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SCIENCE. 



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Civil service examinations will be held 

 in New York City on March 15, for the fol- 

 lowing positions in the reorganized Patho- 

 logical Institute: Associate in chemistry 

 ($1,800) ; associate in clinical psychiatry 

 ($1,200) ; associate in neuropathology ($1,800). 



The Prussian Budget for 1902 appropriates 

 20,000 Marks for further study of means of 

 prevention and early diagnosis of tjrphoid 

 fever; 10,000 Marks to the Committee for 

 Cancer Eesearch, and 53,000 Marks to be 

 applied to the erection and maintenance of a 

 cancer ward and laboratory in connection with 

 the Charite Hospital at Berlin. 



The newly-organized American Electro- 

 chemical Society, which now numbers 294 

 members, will hold its first meeting at Phila- 

 delphia on April 3, 4 and 5. 



The general meeting of the American Phi- 

 losophical Society, to which we have already 

 called attention, will be held in the hall of 

 the Society in Independent Square on April 

 3, 4 and 5. The morning sessions begin at 

 10:30 A. M. and the afternoon sessions at 2 

 p. M. Members intending to be present who 

 have not yet notified the Committee on 

 Arrangements to that effect are particularly 

 requested to do so without delay. Luncheon 

 will be served in the rooms of the Society. A 

 reception will be given to the members by the 

 president and managers of the department of 

 archeology of the. University of Pennsylvania 

 at the Free Museum of Science and Art, 

 Thirty-fourth and Spruce Streets, on Thurs- 

 day evening, April 3, at 9 o'clock. The visit- 

 ing members will be the guests of the resident 

 members of the Society at dinner on Friday 

 evening, April 4. A considerable number of 

 important papers have been promised, a list 

 of which will be published later in this jour- 

 nal. 



Under the auspices of the department of 

 zoology of Columbia University Dr. Jacques 

 Loeb, professor of physiology and experi- 

 mental biology at the University of Chicago, 

 will give in March a course of lectures on ' The 

 Dynamics of Living Matter.' The subjects 

 are: 



March 18, ' The General Chemical Character of 

 Life Phenomena'; March 19, 'The General Phys- 



ical Constitution of Living Matter ' ; March 20, 

 ' Protoplasmic Motion, Muscular Contraction and 

 Cell Division'; March 21, 'The Effects of the 

 Galvanic Current upon Life Phenomena ' ; March 

 24, ' The Effects of Ions upon Various Life Phe- 

 nomena ' ; March 25, ' The Effects of Light and 

 Heliotropism ' ; March 26, ' Ai'tificial Partheno- 

 genesis and the Problem of Fertilization ' ; March 

 27, ' Regeneration and the Reversibility of the 

 Process of Development.' 



Dr. Alexander Macfarlane will give at 

 Lehigh University during March a course of 

 lectures on British mathematicians of the 

 nineteenth century, the dates and subjects 

 being as follows : 



March 14, 5 p.m., ' James Clerk Maxwell ' ; 

 March 15, 11:30 A.M., 'Henry John Stephen 

 Smith'; March 18, 5 P.M., 'William John Mac- 

 quorn Rankin'; March 21, 5 p.m., 'James Joseph 

 Sylvester'; March 22, 11:30 a.m., 'Peter Guth- 

 rie Tait ' ; March 25, 5 p.m., ' William Thomson, 

 first Lord Kelvin.' 



A COURSE of nine lectures upon ' Science and 

 Travel' has been arranged by the Field Colum- 

 bian Museum, Chicago, for Saturday after- 

 noons in March and April at 3 o'clock. The 

 lectures will be illustrated by stereopticon 

 views. The subjects, dates and lectures are: 



March 1. — 'Texas Petroleum': Dr. William 

 B. Phillips, professor of field and economic 

 geology, University of Texas, and director of the 

 university mineral survey. 



March 8. — ' The Sun Dance of the Cheyenne and 

 the Arapaho ' : Dr. George A. Dorset, curator of 

 anthropology. Field Columbian Museum. 



March 15. — 'The Northern Rocky Mountains': 

 Dr. Stuart Weller, assistant professor of paleon- 

 tologic geology. University of Chicago. 



March 22. — ' Geological Field Work in the Iron 

 and Copper Districts of the Lake Superior 

 Region ' : Professor U. S. Grant, Northwestern 

 University, Evanston, Illinois. 



March 29. — 'Birds and their Nests': Dr. 

 James Rollin Slonaker, University of Chicago. 



April 5. — ' Insects of Southern Peru and Bo- 

 livia ' : Mr. William J. Gerhard, assistant 

 curator. Division of Entomology, Field Columbian 

 Museum. 



April 12. — ' Interpretation of Some Features of 

 Landscape ' : Professor Conway MacMillan, Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 



April 19. — ' Recent Explorations in Prehistoric 

 Hopi Ruins, Arizona ' ( Stanley McCormick Ex- 

 pedition) : Mr. C. L. Owen, assistant curator, 



