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[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 715 



The Oklahoma Geological Commission, 

 consisting of the governor, the state super- 

 intendent of public instruction and the presi- 

 dent of the state university, met for organiza- 

 tion on July 25. Governor Haskell was 

 elected president of the commission. Superin- 

 tendent Cameron, secretary, and President 

 Evans, executive officer. Dr. Chas. ISi". Gould, 

 professor of geology at the State "University 

 of Oklahoma, vfas elected director of the 

 survey and instructed to begin at once the 

 preparation of reports dealing with the geo- 

 logic structure and mineral resources of the 

 state. 



Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau 

 of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, 

 has been appointed honorary president of the 

 First International Congress for the Repres- 

 sion of Adulteration of Alimentary and Phar- 

 maceutical Products, which will meet in 

 Geneva, Switzerland, beginning September 8. 



Professor Feeiherr Adolf v. la Valette 

 St. George, professor of anatomy, at Bonn, 

 has celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his 

 doctorate. 



Dr. Antonio Lagorio is taking treatment at 

 the Chicago Pasteur Institute, of which he has 

 charge, on account of infection from a wound 

 from the bone of a rabbit which had been 

 inoculated with rabies. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the professional sil- 

 ver jubilee of Professor Julius Dollinger, of 

 Budapest, was celebrated recently by his 

 friends, and the last issue of the Orvosi Heti- 

 Iwp was expanded into a Festschrift in his 

 honor. His present and former pupils con- 

 tributed a number of interesting articles on 

 various phases of surgery and orthopedics. 

 Dr. Dollinger having been doeent in the latter 

 specialty before he was appointed to the chair 

 of general surgery. The recent systematic 

 organization of cancer research in Hungary is 

 also his work. 



The silver medal of the Zoological Society 

 of London has been awarded to Sir William 

 Ingram for his gifts of birds of paradise to 

 the society's collection. 



At the suggestion of the director of the 

 Aeronautical Observatory at Lindenberg, 

 Prussia, Professor Arthur Person and Dr. 

 Hermann Elias, of the observatory stafp, have 

 been sent to East Africa to make meteorolog- 

 ical observations in the upper air by means 

 of balloons and kites, on the days that have 

 been assigned for international cooperation in 

 these investigations. 



According to a press despatch. Lieutenants 

 Colin, Jeance and Mercier, of the French 

 navy, have obtained excellent results with a 

 wireless telephone of their invention. Com- 

 munication has been maintained between 

 Paris and a wireless station at Eaz de Seine, 

 Department of Finistere, a distance of about 

 300 miles. 



A MONUMENT to the memory of Eichard 

 Freiherr von KrafEt-Ebing wiU be unveiled in 

 the court of the University of Vienna on 

 October 6. 



Mr. Harry Day Everett, superintendent 

 in the Philippine Forest Service, was mur- 

 dered by natives in the island of Negros in 

 the early summer. He had been a student of 

 forestry at Cornell and Michigan and was 

 twenty-eight years of age. 



Dr. Jacob Faenum Holt, professor of anat- 

 omy, physiology and hygiene at Philadelphia 

 High School, died on August 31. 



Mr. Frank B. Kleinhaus, mechanical engi- 

 neer at Pittsburgh and scientific author, was 

 killed through a collision of an electric car 

 with his carriage on September 2. He was 

 thirty-nine years of age. 



The death is announced of Dr. Charles 

 Taylor, master of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, known for his work on geometrical 

 conies and as a theologian. 



Dr. Hermann Settegast, professor of agri- 

 culture at Berlin, has died at the age of 

 ninety years. 



The department of superintendence of the 

 National Education Association will meet at 

 Chicago, on February 23, 24 and 25, 1909. 



The use of the metric system of weights 

 and measures will be compulsory in the Philip- 

 pine Islands after January 1, 1909. 



