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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXX. No. 769 



Dr. Bkunhuber and Dr. Schmitz, German 

 explorers, have been murdered by the primi- 

 tive tribes on the Upper Salwin, in western 

 Yunan. 



The meeting of the American Physical 

 Society for November 26 and 27, 1909, will 

 be held in the new physics building of the 

 University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, 

 Illinois. 



The American School Hygiene Association 

 and the American Physical Education Asso- 

 ciation meet with the Department of Superin- 

 tendents of the National Education Associa- 

 tion in Indianapolis during the last week of 

 February, 1910. 



The Third International Congress on School 

 Hygiene is announced for Paris from March 

 29 to April 2, 1910. 



The International Esperanto Congress, 

 which has been meeting in Barcelona with an 

 attendance of 1,300 delegates, has decided to 

 hold its next session at Washington during 

 August, 1910. 



The select committee of the House of Com- 

 mons has presented a report adverse to the 

 daylight saving bill. 



The daily papers state that a natural bridge 

 spanning 274 feet and over 300 feet high, 

 said to be the largest known, has been dis- 

 covered by members of the Utah Archeological 

 Society, which has returned from an expedi- 

 tion along the Colorado Kiver in northern 

 Arizona and southern Utah. The bridge is 

 situated four miles north of the Arizona line 

 in the state of Utah, six miles east of the 

 Colorado Eiver. 



To encourage the photographing of the 

 Leonids under favorable atmospheric condi- 

 tions the Treptow Observatory, near Berlin, 

 offers three prizes, the first of which is a tele- 

 scope worth $40. The photographs must be 

 made from a balloon, during the time from 

 November 13 to 16, 1909, and the competition 

 is open to the citizens of all nations. The 

 original negatives awarded the prizes, together 

 with all rights of publication, become the 

 property of the illustrated periodical Das 

 Weltall, published by the Treptow Observa- 

 tory. 



We learn from Nature that a movement has 

 been started to unite entomologists in a con- 

 gress entirely devoted to entomology in its 

 various aspects, and to establish a permanent 

 committee which may act as a central organ- 

 ization in the interest of this subject. It is 

 proposed that a congress of entomology be held 

 every three years, about a fortnight before 

 each triennial zoological congress, so that reso- 

 lutions and conclusions of general importance 

 could, if deemed necessary, be brought up for 

 discussion at the ensuing zoological congress. 

 The first International Congress of Entomol- 

 ogy will be held on August 1-16, 1910, at 

 Brussels, during the International Exposition, 

 which will be taking place there at that time. 

 The subjects to be brought before the gen- 

 eral or sectional meetings will comprise sys- 

 tematics, nomenclature, anatomy, physiology, 

 psychology, ontogeny, phylogeny, ecology, 

 mimicry, etiology, bionomy, paleontology, zoo- 

 geography, muscology, medical and economic 

 entomology. It will be remembered that the 

 eighth International Congress of Zoology is to 

 be held next year at Graz, Austria. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The University of Pennsylvania proposes 

 to erect during the coming year a building for 

 its graduate school, costing $250,000. 



Berea College receives $5,000 by the will 

 of Dr. William P. Wesselhoeft, of Boston. 



Mr. William E. Mott, associate professor 

 of hydraulic engineering of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Teclmology, has been elected to 

 take charge of the department of civil engi- 

 neering at the Carnegie Technical Schools, 

 Pittsburgh. 



Mr. Heaton B. Kobertson has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in mining and metallurgy 

 in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 

 versity. In the same university Mr. Harry 

 H. Wylie has been appointed assistant in 

 psychology. 



Dr. Jacob Kunz has been elected assistant 

 professor of physics of the University of Illi- 

 nois. Dr. Kunz is a graduate of the Univer- 

 sity of Zurich, and was for several years 

 Privatdocent in mathematical physics in 



