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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No, 384. 



University of Michigan will leave for . Asia 

 about the middle of June to investigate trop- 

 ical dysentery. 



We regret to learn that President Henry 

 Morton, of Stevens Institute of Technology, 

 Hoboken, has suffered a relapse following the 

 surgical operation he underwent on April 15. 



Me. William S. Weedon, L.B., Maryland 

 Agricultural College, 1897, assistant in chem- 

 istry at the Johns Hopkins University and a 

 candidate for the doctorate of philosophy in 

 June, has been appointed research chemist of 

 the General Electric Company, Schenectady, 

 N. Y. 



Dr. F. A. Bather has been promoted to the 

 assistant keepership of the Department of 

 Geology in the British Museum (Natural His- 

 tory). 



Professor Charles Aurivillius has been 

 elected permanent secretary of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, and Dr. 

 Yngve Sjostedt has been made professor in 

 the Academy and custodian of the entomolog- 

 ical department of the Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Sir William Roberts- Austen gave the tenth 

 James Forrest lecture before the Institution of 

 Civil Engineers of London on April 23, his 

 subject being the 'Relations between Metal- 

 lurgy and Engineering.' 



During the coming season four field parties 

 will be sent out from the department of 

 vertebrate paleontology of the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum at Pittsburg, Pa. These parties will be 

 under the general direction of Mr. J. B. 

 Hatcher, and will be assigned as follows : One 

 under the direct charge of Mr. Peterson will 

 continue the exploration of the Tertiary de- 

 posits of northwestern Nebraska; a second, 

 in charge of Mr. C. W. Gilmore, will carry 

 on the work in the Jurassic deposits on Sheep 

 Creek, Wyoming, where such excellent results 

 have already been obtained by this museum 

 during the past three years ; a third, with Mr. 

 W. H. Utterback in charge, will work in the 

 Laramie of Wyoming and Montana ; while Mr. 

 Earle Douglass, who has recently been engaged 

 by this museum, will undertake a systematic 



exploration of the vaz-ious Tertiary horizons 

 discovered by him in western Montana. It is 

 proposed to continue Mr. Douglass in this 

 field until he has accumulated suiBoient ma- 

 terial and data to enable him to definitely cor- 

 relate the various horizons and to monograph 

 the fauna of each. 



Nature states that the meeting of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences on April 14 was ad- 

 journed as a sign of respect for the late Pro- 

 fessor A. Cornu, whose untimely death was 

 announced by the president in the following 

 words: 



The Academy of Sciences has suifered a great 

 loss. Professor Cornu died on Friday, carried 

 away rapidly by a disease which no one could 

 foresee would terminate so sorrowfully. Our col- 

 league was relatively young; he entered the fieole 

 Polytechnique in 1860 and was nominated a mem- 

 ber of our Academy in 1878, at thirty-seven years 

 of age. Esteemed as a professor at the Eeole Poly- 

 technique, and contributing to the Bureau des 

 Longitudes every year notices written in perfect 

 language, he died while in active scientific work, 

 leaving saddened parents and friends behind him, 

 and universal regret in the scientific world. 



We regret to record the deaths of Dr. Ales- 

 ander Bittner, chief geologist in the Imperial 

 Geological Institute at Vienna, and of Dr. 

 Egon Miiller, decent in physics at the Uni- 

 versity at Erlangen. 



The astronomical library and collection of 

 photographs, drawings, etc., belonging to the 

 late Miss Catherine M. Bruce, to whom 

 astronomy was indebted for many generous 

 gifts, has been presented to the Allegheny 

 Observatory by her sister. Miss M. W. Bruce. 



A DESPATCH from Wellington says the gov- 

 ernment has provided $5,000 for an antarctic 

 relief ship. 



The first conversazione of the Royal Society 

 for this session will be given at Burlington 

 House on Wednesday, May 14, at 9 p.m. 



The agricultural experiment station of the 

 University of Illinois in cooperation with the 

 Bureau of Soils of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture is beginning an agricultural sur- 

 vey of Illinois soils. A field party is now at 

 work in Tazewell County. In conducting the 



