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to the original works at Greenford-green 

 where mauve was first manufactured, and 

 there will be a garden party at Dr. Perkin's 

 house. At 8:30 there will be a soiree at the 

 Leathersellers' Hall, at the invitation of Dr. 

 and Mrs. Perkin. The subscriptions to the 

 memorial fund already received amount to 

 over £2,000. Dr. Perkin was elected an hon- 

 orary member of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety at the Ithaca meeting. 



Dr. D. E. Salmon, from 1884 to 1905 chief 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has ac- 

 cepted the offer of the government of Uruguay 

 to organize a Bureau of Animal Industry for 

 that country. Dr. Salmon, who is at present 

 engaged in scientific work in Montana, will 

 start for South America about December 1. 

 According to a press despatch from Wash- 

 ington, Secretary Wilson, of the Department 

 of Agriculture, has decided not to enter upon 

 his annual vacation until he has completed 

 the organization necessary to put into opera- 

 tion ^he new meat inspection law. He will 

 give practically his entire time to this work 

 for the next two months. The new pure food 

 law also will require attention, but he intends 

 to leave this almost wholly to Dr. H. W. 

 Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry. 



Sir Frederick Nicholson is at present in 

 the United States in order to study our fish- 

 eries on behalf of the government of India. 



We learn from Nature that Sir Daniel Mor- 

 ris, K.C.M.Gr., the British commissioner of 

 agriculture for the West Indies, has arrived 

 in England on a short visit, and will attend 

 the forthcoming International Conference on 

 Hybridization and Plant Breeding to be held 

 in London under the auspices of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society at the end of July. 



W. J. Morse, assistant professor of bac- 

 teriology at the University of Vermont, has 

 accepted the position of state botanist at the 

 Maine experiment station in Orono. 



Mr. W. J. Mead, of Plymouth, Wis., has 

 been awarded the Science Club medal at the 

 University of Wisconsin for the best bacca- 

 laureate thesis on a scientific subject. His 

 thesis was on ' The redistribution of elements 

 involved in the formation of sedimentary 



rocks.' The Science Club medal is of bronze, 

 and has been executed by Mr. T. Moring, 

 London. 



Me. E. Maschke, of the geological depart- 

 ment of Gottingen University, is desirous of 

 obtaining fossil cephalopods, from all forma- 

 tions, especially from the paleozoic of North 

 America. He wishes to exchange or to pur- 

 chase them, offering in exchange German 

 fossils and minerals. Secondarily, he wishes 

 to obtain crinoids and trilobites. 



Dr. Henry A. Ward, president of Ward's 

 Natural History Establishment at Rochester, 

 N. Y., was killed by an automobile on July 4. 

 He was bom at Rochester in 1834, and, after 

 studying at Williams College and Rochester 

 University, became an assistant of Louis 

 Agassiz. From 1860 to 1865 he was professor 

 of natural sciences at Rochester University. 

 Dr. Ward's establishment rendered an impor- 

 tant service to science by supplying specimens 

 to museums and other institutions, and in it 

 were engaged a number of assistants who sub- 

 sequently became eminent men of science. 



Dr. Fritz Schaudinn, recently appointed 

 head of the parasitological department of the 

 Institute for Tropical Diseases of Hamburg 

 and well known for his work on the protozoa, 

 died on June 22 from septic infection at the 

 age of thirty-six years. 



The deaths are announced of Dr. Ludwig- 

 Brakebusch, professor of geology at Hanover, 

 at the age of fifty-seven years ; of Dr. Ledebur, 

 professor of metallurgy at the School of Mines 

 at Freiburg, at the age of sixty -nine years; 

 of Dr. Robert Craik, for many years professor 

 of hygiene and dean of the medical faculty of 

 McGill University, on June 28, at the age of 

 seventy-seven years, and of Dr. William 

 Ramsden, lecturer on sanitary chemistry at 

 Manchester University, on June 29, at the age 

 of 29 years. 



Sir John Brunner, M.P., has given £5,000 

 towards the completion and equipment of the 

 additional buildings for engineering, metrol- 

 ogy and metallurgy now in course of erection 

 at the National Physical Laboratory, Ted- 

 dington. 



