OCTOBEB 5, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ceived from the University of Gottingen a 

 renewal of his degree of doctor of philosophy- 

 granted fifty years ago. 



Dr. George L. Streeter, instructor in anat- 

 omy in the Johns Hopkins University, and 

 Dr. Shinkishi Hatai, assistant in neurology 

 in the University of Chicago, have been added 

 to the staff of the Wistar Institute of Anat- 

 omy, Philadelphia. 



Dr. D. H. Campbell, professor of botany 

 at Stanford University, has returned after an 

 absence of a year. He attended last year the 

 International Botanical Conference in Vienna 

 and the South African meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 He subsequently spent a considerable time in 

 the Botanical Gardens at Peridinia, Ceylon, 

 and Buitenzorg, Java. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, Mrs. Britton and 

 Professor Lucian M. Underwood, of Columbia 

 University, have spent the past month in 

 Jamaica, where the garden maintains at Chin- 

 cona a tropical laboratory. 



Dr. C. B. Robinson, assistant curator of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, spent the month 

 of August in Nova Scotia making collections 

 for the garden. 



Staff Surgeon Alexander Gaskill, of the 

 British Royal Navy, is in America studying 

 naval hospital methods. 



Dr. Bradley M. Davis will spend next 

 winter in Cambridge, Mass. (17 Felton Hall). 

 His immediate work will be the completion, 

 with Mr. Bergen, of a laboratory and field 

 manual to accompany the ' Principles of Bot- 

 any,' which has recently appeared from the 

 press of Ginn and Company. 



Dr. George Bruce Halsted, F.R.A.S., has 

 accepted the headship of the department of 

 mathematics in the State Normal School of 

 Colorado at Greeley. Dr. Halsted's transla- 

 tion of Poincare's ' The Value of Science ' is 

 appearing as a serial in the Popular Science 

 Monthly, to be later a companion volume to 

 his ' Science and Hypothesis.' 



Sir George Watt, CLE., reporter an eco- 

 nomic products to the Indian government, de- 



livered the opening address of the session at 

 the School of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society of Great Britain, and the president of 

 the society presented the Pereira medal on 

 October 1. 



Dr. Samuel Sheldon gave the presidential 

 address before the American Institute of Elec- 

 trical Engineers, New York City, on Septem- 

 ber 28, his subject being ' The Work of the 

 Institute.' 



A medal in memory of Fritz Schaudinn, to 

 be awarded every second year for distin- 

 guished work in micro-biology, has been es- 

 tablished at the Hamburg Institute of Trop- 

 ical Diseases, with which Schaudinn was con- 

 nected at the time of his death. 



A monument to Ignaz Semmelweis, the dis- 

 tinguished physician, was unveiled with ap- 

 propriate ceremonies at Budapest on Septem- 

 ber 30. 



Dr. Felix Leopold Oswald, the author of 

 numerous books and articles on natural sci- 

 ence, born in Belgium in 1845, and recently 

 residing at Grand Rapids, Mich., was killed 

 by a train at Syracuse on September 27. 



The death is announced of Professor H. 

 Cohn, of the University of Breslau, known for 

 his work in ophthalmology. 



It is announced that the German govern- 

 ment will hold in Berlin in 1912 an interna- 

 tional exposition, which will be planned on a 

 scale surpassing all previous expositions of 

 this character. 



It is reported that the Ontario cabinet is 

 considering the establishment of a department 

 of public health. 



After the opening of the Institute of Can- 

 cer Research at Heidelberg on September 25, 

 an International Conference on Cancer was 

 held at Frankfort-on-the-Main on September 

 26 and 27. 



In view of the continuance of the disastrous 

 epidemics of plague, cholera and smallpox, and 

 the heavy perennial mortality from malaria, 

 the government of India has decided to create 

 an entirely new service of sanitary engineers, 

 whose special province it will be to safeguard 

 public health. A committee of experts has 



