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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol,. XXIV. No. 623. 



Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, 18 Trumbull 

 St., New Haven, Conn. 



Emeritus Professor Campbell Fraser was 

 presented on November 6, by the senatus and 

 former pupils, with addresses of congratula- 

 tion on the occasion of his jubilee as professor 

 of logic and metaphysics in the University 

 of Edinburgh. The principal. Sir William 

 Turner, presided over a large representation 

 of the senatus, and the class room was filled 

 with the general public and students. 



Dr. August Tobler, decent in paleontology 

 at Basle, will make an expedition to the East 

 Indies, lasting several years. 



Dr. E. Grosse, associate professor of eth- 

 nology at Freiburg, has received leave of ab- 

 sence to carry on researches in east Asia. 



The fourth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course was delivered by Professor J. G. Adami, 

 of McGill University, Montreal, on December 

 1, at 8:30 p.m., at the New York Academy of 

 Medicine. Subject : ' The Myelins and Po- 

 tential Fluid Crystals of the Body.' 



At its annual dinner, on November 21, the 

 Society of Ex-Internes of Kings County Hos- 

 pital, Brooklyn, presented to the hospital asso- 

 ciation a bronze meraorial tablet in memory 

 of the late Walter Reed, who was an interne 

 there in 1871, prior to his entrance into the 

 medical department of the United States 

 Army. 



A MARBLE bust of Dr. Wilhelm Hittorf has 

 been placed in the physical laboratory of 

 Miinster University, on the occasion of the 

 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of his 

 doctorate. 



Major Horatio N. Rust, noted both for his 

 work on behalf of the Indians of southern 

 California and for his archeological and eth- 

 nological collections and publications, died at 

 South Pasadena, California, on November 14. 



Dr. von Rothmund, professor of ophthal- 

 mology in the University of Munich, has died 

 at the age of sixty-eight years. 



The Rev. Dr. Johannes Dzierzon, known 

 for his studies on bees, has died at the age of 

 ninety-five years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces the postponement, to January 3-4, 

 1907, of the examination scheduled for De- 

 cember 5-6, to fill at least four existing va- 

 cancies and vacancies as they may occur in 

 the position of aid in the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, at $720 per annum. A vacancy as 

 computer at $1,400 to $1,800 per annum, ac- 

 cording to experience, and one as draftsman, 

 at $1,400 to $1,800, according to experience, 

 both in the service of the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey at Manila, P. I., may also be filled 

 from the eligibles resulting from this exam- 

 ination, provided suitable eligibles are secured. 

 As the commission has experienced consider- 

 able difficulty in securing a sufficient number 

 of eligibles for this position to meet the needs 

 of the service, qualified persons are urged to 

 enter this examination. There will also be a 

 civil service examination on December 12, to 

 fill a vacancy in the position of assistant in 

 animal husbandry in the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, Department of Agriculture, at 

 $1,800 per annum. 



Among the New York State civil service 

 examinations in December is one of chem- 

 ist in the Department of Agriculture at a 

 salary of $1,200. The examination will have 

 special reference to the analysis of food and 

 dairy products. 



A Seismological Society has been formed 

 in California. The letter calling a prelim- 

 inary meeting says : " The formation of such 

 a society would seem to be both proper and 

 opportune. The fact that the Pacific coast 

 has been the center of much seismic activity, 

 and that the city of San Francisco has now a 

 historic interest in matters seismological, may 

 be offered as valid reasons why this section of 

 our country should take the initiative in the 

 formation of such an organization. The State 

 Earthquake Commission is on record as favor- 

 ing the formation of a seismological society. 

 Several earnest investigators, including Dr. 

 Omori, who recently visited the coast, have 

 urged that organiz;ed effort be attempted 

 through such a society, to collect, preserve 

 and utilize all records, reports and studies of 

 seismic phenomena. The prime object of such 

 an organization as in Japan should be to 



