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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 28. 



1895. The discontinuation of The Index 

 Medians will be a serious loss to medical 

 science throughout the world. 



Science Progress, which since its estab- 

 lishment a year and a half ago, has main- 

 tained a high standard as a monthlj' review 

 of current scientific investigation, will here- 

 after be published in America by D. C. 

 Heath & Co. 



De.Friedrich Tiet JEN, professor of higher 

 mathematics in the Universitj^ of Berlin 

 and director of the bureau of calculation of 

 the observatory, died at Berlin on June 

 22d. 



Dr. p. a. a. S. Verxeuil, professor of 

 surgery in the Hotel-Dieu and eminent for 

 his contributions to surgerj', died near Paris 

 on June 11th at the age of 71 years. 



Dr. Leonard Stejneger has been sent by 

 the United States Fish Commission, with the 

 permission of the State Department of Eus- 

 sia, on a special mission to the Commander 

 Group of Islands with a view to investigat- 

 ing the fur seals. 



Mr. Willis N". Moore, now in charge of 

 the forecasting ofi&ce of the Weather Bureau 

 at Chicago, has succeeded Professor Mark 

 W. Harrington as Chief of the Weather 

 Bureau. 



Dr. Hans Wilhelm Meyer, of Copenha- 

 gen, died at Venice on June 3d at 71 years 

 of age. His method of removing so-called 

 allenoid vegetations from the lymphoid tis- 

 sue in the post-nasal space is regarded as 

 one of the most important advances of mod- 

 ern surgery. These growths are said to 

 occm* in more than one per cent, of all 

 school children and to be a foremost cause 

 of deafness and deficient bodily and mental 

 development. 



M. Daubree announced, at the meeting 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences on June 

 4th, that Dr. Nordenskjold, professor of 

 mineralogy, geology and geography in the 

 University of Upsala, Dr. Dusen and Dr. 



Ohlin will undertake a scientific expedition 

 to Terra del Fuego, in September next, 

 with the cooperation of the Swedish and 

 Argentine governments. 



An expedition into central Africa will 

 shortly be undertaken under the auspices of 

 the Italian Geographical Society, and under 

 the direction of the explorer Captain Bot- 

 tego. The party will include the geologists. 

 Prof, de Stefani, of Florence, and Prof. 

 Bucca, of Catania, and the biologists, Prof. 

 Vinciguerra, of Genoa, and Dr. Sacclii, of 

 Rome. 



At the Commencement Exercises at 

 Yale University, Prof. George Fisher intro- 

 duced a resolution of regret, which was 

 unanimously adopted, on the death of Prof. 

 James Dwight Dana. He announced that 

 if $4,-500 more were raised, a pedestal and 

 bust of the late professor would be erected 

 on the campus. 



The neurologists of the United States 

 have subscribed about $800 towards the 

 monument to be erected in honor of Char- 

 cot. The sum of about $8,000 has been col- 

 lected for this purpose. 



Mr. R. F. Stupart has been appointed 

 director of the meteorological service of 

 Canada. 



Sir George Hornibge Porter, regius 

 professor of surgery in the University of 

 Dublin, died on June 20th, at the sige of 73. 



Dr. Joseph S. Shaw, professor of chem- 

 istry at Rock Hill College, Ellicott City, 

 Md., died suddenlj^ on June 27th. 



A ' CONFERENCE OF EVOLUTIONISTS ' WaS 



held at Eliot, Me., from July 6th to 13th. 

 Among the speakers expected were Prof. 

 E. D. Cope, Prof E. S. Morse, Mr. John 

 Fiske and Dr. L. G. Janes. 



It is stated in Nature that the first num- 

 ber of a bimonthly journal for sanitarj^ en- 

 gineers will be 23ublished at Brussels on Au- 

 gust 1 , under the title La Tcchnologie Sanitaire. 

 It will be under the direction of an edi- 



