Maech 19, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



451 



May 6, the subject of the lecture being the 

 " Motor Area of the Brain." 



Mb. Henet Bausch, second vice-president 

 of the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, 

 and especially interested in the department of 

 microscopes and scientific apparatus, died on 

 March 2, at the age of fifty years. 



Dr. Hermann Ebbinghaus, professor of phi- 

 losophy at the University of Halle, founder 

 and editor of the Zeitschrifi filr Psychologie, 

 one of the most eminent German psycholo- 

 gists, has died at fifty-nine years of age. 



The death is also announced of Professor 

 Victor Egger, professor of philosophy and 

 psychology at the Sorbonne, and distinguished 

 chiefly by his work in psychology. 



At the meeting of the National Academy of 

 Sciences in April, 1908, as part of the move- 

 ment for encouragement of cooperative re- 

 search, a special committee was appointed on 

 paleontological correlation consisting of 

 Messrs. Walcott, Dall, Scott and Osbom. 

 A grant of $500 was voted from the Bache 

 Fund. As chairman of the section of verte- 

 brate paleontology Professor Osbom has se- 

 cured the cooperation of a number of foreign 

 and American paleontologists, including Louis 

 DoUo, of Brussels; Eberhard Fraas, of Stutt- 

 gart; Charles Deperet, of Lyons; Ernst Koken 

 and F. von Huene, of Tubingen; S. W. Willis- 

 ton, of Chicago, and W. B. Scott, of Prince- 

 ton. The council of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences has voted to cooperate in this 

 work by the publication of a series of correla- 

 tion bulletins. The first bulletin now in 

 press contains a report of progress for 1908. 

 The author of the second bulletin is Professor 

 Dollo, who covers the succession of verte- 

 brates in Belgium. The third covers the 

 work of Santiago Both on the succession of 

 mammalian horizons in Patagonia. 



The U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation 

 with the State Geological Survey has estab- 

 lished at the College of Engineering, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, a Mine Ex- 

 plosion and Mine Eescue Station. The 

 purpose of the station is to interest mine 

 operators and inspectors in the economic value 

 of such modem appliances as the oxygen hel- 



mets and resuscitation apparatus as adjuncts 

 to the normal equipment of mines. The sta- 

 tion also will concern itself with the training 

 of mine bosses and others in the use of such 

 apparatus. Its service is to be rendered 

 gratuitously, and so far as possible, to all in 

 Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, west Kentucky, 

 Iowa and Missouri. The formal opening of 

 the station is' to constitute a part of the pro- 

 ceedings of a fuel conference which is to be 

 held at the University of Illinois from March 

 11 to 13. 



On the first of March, Captain John Don- 

 nell Smith, of Baltimore, sent to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution the second consignment of 

 his herbarium, consisting of more than seven 

 thousand sheets of ferns. The entire her- 

 barium, consisting of over one hundred thou- 

 sand mounted plants, together with his bo- 

 tanical library of sixteen hundred volumes, 

 was formally presented to the Institution in 

 1905. 



A GIFT of £1,000 from Mr. C. F. Foster, and 

 of a second £1,000 by Mrs. Eawlins, towards 

 the intended new Archeological Museum, at 

 Oxford, are announced. These sums, like 

 further sums given by the Foster family, who 

 have now subscribed £6,000, are given in mem- 

 ory of Mr. W. K. Foster. 



It wiU probably be arranged that members 

 taking part in the meetings of the British As- 

 sociation at Winnipeg from August 25 to Sep- 

 tember 1, may travel at the single fare rate of 

 £7 lis. for the return journey between Que- 

 bec or Montreal and Winnipeg. This also ap- 

 plies to side trips in eastern Canada, the 

 local single first-class fare being charged for 

 the round trip, and it holds good for the round 

 trip to points west of Winnipeg, the return 

 ticket to the Pacific Coast points permitting 

 members to return by the Crows' Nest Pass 

 route. 



A JOINT resolution passed both houses of 

 congress authorizing the secretary of state to 

 issue an invitation for the eighth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Applied Chemistry, to be 

 held in this country. All the national so- 

 cieties interested in chemistry, educational in- 

 stitutions, corporations, etc., have been invited 



