June 13, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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practiced -collector of fishes and an experi- 

 enced African traveller. 



Dr. Leopold Batres, conservator of nation- 

 al monuments, of Mexico, has returned from 

 explorations of the ruins of Zapotecan cities 

 in the State of Oaxaca. 



De. D. C. Gilman, president of the Carnegie 

 Institution, is at present in Germany, where 

 he is holding consultations with the leading 

 German men of science in regard to the plans 

 of the institution. 



The hill to permit the retirement of Sur- 

 geon-General Sternberg with the rank of 

 major-general was defeated by a vote of 68 

 to 103 in the House oh June 2. 



Dr. Wm. J. GiES, adjunct professor of phys- 

 iological chemistry in Columbia University, 

 has been appointed consulting chemist to the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



Professor R. A. Zimmermann has been ap- 

 pointed botanist to the Biological Station at 

 Tanga in the German possessions in East Af- 

 rica. 



Professor Lewis Swift, who is said to have 

 discovered fifteen comets, has recently cele- 

 brated his eighty-first birthday. 



Dr. Karl Neumann, professor of mathemat- 

 ics at Leipzig, has celebrated his seventieth 

 birthday. 



Dr. John K. Eees, professor of astronomy 

 at Columbia University, will give the com- 

 mencement address before the Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute, his subject being 'Re- 

 cent Progress in Astronomy,' 



At the meeting of the Royal Geographical 

 Society, on May 26, the following awards were 

 made : — The Murchison grant for 1902 to J. 

 Stanley Gardiner, for his researches in Funa- 

 futi Island, in the Pacific, and the Maldive 

 Islands, in the Indian Ocean. The Gill mem- 

 orial for 1902 to G. G. Chisholm, for the ser- 

 vices rendered during 25 years to geographical 

 education by text-books of various kinds, at- 

 lases and lectures, all of a high standard of 

 value as well as for his geographical investi- 

 gations, among other subjects into cataracts 

 and waterfalls, and on the sites of towns. The 

 Back grant for 1902 to Lieutenant Amdrup, 



for his two voyages of exploration to the east 

 coast of Greenland, during which he surveyed 

 and mapped in detail much of the coast hither- 

 to unknovsTi or imperfectly mapped. The 

 Cuthbert Peek grant for 1902 to J. P. Thom- 

 son, who was founder of the Queensland 

 branch of the Australian Geographical Society 

 and by his writings and in other ways has 

 done much to promote the interests of geog- 

 raphy in Queensland. 



Professor Emmett S. Goff, professor of 

 horticulture at the University of Wisconsin, 

 died on June 6 in Madison, after a short ill- 

 ness. 



The Rev. Dr. John Henry Barrows, presi- 

 dent of Oberlin College, died on June 3, aged 

 fifty-five years. Dr. Barrows was well known 

 as an educator and author, and for the part he 

 took in organizing the Parliament of Relig- 

 ions at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



Mr. W. H. Austin, senior wrangler and 

 Smith's prizeman at Cambridge and lecturer 

 on mathematics at the University of Bir- 

 mingham, died on May 20, at the age of 

 twenty-seven years. 



The American Medical Association is this 

 week holding its fifty-third annual meeting at 

 Saratoga with about two thousand physicians 

 in attendance. 



The American Institute of Electrical En- 

 gineers will hold its nineteenth annual meet- 

 ing at Barrington, Mass., beginning on June 

 18. 



The American Electrochemical Society 

 will hold its second general meeting at Niag- 

 ara Falls, N. Y., beginning Monday, Septem- 

 ber 15. 



The position of computer in the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey at a salary of $1,000 will be 

 filled by civil service examination on July 8 

 and 9. The position is open both to men and 

 women. 



The New York City Board of Estimate has 

 authorized the issue of $600,000 bonds, for the 

 City College; $200,000 for the Museum of 

 Natural History; $250,000 for new library 

 sites, and $125,000 to begin the work of estab- 



