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ceming non-Euclidean geometry. Ten thou- 

 sand Marks have already heen received. It is 

 desired that this sum may be sufficiently in- 

 creased to warrant the laying of the corner 

 stone on April 30, 1909, the birthday of Gauss. 

 Contributions may be sent to Professor F. 

 Klein, Gottingen. 



William Henry Wahl, author of various 

 contributions to technical science and for 

 tvpenty-five years secretary of the Franklin 

 Institute, Philadelphia, died on March 23, at 

 the age of sixty years. 



Dr. George Lorimer Baker, of Dorchester, 

 Mass., died on March 19, at East Bridgewater, 

 from tuberculosis which he contracted three 

 years ago while experimenting with its bacilli. 



Captain F. H. Hardy died at Aden on 

 March 8 of sleeping sickness, on the voyage 

 home from Nyasaland, where he had been en- 

 gaged in scientific research into the causes of 

 tropical diseases. 



Dr. James Hdtchinson Stirling, the vet- 

 eran Scottish philosopher, died on March 19, 

 in his eighty-eighth year. 



The death is announced of Mr. Thomas 

 Wakley, editor of the Lancet, at the age of 

 fifty-eight years. He was the only son of 

 Mr. Thomas Henry Wakley, the late editor 

 of the journal, and a grandson of Thomas 

 Wakley, who founded the Lancet in 1823. 



Dr. Emil Aschkinass, decent for physics 

 at Berlin, died on March 1 at the age of 

 thirty-six years. 



Professor H. McE. Knower, librarian of 

 the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods 

 Hole, requests us to state that the collection 

 of reprints in the library of the laboratory is 

 very much in need of additions. Publications 

 on the various aspects of biology are in con- 

 stant demand there. Authors are, therefore, 

 requested to send copies of their publications 

 to this library, where they will be particularly 

 useful. 



Among numerous charitable bequests in the 

 will of the late Mrs. Emma D. Cummings, of 

 New York, is one of $25,000 to the patholog- 

 ical laboratory of St. Luke's Hospital. 



A collection of mosses and hepatics has 

 been received by the department of biology of 



Princeton University from Dr. Per Dusen 

 and Dr. Hj. Mailer, of Falun, Sweden. The 

 collection consists of about ten thousand speci- 

 mens, one half of which are Scandinavian. 



The addition to the Hygienic Laboratory 

 of the U. S. Public Health Service, for which 

 the congress some time ago appropriated $75,- 

 000, has just been completed. The addition 

 wiU be occupied by the divisions of zoology, 

 pharmacology and chemistry and by the li- 

 brary. The original building will be devoted 

 entirely to the division of pathology and 

 bacteriology. Among the more important of 

 the new lines of work recently undertaken in 

 the laboratory is the institution of the treat- 

 ment of rabies by the Pasteur method and 

 work in connection with the United States 

 Pharmacopoeia. The latest publication from 

 the laboratory (Bulletin 47) is from the divi- 

 sion of pharmacology and is entitled " Studies 

 on Thyroid. 1. The Eolation of Iodine to the 

 Physiological Activity of Thyroid Prepara- 

 tions," by Drs. Eeid Hunt and Atherton 

 Seidell. 



The Utah legislature has recently passed a 

 law establishing the Utah Engineering Experi- 

 ment Station in connection with the State 

 School of Mines, the official name of the engi- 

 neering college of the University of Utah. 

 The station staff is to be made up of the pro- 

 fessors of engineering. And the station is 

 " authorized to carry on experiments and in- 

 vestigations pertaining to any and all ques- 

 tions and problems that admit of laboratory 

 methods of study and the solution of which 

 would tend to benefit the industrial interests 

 of the state, or would be for the public good." 

 The regents of the university will organize 

 the station staff immediately, and the first 

 bulletin under the authority of the station will 

 be published in May. It will give the results 

 of an exhaustive study of the cements on the 

 Utah market. 



The New Zealand correspondent of the 

 London Times reports that the Ngaunihoe 

 volcano, which has been quiescent for a year, 

 is now in violent eruption, sending a column 

 of steam, smoke and ashes to a height of 8,000 

 feet above the crater. The sun for a time 



