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Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, will 

 be occupied with certain problems in insect 

 embryology. 



Dr. Gustav Melander succeeds Dr. Ernst 

 Biese as director of the Finnish Central 

 Meteorological Station. 



Dr. F. Eistenpart, of Berlin, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Observatory of Santi- 

 ago de Chile, as successor to Dr. A. Obrecht. 



We learn from The Auh that Mr. Eobert 

 Eidgway has returned from his trip to Costa 

 Eica. Although his visit was not as pro- 

 longed as originally intended, Mr. Eidgway 

 succeeded, with the cooperation of his friends, 

 in collecting over 900 birds, besides other ma- 

 terial. His collecting stations were chiefly 

 Escasu, at the base of the Cerro de la Cande- 

 laria; Guayabo, at the eastern base of the 

 Volcan Turrialba; also at an altitude of over 

 9,000 feet on the volcano itself; and at 

 Bonilla, east of Guayabo. 



The assistants; of Professor Novarro, of 

 Genoa, have decided to endow a prize to be 

 called by his name and awarded for work in 

 general pathology. Professor Novarro's elec- 

 tion to the Italian senate was the occasion of 

 the movement. 



At the recent meeting of the British Medi- 

 cal Association the Stewart prize was awarded 

 to Colonel Sir David Bruce, F.E.S., for his re- 

 searches as to the origin and prevention of 

 Mediterranean fever and the Middlemore prize 

 to Profesor Simeon Snell for his contributions 

 to the science of ophthalmology. 



The death is announced of Edward Au- 

 gustus Samuels, the author of an " Ornithol- 

 ogy and Zoology of New England." 



Sir Thomas Stevenson, senior scientific 

 analyst to the home office of the British gov- 

 ernment, died on August 1, at the age of 

 seventy years. 



Prlnce Tamashima, who made valuable con- 

 tributions to Japanese meteorology and seis- 

 mology, has died at the age of thirty-one 

 years. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 J. V. Barbosa du Bocage, director of the 

 Zoslogical Institute, at Lisbon, at the age of 



eighty-four years; of Dr. Hermann Karston, 

 the botanist, at Berlin, at the age of ninety- 

 two years, and of Professor Daguillon, as- 

 sistant professor of botany at the Sorbonne. 



The New York Academy of Medicine an- 

 nounces that the sum of $1,000 will be 

 awarded to the best essay in competition on 

 " The Etiology, Pathology and Treatment of 

 the Diseases of the Kidney." Essays must 

 be presented on or before October 1, 1909. 



By the will of Mrs. A. L. E. Waldo-Sib- 

 thorp, bequests are made to the Eoyal Hos- 

 pital for Incurables and the Charing Cross 

 Hospital, respectively, of £20,000 and £10,000, 

 and the residue of the estate, estimated at 

 some £75,000, is bequeathed to the West End 

 Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, the Swedish Medical 

 Association is to celebrate its centennial nest 

 October, at Stockholm. A special conunittee 

 is making great efforts to have a notable col- 

 lection of historical medical portraits, medals, 

 printed and manuscript works and an antique 

 apothecary shop as features of the celebration. 

 The committee includes some of the editors of 

 Hygiea, the official organ of the Swedish 

 Medical Association, which issues an appeal 

 for all to bring forth their historical relics, 

 etc. 



The meeting of Imperial and Colonial 

 Meteorologists has been postponed until next 

 year at the time of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science meeting in 

 Winnipeg. The postponement is due to the 

 fact that many English meteorologists whom 

 it is desirable should attend, wish to be present 

 at the Winnipeg meeting and do not care to 

 visit Canada this year. 



We learn from The Ohservatory that the 

 commonwealth government of Australasia has 

 taken over the meteorological services of all 

 the Australian States. 



The same journal states that efforts are be- 

 ing made to establish a solar observatory in 

 Australia, and in particular at Adelaide. The 

 Melbourne, Sydney and Perth Observatories 

 are busy with the Astrographic Catalogue, so 



