October 10, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



597 



Mr. a. E. Euggles, a graduate of Cornell 

 University, has been elected assistant to the 

 state entomologist of Minnesota. 



Me. William S. Myers, until last year asso- 

 ciate professor of chemistry at Eutgers Col- 

 lege and now director of the Chilean Nitrate 

 Works, has been elected a trustee of Eutgers 

 College. 



Lieutenant Egbert E. Peary has been ad- 

 vanced to the ranlv of commander. 



Professor Sapper, of Ttibingen, has under- 

 taken an expedition to study earthquakes in 

 Guatemala and Martinique. 



The Harveian Oration before the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians of London will be de- 

 livered by Dr. David Ferrier, F.E.S., on Octo- 

 ber 18. 



An association has been formed to buy the 

 house in Nantucket in which Maria Mitchell, 

 the astronomer, was born. It is proposed to 

 place there her library and to establish a mu- 

 seum. 



We regret to note the death of M. Damour, 

 the eminent French chemist, aged ninety-four 

 years ; of Dr. Theodor von Heldreich, director 

 of the Botanical Gardens at Athens, at the 

 age of eighty years; and of Professor O. G. 

 Nordenstrom, professor at the Stockholm 

 School of Mines. 



In connection with the recent death of Pro- 

 fessor H. Wild, we learn that his widow, 

 Madame E. von Wild (56 Englischviertel 

 Zurich, Switzerland), is willing to sell her 

 husband's large library, bearing chiefly on 

 meteorology, magnetism, metrology and phys- 

 ics. These subjects are generally not well 

 represented in American libraries, and we 

 hope that Professor Wild's collection will be 

 secured for the ITnited States. — C. A. 



Oaving to the fact that the educational au- 

 thorities of New Orleans found themselves 

 unable to provide satisfactory hotel and other 

 accommodations for the Department of Super- 

 intendence during the Mardi Gras festival, 

 the executive committee of the department 

 have, by authority of the action of the depart- 

 ment at the Minneapolis meeting, changed 



the meeting to Cincinnati, Ohio, February 

 24, 25 and 26. 



Foreign journals announce that a donation 

 of 50,000 rupees has been made by the govern- 

 ment of India to the Pasteur Institute of In- 

 dia at Kasauli, and the Punjab government 

 has handed over to the central committee of 

 the institute as a free gift Drumbar House 

 at Kasauli for the accommodation of the 

 poorer class of European and Eurasian pa- 

 tients, while Sir Charles Eivas has given 

 10,000 rupees to the institute for the years 

 1902-3 ; grants have also been made by the 

 governments of Burma and the United Prov- 

 inces of Agra and Oudh, and the chief com- 

 missioners of the Central Provinces and As- 

 sam. 



Nature reports that the zoological station 

 of Arcachon, under the direction of M. le Dr. 

 F. Jolyet, professor of medicine in the Uni- 

 versity of Bordeaux, is now in full work, but 

 that the laboratories are not fully occupied. 

 A new subsidiary station has recently been 

 opened at Guethary, a small bathing place 

 near St. Jean de Luz, which is stated to have 

 an excellent beach for dredging operations. 



A NEW institute," built by the Danish govern- 

 ment for the production of serum and for the 

 prosecution of bacteriological research, was 

 opened on September 9 at Copenhagen. 



■ A therapeutical society has been organized 

 in Great Britain with Sir W. T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer as the first president. 



Nature states that part of an expedition for 

 the survey of the Gold Coast has set sail from 

 Liverpool. The remaining members of the 

 expedition, numbering between thirty and 

 forty, consisting of trained surveyors from 

 the Ordnance Survey and surveyors from 

 Queensland and New Zealand, will leave for 

 West Africa on October 4. 



The medical inspectors last week excluded 

 from the schools of New York City 6,524 chil- 

 dren afflicted with contagious diseases. 



A CIVIL service examination will be held on 

 October 21, to fill the positions of irrigation 

 engineer and assistant engineer or hydrog- 

 rapher under the Geological Survey at a sal- 

 ary of $1,000 to $2,000 per annum, according 



