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SCIENCE. 



[N.S. Vol. XVI. No. 409. 



on the 15tli inst., the degree of Doctor in Sci- 

 ence was conferred upon Dr. W. J. Holland, 

 the director of the Carnegie Museum in Pitts- 

 burgh, and upon Dr. John A. Matthews, of 

 New York City. 



A CENSUS of the Philiijpines will be taken 

 on March 1. It will be under the direction 

 of General Joseph S. Sanger, who will be as- 

 sisted by Mr. Henry Gannett, of the Geolog- 

 ical Survey, and Mr. G. H. Armstead, of the 

 Department of Agriculture. They will leave 

 for Manila without delay. 



A BACTERIOLOGICAL laboratory has been 

 created by the Prussian government at Pots- 

 dam and placed under the charge of Dr. Behla, 

 known for his researches on cancer. 



Major W. C. Gorgas, surgeon, U. S. A., has 

 been designated by Surgeon-General O'Reilly 

 to represent the United States at the First 

 Egyptian Medical Congress which opens at 

 Cairo on December 16. 



Dr. James Bryce will give at Cambridge 

 University on November 29 the first of the 

 Henry Sidgwick memorial lectures. His sub- 

 ject is ' The Philosophic Life among the An- 

 cients.' 



Professor Erb, of Heidelberg, known for his 

 work on the nervous system, gave last month 

 the inaugural address of the winter session of 

 the Post-graduate College of the West London 

 Hospital. 



It is announced that lectures will this winter 

 be given before the Royal Geographical So- 

 ciety by Captain Otto Sverdrup on his four 

 years' Arctic work in the Fram, and by Dr. 

 Sven Hedin on liis three years' expedition to 

 Central Asia. 



Dr. Hans Eriederich Gadow, lecturer on 

 zoology at Cambridge University, has passed 

 through the United States on his way home 

 from an expedition to Central America. 



Captain Boyd Alexander has recently left 

 England to pursue his ornithological investi- 

 gations in the island of Fernando Po and 

 other places in the Bight of Benin; and he 

 intends to explore the country around Lake 

 Chad, in order to acquire further knowledge 



as to the affinity existing between the West 

 African and East African fauna. 



Dr. Max Wolf, director of the Observatory 

 at Heidelberg, Germany, has appointed Mr. 

 Raymond S. Dugan his assistant for one year, 

 on the recommendation of Professor Todd, 

 whose pupil and assistant at Amherst he for- 

 merly was. For the past three years Mr. 

 Dugan has had charge of the Beirut Observa- 

 tory, which was built for the Syrian Protestant 

 College by D. Stuart Dodge, Esq. 



Professor Hugo Kahl, formerly of the 

 faculty of the University of Kansas, and 

 latterly connected with the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station of the University of Illinois, 

 succeeds Mr. Herbert H. Smith as a custodian 

 in entomology at the Carnegie Museum, under 

 Dr. W. J. Holland, the curator of that depart- 

 ment. 



The council of the British Institution of 

 Civil Engineers has, in addition to the medals 

 and prizes given for commimications discussed 

 at the meetings of the institution in the last 

 session, made the following awards in respect 

 of other papers dealt with in 1901-02 : A Tel- 

 ford gold medal to J. McFarlane Gray (Lon- 

 don) ; a George Stephenson gold medal to R. 

 Price-Williams (London) ; a Watt gold medal 

 to W. Bell Dawson, M.A., D.Sc. (Ottawa); 

 Telford premiums to W. R. Cooper, M.A., 

 B.Sc. (London); E. M. De Burgh (Sydney, 

 K S. W.) ; George Wilson, D.Sc. (Manchester) ; 

 Frank Oswell, B.A. (Buenos Ayres) ; A. W. 

 Brightmore, D.Sc. (London) ; a Crampton 

 prize to C. D. H. Braine (Mowbray, Cape 

 Colony); the Manby premium to B. W. Ritzo 

 (Cape Town). 



It is proposed to create a memorial to Pro: 

 fessor Virchow in Great Britain, the move- 

 ment having been inaugurated by Lord Lister. 



Professor Sydney H. Short, formerly pro- 

 fessor in Denver Universitv, known for his 

 researches in electricity, has died in London, 

 at the age of forty-four years. 



The International Congress of American- 

 ists held last week its fourteenth session at 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. The program contained the 

 titles of ninety-two papers contributed by dis- 



