November 5, 1900] 



SCIENCE 



637 



Dr. Julius Wiesxer, professor of botany at 

 the University of Vienna, has retired from 

 active service. 



Professor J. Vosselee, director of the Bio- 

 logical Station at Amani, has been appointed 

 director of the Zoological Garden at Hamburg. 



Dr. G. Loporioee has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Agricultural Station at Modena. 



Mr. Julux S. Huxley, B.A., late scholar of 

 Balliol College, Oxford, has been elected to the 

 biological scholarship at Naples for 1909. ilr. 

 Huxley, who is a grandson of the late Pro- 

 fessor Huxley, gained the Newdigate prize for 

 English verse in 1908. 



The Listen Victoria jubilee prize of the 

 value of £100, which is awarded every fourth 

 year by the Eoyal College of Surgeons, 

 of Edinburgh, to the fellow or licentiate of 

 the college who has done the greatest benefit 

 to practical surgery during the period since 

 the last award, has been adjudged to Mr. 

 Robert Jones, of Liverpool. 



The following awards by the British Insti- 

 tution of Mining and Metallurgy have been 

 announced: The gold medal of the institution 

 to Professor William Gowland, who has re- 

 cently vacated the chair of metallurgy at the 

 Royal School of Mines, in recognition of his 

 services in the advancement of metallurgical 

 science and education. The " Consolidated 

 Goldfields of South Africa (Limited) " gold 

 medal to Mr. W. A. Caldecott for his work in 

 the investigation of methods of reduction and 

 treatment of gold ores. The " Consolidated 

 Goldfields of South Africa (Limited) " 

 premium of 40 guineas conjointly to Mr. 0. 

 O. Bannister and Mr. W. N. Stanley, in rec- 

 ognition of their work in the investigation of 

 the thermal property of cupels, and for their 

 joint paper on " Cupellation Experiments." 



In accordance with the recommendations of 

 the recent departmental committee on the 

 West African Medical Staff, the secretary of 

 state for the British colonies has appointed 

 the following men to be an advisory com- 

 mittee on medical and sanitary questions con- 

 nected with the British colonies and protect- 



orates in tropical Africa: Mr. H. J. Read, 

 C.M.G., of the Colonial Office (chairman) ; 

 Sir Patrick Manson, K.C.M.G., M.D., 

 F.R.C.P., F.R.S., senior lecturer, London 

 School of Tropical Medicine; Sir Rubert 

 Bo.yce, M.D., F.R.S., dean of the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine ; Mr. C. Strachey, 

 of the Colonial Office; Mr. W. T. Prout, 

 C.M.G., M.B., late principal medical officer. 

 Sierra Leone ; Mr. Theodore Thomson, C.M.G., 

 M.D., of the local government board; Mr. W. 

 J. Simpson, C.M.G., M.D., F.R.C.P., pro- 

 fessor of hygiene. King's College, London ; 

 Mr. J. K. Fowler, M.A., M.D., D.Sc. F.R.C.P., 

 late dean of the faculty of medicine. Univer- 

 sity of London. 



Dr. Allan Kinghorn, who has recently re- 

 turned from northeast Rhodesia and central 

 Africa, where he was sent by the Liverpool' 

 School of Tropical Medicine, together with 

 Mr. R. E. Montgomery, to investigate the 

 sleeping sickness there, has been appointed by 

 the secretary of state for the colonies to pro- 

 ceed to West Africa where he will continue 

 his work on the sleeping sickness. Since his 

 return from Africa Dr. Kinghorn has been 

 engaged at the research laboratories of the 

 school, and together with Mr. Montgomery 

 has completed a report of the Zambesi Sleep- 

 ing Sickness Expedition. Mr. Montgomery 

 has been appointed to a post under the Colon- 

 ial Office in British East Africa at Nairobi. 



By the will of the late Mr. Mitchel Valen- 

 tine, after a few minor bequests have been 

 given, the residue of the estate, valued at 

 $2,000,000, is to be divided equally between 

 the Presbyterian Hospital and Hahnemann 

 Hospital of New York. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given 450 acres- 

 of land as the site for a sanitarium for tuber- 

 culosis patients. The land is at Cresson, Pa., 

 at an elevation of 2,400 feet. 



The Mount Weather Research Observatory 

 of the United States Weather Bureau has just 

 completed its first sounding balloon campaign 

 in the west. Small rubber sounding balloons 

 were sent up simultaneously at two points,. 

 viz.. Fort Omaha, Nebr., and Indianapolis,. 



