Septembek 14, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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It is to be hoped that reverence for a great 

 name and an honored veteran will not induce your 

 readers to regard lightly the brilliant and re- 

 markable series of recent scientific discoveries in 

 radioactivity. A. S. Eve, 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Jose de Aguilar, director of the Mexi- 

 can Geological Survey, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the International Geological Congress, 

 Vfhich met last week in Mexico City. 



Sir David Gill, astronomer royal at the 

 Cape of Good Hope and president-elect of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, has been elected a foreign member of 

 the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. 



Dr. Otto Butschli, professor of zoology at 

 Heidelberg, has been elected a foreign mem- 

 ber of the Brussels Academy of Sciences. 



In connection vpith the celebration of the 

 quater-centenary of the foundation of the 

 University of Aberdeen, the University of 

 St. Petersburg has conferred its honorary 

 membership on the lord rector. Sir Frederick 

 Treves, the eminent surgeon and anatomist. 



Dr. Edouard Zeller, the eminent vpriter on 

 the history of philosophy, celebrated on August 

 25 the seventieth anniversary of his doctorate. 



Dr. Johann Ranke, professor of anthropol- 

 ogy and general natural history at Munich, 

 has celebrated his seventieth birthday. 



Professor R. B. Dixon, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has completed an ethnological and 

 philological exploration of the Chimariko In- 

 dians of California in connection with the 

 Ethnological and Archeologieal Survey of 

 California. The Chimariko constitute the 

 Indian stock which is nearest to extinction of 

 the many in California, and Professor Dixon 

 found only four or five survivors. He was 

 able to obtain particularly full information 

 as to the language. 



Major Ryder, R.E., who had charge of the 

 expedition to Gartok and western Tibet after 

 the capture of Lhasa, has returned to India, 

 where he has been appointed superintendent 

 of the northern circle of frontier surveys. 



The annual course of Lane medical lectures 

 was given in Cooper Medical College, San 

 Erancisco, by Dr. John McVail, Glasgow, 

 Scotland, on August 20 and the five following 

 days. The general subject of the lectures was 

 ' The Prevention of Infectious Diseases.' 



Dr. G. Woobermin, who has recently been 

 called from Berlin to an associate professor- 

 ship at Marburg, will give a course of lectures 

 at Tale University on * German Culture in 

 the Nineteenth Century.' 



We have already noted the movement in 

 Germany to raise a memorial fund for the 

 benefit of the widow and children of the late 

 Dr. Schaudinn. We learn from Nature that 

 an English committee consisting of Professor 

 Clifford Allbutt, F.R.S., Sir Michael Poster, 

 E.R.S., Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S., 

 Professor Ray Lankester, E.R.S., Sir Patrick 

 Manson, F.R.S., Professor Osier, E.R.S., Mr. 

 John Tweedy and Professor Sims Woodhead 

 has been formed to cooperate with the German 

 promoters of the scheme. Subscriptions may 

 be paid to Mr. Adam Sedgwick, E.R.S., treas- 

 urer of the fund. New Museums, Cambridge, 

 or direct to the Schaudinn Memorial Eund 

 at Messrs. Barclay and Company's Bank, Cam- 

 bridge. American subscriptions would doubt- 

 less be welcome. 



Dr. H. Marshall Ward, E.R.S., professor 

 of botany at Cambridge University, died on 

 August 26, aged fifty-two years. Professor 

 Ward, who was educated at Owen's College 

 and Cambridge University, was for a time 

 cryptogamic botanist to the Ceylon govern- 

 ment; in 1883 he was elected to a fellowship 

 at Christ's College at Cambridge, and after 

 working as professor of botany in Eorest 

 School, Coopers Hill, from 1885 to 1895, he 

 succeeded the late Professor C. C. Babington 

 as professor of botany in Cambridge Univer- 

 sity. Dr. Ward was the author of works on 

 the diseases of plants, and especially of timber 

 trees. 



Dr. Alexander Herzen, professor of physi- 

 ology at Lausanne and the author of numerous 

 contributions to this science especially con- 



