August 9, 1912] 



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The presidents of the Royal Society and the 

 Royal College of Surgeons some weeks ago 

 took the necessary steps for the formation of 

 a large and representative committee for the 

 purpose of establishing a memorial to the late 

 Lord Lister. A meeting of this committee, 

 which was largely attended, was held on July 

 22 at the rooms of the Royal Society, under 

 the chairmanship of Sir Archibald Geikie. 

 The following were appointed an executive 

 committee to recommend to a future meeting 

 of the general committee a scheme for the 

 memorial to Lord Lister and to organize an 

 appeal for subscriptions : The Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Lords 

 Iveagh, Rayleigh, Rothschild and Alverstone, 

 the dean of Westminster, the Lord Mayor, the 

 Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the 

 Master of the Rolls, Mr. Lewis Harcourt, M.P„ 

 Sir T. Barlow, Sir W. W. Cheyne, Sir R. J. 

 Godlee, Sir H. Morris, Sir A. Geikie, Sir D. 

 MacAlister, the Hon. Sir C. Parsons, Sir W. 

 Turner, Sir J. Wolfe-Barry, Sir J. R. Brad- 

 ford, Sir A. P. Gould, Sir A. Kempe, the Hon. 

 W. P. D. Smith, Mr. P. M. Pry and Mr. Ed- 

 mund Owen. Lord Rothschild and Sir W. W. 

 Cheyne were appointed treasurers and Sir J. 

 R. Bradford was appointed secretary of the 

 Lister Memorial Committee. 



A TABLET is to be erected at the University 

 of Liverpool in memory of the late Sir Rubert 

 Boyce. 



A COMMITTEE has been organized to erect a 

 monument to J. Janssen, the astronomer and 

 astrophysicist, the founder of the observatory 

 on the summit of Mont Blanc. 



At a meeting of the French Academy on 

 July lY M. Jules Claretie, who presided, de- 

 livered an address in memory of M. Henri 

 Poincare. The meeting then adjourned as a 

 tribute of respect. 



Mr. James Dunn, a distinguished British 

 naval architect, died on July 17, aged seventy- 

 five years. 



The death is also announced of Mr. Andrew 

 Lang, known for his contributions to anthro- 

 pology and eminent for his literary and crit- 

 ical work. 



Dr. Johannes Chatin, professor of histol- 

 ogy at Paris, has died, aged sixty-five years. 

 He was the son of the celebrated botanist, 

 Gaspard-Adolphe Chatin, and was known for 

 his work on comparative anatomy and hel- 

 minthology. 



Dr. Ludwig Ganglbauer, director of the 

 zoological department of the Royal Natural 

 History Museum at Vienna, died on June 5. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an examination to fill a va- 

 cancy in the position of assistant physical 

 geologist. Geological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C, at an entrance salary of $1,500 per 

 annum; metallographist in the Bureau of 

 Standards at a salary of $1,800 per annum; 

 pomologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 at a salary of from $1,800 to $2,500 per annum, 

 and assistant dairyman qualified in creamery 

 operation and butter making, at $1,500 to 

 $1,740 per annum, in the dairy division, 

 Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The ninth International Congress of Zool- 

 ogy is to be held at Monaco from March 25 to 

 30, 1913. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that the preliminary program 

 of the Pellagra Conference which is to be held 

 in Columbia, S. C, October 3-4, includes an 

 address to be given by Surgeon-General Rupert 

 Blue; a preliminary report by the Thompson- 

 McPadden Commission on Epidemiology of 

 Pellagra, and other papers dealing with the 

 prevalence, geographic distribution, artificial 

 production and other subjects of general in- 

 terest in regard to this wide-spread disease. 



The new Hamburg Observatory built on the 

 Gojenberg, near Bergedorf, of which Pro- 

 fessor Scharr is director, has been dedicated. 



It is proposed to acquire the estate of Cor- 

 storphine Hill as the site of zoological gard- 

 ens for Edinburgh at a cost of $85,000. 



On July first, the beginning of the fiscal 

 year for the University of California, the 

 property and general management of the Ma- 

 rine Biological Station of San Diego passed 

 formally into the hands of the regents of the 

 university, and hereafter the station under 



