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the Engineering Societies Building in New 

 York City on the evening of November lY. 

 Addresses will be made by Dr. Arthur E. 

 Kennelly, professor of electrical engineering 

 at Harvard University; Dr. William H. 

 Nichols, chairman of the corporation of the 

 Polytechnic Institute; Mr. T. Commerford 

 Martin, secretary of the National Electric 

 Light Association; Mr. Bancroft Gherardi, 

 vice-president of the American Telephone 

 and Telegraph Co., and William N. Dick- 

 inson, president of the New York Electrical 

 Society. Mr. Arthur W. Berresford, presi- 

 dent of the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers, will preside. 



M. Louis du Hauron, a pioneer in the pho- 

 tography of color, died on August 31, at the 

 age of eighty-three years. 



The death has occurred on the way to New 

 York of Dr. Manuel C. Barrios, professor of 

 physiology and later of legal medicine at the 

 University of Lima, Peru. While a member 

 of the national cabinet he organized the pub- 

 lic health service and founded the National 

 Academy of Medicine. 



Dr. J. P. MoRAT, formerly professor of 

 physiology at the University of Lyons, has 

 died at the age of seventy-five years. 



The Berlin corresiwndent of the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association writes that 

 the first meeting in seven years of the As- 

 sociation of German Scientific Men and Physi- 

 cians, held at Bad Nauheim, was attended by 

 2,600 members. Among the principal subjects 

 of interest of the meeting were the newer re- 

 searches in physical science, including the 

 structure of molecules and atoms, and the Ein- 

 stein theory of relativity. The papers of Dr. 

 Max Rubner, Berlin, and Dr. M. von Gruber, 

 Munich, on the problem of nutrition were prob- 

 ably the outstanding medical contributions. 



The Swedish government has approved the 

 plan to found an institute for research on 

 moral assistance for the furtherance of 

 medical faculty to plan the institution. A 

 committee from the faculty has been appointed 

 for the purpose, comprising Drs. Lennmalm, 

 Johansson, Miiller and Gadelius, of the Chairs 



of neurology, physiology, anatomy and psy- 

 chiatry, respectively. 



The will of the late Dr. Lloyd Eoberts, of 

 Manchester, contains the following bequests: 

 To the Eylands Library, Manchester, such of 

 his bound books as the trustees may select; to 

 the Corporation of Manchester, for the Art 

 Gallery, such of the mezzotints, water-colors, 

 and paintings as they may desire; to the Royal 

 Society of Medicine £5,000; to St. Mary's Hos- 

 pital, Manchester, £5,000 ; to Manchester Royal 

 Infirmary, £3,000; to the Royal College of 

 Physicians, London, £3,000 ; to the Medical So- 

 ciety of London, £2,000; to St. David's College, 

 South Wales, £2,000. The residue of his estate 

 is left to University College, Bangor, with 

 provision that £5,000 be set aside to found a 

 Lloyd Roberts professorship in any subject the 

 authorities think fit. 



' PROrESSOR A. F. Rogers, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, is engaged in a mineralogical study of 

 fossil bone and will welcome any specimens 

 that may be sent to him. Small specimens, 2 

 or 3 inches in size, will suffice. They may be 

 sent by express, collect to the Mineralogy Lab- 

 oratory (care of A. J. Rogers), Stanford Uni- 

 versity, California. 



There has recently been formed at Brussels 

 a Federation beige des societes des sciences 

 mathematiques, physiques, naturelles medicales 

 et appliquees. According to the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association thirty-three 

 societies have already joined the federation, 

 and many others have promised to become 

 affiliated in the near future. The group in- 

 cludes various scientific societies which give 

 evidence of their activity by the publication 

 of original work, and the movement is de- 

 signed to unite and coordinate all efforts for 

 the general advancement of the pure and ap- 

 plied sciences, although the component so- 

 cieties retain their own autonomy. The fed- 

 eration will endeavor to encourage initiative 

 and to procure the requisite material and 

 moral assistance for the furtherance of sci- 

 entific work, and it will collaborate in per- 

 fecting scientific publications. It may, espe- 

 cially, summon congresses, organize confer- 



