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SCIENCE. 



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Mr. S. Ward Loper, curator of the museum 

 ofWesleyan University, has gone to Cape Briton 

 Island under the auspices of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey to study the pre-Cambrian geological 

 formation discovered by Dr. F. S. Mathew. 



Dr. George A. Dorset, curator of anthro- 

 pology in the Field Columbian Museum, has re- 

 turned from explorations in the southvcest and 

 has gone to Paris as a delegate to the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Anthropology. 



Dr. L. E. Griffin, Bruce fellow at the 

 Johns Hopkins University, is at present in Ja- 

 maica carrying on researches in animal mor- 

 phology. 



A LETTER has been received in Moscow from 

 Dr. Swen Hedin narrating an excursion into 

 Thibet. He reached Lake Lob Nor on the 

 shores of which he discovered extensive ruins. 



The Madras Government has given an addi- 

 tional grant of 800 rupees to Captain R. H. 

 Elliott for the continuation of his researches on 

 snake venom. 



Dr. S. a. Knopf of New York City, has re- 

 ceived the prize of 4000 Marks offered by the 

 Tuberculosis Congress at Berlin for the best 

 essay on the subject ' How to Fight Tubercu- 

 losis as a Disease of the Masses. ' 



Dr. T. G. Brodie has been awarded twenty- 

 five guineas from the Goldsmiths' Eesearch 

 Grant of the Eoyal College of Physicians in 

 recognition of his work on the separation of 

 diphtheria antitoxins. 



The Society of Chemical Industry has awarded 

 its medal to Dr. Edward Schunck for his inves- 

 tigations on natural coloring matters and other 

 researches in technical chemistry. 



Dr. Rudolf of Strasburg, has received the 

 Engelmann award (2500 Marks) of the Univer- 

 sity for geographical exploration. 



A Board of Medical Officers has been ap- 

 pointed to meet at Camp Columbia, Quemados, 

 Cuba, for the purpose of pursuing scientific 

 investigations with reference to the infectious 

 diseases prevalent on the Island of Cuba. The 

 Board will act under instructions from the 

 Surgeon-General of the Army. The members 

 of the Board are Major Walter Reid, Surgeon 

 U. S. A., and Acting Assistant Surgeons, James 



Carroll, Aristides Agramonte, and Jesse W. 

 Lazear. It is understood that the Board will 

 devote attention chiefly to the investigation of 

 yellow fever. 



The Berlin Academy of Science has made the 

 following grants : Professor Adolf Schmidt, of 

 Gotha, for the collating and publication of 

 material on terrestrial magnetism, 750 Marks ; 

 Dr. Leonhard Schultze, of Jena, for investiga- 

 tions on the heart of invertebrates, 2000 Marks ; 

 Professor Emil Ballowitz, of Greifswald, for in- 

 vestigations on the structure of the organs of 

 smell of vertebrates, 800 Marks ; Dr. Theodore 

 Boveri, of Wiirzburg, for experiments in cytol- 

 ogy, 500 Marks ; Professor Maxime Braun, of 

 Konigsberg, for studies on the Trematodea, 

 970 Marks ; Dr. Paul Kuckuck, of Heligoland, 

 for investigations on the development of Phseo- 

 sporese, 400 Marks ; Dr. Wilhelm Solomon, of 

 Heidelberg for his geological and mineralog- 

 ical investigations in the Adamello mountains, 

 1000 Marks ; Professor Alexander Tornquist, of 

 Strasburg, for the publication of his work on 

 the mountains of Vicenza, 1100 Marks; Pro- 

 fessor Alfred Voltzkow, of Strasburg, for the 

 drawings of his work on the development of the 

 crocodile, 1000 Marks ; Professor Johannes 

 Walther, of Jena, for the publication of his work 

 on deserts, 1000 Marks. 



We regret to note that Dr. Gustav Born, 

 professor of anatomy at the University at 

 Breslau, died on July 6th, aged 49 years, and 

 that Dr. Wiltheiss, associate professor of mathe- 

 matics at Halle, died on July 9th. 



The contest of the will of the late Dr. Thomas 

 W. Evans has been compromised by the pay- 

 ment of $800,000 to the heirs. This, it is said, 

 will leave about $3,000,000 for the dental col- 

 lege and museum to be established at Philadel- 

 phia. 



Surgeon-General Sternberg states that 

 100 additional medical officers are wanted by 

 the government for duty in the Philippines and 

 in China. 



The schooner Grampus, of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, which returned on August 1st 

 from a trip to the tile fishing grounds, reports a 

 greater abundance of tile fish than ever before. 



The British Medical Association held its 68 th 



