DECEMBER 15, 1899.] 
uses the term Hohenkrankheit rather than Berg- 
krankheit. This seems a reasonable change. 
The latter word really includes only the phys- 
iological effects experienced by mountain climb- 
ers, while the former includes all the effects of 
diminished pressure, whether noted by moun- 
tain climbers, who are still on terra firma, or by 
aéronauts, who are carried above the surface of 
the earth in the car of a balloon. 
i R. DEC. Warp. 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
Proressor E. E. BARNARD of the Yerkes 
Observatory, University of Chicago, sailed from 
New York on December 9th for England. He 
intends to arrange for a lens for the Bruce 
photographic telescope. 
PROFESSOR EDWARD ORTON, JR., has been 
appointed state geologist, of Ohio, to succeed 
his father, the late Dr. Edward Orton. Pro- 
fessor Orton served as an assistant on the Ohio 
Survey, studying the distribution of the coal 
measures, and later prepared the excellent re- 
ports on the clay and clay industries of the 
State which were published in Volumes VY. and 
and VII. of the Geological Survey of Ohio and 
in the Reports of the National Brick Manufac- 
turer’s Association. Since 1894 he has been the 
director of the department of clay-making and 
ceramics in the Ohio State University in which 
is given the only four-year course in ceramics in 
thiscountry. This appointment ensures the con- 
tinuance of the excellent work in economic ge- 
ology which has characterized the later Geolog- 
ical Reports of Ohio. 
Dr. JoKICHI TAKAMINE, of the University of 
Tokio, Japan, known for his researches on di- 
gestive ferments, is at present on a tour of in- 
spection of the larger educational institutions og 
the United States. He has been gent by the 
Japanese government to examine the scientific 
work and methods of American universities. 
THE New York Herald has received a cable- 
gram stating that M. Daniel Osiris has given a 
large endowment to the Institute of France to 
provide a triennial prize of 100,000 fr. to be 
awarded for a great scientific discovery or work 
_ SCIENCE, 
901 
of art. Surgical or medical discoveries are to 
be especially considered. 
Prorrssor Dr. Forster of the Mulhausen 
Gymnasium has received a call from the Dutch 
Government to geological research in Sumatra. 
He will be absent about one year and a half. 
Str WiL~t1AM MacCormac, the eminent 
British surgeon, who it will be remembered 
volunteered his services at the seat of war in 
South Africa, arrived at Cape Town on Noyem- 
ber 20th. 
THE Special Board for Biology and Geology, 
of Cambridge University, have adjudged the 
Walsingham medal for 1899, to H. H. W. Pear- 
son, B. A., Gonville and Caius College, for his 
essay entitled ‘The Botany of the Ceylon 
Patanas,’ and a second Walsingham medal to 
J. Bareroft, B. A., Fellow of King’s College, 
for his essay entitled ‘ The Gaseous Metabolism 
of the Submaxillary Gland.’ 
Mr. W. F. Cooper, Clare College, Cambridge 
University, has been nominated by the Special 
Board for Biology and Geology to occupy the 
University table at the Zoological Station at 
Naples until February 1, 1900. 
Dr. L. A. BAUER, on October 25th, was the 
guest of the Royal Geographical Society of St. 
Petersburg. At the close of the meeting he ex- 
hibited various maps relating to the magnetic 
survey of the United States and Alaska in gen- 
eral, and of the special magnetic survey of 
Maryland. 
Mr. Henry P. WAtcorT, of Cambridge, has 
been elected president of the Massachusetts 
Forestry Association. 
THE death is announced of Professor Francis 
Guthrie at the age of sixty-eight. He was for 
many years professor of mathematics in the 
South African College, and made valuable con- 
tributions to the botany of South Africa. 
Proressor P. KNuTH died at Kiel on October 
80th, at the age of forty-five years. He was 
well known for his researches on cross-fertiliza- 
tion. 
WE also regret to learn of the death of Pro- 
fessor R. Yatube, the Japanese botanist. 
In accordance with the German custom the 
former pupils of Dr. William H. Welch, pro- 
