Decembee 4, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



791 



SCIENTIFW NOTES AND NEWS 



The Bell Memorial Association at Brant- 

 ford, Ont., announces that the former home- 

 stead of Professor Alexander Graham Bell 

 will be acquired as a public park in addition 

 to the erection of a memorial monument to 

 cost $25,000. This monument will be un- 

 veiled in 1910. 



Dr. George W. Hill, of Nyack, N. T., and 

 Sir "William Ramsay, professor of chemistry 

 at University College, London, have been 

 elected corresponding members of the Ba- 

 varian Academy of Sciences. 



M. Louis-rELix Henneguy, professor of com- 

 parative embryogeny in the College de France, 

 has been elected a member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



The Senate of London University has 

 awarded the Rogers prize of £100 for original 

 research in medical science to be divided be- 

 tween Dr. David Forsyth, assistant physician 

 to Charing Cross Hospital, and Mr. F. W. 

 Twort, assistant bacteriologist to the London 

 Hospital. 



We regret to learn that Dr. Andrew J. 

 McCosh, professor of surgery in Columbia 

 University, has met with a serious accident, 

 having been thrown from his carriage on 

 November 29. 



The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences has appointed Professor Tracy Peck to 

 act as its representative at the Cambridge 

 commemoration of the one-hundredth anni- 

 versary of Charles Darwin's birth. 



Professor Theodore Whittelsey has re- 

 sumed his duties in the department of chem- 

 istry of Northwestern University, after a 

 year's leave of absence in Torreon, Mexico, 

 where he has been conducting investigations 

 for the Continental-Mexican Rubber Company 

 on the chemistry of Guayule rubber and of the 

 plant from which it is obtained. 



Dr. Ludwig Diels has been appointed first 

 assistant in the Berlin Botanical Museum to 

 succeed Dr. Robert Pilger, who has been called 

 to Marburg. 



At the first meeting of the Cornell Chapter 

 of Sigma Xi for the present year, held on No- 



vember 12, President J. G. Schurman gave an 

 informal address on " Research in Universi- 

 ties." 



Dr. Joseph Piecher has been appointed 

 vice-director of the Vienna Bureau of Meteor- 

 ology and Geodesy. 



On November 6, Dr. W. T. Hornaday lec- 

 tured before the Stamford Scientific Society 

 on " The Home of the Mountain Goat and 

 Grizzly Bear." 



The eighty-third Christmas course of 

 juvenile lectures, founded at the Royal Insti- 

 tution in 1826 by Michael Faraday, will be de- 

 livered this year by Professor William Stir- 

 ling, M.D., D.Sc,. his subject being " The 

 Wheel of Life." The course, which will be 

 fully illustrated, will begin on Tuesday, De- 

 cember 29, and will be continued on December 

 31, January 2, 5, 7 and 9. 



Mr. and Mrs. Waldemae Jochelson, who 

 were members of the Jesup North Pacific Ex- 

 pedition, were guests at the American Museum 

 of Natural History during October, while 

 making studies of some of the Alaskan ma- 

 terial. Mr. and Mrs. Jochelson are on their 

 way to the Aleutian Islands to prosecute ethno- 

 logical studies under the auspices of the Rus- 

 sian Imperial Geographical Society of St. 

 Petersburg. 



Dr. A. Hrdlicka is leaving, in a few days, 

 for a five months' trip to Egypt and Europe, 

 in the interests of the division of physical 

 anthropology of the U. S. National Museum. 



The Rev. T. A. Bendrat, M.S., of Constable- 

 ville, N. T., has undertaken an expedition to 

 the Upper Orinoco, intending to penetrate, if 

 possible, as far as its headwaters in order to 

 explore geographically, geologically and bio- 

 logically an almost unknown tract of coTmtry 

 east of Esmeralda. 



Privat-dooent Dr. Wilhelm Falta, assist- 

 ant in the I Medical University Klinik, 

 Vienna, has recently spent two months at the 

 Nutrition Laboratory of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington in Boston, Mass. Dr. 

 Falta obtained a grant from the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Science in Vienna for the specific pur- 

 pose of studying gas interchange in diabetes 



