JANUABY 16, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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" The Improvement of Plants by Hybridiza- 

 tion " before a joint meeting of the " Garden 

 Association " and the Horticultural Society 

 of Newport, R. I. 



At the Dropsie College for Hebrew and 

 Cognate Learning, Philadelphia, Dr. Ignaz 

 Zollschan, of Vienna, will deliver three lec- 

 tures on January 14, 15 and 19 on " The Cul- 

 tural Value of the Jewish Eace," " The Sig- 

 nificance of the Mixed Marriage " and " Ten- 

 dencies of Economic Development Among the 

 Jewish People." 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that on December 11, the day 

 on which he would have completed his seven- 

 tieth year, there was instituted a quiet mem- 

 orial in memory of Robert Koch by Professor 

 LoeflBer, the present director of the Institute 

 for Infectious Diseases in Berlin, in the Rob- 

 ert Koch mausoleum. The entire board of 

 directors of the Robert Koch foundation for 

 the campaign against tuberculosis took part in 

 the celebration. Memorial wreaths were placed 

 in the mausoleum by this as well as other cor- 

 porations, and in honor of the memorial day 

 the Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrifi, the 

 regular organ of publication of the great bac- 

 teriologist, issued a special number to which 

 interesting contributions were furnished by 

 the most noted pupils of Robert Koch, LoefHer, 

 Ehrich, Brieger, H. Kossel, Uhlenhuth, Pfeif- 

 fer, Kolle and others. 



Sir John Batty Tuke, Unionist member for 

 Edinburgh and St. Andrews Universities 

 1900-1910, the authority on mental diseases, 

 left to the Royal College of Physicians, Edin- 

 burgh his bust by John Hutchison. 



It is proposed to place a tablet suitably in- 

 scribed to commemorate Benjamin Franklin 

 in the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, 

 West Smithfield — the parish in which he 

 worked as a printer. Subscriptions for this 

 memorial may be sent to Mr. E. A. Webb, 60 

 Bartholomew Close, London, E.C. 



Professor Winslow Upton, head of the 

 astronomical department of Brown University, 

 and director of the Ladd Observatory, died on 

 January 8, aged sixty-one years. 



The twelfth general meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Biologists was held at Liver- 

 pool on December 30 and 31. 



Dr. Tempest Anderson, known for his 

 studies of volcanoes, has left £50,000 to the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society, of which he 

 was formerly president, and £20,000 to the 

 Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, established by 

 his sister, Mrs. Sladen, in 1904. 



The family of the late Dr. Javal, the dis- 

 tinguished ophthalmologist, has given to the 

 Eye Clinic of the Paris Hotel-Dieu the fine 

 library which he had collected in his ophthal- 

 mological laboratory at the Ecole des Hautes 

 Etudes in the Sorbonne. Madame Javal has 

 completed the large collection of French and 

 foreign periodicals up to the end of 1913. 



Sir Arthur Evans has, as we learn from 

 Nature, presented to the museum at Cam- 

 bridge the last instalment of an interesting 

 set of objects selected from the collections of 

 his father, the late Sir John Evans. The gift 

 consists of 121 specimens ranging in date from 

 prehistoric times to the eighteenth century. 

 The value of the collection is greatly enhanced 

 by the fact that all the specimens composing 

 it were found in Cambridgeshire and the ad- 

 jacent counties. 



In the alcove of the North American arche- 

 ology hall of the American Museum of Natural 

 History a mural series has recently been com- 

 pleted. It consists of five polychrome frescoes, 

 three of which are enlarged copies of the 

 frescoes on the walls of the cavern of Font-de- 

 Gaume in France and two are enlarged copies 

 from the ceiling of Altamiar in Spain. The 

 originals of these represent paleolithic art at 

 its highest point of perfection. The copies 

 were made by Mr. Albert Operti. 



Dr. Carlos de la Torre of the University 

 of Havana, Cuba, has made a very interesting 

 and valuable addition to the collection of 

 conchology in the department of invertebrate 

 zoology. This material was secured by Dr. 

 F. E. Lutz in his recent visit to Cuba and con- 

 sists of land shells, many of which are de- 

 scribed by Dr. La Torre. 



