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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. :{75. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



At the last meeting of the Eumford Com- 

 mittee of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences it was voted to appropriate the sum 

 of $300 to Professor E. F. Nichols, of Dart- 

 mouth College, for the purchase of a spec- 

 trometer in furtherance of his research on 

 resonance in connection with heat radiations. 



Dr. Feanz Boas, professor of anthropology 

 in Columbia University and curator of anthro- 

 pology in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has been elected an honorary member 

 of the Anthropological Institute of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



Professor W. O. Atwatee, of Wesleyan 

 University, has gone to Havana for a con- 

 ference on the dietary standards for the pub- 

 lic institutions. 



Professor Emile Boutrou.\, of the Sor- 

 bonne, has been elected Gifford lecturer in the 

 University of Glasgow, in succession to the 

 Master of Balliol, whose term has expired. 



Principal E. H. Griffiths, of Cardiff Uni- 

 versity College, has been given the degree of 

 Doctor of Science by Cambridge University. 



Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, head of the depart- 

 ment of mines and mining in Pennsylvania 

 State College, has been elected geologist for 

 the Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture. 



Mr. I-Ienry L. Waed, one of the managers 

 find vice-president of Ward's Natural Science 

 Establishment, Rochester, N. Y., has been 

 elected to the position of custodian and secre- 

 tary of the Public Museum of Milwaukee, 

 which position he will assume the latter part 

 of March. 



Professor E. Millosevicii has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Astronomical Observa- 

 tory at Rome as successor to Professor Tac- 

 chini, who retired recently. 



The trustees of the Ohio State Academy of 

 Science have made the following grants from 

 the Emerson McMillin research fund: Pro- 

 fessor Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio, to enable 

 him to complete his 'Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Ohio,' $75; Professor J. S. Hine, Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, to enable him to complete his work 

 on the Tabanidse, $50; Professor J. H. 

 Schaffner and Fred. Tyler, to study and report 



on the ecology of Brush Lake, Champaign 

 County, $50. No. 5 of the Special Papers 

 of the Academy will soon be printed. It con- 

 tains the results of investigations made with 

 the aid of this fund. 



Di{. Charles H. Gilbert, head of the depart- 

 ment of zoology of Stanford University, will 

 sail soon on the U. S. steamer Albatross on 

 a six-months' scientific expedition to Hawaii, 

 to continue the work conducted last year by 

 Dr. David Starr Jordan and Dr. Oliver P. 

 Jenkins. Dr. Gilbert will be accompanied by 

 Professor C. C. Nutting, of the Univer- 

 sity of Iowa; Dr. John C. Snyder, instructor 

 in zoology at Stanford, and Mr. Walter F. 

 Fisher, a Stanford graduate from the same 

 department. 



The British Government appointed some 

 time since a committee of experts, consisting 

 of Lord Rayleigh, Sir J. Wolfe Barry and 

 Professor Ewing, to ascertain how, if possible, 

 the vibration of the Central London 'tube,' 

 which is causing serious injury to property 

 overhead, can be prevented. The committee 

 recommends substituting carriages with mo- 

 tors underneath for the locomotives now used. 



Dr. Adolf Meyer, director of the patho- 

 logical Institute for the New York State Hos- 

 pitals, gave an address entitled ' Conditions for 

 Psychiatric Research,' before the Philadelphia 

 Neurological Society on February 25. After 

 the address a reception was tendered Dr. 

 Meyer at the University Club. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, entomologist of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, gave the annual 

 public lecture before the Brown Chapter of 

 the Society of the Sigma Xi on Wednesday 

 evening, February 26, his subject being 'The 

 Practical Applications of Entomological Sci- 

 ence, with special reference to Shade Tree 

 Insects.' 



The death is announced of Mr. William 

 Martindale, a prominent British pharmacist 

 at the age of sixty-one years. He had been 

 president of the Pharmaceutical Society and 

 was for many years one of its board of ex- 

 aminers. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Charles 

 Stuart, a well-known English naturalist. 



