September 26, 1902. 



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berg foundation for his work ' Ueber die 

 Natiir der Centrosomen.' 



Lyman B. Stookey, Ph.D. (Yale), has been 

 appointed assistant in physiological chemistry 

 in the laboratory of the N. Y. State Patho- 

 logical Institute at Ward's Island, New York 

 City. 



Raymond A. Pearson, for the past seven 

 years assistant chief of the dairy division of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has left 

 that position to enter upon scientific com- 

 mercial dairy work in New York City and 

 Philadelphia. 



A COMMITTEE has been appointed at Dole, 

 where a statue of Pasteur has recently been 

 erected, to collect funds to purchase the house 

 in which he was born, as a permanent me- 

 morial. 



M. Bouchard delivered a eulogy on the late 

 Professor Virchow at the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences on September 9. 



The funeral of Sir Frederick Abel took 

 place on Sept. 11. The London Times states 

 that many of the scientific societies and pub- 

 lic instittitions with which he was connected 

 were represented. The Imperial Institute was 

 represented by Sir Stewart Bayley, Colonel 

 Makins, Professor Wyndham Dunstan, F.R.S., 

 the director of the scientific department, and 

 Lieutenant G. K. Maltby, assistant secretary; 

 the Eoyal Society by Sir W. Huggins, the 

 president, and Mr. A. B. Kempe, the treas- 

 urer; the Senate of the University of London 

 by the Rev. Dr. Robertson, the vice-chancel- 

 lor, and Professor Silvanus Thompson, F.R.S. ; 

 the Chemical Society by Professor If. Me- 

 Leod, F.R.S., and Dr. A. Scott, F.R.S.. lion, 

 secretaries; the Board of Trade by Mr. 

 Llewellyn Smith; the Athenaeum Club by .Mr. 

 H. R. Tedder, the secretary; and the C! old- 

 smiths' Company by Mr. E. Montagu Tabor, 

 the prime warden, and Sir Walter Prideaux, 

 the clerk. 



The civil service commission announces ex- 

 aminations as follows: on October 21, inspec- 

 tor of textile fabrics, in the New York Navy 

 Yard, at a salary of $1,252; on October 18, 

 geometrical lathe operator in the Bureau of 

 Engraving and Printing, at a salary of $1,- 



500; on November 1, scientific aid in the Bu- 

 reau of Forestry and Bureau of Agriculture 

 in the Philippine Service, at salaries of $300 

 and $480 respectively; on November 4, for 

 preparator in the Division of Insects, U. S. 

 National Museum, at a salary of $480 ; on No- 

 vember 11, for forestry inspectors in the 

 Philippine service, it being wished to fill two 

 positions, one at a salary of $800 and one at a 

 salary of $1,200. 



We have already called attention to the In- 

 ternational Congress of Plant Breeding and 

 Hybridization which will be held under the 

 auspices of the Horticultural Society of New 

 York, on September 30 and October 1 and 2. 

 The sessions will open at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. 

 and will be in the rooms of the American In- 

 stitute, 19 West 44th St. The program con- 

 tains the titles of 61 papers, many of which are 

 of great scientific interest. 



The Tenth National Irrigation Congress 

 will be held at Colorado Springs from the 

 sixth to the ninth of October. The National 

 Association of Irrigation Engineers will meet 

 at the same time and place. 



The International Mining Congress met at 

 Butte, Mont., from September 1 to 5, under 

 the presidency of Mr. E. L. Schaffner, of 

 Cleveland. Resolutions were adopted advo- 

 cating a government department of mines and 

 mining with a cabinet ofiicer. The congress, 

 which will hereafter be known as the American 

 Mining Congress, will meet a year hence at 

 Deadwood, S. Dakota. 



The fifth International Congress for Ap- 

 plied Chemistry will be held in Berlin from 

 June 2 to 8, 1903. The honorary president 

 is Professor A. Winkler; the president. Pro- 

 fessor O. N. Witt; and the secretary. Dr. G. 

 Pulvermacher, Marchstrasse 21, Charlotten- 

 burg. 



We learn from Electrochemical Industry 

 that an informal meeting to discuss a British 

 Electrochemical Society was held on March 

 4, 1902, at which a committee consisting of 

 the following gentlemen was chosen to con- 

 sider the subject.: J. Swinburne (the present 

 president of the British Institution of Elec- 

 trical Engineers), Dr. F. M. Perkin, Dr. Don- 



