May 24, 1901.] 
Dr. WILLIAM H. Squires, who has spent 
the past two years in study at the University 
of Munich, is expected to return in September 
to Hamilton College, where he has been ap- 
pointed professor of psychology, logic and 
pedagogics. 
AT the general meeting of the Royal Insti- 
tution, London, on May 6th, the following 
vice-presidents were nominated for the ensuing 
season: Sir Frederick Bramwell, Sir James 
Stirling, Sir William Abney, Lord Kelvin, Mr. 
George Matthey and Mr. Frank McClean. 
Dr. Ernst GILG has been appointed curator 
of the Botanical Museum of the University of 
Berlin. 
Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Division of 
Entomology, U. 8. Department of Agriculture, 
lectured at Orange, N. J., on May 16th, giving 
practical information in regard to the relations 
of mosquitoes to disease and directions for 
exterminating the insects. 
Mr. ELtwoop MEAD, expert in charge of 
irrigation experiments, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., is in Cam- 
bridge for the month of May giving a course of 
lectures on irrigation to the engineering students 
of Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Uni- 
versity. 
WE learn from the British Medical Journal 
that the Croonian Lectures before the Royal 
College of Physicians of London will be given 
by Professor W. D. Halliburton, F.R.S., on 
June 11th, 13th, 18th, and 20th. The subject 
of the course is ‘The Chemical Side of Nervous 
Activity.’ The Goulstonian Lectures, ‘On Cer- 
tain Mental States associated with Visceral 
Disease in the Sane,’ postponed owing to the 
illness of Dr. Head, will be given on June 25th 
and 27th, and July 2d. 
THE sum which is being raised for the pur- 
poses (a) of placing a bust, relief or portrait in 
the Bodleian Library, and (0) of forming a fund 
to be called the ‘Max Muller Memorial Fund,’ 
which may be held by Oxford University in 
trust for the promotion of learning and research 
in all matters relating to the history and arche- 
ology, the languages, literatures and religion of 
ancient India, now amounts, as we learn from 
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the London Times, to about £1,750. The sub- 
seribers include the King, the German Em- 
peror, the King of Sweden and Norway, Prince 
Christian, the Duchess of Albany, the Prime 
Minister, the Crown Prince of Siam, a number 
of Indian princes, and a great many well known 
people in Oxford and the country generally. 
It is hoped eventually to raise £2,500, so that 
at least £2,000 may be available for the 
‘Memorial Fund.’ Professor A. A. Macdonell 
is honorary secretary to the movement, and 
Mr. C. Grant Robertson, All Souls College, 
Oxford, honorary treasurer. 
ProFEessor H. G. VAN DE SANDE BAKHUY- 
ZEN, the Secretary of the International Geodetic 
Association, has sent from London an announce- 
ment calling attention to the death of Dr. 
Adolphe Hirsch, director of the Observatory at 
Neuchatel. Professor Hirsch was a member 
of the Association, since the first meeting in 
Berlin in 1866, and was the following year 
elected secretary. This office he held for 
thirty-five years, having resigned it at the 
meeting at Paris last year, owing to the con- 
dition of his health. 
Dr. CHARLES RICE, chairman of the revision 
committee of the United States;Pharmacopoeia, 
died in New York City on May 15th. Dr. Rice 
was born in Munich in 1841. He received a 
very thorough education in Vienna, Munich 
and Passau, acquiring a mastery of several 
oriental languages, the classics and the modern 
tongues. He was an accomplished linguist and 
was recognized as an authority on questions of 
philology and etymology. Dr. Rice came to 
America in 1862 and, during the war, served in 
the navy as surgeon’s steward. After his dis- 
charge from service he entered the Department 
of Public Charities and Corrections, of New 
York City, and has been the chemist of that 
department and superintendent of its drug de- 
partment for many years. He has served as 
chairman of the revision committee of the 
United States Pharmacopoeia since 1880, and, 
in the language of Dr. Horatio C. Wood, Presi- 
dent of the last Pharmacopoeial Convention in 
May, 1900, ‘has made it in its scientific accu- 
racy, in its general usefulness and in the effi- 
ciency and elegance of its resulting prepara- 
tions, the peer of the best.’ 
