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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1066 



the outbreak of the war. Captain Bourlon, an 

 enthusiastic and gifted explorer of the paleo- 

 lithic French caves, had written a number of 

 valuable papers based on his field work. 



Lady Huggins, who died on March 24, leav- 

 ing an estate valued at about $60,000, made, as 

 we learn from Nature, the following bequests, 

 among others: A sum not exceeding £1,000 

 to the Bedford College for Women (University 

 of London) ; £500, and, if her estate is suffi- 

 cient, a further sum of £500 for the erection of 

 a memorial in St. Paul's Cathedral to the 

 memory of her husband; £1,000, and if her 

 estate is sufficient, a further sum of £1,000 to 

 the City of London School, Victoria Embank- 

 ment, for the endowment of a scholarship for 

 the study of astronomy, tenable at Cambridge, 

 to be called the " Sir William Huggins " 

 Scholarship ; and a sum of not more than £300 

 for finishing, editing and illustrating the book 

 on which she was engaged, being the life of 

 her husband. The residue of the estate, if any, 

 is left to the City of London School. 



The department of physiology of Columbia 

 University had recently on exhibition in the 

 students' reading room at the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, some of the books belong- 

 ing to the valuable medical library of the late 

 Professor John G. Curtis, which has been re- 

 cently acquired by the department. These 

 books comprise first editions or early copies of 

 the leading classical writers on physiology 

 and medicine, and include Hippocrates, Galen, 

 Eufus of Ephesus, Aretseus, Soranus, iEtius, 

 Ehazes, Haly ben Abbas, Avicenna, Mondino, 

 Vesalius, Cesalpino, Eustaohius, Colombo, 

 Bonaciolus, Varolius, Vidius, Wharton, Val- 

 salva, Van Helmont, Mayow, Harvey, Eiolan, 

 Malpighi, Leeuwenhoeki, Hooke, Swammer- 

 dam, Sanctorius, Vieussens, Aselli, de Graaf, 

 Highmore, Brunner, Stensen, Peyer, Huysch, 

 Lieberkiihn, Hales, Santorini, Morgagni, Gal- 

 vani, Laneisi, Whytt, John Hunter and others. 



The Ohio Academy of Science at its annual 

 meeting held recently in Columbus voted to 

 deposit its collection of books, pamphlets, 

 periodicals and other publications of the soci- 

 ety in the library of the Ohio State University. 



The American Climatologieal and Clinical 

 Association will hold its thirty-second annual 

 meeting in San Francisco on June 18 and 19, 

 under the presidency of Dr. Henry Sewall, 

 Denver. 



On June 26 there will be a New York State 

 civil service examination for special assistant 

 in chemistry. Psychiatric Institute, Ward's 

 Island, New York City, at a salary of $1,200. 

 Candidates will not be required to appear at 

 any place for examination, but will be rated 

 on education, special training, experience and 

 personal qualifications as shown by their sworn 

 statements and by answers to inquiries which 

 the commission may make of their former em- 

 ployers and others acquainted with their ex- 

 perience and qualifications. The duties of this 

 position are that of research assistant in the 

 chemical department of the Psychiatric Insti- 

 tute, and candidates should be able to furnish 

 undisputed evidence of some experience in 

 work in the chemistry of the brain in connec- 

 tion with a research laboratory under the di- 

 rection of a recognized authority among physi- 

 ological chemists. 



The Plant World announces two prizes 

 which are to be awarded for the best papers 

 embodying original work in any phase of the 

 water relations of plants. The amount of the 

 first prize is $50, and of the second prize $10. 

 The offering of these purses is made possible 

 by the generosity of Professor B. E. Living- 

 ston and by contributions from Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal, Professor J. J. Thornber, Dr. J. B. 

 Overton, Dr. H. C. Cowles and Mrs. Edith B. 

 Shreve. Competing papers should be written 

 so as to give no internal evidence of author- 

 ship, and should be sent to the editor of the 

 Plant World by December 1. The Plant World 

 reserves the right to publish any papers sub- 

 mitted in the contest. 



Dr. Stephen Smith recently received the 

 following resolutions which were passed at 

 the last meeting of the American Public 

 Health Association, held at Jacksonville, Ela., 

 in December : 



Besolved, That tlie American Public Health As- 

 sociation desires to extend to Dr. Stephen Smith, 



