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supplementary estimates toward the expenses 

 incurred in carrying out investigations upon 

 defects in ostrich feathers, under the direction 

 of Professor J. E. Duerden, of Rhodes Univer- 

 sity College, Grahamstown. 



Tpie New York Evening Post says : " Signer 

 Giolitti, a son of the prime minister of Italy, 

 accompanied by his wife, has arrived from 

 Naples. He is a professor of mathematics, 

 and has come to America to attend courses of 

 lectures at some of the universities in this 

 country." 



Mr. Wellman has arrived in Norway, on 

 board the Frithjof, with his balloon, which 

 will be sent to Paris for improvements to be 

 made in the motor, which broke down con- 

 stantly. The wireless apparatus which had 

 been installed in Spitzbergen for communica- 

 tion with Hammerfest was also a failure, tele- 

 grams not having been received from Norway. 



The opening exercises of the 153d academic 

 year of Columbia University were held on 

 September 26. The annual academic address 

 was delivered by W. H. Burr, professor of 

 civil engineering, upon ' The Technical School 

 and the University.' Professor Burr was fol- 

 lowed by Dr. Hermann Schumacher, of the 

 University of Bonn, first Kaiser Wilhelm pro- 

 fessor of German history and institutions in 

 Columbia University. 



On the evening of October 10 Professor C. 

 J. Keyser, of Columbia University, will de- 

 liver a lecture on ' The Space Concept of 

 Lucretius and Blaise Pascal ' before the 

 mathematical section of the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute of Arts and Sciences. 



Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann, eminent for his 

 work in theoretical physics, of which subject 

 lie was professor in the University of Vienna, 

 has committed suicide. He was born in 

 Yienna in 1844, and after qualifying as docent 

 at the university was successively professor at 

 Gratz, Munich and Leipzig. 



The death is announced of Khan Bahadur 

 Yusuf Sharif a Mohammedan geographer and 

 topographer, who carried out important sur- 

 veys in India and in Persia. 



New York state civil service examinations 

 will be held on October 13 for assistant bac- 

 teriologist in the State Department of Health 

 at a salary of $1,500, and for assistant sanitary 

 chemist in the same department at a salary of 

 $720. There will also be an examination for 

 the position of archeologist in the science 

 division of the Educational Department at a 

 salary of $900. This position requires an ac- 

 quaintance with the Indian tribes of the state. 



The U. S. civil service commission an- 

 nounces an examination on October 17 for the 

 position of engineer in the department of 

 sewer and waterworks construction, Manila, at 

 a salary of $4,000, and for the position of as- 

 sistant engineers at salaries of $1,800. 



An arrangement has been made by Dr. 

 Samuel G. Dixon, state commissioner of 

 health in Pennsylvania and Dr. Allen J. 

 Smith, professor of pathology in the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, by which the patholog- 

 ical laboratories of the Medical School shall 

 be used by the state for bacteriological and 

 other work. Dr. Herbert Fox has been put 

 in charge of the work. 



The firm of Friedrich Krupp, Ltd., of 

 Essen, plans the erection of a technico-phys- 

 ical laboratory at a cost of $500,000. 



The American Breeders' Association will 

 hold its regular winter meeting at Columbus, 

 Ohio, on January 15-18, 1907. The visiting 

 association will conduct its daily sessions at 

 the university and board of trade buildings 

 as the guest of the Ohio Board of Agriculture, 

 the Ohio State University and the Ohio agri- 

 cultural societies. The most successful and 

 foremost workers and investigators in breed- 

 ing and heredity in animals and plants are 

 being secured for the program. A prominent 

 feature will be the reports from the forty- 

 three committees among whom the work of 

 the society is distributed. The American 

 Breeders' Association has an annual member- 

 ship of over 950 as well as 42 life members. 

 Volume IL, the second annual report, is just 

 off the press. 



According to Reuter's Agency, the Indian 

 government has under consideration a scheme 



