January 10, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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has been appointed to be an assistant secre- 

 tary to tlie board of agriculture on the re- 

 tirement of Sir Jacob Wilson. 



Mr. Francis J. E. Spring^ senior inspector 

 of railways in India, has been given the de- 

 gree of Master of Engineering at Dublin 

 University. It is doubtful whether -Mr. 

 Spring's valuable services for thirty years on 

 the railways and other engineering works in 

 India enabled him to understand the Latin 

 oration given on the occasion by the public 

 orator, Dr. E. T. Tyrrell. 



Mr. William Hunter, assistant to the bac- 

 teriologist to the London hospital, has been 

 appointed government bacteriologist to the 

 Colony of Hong Kong. 



Dr. S'VMUEL Calvin, state geologist of Iowa, 

 recently delivered a. lecture on the 'Ice Age 

 in Iowa ' before the science teachers at the 

 Iowa State Teachers' Association. 



Professor T. D. A. Cockerell has been 

 elected a correspondent of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Dr. II. M. Saville, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, left Mexico City on De- 

 cember 31, to continue explorations of the 

 ruins in the Oaxaca Valley. 



Professor Lawrence Bruner, who has on 

 several former occasions visited the warmer 

 portions of North and South America for sim- 

 ilar purposes, is contemplating a trip to Costa 

 Eica during the months of February, March 

 and April for tlie purpose of collecting ma- 

 terial for his and other departments in the 

 University of Nebraska. While primarily 

 thus employed, he would be pleased to under- 

 take the collection of material for other in- 

 stitutions when such collecting would not too 

 greatly interfere with the outlined work of 

 the expedition. Other members of the party 

 have also had experience in field work. This 

 expedition is not undertaken entirely in the 

 interests of the University of Nebraska and 

 the funds to pay the expenses of the same are 

 to be supplied only in part by that institu- 

 tion, and it is expected that the commissions 

 undertaken for others would in a measure 

 meet this deficiency. Any person or institu- 

 tion wishing to learn further particulars con- 



cerning this proposed expedition is requested 

 to correspond with Mr. Bruner at the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska. It is planned to sail 

 from New Orleans on or about February 14, 

 1902. 



A c.\BLEGRAM to the New York Sun from St. 

 Petersburg reports that the expedition under 

 Dr. Herz, which was sent to Ivolymsk by the 

 St. Petersburg Academy of Science, has ar- 

 rived at Srednokkolynsk with the remains of 

 a male mammoth. The hide is in an almost 

 complete state of preservation. In the stomach 

 and teeth the remains of undigested food were 

 discovered. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that on December 10 a bronzemedallionportrait 

 of the late Professor Thomas Jones, which has 

 been placed in Owens College Medical School, 

 was unveiled in the presence of a large gath- 

 ering of friends and students. At the same 

 time a brass tablet bearing the names of Pro- 

 fessor Jones and those of Dr. Davies, Mr. 

 Fames and Dr. Aldred, former medical stu- 

 dents of the college, who also lost their lives 

 in the South African war, was unveiled. The 

 total sum contributed by 275 subscribers to 

 the memorial was £978, and Professor Wright, 

 the treasurer, after defraying the cost of the 

 medallion and tablet, was able to hand over 

 £8.52 to the college authorities for the founda- 

 tion of an exhibition in anatomy. 



Mr. Edmund William Smith, archeological 

 surveyor of the northwestern provinces of 

 India, died of cholera on November 21, at the 

 age of forty-three years. He had an important 

 work in preserving archeological remains and 

 in publishing descriptions and drawings. 



Mr. Henry George Madan, senior' fellow of 

 Queen's College, Oxford, and for twenty years 

 head of the science department at Eton, died 

 at Gloucester on December 21. He was a 

 fellow of the Chemical Society and was joint 

 autlior with Mr. A. G. V. Harcourt, of Christ 

 Church, of 'Exercises in Practical Chemistry,' 

 now in its fifth edition, and of other smaller 

 works on chemistry and physics. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Pro- 

 fessor J. H. Chievitz, director of the Anatomi- 

 cal Museum at Copenhagen, of Dr. Carl 



