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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 726 



The memorial tablet unveiled to the late 

 Major James Carroll at the University of 

 Maryland on October 11 bears the following 

 inscription : 



JAMES CARROLL, 

 M.D., 1891, and LL.D., 1907. 

 Major and Surgeon, U. S. Army. 

 Born in Woolwich, England, June 5, 1854. 

 Died in Washington, D. C, Sept. 16, 1907. 

 As a member of the Army Commission, which 

 succeeded in demonstrating the mode of conveyance 

 of yellow fever, he became an eminent contributor 

 to science by his investigation, and a heroic bene- 

 factor of his country and of mankind by voluntary 

 submission to the bite of an infected mosquito, 

 whereby he suffered from a severe attack of yellow 

 fever produced for the first time by experiment. 

 Greater love hath no man than this, that a 



man lay down his life for his friends. 



Erected by the regents of the University of 



Maryland. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed to erect a 

 monument to Dr. Cornil, former professor of 

 pathological anatomy at Paris. It will be 

 placed in his birthplace, Cusset, near Vichy. 



Dr. James Fletcher, of the Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa, Canada, well known for his 

 important contributions to entomology, has 

 died at the age of fifty-six years. 



Me. W. S. Harwood, the talented author 

 and magazine writer, died at his home in Los 

 Gatos, California, on November 3. Mr. Har- 

 wood was born in Charles City, Iowa, 51 years 

 ago. Among his writings are " New Crea- 

 tions in Plant Life, or Life and Works of 

 Luther Burbank," " The New Earth," and his 

 latest work, " The Life and Letters of Austin 

 Craig," now in the press of the Fleming H. 

 Eevell Company. 



As the result of a surgical operation, per- 

 formed too late to save his life, Alvah Au- 

 gustus Eaton, well known to botanists as a 

 faithful student of the genera Isoetes and 

 Equisetum, and as a close observer of the 

 ferns, died at his home in North Easton, 

 Mass., on the twenty-ninth day of September, 

 1908. Mr. Eaton was a skillful plant col- 

 lector and in three excursions to Florida in 

 behaK of the Ames Botanical Laboratory 

 made many interesting discoveries of impor- 



tance to American botany. During the last 

 five years of his life he was actively engaged 

 in work on the Orchidacese. His herbarium 

 of Isoetes is, at his request, to be deposited 

 among the collections of the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden at St. Louis, Mo. 



M. Alfred Ditte, the distinguished French 

 chemist, has died at the age of sixty-five years. 



Mr. Andrew Graham, from 1864 to 1903, 

 first assistant at the Cambridge Observatory, 

 known especially for his work on the Cam- 

 bridge star catalogue published in 1897, has 

 died at the age of ninety-three years. 



Sir Henry Alfred Pitman, registrar of the 

 College of Physicians, London, from 1858 to 

 1880, and formerly physician at St. George's 

 Hospital, died on November 6. He received 

 his bachelor's degree at Cambridge University 

 in 1831, and celebrated last July his hun- 

 dredth birthday. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Dr. 

 John M. Thome, director of the Cordova Ob- 

 servatory since the retirement of Dr. Gould; 

 of Dr. Cecil G. Dolmage, known for his wri- 

 tings on astronomy; and of Mr. Archibald J. 

 Little, who did valuable geographical work in 

 the interior of Asia. 



It is announced that the cost of the new 

 library building for the Medical and Chir- 

 urgical Faculty of Maryland will be $88,000, 

 and of this about $63,000 has abeady been 

 subscribed. 



Me. W. K. Da^tey has given the sum of 

 £1,000 towards the initial expenses of the 

 Australian Institute of Tropical Diseases 

 shortly to be established at Townsville, North 

 Queensland. 



Plans for a new Norwegian polar expedi- 

 tion were described by Captain Amundsen at 

 a large meeting of the Geographical Society 

 held at Christiania on November 10, and at- 

 tended by the King of Norway. Captain 

 Amundsen's plan is to go with Dr. Nansen's 

 old ship the Fram to Cape Barrow, the north- 

 ernmost point of Alaska, and thence north. 

 The ship will drift with the ice across the 

 Polar ocean. The voyage is expected to last 

 five years. 



