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Association of tlie Members of the American 

 Society of Civil Engineers. At the recent 

 annual meeting of the society Mr. Hawley 

 was elected director. 



Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, head of the depart- 

 ment of geology in the University of Chicago, 

 and formerly president of the University of 

 Wisconsin, gave a series of lectures in the 

 department of geology of the University of 

 Wisconsin from February 15 to 19, in which 

 he reviewed the Chamberlin-Moulton planetes- 

 imal hypothesis of the formation of the solar 

 system, with reference especially to recent 

 work in correlating terrestrial phenomena in 

 the light of this theory. On February 18, Dr. 

 Chamberlin gave a public lecture under the 

 auspices of the Science Club of the University 

 of Wisconsin on " Early Stages of the Earth's 

 History." 



Dr. Francis H. Herrick, professor of biol- 

 ogy in Western Eeserve University, addressed 

 by invitation the legislature of the state of 

 Maine, on February 25, on the subject of 

 " The Preservation and Propagation of the 

 Lobster." 



Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physiology 

 in the Cornell Medical School, recently de- 

 livered before the Washington University 

 Medical School two lectures entitled " The 

 Basis of Animal Calorimetry " and " Metabol- 

 ism in Diabetes." 



Sir Charles Augustus Hartley, the distin- 

 guished British engineer, died on February 22, 

 at the age of ninety years. Sir Charles devoted 

 most of his career to hydraulic engineering 

 and the improvement of estuaries and harbors 

 for the purposes of navigation. In 18Y5 he 

 was one of the committee appointed by the 

 authority of Congress to report on the im- 

 provement of the Mississippi. In 1884 the 

 British government nominated him a member 

 of the international technical commission for 

 widening the Suez Canal. He was a member 

 of the congress that sat at Paris to decide on 

 the best route for a ship canal across the 

 Isthmus of Panama. He was engineer-in-chief 

 and consulting engineer to the European com- 

 mission of the Danube from 1856 to 1907. 



As was noted in Science several months agO' 

 the California Fish and Game Commission is- 

 attempting to build up public sentiment as- 

 the most efficient means of conserving game. 

 In pursuance of this policy the commission has 

 begun the publication of a quarterly, Cali- 

 fornia Fish and Game, which is designed to 

 bring facts regarding game and game con- 

 ditions to the people of the state. The motto 

 of the publication is " Conservation of wild 

 life through education." The second number 

 of the periodical has just been issued. It 

 contains articles relating to game in Cali- 

 fornia, with departments for editorials, fishery 

 and hatchery notes, conservation in other 

 states, life histories of game birds and mam- 

 mals, and the relation of wild life to agricul- 

 ture. Full reports on the work and the 

 monthly expenditure of the California Fish 

 and Game Commission are also given. Dr. 

 Harold C. Bryant, director of the newly 

 formed bureau of education, publicity and re- 

 search is editor of the periodical. 



It is stated in Nature that in answer to a 

 question as to typhoid in the army, asked in 

 the House of Commons on February 8, Mr. 

 Tennant, Under-secretary of State for War, 

 said: " Of the 421 cases of typhoid in the pres- 

 ent campaign among British troops 305 cases 

 were in men who were not inoculated within 

 two years. In the 421 cases there have been 

 thirty-five deaths. Of these deaths thirty-four 

 were men who had not been inoculated within 

 two years. Only one death occurred among- 

 patients who were inoculated, and that man 

 had been only inoculated once, instead of the 

 proper number of times — namely, twice." Ee- 

 plying to criticisms against inoculation made 

 by Mr. Chancellor in the House of Commons 

 on February 9, Dr. Addison pointed out that 

 in the South African war there were 58,000 

 cases of typhoid — more than an Army Corps — 

 whereas in the great force now in France and 

 Belgium, and after six months, including 

 three months of atrocious weather, there have 

 only been 421 cases among the troops. The 

 total losses in South Africa were 22,000, of 

 which about 14,000 deaths were from diseases 

 and 8,000 of these were from typhoid. 



