OCTOBEE 3, 1902.] 



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Dr. L. a. Bauee left Washington on Sep- 

 tember 15 for a six weelis' inspection trip of 

 magnetic worii in the western states and to 

 make the necessary preliminary observations 

 for special magnetic investigations during the 

 coming winter and spring in the northern part 

 of Michigan in the vicinity of the Great Lakes. 



It is stated in Nature that letters received 

 from Uganda give a good account of the 

 progress of Mr. Budgett, Balfour traveling- 

 student of Cambridge, on his zoological mis- 

 sion to the Semliki. On July 13, he writes 

 that he was proposing to start next day from 

 Kampala for Lake Albert, where he would 

 probably stay at Batyaba, near the Nile end, 

 the Polypterus which he was in quest of being 

 stated to be abundant at this spot. Afterwards 

 his plans were to proceed southward to Port 

 Portal and thence to the Semliki valley, where 

 he would make a general collection and look 

 after the okapi in the neighboring forest. Mr. 

 Jackson has most kindly allowed Mr. Budgett 

 to have the assistance of one of his trained 

 taxidermists. 



It has been decided to erect the statue of 

 Pasteur by Falguiere in the Avenue de Bre- 

 teuil, Paris. 



Mr. William Neale Lockington died at 

 Worthing in Sussex, -England, on the 3d of 

 August, at the age of about sixty years. Mr. 

 Lockington was from 1878 to 1881 curator of 

 fishes in the California Academy of Sciences. 

 At this time he published a number of papers 

 on the fishes and the crabs of the Pacific coast, 

 the most important being a review of the 

 fiounders of California. He was the dis- 

 coverer of a considerable number of interest- 

 ing new forms. Before coming to California 

 he had traveled somewhat widely in Spain and 

 other parts of Europe and had achieved some 

 reputation as a naturalist. After returning 

 to England he was obliged by failing health 

 to give up scientific work, but always retained 

 a deep interest in natural history and in the 

 affairs of California. — D. S. J. 



Dr. p. Plosz, professor of physiology and 

 pathological chemistry at Buda Pesth, has 

 died at the age of fifty-seven. 



Nature reports the death of Professor J. J. 

 Hummel, principal of the dyeing department 

 of the Yorkshire College, Leeds; and of Mr. 

 Alexander Sutherland, registrar of the Univer- 

 sity of Melbourne, author of ' The Origin and 

 Growth of the Moral Instinct.' 



The Academy of Science at Cracow has 

 received from the state an appropriation of 

 61,000 crowns. 



It will be remembered that it was decided 

 to close the meteorological observatory on Ben 

 Nevis, owing to lack of funds, and the staff 

 were told that their services would not be re- 

 quired after October. It has now, however, 

 been decided to keep the Observatory open dur- 

 ing the present winter, and it is hoped that the 

 government will provide for it permanently. 



The board of health of San Francisco has 

 issued a report reafiirming the existence of the 

 plague in San Francisco. The mayor of the 

 city dismissed the board last March, owing to 

 its making a truthful report in regard to the 

 plague, but the action of the mayor was not 

 upheld by the courts. 



The International Congress on Tuberculosis 

 meets at Berlin from October 22-26. The sub- 

 jects suggested for special discussion are: (1) 

 position of Governments with regard to the 

 prevention of consumption; (2) obligation to 

 give information to the police; (3) organiza- 

 tion of dispensaries; (4) the task of schools 

 with regard to the prevention of consumption; 

 (.5) precautions against the dangers of milk; 

 (6) tuberculosis during infancy; (7) protec- 

 tion of labor and prevention of consumption; 

 (8) classification and different modes of ac- 

 commodating consumptives. 



The society for the protection of the inter- 

 ests of the German chemical industry, recently 

 in session at Frankfort, has unanimously 

 passed a resolution against the prohibition of 

 the use of boric acid for the preservation of 

 meats, and has appealed to the Bundesrath to 

 reverse its decision. 



Dr. Louis Elkind writes to the London 

 Times : " It is rather curious that, though 

 Professor Virchow's name has been well 

 Icnown throughout the civilized world for a 

 long period, very few people know how to pro- 



