November 14, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Dr. Swale Vincent, lecturer on histology 

 at the University College, Cardiff, and for- 

 merly assistant professor of physiology at Uni- 

 versity College, London, who has already made 

 numerous contributions to the literature of 

 the ductless glands, has been appointed to the 

 research scholarship for the study of the 

 thymus and other ductless glands recently 

 established in England by Mr. J. Francis 

 Mason. Mr. Mason has also made a dona- 

 tion of £200 to the laboratory of the Edin- 

 burgh Royal College of Physicians to enable 

 the medical superintendent. Dr. Noel Paton, 

 to carry out a combined research on ductless 

 glands. 



Me. L. Doncastee, of King's College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been granted the university table 

 at the Naples Zoological Station. 



Professoe Eibbert, of Marburg, has been 

 appointed director of the Pathological Insti- 

 tute at Gottingen in succession to Professor 

 Orth, who has succeeded the late Professor 

 Virchow as professor of pathology in Berlin. 



Professor Percival, vice-principal of the 

 Surrey and Kent South-Eastern Agricultural 

 College at Wye, has been appointed director 

 of the agricultural department at the Uni- 

 versity College, Reading. 



Professor E. E. Barnard, of the Yerkes 

 Observatory of the University of Chicago, 

 gave two lectures in New York city last week, 

 his subject being ' Nebulae and the Nebular 

 Theory.' 



The New York Academy of Medicine held 

 its fifty-fifth anniversary meeting on Novem- 

 ber 6. Dr. Andrew H. Smith made an ad- 

 dress entitled ' Past, Present and Future of 

 the Academy,' and Major W. C. Gorgas and 

 Surgeon Ross descrihed the measures that 

 have suppressed yellow fever in Havana. 



The Harben lectures of the Royal Institute 

 of Public Health were given in King's Col- 

 lege, London, by Major Ronald Ross, C.B., 

 F.R.S., lecturer on tropical diseases. Univer- 

 sity College, Liverpool, on November 10, 11 

 and 12. The subject was ' Intermittent 

 Fever.' 



We learn from Nature that the British 

 home secretary has appointed a committee to 



inquire into the use of electricity in mines 

 and the dangers attending it, and to report 

 what measures should be adopted in the in- 

 terests of safety by the establishment of spe- 

 cial rules or otherwise. The committee con- 

 sists of Mr. H. H. S. Cunynghame, C.B. 

 (chairman), Mr. Charles Fenwick, M.P., Mr. 

 Archibald Hood, past president of the Mining 

 Association of Great Britain, Mr. James 

 Swinburne, president of the Institution of 

 Electrical Engineers, and Mr. W. N. Atkin- 

 son and Mr. A. LI. Stokes, H.M. inspectors 

 of mines. The secretary of the committee is 

 Captain A. Desborough, H.M. inspector of 

 explosives. 



A PORTRAIT of the late Professor Peter 

 Guthrie Tait was unveiled in the combina- 

 tion room of Peterhouse College on October 

 29. Lord Kelvin made the speech of presen- 

 tation and a speech was also made by Sir 

 George Stokes. 



The University of London has addressed a 

 letter of sympathy to the University of Berlin 

 on the occasion of the death of Professor 

 Virchow. 



Mr. George Huesmann, who at one time 

 filled the chair of pomology and forestry in 

 the University of Missouri, and was known 

 for his contributions to pomology and viti- 

 culture, has died in California at the age of 

 seventy-five years. 



Dr. Robert C. Kedzie, for forty years pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College, died on November 7, at the age 

 of seventy-nine years. 



De. Frederick A. Packard, of Philadelphia, 

 past presiaent of the Pathological and Pedi- 

 atric societies, died on November 1, at the 

 age of forty years. 



The Rev. Dr. Wiltshire, from 18Y2 to 1896 

 connected with King's College, London, as 

 lecturer and professor of geology and miner- 

 alogy, died on October 25. He published in 

 1859 a treatise on 'The Red Chalk of Eng- 

 land,' which was followed by ' The Ancient 

 Flint Implements of Yorkshire' (1862), 'The 

 Chief Groups of the Cephalopoda' (1869), 

 'The Red Chalk of Hunstanton' (1869), and 

 later by 'The History of Coal' (1878). 



