342 SCIENCE. 
Roscoe, Sir Michael Foster, Dr. Ludwig Mond 
and Dr. Thorpe. 
A ReEvUTER dispatch from Liverpool states 
that, in consequence of the important discovery 
’ by Dr. Ronald Ross of the malarial mosquito, 
and the need of another man of science to be 
sent out immediately to Sierra Leone, the 
Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases has just 
selected Dr. Fielding Ould for this purpose. 
Dr. Fielding Ould, who has been much engaged 
in private research in connection with the 
Liverpool School of Pathology, has been 
specially trained by Professor Boyce, of the 
Liverpool University, in the study of tropical 
diseases. Dr. Fielding Ould had arranged to 
leave Liverpool for Sierra Leone by the Elder- 
Dempster steamer Biafra on Saturday, Septem- 
ber 2. 
WE have already had occasion to state that 
the National Physical Laboratory, which will 
probably do for England what the Reichsan- 
stalt does for Germany, was established through 
the efforts of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science and is placed under 
the direction of the Royal Society. A further 
use of scientific societies is made by permitting 
six of the twelve elected members of the Coun- 
cil to be nominated by the great technical so- 
cieties—the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical, 
Electrical and Naval Engineers, the Iron and 
Steel Institute and the Society of Chemical In- 
dustry. It is extremely important that our sci- 
entific societies should take action that will 
lead to the establishment of a national physical 
and chemical laboratory at Washington. <A gov- 
ernment which accomplishes so much for sci- 
ence as the United States should not neglect a 
field which Germany has shown to be so im- 
portant to its industrial interests and on which 
Great Britain has now entered. 
THE British Medical Association will meet 
next year at Ipswich under the presidency of 
W. A. Elliston. 
A COMMISSION has been appointed to enquire 
into the inland fisheries of Ireland. The scien- 
tific members are Dr. D. J. Cunningham, pro- 
fessor of anatomy in Trinity College, Dublin, 
and Dr. W. C. Macintosh, professor of natural 
history in the University of St. Andrews. 
[N. 8S. Von. X. No. 245. 
Proressor W. E. Ritter, of the University 
of California, has returned from a biological 
expedition to Alaska, where he has been making 
collections for the University. 
THE Bavarian government has granted $1,- 
500 to Dr. Karl Giesenhagen, for a tour through 
the unexplored interior of Malacca. 
THe Austrian explorer, Dr. H. Leder, who 
visited the ruins of Kara-Korum in 1892, is 
again in Central Asia, and writes that he has 
good prospects of reaching Lhasa, with the aid 
of the ruler of Urga. He intends to join one 
of the large caravans that go from Urga to the 
residence of the Dalai Lama. 
Sir EDMUND ANTROBUS, owner of Stonehenge, 
the famous monument on Salisbury Plain, Eng- 
land, has offered to sell it, together with 1,300 
acres of adjacent land, to the British govern- 
ment, for £125,000. 
In the prosecution of the general magnetic 
survey of the United States and countries under 
its jurisdiction by the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
vey, it will be necessary at times, and especially 
during the summer months, to employ tem- 
porarily and for short periods a number of men 
of the requisite scientific training. Persons are 
desired who have had experience in a uni- 
versity in physics or allied sciences; or persons 
who haye taken post-graduate degrees in 
physics or allied sciences ; or students who have 
had not less than two years’ work in physics or 
allied sciences, including laboratory practice. 
There will be no educational examination for 
these positions, but applicants will be graded 
upon their training and experience, and will be 
required to file their applications with the Civil 
Service Commission prior to October 1, 1899, 
in order to have their names entered upon the 
register which will be prepared immediately 
after that date. The salaries for these positions 
will range from $30 to $75 a month, according 
to the character of the work and the qualifica- 
tions of the applicant ; and in exceptional cases, 
where the person employed has had repeated 
experience in magnetic work, the salary may 
reach $100 per month. 
THE Civil Service Commission also wishes to 
fill the position of electrical engineer in the 
Treasury Department at a salary of $1,400 per 
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