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acliievements, together with representations of 

 the vessels and nautical instruments of his 

 time. There is also a medallion portrait. 



The German emperor has supported the 

 medical and scientific men in Berlin in ob- 

 jecting to the form of the monument designed 

 in honor of Virchow. It is not a statue of 

 Virchow, but introduces as the chief group a 

 symbolic representation of his lifework, in the 

 form of a struggle between a giant and a 

 fabulous beast, while on a pedestal a medal- 

 lion portrait of Virchow is placed. 



Dr. F. Noll, professor of botany at Halle, 

 died on June 22 at the age of forty-nine years. 



Dr. Oskar Liebreich, professor of pharma- 

 cology at Berlin, known for the introduction 

 of hydrate of chloral in 1872 and for other 

 important pharmacological work, has died at 

 the age of seventy years. 



The death is, also, announced of Professor 

 Giuseppe Ponzio of the Royal Polytechnic In- 

 stitute of Milan, an eminent Italian engineer. 



The San Jacinto Valley in California will 

 hereafter be known as the Cleveland National 

 Forest. It has been so renamed by President 

 Roosevelt in honor of the president under 

 whose administration the first national forests 

 were created. In 1897, in honor of Washing- 

 ton's one hundred and sixty-fifth birthday 

 anniversary, and upon the recommendations 

 of the National Academy of Sciences, Presi- 

 dent Cleveland created thirteen national for- 

 ests, containing about 23,000,000 acres. The 

 San Jacinto forest was one of the original 

 thirteen so created. 



The TJ. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 noimces an examination on August 12-13, 

 1908, to fill a vacancy in the position of assist- 

 ant, at $1,400 per annum, in the Naval Ob- 

 servatory, Washington. 



Attempts are being made by the New Zea- 

 land government fo preserve forms of the 

 dominion's bird-life that are becoming rare. 

 Mr. A. Hamilton, director of the Dominion 

 Museum, in Wellington, has gone out into the 

 forest-clad, mountainous districts of the north 

 island to obtain specimens of the huia bird 



(Heteralocha acutirostris) , which is one of 

 the most interesting members of New Zea- 

 land's ancient avifauna. The Luia lives under 

 parliamentary protection, but as its white- 

 tipped tail feathers, which were formerly worn 

 by the Maoris to denote aristocratic rank, are 

 much sought after and command a high price, 

 a good deal of destruction takes place. The 

 birds obtained by Mr. Hamilton will be placed 

 on some of the island bird sanctuaries estab- 

 lished by the government. 



The sub-Antarctic scientific expedition, 

 which set out from New Zealand some time 

 ago, and spent several weeks on the Auckland 

 and Campbell Islands, south of New Zealand, 

 is preparing a series of reports, dealing with 

 terrestrial magnetism, ichthyology, geology, 

 bird and insect life, botany and other branches 

 of science. The New Zealand government 

 has made a grant of £500 to cover the cost of 

 publication, which will be undertaken by the 

 state printing office. The reports will be 

 printed in one large illustrated volume, which 

 will be issued next year. 



The Italian government has appropriated 

 $3,000 as its annual share in the expenses of 

 the central office, which the International 

 Public Health Conference last December 

 agreed to organize, with headquarters at Paris. 



The fifth congress of the International As- 

 sociation for Testing Materials is to be held 

 at the beginning of September, 1909, in 

 Copenhagen. 



The annual conversazione of the Institu- 

 tion of Electrical Engineers, London, was held 

 on June 25 at the Natural History Museum, 

 South Kensington. Colonel R. E. Crompton, 

 the president, and Mrs. Crompton, and the 

 council of the institution received the guests, 

 who numbered about 1,700. 



The Royal Meteorological Society arranged 

 at the recent show of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, held at Neweastle-on-Tyne from 

 June 30 to July 4, a meteorological section in 

 connection with the agricultural education and 

 forestry exhibition. This included various pat- 

 terns of self-recording and other instruments, 

 as well as diagrams relating to rainfall. 



