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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 386. 



Mr. Wiltjam Jolliffk, a well-known civil 

 engineer, has died at Koanoke, Va. 



Senhor Augusto Severo, the Brazilian 

 aeronaut, was killed, with his assistant, while 

 making a trial trip in his air-ship on May 12. 



Mr. J. V. Mansel-Pleydel, the author of 

 several works on the fauna and flora of Dorset, 

 died on May 2, aged eighty-four years. The 

 death is also announced of Mr. John Glover, 

 the inventor of improved methods in the manu- 

 facture of sulphuric acid. 



Nature says : The death of Professor H. von 

 Peehmann, in sad circumstances, on April 24, 

 is a great loss to the science of chemistry in 

 Germany. He had been ill for a long time 

 past, suffering, it would appear, from an in- 

 curable nervous trouble and frequent attacks 

 of mental depression. That he might be re- 

 stored to health he was granted a long leave of 

 absence, and on resuming his duties was seem- 

 ingly better than he had been for some time. 

 But soon after his return he again became 

 depressed and, while in that state, put an end 

 to his life by taking strong sulphuric acid in 

 his laboratory. Professor von Peehmann was 

 only fifty-two years of age, having been born 

 in 1850, and the University of Tiibingen will 

 feel his loss very keenly. Appointed to the 

 chair of chemistry at the last-mentioned uni- 

 versity in 1895 in succession to Professor 

 Lothar Meyer, his skill in teaching and his 

 personal charm were such that the number of 

 students under him increased very consider- 

 ably and, as a consequence, the enlargement of 

 his laboratory and lecture- theater was regarded 

 as necessary. The late professor was a native 

 of Niiremberg, and descended from an old 

 Bavarian family of great social influence. 



According to an official statement recently 

 issued the endowment of the Nobel Founda- 

 tion is about $7,500,000, and the value of each 

 of the five prizes to be awarded at the close of 

 the present year will be nearly $40,000. 



A CIVIL service examination will be held on 

 June 10 for the position of forestry inspector 

 in the Philippines. It is expected that there 

 will be four appointments at a salary of 

 $1,800 and two at a salary of $1,200. 



The final appraisement of the estate of the 

 late Jacob S. Rogers shows a value of $6,063,- 

 173. After deducing the costs of administra- 

 tion and the legacies it is estimated that the 

 residuary estate which will go to the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art under the will is 

 $5,547,922.60. 



Mr. Julius Wernher has contributed £1,500 

 towai-d an endowment fund for the Institute of 

 Mining and Metallurgy, London. 



The Senate has passed the bill authorizing 

 the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to 

 establish a biological station on the Great 

 Lakes at some appropriate point in New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illi- 

 nois, Wisconsin, or Minnesota to be selected by 

 him. For the purpose of conducting an in- 

 vestigation as to the most suitable site for such 

 station, and for acquiring by lease, purchase, 

 or otherwise the necessary land and water 

 rights for the erection of such buildings, 

 wharves, and other structures as may in future 

 be necessary for the proper equipment of the 

 station, $10,000 is appropriated. 



The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 American Academy of Medicine will convene 

 at Saratoga, on June 7, and continue during 

 Monday, June 9. The ofiicers of the Academy 

 are: President, Dr. V. C. Vaughan, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich.; Secretary, Dr. Charles Mc- 

 Intire, Easton. 



The thirty-third meeting of the Eastern 

 Association of Physics Teachers will be held 

 in Boston, at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, on May 24, at 2 p.m. The subject 

 of the discussion is 'The Correlation of Man- 

 ual Training in Physics,' opened by President 

 G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, who will 

 be followed by Mr. J. M. Jameson, Pratt Insti- 

 tute, Brooklyn, N. T. ; Mr. C. B. Howe, High 

 School, Hartford, Conn.; Mr. C. W. Par- 

 menter, Mechanic Arts High School, Boston, 

 Mass.; Mr. C. F. Warner, Mechanic Arts 

 High School, Springfield, Mass.; Mr. C. R. 

 Allen, High School, New Bedford, Mass. ; and 

 Mr. F. M. Gilley, High School, Chelsea, Mass. 



At the annual meeting of the Institution of 

 Civil Engineers, London, Mr. Charles Hawks- 



