JANUARY 25, 1901. ] 
department in charge of Dr. Hermann Kellner, 
who has been associated with Professor Abbe in 
the optical works of Carl Zeiss at Jena. Mr. 
Carl F. Dieckmann, who has also been em- 
ployed at the Zeiss optical works, has been 
engaged as superintendent. 
Dr. BusHRoD W. JAMES, of Philadelphia, 
has been elected president of the Pennsylvania 
Fish Protective Association. 
Mr. G. T. HASTINGS, who was last year as- 
sistant in botany in Cornell University, is this 
year teacher of science in the English Institute, 
Santiago, Chili. Mr. Hastings’s engagement is 
for five years, and during that time he expects 
to make a thorough study of the flora of the 
region. 
Dr. Victor C. VAUGHAN, professor of hy- 
giene in the University of Michigan, has been 
appointed to a third term as member of the 
Michigan State Board of Health. 
PROFESSOR EH. F. BUCHNER, of the depart- 
ment of psychology of New York University, 
has been elected an honorary member of the 
new French Société Libre pour ) Etude Psy- 
chologique de |’Enfant, of which Professor F. 
Buisson, of the Sorbonne, is president. 
THE Science Club of Northwestern Univer- 
sity held its last meeting on the evening of 
January 11th. The Club was addressed by Pro- 
fessor A. V. EH. Young on ‘A Century of Dis- 
covery among the EKlements.’ 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM HALLOCK, of Columbia 
University, gave on January 22d the second 
address before the Washington Academy of 
Sciences on the ‘Progress and Tendency of 
Science during the Nineteenth Century,’ his 
subject being physics. 
Dr. Davin T. Day, of the United States Geo- 
logical Survey, is giving a series of Columbia 
University lectures at the American Museum of 
Natural History on Saturday evenings, as fol- 
lows: January 5th, ‘The Mining Outlook of the 
Opening Century’; January 12th, ‘The World’s 
Mineral Wealth as shown at the Paris Exposi- 
tion’; January 19th, ‘The Petroleum Industry 
of the United States’; January 26th, ‘The 
Mineral Resources of Cuba, Porto Rico, Ha- 
waii and the Philippines.’ 
SCIENCE. . 
155 
THE Friday evening meetings of the Royal 
Institution of Great Britain opened on January 
18, 1901, when Professor Dewar was expected 
to give a lecture on ‘ Gases at the Beginning and 
End of the Century.’ 
Dr. HARTINGTON, who has been relieved from 
the position of head of the medical department 
of the University of West Virginia by the Board 
of Regents, has brought suit to recover $25,000 
from the president of the University. 
THE death is announced of M. Charles Her- 
mite, the eminent French mathematician, at 
the age of seventy-eight years. 
THE death is also announced at the age of 
seventy-five years of Dr. Potain, professor of 
medicine at various institutions in Paris since 
1876, member of the Academy of Medicine since 
1882, and of the Academy of Sciences since 1894. 
THE position of hydrographic draughtsman 
in the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, at a 
salary of $600 per annum, will be filled by Civil 
Service examination on February 5th and 6th. 
WE are requested to state that a young Rus- 
sian gentleman, now living at St. Petersburg, 
who has done excellent work in physics and 
bacteriology, desires to find a position in the 
United States in the field of physiology or the 
applications of physics. Those interested in 
this matter will do well to correspond directly 
with His Excellency, Dr. H. Wild, 56 Englisch 
Viertel-Str., Zurich, Switzerland, or with Pro- 
fessor Cleveland Abbe, Washington, D. C. 
THE Carmichael prize of the Royal College 
of Surgeons in Ireland, which is of the value of 
£120, has been awarded to Mr. H. Nelson 
Hardy, F.R.C.S.Ed. for an essay dealing with 
the state of medicine, surgery and pharmacy in 
the United Kingdom. 
Tue Astley Cooper triennial prize of £300 
will be awarded by Guy’s Hospital, London, 
for an essay on ‘The Pathology of Carcinoma 
and the Distribution and Frequency of the Sec- 
ondary Deposits corresponding to the Various 
Primary Growths.’ The essays should be sent 
to Guy’s Hospital on or before January 1, 1904. 
THE New York Zoological Society has pre- 
sented the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory with the following specimens: A young 
