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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XII. No. 304. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



An oil portrait of Professor Henry A. Row- 

 land, of Johns Hopkins University, painted by 

 Mr. Harper Pennington, has been presented to 

 the University and hung in the large lecture 

 room in the physical laboratory. 



Dr. Oscar Loew, for some time expert 

 physiologist in the Division of Vegetable Physi- 

 ology and Pathology of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, has resigned in order 

 to accept a position in the Agricultural College 

 of the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan, as 

 lecturer on physiological chemistry. By his 

 resignation the Department loses one of its 

 best investigators in the special field which he 

 occupied. He sailed from Vancouver on Oc- 

 tober 8th. 



Dr. OtrsTALET has been appointed professor 

 of zoology in the Natural History Museum at 

 Paris, as successor to the late Professor Milne- 

 Edwards. 



Professor Bashfoed Dean, of Columbia 

 University, is spending his Sabbatical year in 

 zoological work in Japan. He has begun his 

 work at the Marine Biological Station of the 

 Government on the east coast. 



The expedition to Labrador under Professor 

 Delabarre of Brown University and Dr. Daly of 

 Harvard University has returned, having made 

 numerous observations and collections in Lab 

 rador. 



The Gold Medal of the Paris Exposition 

 was awarded to Professor A. S. Bickmore, of 

 the American Musem of Natural History, and 

 his assistants especially for the photographic 

 slides illustrating the lectures : ' Across the 

 American Continent ' and ' The Hawaiian 

 Islands.' The ' wide system of free education ' 

 carried on by this department in cooperation 

 with the State Board of Education was espe- 

 cially mentioned in the award. Professor Bick- 

 more was moreover invited to give two public 

 lectures in the Trocadero illustrating his method 

 of visual instruction. 



Dr. B. M. Duggar, of Cornell University, 

 has been elected a member of the German Botan- 

 ical Society. 



Professor H. V. Hilpeecht, who has been 

 carrying on explorations in Babylonia, is ex- 



pected to return to the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania at the end of the present month. 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman, assistant curator 

 of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, will 

 give a special course of six lectures on birds, 

 at the Museum on Saturday afternoons at three 

 o'clock, beginning November 10th. 



Dr. Robert Koch, who is employed by the 

 German Government to investigate tropical dis- 

 eases, arrived at Marseilles on October 19th from 

 German New Guinea by way of Hong-Kong. 

 He is on his way to Berlin, where he will present 

 to the Academy of Medicine the result of fifteen 

 months' study of malaria in New Guinea, Java 

 and adjacent German territories. 



It appears that Elias Howe, the inventor of 

 the sewing machine, is not to be included 

 among the 30 eminent Americans of the Hall 

 of Fame of New York University. A mistake 

 was made in counting up the votes, Howe re- 

 ceiving 47 instead of 53 as originally an- 

 nounced. This leaves 21 panels to be filled 

 two years hence. 



The house in which Samuel F. B. Morse lived 

 from 1864 until 1872, at No. 5 West 22d street, 

 New York City, has been torn down and an of- 

 fice building erected in its place. The original 

 house contained a bronze commemorative tab- 

 let which was last week moved to the new 

 building. The tablet bears the inscription : 

 "In this house S. F. B. Morse lived for many 

 years and died." Under it has been added : 

 " This tablet was removed from building for- 

 merly on this site and replaced A. D. 1900. ' ' 



Sir Henry Wbntworth Dyke Ackland, 

 for many years regius professor of medicine at 

 Oxford, and RadclifFe Librarian, died on Oc- 

 tober 16th at the age of 85 years. Sir Henry 

 was appointed reader in anatomy at Oxford in 

 1845 and regius professor of medicine in 1858, 

 resigning the chair in 1894. 



A dispatch from Daker, Senegal, states that 

 M. Paul Blancbet, the well-known French ex- 

 plorer, has died of yellow fever. He was about 

 to embark on his return to France. 



The positions of assistant in zoology and in 

 mineralogy in the State Museum at Albany 



