Maech 20, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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Professoe D. C. Miller, of the Case School 

 of Applied Sciences, has given two lectures on 

 sound at Cornell University. The first lec- 

 ture, on " The Science of Musical Sounds," 

 was given under the auspices of the College 

 of Arts and Sciences ; the second, on " The 

 Physical Characteristics of Vowels," under 

 the auspices of the Sigma Xi Society. 



The "Washington Academy of Sciences held 

 a joint meeting with the Chemical Society of 

 Washington on March 16, when an address on 

 " The Chemistry of Colloids " was given by 

 Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald, of the University of 

 Leipzig. 



Before the Geographic Society of Chicago 

 on March 13 a lecture was given by Professor 

 Henry J. Cox, in charge of the Chicago office 

 of the United States Weather Bureau, on 

 " Cranberry Bogs and the Cranberry Indus- 

 try." 



Dr. W. W. Crosby, Baltimore, delivered a 

 lecture on February 28, before the students in 

 highway engineering, Columbia University, on 

 the subject of " Cost Data in Highway Engi- 

 neering." 



In connection with an arrangement of ex- 

 change lectures with the Missouri School of 

 Mines, the University of Kansas, the Iowa 

 State CoUege and the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, Professor H. H. Stoek, of the department 

 of mining engineering of the University of 

 Illinois, has returned from giving a course of 

 three lectures at Eolla, Missouri, Lawrence, 

 Kansas and Ames, Iowa. The subjects of the 

 lectures were the " Geography, Geology and 

 Properties of Anthracite " ; the " Mining and 

 Preparation of Anthracite," and the " Socio- 

 logical Features of the Anthracite Industry." 



Under the auspices of the State Water Sur- 

 vey of the University of Illinois, the sixth an- 

 nual meeting of the Illinois Water Supply As- 

 sociation held a three day's session March 9 

 to 11 in Urbana. Among the university men 

 giving addresses were Director Edward Bar- 

 tow, of the State Water Survey; Professor A. 

 M. Talbot ; Professor Otto Eahn and Dr. John 

 A. Eairley. The latter spoke on " Public Con- 

 trol of Water Supplies in Illinois." Among 



the speakers from a distance were Mr. E. M. 

 Chamot, of Cornell University; Mr. Wm. M. 

 Booth, of Syracuse, N. Y.; Mr. Jay Craven, 

 of Indianapolis; Mr. W. M. Cobleigh, of Mon- 

 tana State College, and Dr. A. J. McLaughlin, 

 of Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Edward Singleton Holden, astronomer 

 and librarian of the United States Naval 

 Academy, formerly director of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory, died on March 15, aged sixty-eight 

 years. 



Sir John Murray, the eminent Scottish 

 naturalist and oceanographer, was instantly 

 killed in an automobile accident on March 16. 

 He was born in Canada in 1841. 



Mr. George Westinghouse, the distin- 

 guished inventor and engineer, died on March 

 12, aged sixty-eight years. 



Dr. Thomas Morgan Eotch, professor of 

 pediatrics in the Harvard Medical School and 

 well known for his publications on the dis- 

 eases of children, died on March 9, aged sixty- 

 five years. 



Miss Edith Ethel Barnard, Ph.D., in- 

 structor in chemistry at the University of 

 Chicago, died on March 8. 



Dr. F. Korte, a well-known physician of 

 Berlin and father of the distinguished surgeon, 

 has died at the age of ninety-six years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. August 

 Pauly, associate professor of zoology at 

 Munich. 



The U. S. CivU Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for assistant explosives 

 engineer, on April 8, 1914, to fiU a vacany in 

 this position in the Bureau of Mines, at Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., or at other places in the field, at 

 salaries ranging from $1,620 to $2,100 a year, 

 and also for an assistant drainage engineer, 

 for both irrigated lands and humid regions, in 

 the Office of Experiment Stations, Department 

 of Agriculture, at salaries ranging from 

 $1,000 to $1,500. 



We learn from Nature that by the wiU of 

 the late Alderman H. Harrison, Blackburn, 

 legacies amounting to £82,600 are bequeathed 

 to public objects, among which are : £1,000 

 each to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 



