for representing marine meteor- 

 ological data was also referred. The second 

 commission is appointed to consider interna- 

 tional questions concerning weather teleg- 

 raphy, including wireless telegraphy from 

 ships. The commissions will report to the 

 meeting of the International Meteorological 

 Committee which is expected to be held in 

 1910. 



Students of American geology and geog- 

 raphy owe much to the four great government 

 organizations which worked in the west be- 

 tween 1867 and 1879, before the establishment 



