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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 961 



Professor Julius Stieglitz, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, lectured on May 21 at the 

 University of Ulinois on " Combustion, or the 

 Electric Theory of Oxidation." 



Dr. Frank Schlesinger, director of the 

 Allegheny Observatory, delivered a lecture 

 on " Astronomical Photography " before the 

 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, at 

 Ottawa, on April 22 and at Toronto Univer- 

 sity on April 24. 



The Bakerian lecture of the Royal Society 

 was delivered by Sir J. J. Thomson on May 

 22, the subject being " Rays of Positive Elec- 

 tricity." 



The first Wilbur Wright memorial lecture 

 was delivered by Mr. Horace Darwin, P.R.S., 

 at the Royal United Service Institution on 

 May 21, under the auspices of the Aeronau- 

 tical Society, which has raised a fund for the 

 annual delivery of a lecture to commemorate 

 the work of Wilbur Wright. 



Addison Brown, ex-judge of the United 

 States Court, for many years a member of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences, a fellow and 

 a patron, died at his residence in New York 

 City on April 9, 1913, in the eighty-fourth 

 year of his age. Judge Brown's favorite 

 studies were botany and horticulture, but he 

 also took gi'eat interest in astronomy. He was 

 a member and benefactor of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, one of its original incor- 

 porators, and, at the time of his death, its 

 president. The council of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences has passed a resolution, 

 ■drawn up by a committee consisting of N. L. 

 Britton, J. J. Stevenson and E. O. Hovey, 

 which reads as follows : 



Whereas, The council of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences has learned of the death of 

 Ex-Judge Addison Brown, who for many years 

 has been active in promoting the welfare of botany 

 and its related sciences in this city, 



Eesolved: That the council appreciates his serv- 

 ices to science, and mourns his loss; that the above 

 memorial and preamble be entered on the minutes 

 of the council and a copy be sent to his bereaved 

 family. 



Dr. William Hallock, professor of physics 

 in Columbia University since 1892, known for 



his researches in physics and for his interest 

 in educational and scientific organization, 

 died on May 20, aged fifty-six years. 



Dr. Willum McMurtrie, one of the leading 

 industrial chemists of the United States, for- 

 merly chief chemist of the Department of 

 Agriculture and professor of chemistry in the 

 University of Illinois, died on May 24, aged 

 sixty-two years. 



Dr. Ernest Kittl, director of the Royal 

 Natural History Museum at Vienna, professor 

 in the Vienna Institute of Technology, known 

 for his contributions to geology, died on May 

 1, in his fifty-ninth year. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for electro-metal- 

 lurgist on June 18, 1913, to fill a vacancy in 

 the Bureau of Mines, Department of the In- 

 terior, for service in the field, at a salary rang- 

 ing from $1,500 to $1,800 a year. 



The Newcastle city council has decided to 

 invite the British Association to meet in 

 Newcastle in 1916. 



The Minister of the Interior of the Cana- 

 dian government has authorized the purchase 

 and installation of a reflecting telescoi>e of not 

 less than sixty inches aperture for the Do- 

 minion Observatory. The telescope will prob- 

 ably be erected at a suitable site in the Ca- 

 nadian Rockies. 



The legislature of California has passed a 

 bill, drawn by Dr. Charles L. Edwards and in- 

 troduced in the assembly by Mr. Frank H. 

 Mouser, providing for a survey of the coastal 

 waters preliminary to the establishment of a 

 legally protected aquaculture. It is intended 

 to divide the California coast into from three 

 to five districts within which a considerable 

 number of perpetual reservations will be 

 formed for the natural and artificial propaga- 

 tion of animals and plants inhabiting the sea. 

 The law will provide for leasing of sea farms 

 and the patrol and protection of the coastal 

 waters. The survey is placed under the 

 Scripps Institute of Biological Research of 

 which Dr. W. E. Ritter is director. A report 

 is to be made to the governor on or before No- 

 vember 1, 1914. 



