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SCIENCE. 



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von Wasielewski, head of the department of 

 parasitological research. 



Professor Edward C. Pickering, director 

 of the Harvard College Observatory, was se- 

 lected to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration 

 at Harvard University on June 28. 



According to the London Times an opinion 

 has been widely expressed, both in Oxford and 

 elsewhere, that the services rendered to arche- 

 ology by Dr. Arthur John Evans should be 

 commemorated by a portrait to be deposited 

 in the Ashmolean Museum, of which he has 

 for nearly a quarter of a century been keeper. 

 The discoveries at Knossos are alone more 

 than sufficient to 'justify this step ; but Dr. 

 Evans's achievements as a numismatist, his- 

 torian and traveler have also earned for him 

 the admiration of scholars. It is felt, more- 

 over, that no more appropriate place for a 

 memorial of him could be selected than the in- 

 stitution which has been raised, in the period 

 during which he has presided over it, and 

 mainly as the result of his energy, generosity 

 and tact, to a place in the front rank amongst 

 European museums. A committee, of which 

 Dr. G. A. Macmillan (St. Martin's Street, 

 London, W. C.) is the honorary treasurer, has 

 been formed to promote the object in view. 

 The portrait will be painted by Sir W. B. 

 Riclunond, and a reproduction in photo- 

 gravure will be sent to every subscriber. 



We regret to record the death of Lieutenant 

 Forbes Tulloeh, R.A.M.C, which occurred in 

 the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Mill- 

 bank, on June 20. Lieutenant Tulloeh con- 

 tracted sleeping sickness in Uganda, where he 

 had been sent under the auspices of , the 

 Colonial Office as a member of a commission 

 appointed to investigate the causes of the dis- 

 ease and the means of prevention. 



The death, at the age of seventy-nine years, 

 is announced of Sir George Thomas Brown, 

 C.B., who was for many years chief of the 

 Veterinary Department of the Privy Council 

 and afterwards of the Board of Agriculture. 



Nature reports the death of M. Edouard 

 Piette, the distinguished archeologist, in his 

 eightieth year. M. Piette was well known for 

 his discoveries of prehistoric remains, amoHg 



which may be mentioned those in the caverns 

 of Mas d'Azil (Ariege) and of Brassempouy 

 (Landes). Before his death M. Piette pre- 

 sented his invaluable collections to the Mu- 

 seum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. 



The senate committee on foreign relations 

 has authorized Senator Bacon to report favor- 

 ably the protocol providing for the establish- 

 ment of an international institute of agricul- 

 ture at Rome, Italy. There are about forty 

 governments party to the arrangement. Stud- 

 ies will be made of all kinds of plant life and 

 means of extermination of insects and other 

 pests. The institute will receive the reports 

 of the agricultural bureaus and societies of all 

 countries. The Italian government will sup- 

 ply the buildings and the cost to other gov- 

 ernments will be about $5,000 a year each. 



The annual general meeting of the Royal 

 Statistical Society was held on June 19 under 

 the presidency of Major Craigie, C.B. Sir 

 Richard Martin was elected president of the 

 society for the ensuing session. The society's 

 Guy medal in silver was awarded to Dr. W. 

 N. Shaw, E.R.S., for his paper, entitled * The 

 Seasons in the British Isles since 1878,' read 

 before the society in March, 1905. The sub- 

 ject of the essays for the Howard medal com- 

 petition, 1906-7, was announced to be ' The 

 Reformative Effect in Criminality of Recent 

 Prison Administration.' This competition is 

 open to the public. Professor Edgeworth 

 afterwards read a paper on ' The Generalized 

 Law of Error.' 



We learn from Nature that at the seventy- 

 eighth meeting of the Association of German 

 Men of Science and Physicians, which will be 

 held this year on September 16-22 in Stutt- 

 gart, there will be an exhibition of scientific 

 and medical appliances and subjects as in 

 previous years. The Konig Karls Hall of the 

 Koniglicher Landesgewerbemuseum has been 

 set apart for the purpose. All announcements 

 and communications may be addressed to the 

 president of the exhibition committee. Dr. 

 Lampert, Archivstrasse 3, Stuttgart, from 

 whom further particulars may be obtained. 



A correspondent of the London Times 

 writes from Si-ning, in the province of Kan- 



