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Dr. a. Hormann, professor in the Technical 

 Institute at Charlottenburg, died on June 30, 

 at the age of seventy-one years. 



Judge Edouard Piette, noted for his 

 writings on prehistoric archeology, died at the 

 Chateau de la Cour des Pres, Rumigny, Ar- 

 dennes, on June 5, in his eightieth year. Some 

 years ago he gave his valuable collection, 

 chiefly from the caverns of southern France, 

 to the Museum of National Antiquities at St. 

 Germain-en-Laye, near Paris. 



There will be on August 8 an examination 

 for the position of fish culturist in the Bureau 

 of Fisheries at salaries ranging from $540 to 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 lands have been set aside at Hamakua, Hawaii, 

 for a tobacco farm. Experiments to cover 

 three years are planned, which will be carried 

 out under the direction of the Federal station. 

 The funds for carrying on the farm are to be 

 supplied by private parties. 



As a result of the passage of the bill allowing 

 the sale of alcohol without the internal revenue 

 tax, the Department of Agriculture has decided 

 to publish a bulletin on the first of January, 

 1907, when this law goes into effect, giving the 

 public a collection of the best obtainable data 

 on the use of alcohol in small engines. For 

 this purpose Professor Charles E. Lucke, of 

 Columbia University, has been retained by the 

 department as expert to conduct these investi- 

 gations in the laboratories of the university. 

 This bulletin will contain all the work done on 

 the subject, both here and abroad, a complete 

 bibliography, together with the results of ex- 

 periments and the conclusions drawn there- 

 from on American engines. Those who have 

 patents on the subject or vaporizers, carburet- 

 tors or complete engines are invited to sub- 

 mit them for tests. These tests will be con- 

 ducted without expense, except the transporta- 

 tion of the apparatus, and the reports will be 

 published in the bulletin. 



The French government has undertaken to 

 publish the results of Dr. Jean Charcot's 

 antarctic expedition. The Naval Department 

 is to publish the following: (1) Narrative of 

 the voyage; (2) hydrographical results, com- 



prising nautical instructions, description, with 

 views and photographs, of the coasts surveyed, 

 maps and charts; (3) astronomical observa- 

 tions ; (4) observations on terrestrial gravity ; 

 (5) analyses of samples of sea-water; (6) 

 meteorology; (Y) terrestrial magnetism; (8) 

 atmospheric electricity; (9) medical report. 

 Further, the Department for Public Instruc- 

 tion is to guarantee the publication of reports 

 on the geology, glaciology, zoology, bacteriol- 

 ogy and botany of the expedition. The two 

 parts will constitute one work, which will be 

 entitled ' The Cape Horn Scientific Mission.' 



Dr. Joseph W. Eichards, of Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, is making an extended journey through 

 central Mexico and will later attend the Inter- 

 national Geological Congress. 



We learn from Nature that arrangements 

 have been completed for the erection of a com- 

 modious laboratory for the study of marine 

 biology at Cullercoats, on the Northumberland 

 coast. A much smaller laboratory, which had 

 been provided by Alderman Dent, the chair- 

 man of the County Council's fisheries com- 

 mittee, was accidentally burnt down some few 

 years ago, and the proposed building is de- 

 signed to carry out, not only fishery research, 

 but also general biological studies. The gift 

 of the site and the cost of erection of the build- 

 ing will be borne by Mr. Wilfrid Hudleston, 

 F.R.S., the management being under the con- 

 trol of the Armstrong College at Newcastle. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 University of Vienna has delegated several of 

 its geologists, together with two professors of 

 chemistry, to join a body of men of science 

 now at work at Carlsbad, to devise means for 

 securing the springs against telluric and seis- 

 mic disturbances. Once previously, in 1775, 

 when the great earthquake in Lisbon occurred, 

 the waters disappeared for three days, only to 

 return turbid and changed in taste and tem- 

 perature. But these changes soon passed off. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



All-year-round investigation of problems 

 in fresh-water biology is made possible by a 

 recent provision for a division of limnology 

 in the department of invertebrate zoology in 



