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fessor of mathematics and astronomy in 

 Franklin and Marshall College and director of 

 the Scholl Observatory. A correspondent 

 writes : '' He was an indefatigable worker and 

 his publications on Jupiter brought him recog- 

 nition both in this country and abroad. The 

 observations and calculations in connection 

 with this work and also that on the double 

 stars, have been used in the Government Al- 

 manac. Professor Apple was a member of the 

 American Astronomical Society, the British 

 Astronomical Association and a fellow of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science." 



Lieutenant E. J. 'Woodhouse, until recently 

 economic botanist to the government of Ben- 

 gal, has died from wounds received in action 

 in France. 



The death, at the age of fifty-eight years, is 

 announced of Dr. G. Lepage, professor of ob- 

 stetrics in the University of Paris. 



The Rockefeller Fovmdation has appro- 

 priated $125,000 to continue the war demon- 

 stration hospital of the Rockefeller Institute, 

 $50,000 for the work of the medical division 

 of the National Research Council of the 

 Council of National Defense and $12,281 for 

 other medical war research and relief work. 



Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of pathology in Columbia University, 

 who has spent many years in the study of the 

 small ruins of southern Colorado, has pre- 

 sented to the American' Museum of Natural 

 History a collection of pottery and other ob- 

 jects acquired during the course of his work. 

 Dr. W. L. Hildburgh has presented to the 

 museum a very carefully selected collection 

 of archeologleal objects from New York state, 

 containing some fine Iroquois pots and pipes. 

 Dr. Hildburgh, known for his work in anthro- 

 pology, has resided for a number of years in 

 England. 



A " General Congress of Civil Engineer- 

 ing " will be held in Paris on March 18-23 

 next. The objects of the conference, as re- 

 cently explained to the French Minister of 

 Commerce and Industry and quoted in Nature, 

 are to awaken the French nation to the need 



for increased industrial enterprise and the at- 

 tainment of industrial agreement. The Min- 

 ister expressed the hope that the conference 

 would give very close attention to such ques- 

 tions as the saving of fuel and the thorough 

 utilization of intellectual and mechanical 

 effort; wage war on waste of all kinds; and 

 advocate the systematic utilization of by-prod- 

 ucts, and the adoption of improved scientific 

 mechanical methods of production — in short, 

 give that place to applied knowledge that it 

 now merits. 



The California Academy of Sciences an- 

 nomices that the course of popular scientific 

 lectures is being continued on Sunday after- 

 noons at three o'clock in the auditorium of the 

 Museum in Golden Gate Park as follows : 



February 17. Professor E. G. Linsley, depart- 

 ment of geology and astronomy, Mills College, 

 "Our nearest neighbor, the Moon." Illustrated. 



February 24. Dr. F. W. Weymouth, department 

 of physiology, Stanford University, "The crab 

 fisheries of the Pacifie coast." Illustrated. 



March 3. Professor Harold Heath, professor of 

 zoology, Stanford University, "The Pacific whale 

 fisheries. ' ' Illustrated. 



March 10. Mr. Ealph Hopping, U. 8. Forest 

 Service, "Pine insects and their depredations." 



Senator Owen introduced into the Senate, 

 and Representative Dyer into the House of 

 Representatives, the following bill regarding 

 rank of the Medical Reserve Corps of the 



Army : 



That hereafter the commissioned officers of the 

 Medical Corps, and of the Medical Reserve Corps 

 of the United States Army on active duty shall be 

 distributed in the several grades in the same ratios 

 heretofore estalilished by law in the Medical Corps 

 of the United States Navy. 



The Surgeon-General shall have authority to 

 designate as "consultants" officers of either corps 

 and retire them as the interests of the service may 

 require. 



Secretary of the Interior Lane has desig- 

 nated Bartlesville, Okla., as the location of the 

 new experimental station of the Bureau of 

 Mines for the investigation of problems relat- 

 ing to the petroleum and natural gas indus- 

 tries. The station is one of three new experi- 



