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ington Botanical Laboratories at Cannel, Cal., 

 and Tucson, Ariz., continuing his investiga- 

 tions of transpiration in cotton and other, 

 chiefly halophytic, plants. 



Mr. N. Banks, Bureau of Entomology, has 

 gone to Europe to spend a few months study- 

 ing in various museums. 



At the Worcester Polytechnic Institute a 

 fund has been established to be called the 

 Leonard P. Kinnicutt Student Loan Fund, 

 with certain sums of money left after the dis- 

 continuance of Newton Hall, for eight years 

 the institute dormitory on State St. Dr. Kin- 

 nicutt, while professor of chemistry, was chair- 

 man of the faculty committee in charge of the 

 dormitory, and was always active in helping 

 students financially and in other ways. 



A MEMORIAL service in honor of Robert Koch 

 was recently held -in a temple dedicated to him, 

 which has been erected at Tokyo. The temple 

 owes its origin to the interest of Professor 

 Kitasato. 



We learn from Nature that Lady Hooker 

 will be grateful if any of her friends who 

 possess letters written by her late husband. 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, will lend them to her for 

 the purposes of a biography which Messrs. 

 Smith, Elder and Co. will publish. The let- 

 ters, which should be forwarded to Lady 

 Hooker at The Camp, Sunningdale, will be 

 carefully returned. 



The death occurred on June 13 of Dr. 

 Shadworth H. Hodgson, the eminent British 

 philosopher, at the age of seventy-nine years. 



M. F. Lecoq de Bois-Baudran, the French 

 chemist, has died at the age of seventy-four 

 years. The Davy medal of the Royal Society 

 was awarded to him in 1879, for the discovery 

 of gallium. 



Dr. Karl von der Mijhll, professor of 

 mathematical physics at Basle, has died at the 

 age of seventy-one years. 



M. C. Andre, director of the Lyons Observa- 

 tory, has died at seventy-two years of age. 



The death is also announced of Professor 

 H. F. Weber, director of the Physical Electro- 



technical Institute at Zurich, aged sixty-nine 

 years. 



The twenty-third annual conference of the 

 Museums Association will be held in Dublin 

 on July 8-12, under the presidency of Count 

 G. N. Plunkett, director of the National Mu- 

 seum of Ireland. 



The program for the meeting of the British 

 Association at Dundee on September 4 and 

 following days includes garden parties at 

 Glamis Castle, Kinfauns Castle, Rossie 

 Priory and Camperdown and excursions to 

 St. Andrews, Dunfermline, Arbroath and 

 Aviemore. The president. Dr. Schafer, of 

 Edinburgh University, will devote his address 

 to the developments that have taken place 

 during the last 50 years through the study of 

 the tissues of the body by means of the micro- 

 scope. Professor Bragg will discourse on 

 " Radiations, Old and New," and Professor 

 Keith on " The Antiquity of Man." The 

 lord provost, magistrates and citizens of 

 Dundee are cooperating with the of&cials of 

 the association for the entertainment of the 

 visitors. A hand-book on the city and its in- 

 dustries is in preparation. 



The plan of Professor Willis L. Moore, 

 chief of the United States Weather Bureau, 

 for the establishment of an international 

 North Atlantic weather service has been 

 agreed to by the committee of the Radio 

 Telegraph Congress meeting at London. Ac- 

 cording to the plan as outlined by Professor 

 Moore, a median line will be established 

 through the North Atlantic. All ships on 

 either side of the line must take a daily 

 weather observation which will be sent by 

 wireless telegraphy to other vessels and thus 

 relayed to the American or European land 

 stations. From these reports weather charts 

 will be constructed and forwarded to the 

 shipping at sea. 



Professor W. H. Pebkin has read a paper 

 before the Society of Chemical Industry, an- 

 nouncing that rubber has been synthesized, 

 and that this synthetic rubber can be placed 

 on the market at a price to compete with 

 plantation rubber. According to the account 



