August 8, 1902.] 



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Professor A. W. Evans, of Yale University, 

 and Mr. Percy Wilson, of the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, have gone to Porto Eico to 

 make some further investigations and collec- 

 tions of the flora of that island for the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



Leopoldo Batres, the conservator of na- 

 tional monuments, has returned to Mexico 

 City, after his winter's archeological excava- 

 tions among the ruins of Zapotecan cities in 

 the State of Oaxaca. 



Dr. Anton Weddige, professor of chemistry 

 at Leipzig, has retired. 



Mr. E. B. Bailey has been appointed a geol- 

 ogist on the Geological Survey of Scotland. 



Dr. Gruber, professor of hygiene in the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna, has been called to the presi- 

 dency of the Munich Institute of Hygiene. 



A statue of Pasteur was unveiled at his 

 birthplace, Dole, Jura, on August 3. 



The centenary of the death of Bichat, the 

 celebrated anatomist and physiologist, was 

 commemorated on July 22, under the auspices 

 of the French Society of the History of Medi- 

 cine. An address was made by Dr. Albert Pri- 

 eur, and a commemorative tablet was placed 

 on the house in the Rue Chanoinesse in 

 which Bichat died. A portrait medal, struck 

 in honor of the occasion, may be obtained from 

 Dr. Prieur, Place des Vosges, Paris. 



Major Josuh E. Pierce, a well-known civil 

 engineer, died at Washington on July 31. 

 He was born in 1861 and had been connected 

 with the Coast and Geodetic and Geological 

 Surveys, and had been professor of civil engi- 

 neering at the Columbian and Catholic Uni- 

 versities. He served as a major of engineers 

 in the Spanish war and had been engaged in 

 a number of topographical surveys. 



Professor Safarik, who held the chair of 

 chemistry and later of astronomy at the Uni- 

 versity of Prague, died on July 2, at the age of 

 seventy-three years. 



We also regret to learn of the deaths of Pro- 

 fessor Gerhardt, an authority on the diseases 

 of children and professor at the University of 

 Berlin, who died at the age of sixty-nine years ; 

 of Mr. Benjamin Martell, a British engineer, 

 .at the age of seventy-seven years, and of Dr. 



Alexander Kowalski, an astronomer at the ob- 

 servatory at Pulkova, at the age of forty-four 

 years. 



The French Minister of Agriculture has 

 established an office for agricultural informa- 

 tion, the object of which is to act as a bureau 

 of correspondence and a means of populari- 

 zing scientific agriculture. 



A YEAR ago M. M. BischofEsheim presented 

 the astronomical observatories of Nice and Mt. 

 Mounier to the French Government. The 

 anniversary of this event was recently cele- 

 brated by a dinner to M. Bischoffsheim, at 

 which a number of the most eminent French 

 astronomers were present. 



The Council of the British Medical Asso- 

 ciation is prepared to receive applications for 

 a scholarship of £200 for the study of some 

 subject in the department of State Medicine 

 in memory of the late Mr. Ernest Hart. 



A BACTERIOLOGIST IS Wanted for the Scottish 

 National Antarctic Expedition. The condi- 

 tions may be learned by application to W. S. 

 Bruce, 21 Hill Place, Edinburgh. 



The French Surgical Association will next 

 meet at Paris beginning on October 20. The 

 association meets under the presidency of Dr. 

 Jacques Eeverdin, professor at the University 

 of Geneva and foreign associate of the society. 



The Eoyal Institute of Public Health will 

 hold its next annual congress in Exeter, August 

 20 to 27. The work will be arranged in five 

 sections: (1) Preventive medicine and vital 

 statistics; (2) chemistry, climatology and bac- 

 teriology; (3) engineering and architecture; 

 (4) municipal and parliamentary hygiene; (5) 

 veterinary and farm hygiene. 



It is announced that in the autumn a new 

 journal, entitled Electrochemical Industry, 

 will commence publication, with Dr. E. F. Eo- 

 ber as editor. 



Queensland has given up its weather bu- 

 reau, and the services of Mr. C. L. Wragge and 

 others have been dispensed with. It is hoped 

 that an arrangement may be made by which 

 the service will be continued by the federal 

 government. 



The directors of the meteorological observa- 



