November 3, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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Univei-sity, on October 26 lectured before the 

 Franklin Institute on "Highspeed photograpby 

 of vibrations." 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states itbat tbe faculty of medicine of 

 •tbe 'City of Mexico recently organized a 

 ceremony in honor of Laveran, the French 

 army surgeon who discovered the malaria para- 

 site. Representatives of various scientific socie- 

 ties, the director of the faculties and the dean 

 of the university took part in the tribute. 

 Lavenan died in May. 



The library committee of ,the Neiw York 

 Academy of Medicine will be glad to receive 

 memorabilia, such as letters, manuscripts, pho- 

 'tographs, engiiavings or pictures of any kind 

 relating to the life or work of Louis Pasteur. 

 These will l>e used for ithe academy Pasteur 

 celebration from December 27 to January 10. 

 All communications should be addressed to Mr. 

 J. S. Bix3wue,_librarian. 



Dr.. Albert Aveen Sturley, insti-uotor in 

 phj'sies at Tale University and formerly pro- 

 fessor of physics at the University of King's 

 College, Windsor, N. S., died in New Haven 

 on October 22, at -the age of thirty-five years. 



Colonel, E. H. Gro\'e-Hills, F. R. S., 

 treasurer and ex-pi-esident of the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society, died on October 2. 



The death is announced of Dr. Tourneux, 

 pix)fessor of histology at the University of 

 Toulouse. 



Professor H. Batterjiai;, fonnerly pro- 

 fessor of astronomy at Konigsberg Univei-sity 

 and director of ithe University Observatory, has 

 died at the age of sixty^two years. 



We learn from Nature that in the will of 

 Prince Albert of Monaco, who died on June 26 

 last, there are several gifts for scientific pur- 

 poses. His fann at Sainte Suzanne is left to 

 tihe French Acadeany of Agricultui'e, and the 

 wish is expressed that the estate should remain 

 a place for agricultural experiments, to demon- 

 strate what science can obtain from sterile 

 lands. Dr. Jules Richard will receive 600,000 

 francs .to enable him to complete literary and 

 gcientific works in progress, including 'the re- 



sults of .the oceanogmphie cruises and the 

 preparation of the Bathymetiie Chart of the 

 Oceans. The proceeds of .the sale of the yaeiht 

 Hirondelle, all books and publications of a 

 scientific nature, as well as certain personal 

 effects, will go to the Oceanographic Institutes 

 at Paris and Monaco, while the Institute of 

 Human Paleontology in Paris is to receive any 

 personal effects relating to the -wiork carried on 

 there. The Paris Academy of Sciences will 

 receive a million francs, the income of which 

 is to provide a prize to be awarded evei-y two 

 years, the nature of the prize to be indicated 

 by the academy, according to the needs of the 

 moment ; a like sura is bequeatilied to .the Acad- 

 emy of Medicine for a similar prize. 



Professor Hiram Bingham has presented to 

 Yale University the anthropological and areheo- 

 logical coUeotions of the Peruvian Expeditions. 

 These collections are to be deposited in tihe 

 Peabod}^ Museum when the new building is 

 erected. 



The International Congress of Americanists, 

 which met recently at Bio de Janeiro, decided 

 to hold the ifriventy-first session of the congress 

 in 1924 in Holland. In 1925 the meeting will 

 be held at Gothenburg, and in 1926 in Phila- 

 delpihia. 



At a recent meeting of the International 

 Commission on Eugenics, held in Bruxelles, and 

 at which there were present representatives 

 from France, Belgium, England, Holland, Den- 

 mark, Norway and 'ibs United States, it was 

 voted unanimously to invite the German genet- 

 icists to send representatives to the commission. 



The first number has appeared of the Jour- 

 nal of Biocliemistri/, published at Tokyo. It 

 contains contributions written in English, 

 French and Gennan. It is published quarterly 

 under the editorship of Samuro Kakiuchi, pro- 

 fessor in the Tokyo Imperial University. 



It is reported in the New York Times that 

 at a conference in St. Paul, Minn., the Twin 

 City pastors, representing Bajstist, Congrega- 

 tional, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches, on 

 October 26 voted to issue a call for a state- wide 

 meeting of protestant ministers next week to 

 oppose ithe teaching of evolution in the public 



