December 31, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



965 



Dii. G. GiJRicn, docent for geology at Bres- 

 lau, has been appointed director of the Geo- 

 logical Institute at Hamburg, to succeed the 

 late Professor Gottsche. 



Professor A. Crum Brown, F.R.S., has been 

 elected president of the Scottish Meteorolog- 

 ical Society. 



We learn from the London Times that 

 Professor Kocher, of Berne, who was recently 

 awarded the Nobel prize for medicine, has 

 announced his intention of dividing the prize 

 into two amounts, one of which he will pre- 

 sent to the Red Cross Hospital at Berne. The 

 remaining sum will be used for the benefit of 

 the poorer class of medical students at Berne. 



The prize of the Berlin Astronomical So- 

 ciety for the best calculations of the path of 

 Halley's comet has been awarded to Messrs. 

 Cole and Crommelin. 



During the past two years Mr. John D. 

 Haseman has been collecting fishes for the 

 Carnegie Museum in South America. His 

 last journey was from Corumba in the valley 

 of the La Plata to Manaos in Brazil. No 

 message having been received from him for 

 seven months, fears for his safety began to be 

 entertained, but they were relieved a few days 

 ago by a message from Manaos, saying " I 

 have come out to civilization, tired and worn 

 out, but still able to catch fish." He has 

 added many thousands of specimens to the 

 collections of the museum. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Minnesota has allowed Professor F. L. Wash- 

 burn, of the entomological division of the 

 experiment station, two months' vacation, dur- 

 ing February and March of the present year. 

 This time will be spent, as far as possible, in 

 the study of conditions governing the control 

 of insects affecting market gardens and small 

 land ownings in Europe. 



Dr. Robert Bennett Be.\n, associate pro- 

 fessor of anatomy in the Philippine- Medical 

 School, will return to America, reaching Bal- 

 timore in February. 



Professor Hal Downey, of the department 

 of animal biologj' of the University of Minne- 

 sota, will next year have sabbatical leave of 

 absence to study abroad. 



From the members of the American com- 

 mittee appointed by Commissioner Brown for 

 tlie third International Congress for Home 

 Education to be held in Brussels next sum- 

 mer, the name was omitted of Dr. D. P. 

 McMillin, director of child study and peda- 

 gogical investigation in the Chicago public 

 schools. He is chairman of the sub-commit- 

 tee on child study. 



Dr. Augusto Righi, professor of physics at 

 Bologna, will next year give a course of lec- 

 tures at Columbia University. 



Mr. M.\rconi, who received a Nobel prize 

 for physics, lectured in Stockholm on Decem- 

 ber 11, in accordance with the usual custom, 

 upon radiotelegraphy, before a large body of 

 well-known men of science. 



According to Nature, on November 24, ex- 

 actly fifty years after the publication of the 

 " Origin of Species," a number of biological 

 and medical societies of the Netherlands met 

 in one of the large halls of the Amsterdam 

 Zoological Gardens (Natura Artis Magistra) 

 to commemorate this event and the influence 

 which Darwinism has continued to exercise 

 on human thought since then. Addresses 

 were delivered by Professor Hugo de Vries on 

 Darwin's visit to the Galapagos Archipelago, 

 and by Professor A. A. W. Hubrecht on Dar- 

 win and the descent of man. A bust of 

 Darwin occupied the center of the hall in 

 front of the platform. 



The Pasteur Institute of Paris has pre- 

 sented to the Rockefeller Institute for Med- 

 ical Research, of New York, a replica of the 

 bronze bust of Louis Pasteur by Paul Dubois, 

 in recognition of assistance rendered during 

 the recent epidemic of cerebrospinal menin- 

 gitis which prevailed in France. 



A monument will be erected in Hilden. Ger- 

 many, to Guilelmus Fabricius, the eminent 

 surgeon. It is proposed to unveil a statue of 

 Fabricius on the three hundred and fiftieth 

 anniversary of his birth, June 2.5, 1560. 



We are requested by Frau Marie Dohm to 

 state that in looking through the late Pro- 

 fessor Anton Dohrn's papers and manuscripts, 

 much has been found relating to the origin 



