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others. On the evening of June 14, Dr. Hol- 

 land delivered an address in the French lan- 

 guage on the work of Mr. Andrew Carnegie on 

 behalf of science, before an audience of fifteen 

 hundred people assembled in the Grand 

 Amphitheatre at the Jardin des Plantes. An 

 abstract will shortly appear in the Bevue Sci- 

 entifique. 



The Smithsonian seat in the Zoological 

 Station at Naples, Italy, has been assigned 

 for a period of from four to six months be- 

 tween October 1, 1908, and June 1, 1909, to 

 Harold S. Oolton, Ph.D., of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Herbert Parlin Johnson, Ph.D. (Chicago), 

 associate professor of bacteriology in St. Louis 

 University, will return to his work in October 

 much improved in health by two years leave 

 of absence. 



Professor Charles Games, of New Hamp- 

 shire College, is at present in Norway collec- 

 ting a supply of the rare minerals for a con- 

 tinuation of his work on the rare earths. He 

 has already secured several hundred pounds 

 of euxenite and other minerals, which he will 

 work up in his private laboratory at Ketter- 

 ing, England, and bring the crude oxides with 

 him on his return to America. He has 

 already about one hundred and fifty grams of 

 lutecium and about fifty grams of thulium on 

 hand, but is desirous of largely increasing the 

 amount of these substances, as well as his 

 already extensive supply of erbium com- 

 pounds, in order that they may be separated 

 in that special degree of purity which can 

 only be secured when working with large 

 quantities. 



We regret to record the following deaths: 

 Professor J. V. Barbosa du Socage, director 

 of the Zoological Institute, at Lisbon, at the 

 age of eighty-four ; Dr. Luiz Cruls, director of 

 the Observatory of Eio de Janeiro; Dr. Hein- 

 rich Wilhelm Struve, known for his work in 

 chemistry, at Tiflis, at the age of eighty-five 

 years; and Dr. Erich Ladenburg, decent for 

 physics at Berlin, at the age of twenty-nine 

 years. 



A MOVEMENT is ou foot to organize the 

 Physical Section of the American Chem- 

 ical Society as a Division of General and 

 Physical Chemistry of that society as has 

 been done by the industrial chemists and 

 chemical engineers. The Physical Section at 

 New Haven, under the chairmanship of Dr. 

 P. K. Cameron, had an unusually extensive 

 program consisting of some forty-eight papers. 

 Greetings were received from Arrhenius, Emil 

 Fischer, Eoscoe, Ramsay, van't Hoff, Julius 

 Thomson, Lunge and von Baeyer, and papers 

 were sent for the meeting by Svante Arrhenius 

 on " Agglutination and Coagulation " and two 

 papers by Emil Fischer on " Polypeptides " 

 and on " Micropolarization." 



In the new tower that is being built in 

 place of the old stone tower at Blue Hill 

 Observatory, the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology will install its new seismograph. 

 The tower is being made moisture-proof as far 

 as is possible. When the seismograph is in- 

 stalled, it will be imder the charge of the 

 observatory force. 



Pursuant to a recent decree of the govern- 

 ment of Peru issued by President Pardo, the 

 time of the seventy-fifth meridian west of 

 Greenwich was on July 28 adopted as the 

 national standard time for the whole of Peru. 

 As pointed out by Professor Todd, in his 

 address to the Geographical Society of Lima 

 last August, the advantages of standard time 

 would be specially marked as the proposed 

 meridian is only a few minutes from that of 

 Lima, and runs almost exactly through the 

 middle of the country. Rarely is a country 

 more favorably placed geographically for 

 adoption of standard time, which has every- 

 where proved a great benefit in greater facility 

 of commercial despatches., as well as precise 

 regulation of internal affairs and interna- 

 tional intercourse. AU timepieces throughout 

 Peru will now coincide with those in the 

 United States where eastern time is kept. 

 Peru is the first South American republic to 

 adopt the world standard. 



In cormection with the celebration of the 

 tercentenary of the birth of Evangelista Tor- 

 ricelli, an exhibition will be held at Faenza 



