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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 609. 



Dr. p. Hauptfleisch, docent for botany in 

 the Teclinological Institute at Stuttgart, has 

 died at the age of forty-three years. 



Dr. E. a. Kehrer, associate professor of 

 chemistry at the Technical Institute at Stutt- 

 gart, has died at the age of fifty-seven years. 



The Civil Service Commission announces 

 an examination on September 26-27, 1906, to 

 fill several vacancies in the position of ana- 

 lytical chemist, qualified in methods for the 

 detection of food adulteration, at $1,200 per 

 annum each, and one or more vacancies in 

 the position of scientific assistant in plant 

 pathology, at $1,000 per annum each, in the 

 Department of Agriculture, and similar 

 vacancies as they may occur in that depart- 

 ment. Competitors in this examination may, 

 if they desire, take the examination to be 

 held on October 17-18, upon filing new appli- 

 cations in due time, this examination being 

 held in view of the urgent need of eligibles 

 with the qualifications indicated. 



Mr. Albert Willcox, an insurance broker, 

 of New York City, has bequeathed $100,000 

 to the National Association of the Audubon 

 Societies for the protection of wild birds and 

 animals. Half of the residue of the estate 

 is, at the death of his brother, also to go to 

 the Audubon Society and the other half to the 

 Tuskegee Institute. i 



As we have already announced, the fifteenth 

 International Congress of Americanists meets 

 at Quebec from the tenth to the fifteenth of 

 September. The preliminary program con- 

 tains the titles of eighty-one papers that will 

 be presented and arrangements have been made 

 for suitable receptions and excursions. The 

 place of meeting, the arrangements for the 

 entertainment of members and the scientific 

 program promise a congress of unusual in- 

 terest. 



At the annual meeting of the fellows of the 

 Royal Botanic Society held on the sixteenth 

 inst., the old members of the council were re- 

 elected in spite of the opposition to the pres- 

 ent administration. The debt of the society 

 is now £34,000. The deficit last year was 

 £975 as compared with £1,237 the preceding 

 year. The chairman announced that the 



council now proposed certain additions to the 

 by-laws (1) to the effect that at four meetings 

 in the year fellows might propose resolutions; 



(2) to enable fellows to vote by proxy; and 



(3) to give the council the power of recom- 

 mending such persons as they thought proper 

 to be temporarily members, associates, or 

 otherwise affiliated to the society, and of fixing 

 the conditions of admission, privileges and 

 payments in all such cases, provided that due 

 regard was had to the position, rights and 

 privileges of existing fellows and members. 



Nature states that a party of French med- 

 ical men is about to visit Germany for the 

 purpose of inspecting the medical institutions 

 of the country. Three days will be spent in 

 Berlin, and other cities and towns visited will 

 include Cologne, Frankfort, Leipzig, Munich, 

 Bonn, Heidelberg and Marburg. A commit- 

 tee of entertainment has been formed under 

 the presidency of Professor von Bergmann. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Dr. William H. Hobbs, recently professor 

 of mineralogy and petrology at the University 

 of Wisconsin, has been appointed to the chair 

 of geojogy at the University of Michigan, 

 vacant by the death of Professor Israel C. 

 Russell. 



Dr. O. W. Richardson, of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, has been appointed professor of 

 physics in Princeton University. 



Dr. J. K Wallace Wallin, instructor in 

 philosophy at Princeton, has been appointed 

 professor of psychology and pedagogy in the 

 Pennsylvania Normal School at East Strouds- 

 burg. 



Mr. E. B. Hutchins, Jr., has been elected 

 professor of chemistry at Carroll College, 

 where a large science hall has just been 

 erected. 



Mr. Eugene F. McCampbell has been 

 elected instructor in bacteriology at the Ohio 

 State University. 



Professor Thoinot has been appointed to 

 the chair of legal .medicine at Paris, vacant by 

 the death of M. Bruardel. 



Dr. Alfred Philippsohn, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Bern, has been called to Halle. 



