May 23, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



787 



Tuberculosis to justify the belief tbat any 

 specific cure for tuberculosis has been discov- 

 ered which deserves the confidence of the 

 medical profession or the people, and, Re- 

 solved, That it is the duty of the public to 

 continue unabated all the present well-tried 

 agencies for the treatment and prevention of 

 tuberculosis." 



The trans-Saharan party of the Department 

 of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washington arrived at Timbuctoo 

 on May 16. Since leaving Biskra, Algeria, 

 on October 29, 1912, the party has secured 

 complete magnetic observations at about 

 seventy stations. 



Mr. Cawthron, of Nelson, New Zealand, 

 has oifered to give $60,000 for a solar physics 

 observatory. 



The Historical Medical Museum, organized 

 by Mr. Henry S. Wellcome, which is to be 

 opened in London towards the end of June 

 next, will include, as we learn from Nature, 

 among the exhibits in the science section a 

 large collection of the original apparatus used 

 by Galvani in making his first experiments in 

 galvanism in the eighteenth centary. Other 

 exhibits will be a collection of votive offerings 

 for health, ancient microscopes and optical 

 instruments, amulets and charms connected 

 with English folk medicine, early medical 

 medals and coins from the Graaco-Roman 

 period, and early manuscripts and medical 

 books. 



'This week a joint meeting of the Institu- 

 tion of Electrical Engineers of London and the 

 Sooiete Internationale des Electriciens is to 

 be held in Paris. 



The Index of Authors and of Subjects in 

 the first thirty volumes of the American Jour- 

 nal of Physiology is ready. The index con- 

 tains about 160 pages and is bound in paper. 

 The edition is limited. Such indexes are 

 valuable to scholars, even to those who do 

 not possess a file of the Journal. 



University of Southern California stu- 

 dents have completed the organization of the 

 first Pacific Coast chapter of the Agassiz As- 

 sociation, the national organization of nature 



students, choosing Burbank Chapter for their 

 distinctive name. Mr. Luther Burbank will 

 probably be one of the speakers to address 

 the chapter this year. The chapter programs 

 include bi-weekly field trips to points of in- 

 terest around Los Angeles, frequent social 

 gatherings at the homes of members and 

 monthly lectures by outside naturalists. 



The following lectures have been given dur- 

 ing the year at the University of Iowa under 

 the auspices of the department of physics: 



"The Ether," Professor K. E. Guthe, of the 

 University of Michigan. 



"The Measurement of the Charge of Therm- 

 ions," Dr. J. C. Pomeroy, of Iowa State College. 



Some Physical Aspects of a Comet 's Tail, ' ' 

 Professor D. W. Morehouse, of Drake University. 



' ' The Elementary Electric Charge ' ' and ' ' An 

 Extension of the Brownian Movement Theory," 

 Professor R. A. Millikan, of the University of 

 Chicago. 



"Applications of Least Squares in Physical Ee- 

 search, ' ' Professor Leroy D. Weld, of Coe College. 



' ' Carriers of Positive and Negative Electricity, ' ' 

 "Properties of the Wehnelt Cathode Rays" and 

 ' ' The Beaded Character of the Cathode Ray Line, ' ' 

 Professor C. T. Knipp, of the University of Illi- 

 nois. 



The subject selected for the Adams prize in 

 1914 is " The Phenomena of the Disturbed 

 Motion of Fluids, including the Resistances 

 encountered by Bodies moving through them." 

 A theoretical rediscussion of the problem of 

 fluid resistance may be undertaken, either in 

 general or in simple cases, in the light of the 

 experimental knowledge regarding the resist- 

 ances and the nature of the broken motion of 

 the fluid which is becoming available in the 

 publications of the aeronautical laboratories 

 of various countries. Information has been 

 accumulating regarding the nature and mode 

 of travel of meteorological atmospheric dis- 

 turbances, such as cyclonic movements and 

 line squalls, the propagation of minute waves 

 of barometric pressure, and the nature of the 

 lower boundary of the upper calm region of 

 the air. A dynamical discussion of these 

 topics, or of simpler problems in illustration 

 of them, might be undertaken. The prize is 

 open to the competition of all persons who 



