Dbobmber 26, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



1039 



It is reported in foreign papers that Dr. A. 

 Loir, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, has pro- 

 ceeded to Bulawayo to establish a branch of 

 the Institute there for the treatment of rabies 

 by the anti-rabic inoculation method. Dr. 

 Loir is a nephew of the late M. Pasteur, and 

 has been engaged in the establishment of 

 branches at Sydney, N. S. W., and Tunis. 



As we have already stated, Lord Reay has 

 been elected the first president of the newly 

 established British Academy. Mr. I. Gol- 

 lancz has been elected secretary, and the fol- 

 lowing have been elected members of the 

 council: Sir W. E. Anson, the Right Lion. 

 James Bryce, Professor I. Bywater, Professor 

 T. W. Rhys Davids, the Rev. Professor S. R. 

 Driver, the Rev. Principal Fairbairn, Sir C. 

 P. Ilbert, K.C.S.L, Sir R. 0. Jebb, the Rev. 

 Professor J. E. B. Mayer, Dr. J. A. H. Murray, 

 Professor H. F. Pelham, the Rev. Professor 

 W. W. Skeat, Sir E. Maunde Thompson, 

 Dr. A. W. Ward, Professor James Ward. 



Mr. Howard J. Rogers, chief of the de- 

 partment of education at the St. Louis Ex- 

 position, has been appointed director of the 

 congresses to be held in conjunction with it. 

 An advisory board has been appointed as fol- 

 lows: Chairman, Nicholas Murray Butler, 

 president of Columbia University, New York 

 city; William R. Harper, president of the 

 University of Chicago; E. II. Jesse, president 

 of the University of Missouri; Henry S. 

 Pritchett, president of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology, and Herbert B. Put- 

 nam, librarian of Congress. 



The Carnegie Institution has granted 

 $1,600 to Professor E. W. Scripture, of Tale 

 LTniversity, for prosecution of researches on 

 the voice. 



According to the daily papers, the Carnegie 

 Institution has appropriated $5,000 to Pro- 

 fessor W. O. Atwater, for his work with the 

 resi^iration calorimeter, and has made grants, 

 the amount of which is not reported, to the 

 Peabody Museum of Yale University, and to 

 send Dr. H. S. Conrad, fellow in botany at 

 the University of Pennsylvania, to Europe 

 to study varieties of the water-lily. 



In honor of the eightieth birthday of Mrs. 

 Louis Agassiz, president of Radcliffe College, 

 the sum of $116,000 has been collected which 

 will be used for the construction of a stu- 

 dents' house at Radcliffe College. 



Professor John O. Reed, professor of 

 physics in the University of Michigan, has 

 been injured by an accident due to an ex- 

 plosion in his laboratory. It is feared that 

 his eyesight may be lost. 



Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, of the U. S. 

 National Museum, secretary of the Wild 

 Flower Preservation Society of America, de- 

 livered an illustrated lecture on ' Vanishing 

 AVild Flowers,' at the Academy of Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, on December 8, and at Hopkins 

 Flail, Baltimore, on December 19. It is the 

 intention of the society to give information 

 as to its aims and methods of work by means 

 of these lectures in various cities in addition 

 to its distribution of literature. The re- 

 sponses from these two cities have been very 

 gratifying, and indicate that with a wider 

 understanding of the subject public sentiment 

 will be sufficiently aroused to accomplish 

 some practical good in plant protection. The 

 annual meeting of the society will be held in 

 the lecture hall of the National Musevim, 

 at Washington, on December 27. On this 

 occasion Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, will 

 lecture on ' The Colors of Flowers.' 



Dr. II. W. Wiley, president of the Indiana 

 Academy of Science will deliver his presi- 

 dential address before the academy at In- 

 dianapolis, on Friday, December 26. His 

 topic will be ' Wliat Science has Done for 

 Indiana.' 



The Ohio State University Chapter of the 

 Society of the Sigma Xi gave its public meet- 

 ing of the year on December the eleventh. Pro- 

 fessor J. A. Bownocker, who has recently com- 

 pleted an exhaustive study of the great 

 natural gas fields of Ohio, gave the address 

 of the evening under the title ' Natural Gas 

 in Ohio, its Past and Present.' 



Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., will de- 

 liver the juvenile lectures at the Society of 



