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SCIENCE. 



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piseases, New York, the income to be used for 

 pathological research. 



: Hr. Edjiukd Oldfield, F.S.A., of Rush- 

 more, Torquay, Honorary Fellow of Worcester 

 College, Oxford, who died on April 11, last, be- 

 queathed to the chancellor, masters and schol- 

 ars of the University of Oxford his cabinet of 

 antiquities, and various specimens of Greek, 

 Roman and Etruscan art in marble, bronze 

 and terra cotta, and he desired that they 

 should be placed in the Ashmolean Museum 

 and known as the ' Oldfield Bequest.' 



The Royal Academy of Medicine of Bel- 

 giimi offers a prize of 800 francs for research 

 on the anatomical relations of 'the neurons to 

 each other. 



' The Royal Society held the first of its an^ 

 hual conversaziones on May 14, with, as ap- 

 pears from the official catalogue, a very inter- 

 esting exhibit of new apparatus and methods. 

 Of most general popular interest were per- 

 haps the exhibits in color photography by Dr. 

 E. D. Roberts, Sir H. Trueman Wood and 

 Messrs. Samger Shepherd and Company. . 

 The photographs showing geological forma- 

 tions and photomicrographs of stained sec- 

 tions of tissues are of considerable scientific 

 interest as giving results free from the per- 

 sonal equation of the artist. As has been 

 usual ill late years X-ray photographs appear 

 to have been a prominent part of the exhibi- 

 tion. Other exhibits in physics were a new 

 type of chronograph, in which the pens are 

 moved instead of the drum, by Mr. R. L. 

 Mond and Dr. Wilderman; the film structure 

 of metals by Mr. George Bailey; an improved 

 coal calorimeter by Mr. W. Rosenheim, and 

 kites for meteorological purposes by Mr. W. II. 

 Dines. The zoological exhibits included fossil 

 -mammals from Egypt, recently obtained by 

 the Natural History Museum; the parasites 

 discovered by Dr. A. Tylor in the blood of 

 cattle in South Africa and by Mr. Everett 

 Dutton in human blood, where symptoms oc- 

 curred resembling those sufi^ered by animals 

 when bitten by the Tsetse fly. Photographs 

 of the nebula surrounding Nova Persei were 

 exhibited bj' Professor Hale, of the Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory. 



The amount proposed to be expended in 

 three years by Great Britain on North Sea 

 fishery investigations, as the resiilt of the 

 Stockholm and Christiania Conference (in- 

 cluding the share of the cost of the central 

 bureau) is £42,000. 



The American Congress of Tuberculosis 

 is meeting this week in New York City. 

 Among those expected to take part are Dr. 

 Daniel Lewis, head of the Health Depart- 

 ment of the State of New York; Dr. E. J. 

 Barrick, of Toronto; Dr. J. J. Kinyoun, of 

 Glendola, Pa.; Professor J. G. Adami, of Mc- 

 Gill University, and Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



The American Institute of Electrical En- 

 gineers held its nineteenth annual meeting 

 on May 20. Mr. Charles P. Scott was elected 

 president to succeed Mr. Charles P. Stein- 

 metz. It was reported that during the year 

 the number of members had increased by 

 239 and the assets of the institute by nearly 

 $15,000. 



At the receiit annual meeting of the Louisi- 

 ana Society of Naturalists the election of 

 officers for the ensuing year resulted as" fol- 

 lows : President, W. R. Dodson ; First Vice- 

 President, E. M. Hudson; Second Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Miss Grace King; Third Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Ed. Foster; Secretary, R. S. Cocks; 

 Treasurer, G. R. Westfeldt; Executive Com- 

 mittee, A. Richards, R. Rordam, Dr. Martin 

 Feingold. 



Plans have been prepared for the erec- 

 tion of a bacteriological laboratory in Wash- 

 ington, under the control of the Marine Hos- 

 pital service. We noted last year the act of 

 Congress appropriating $35,000 for this pur- 

 pose, and setting aside five acres of ground 

 from the reservation now occupied by the 

 Naval Museum of Hygiene. 



A CENTRAL seismological laboratory has been 

 established at Strassburg and placed under 

 the charge of a board including Professors 

 Becker (Strassburg), Credner (Leipzig), 

 Futterer (Karlsruhe), Gerland (Strassburg), 

 Helmert (Potsdam), A. Schmidt (Stuttgart), 



