July 12, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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The Hanbury gold medal has been con- 

 ferred on Dr. David Hooper, curator of the 

 economic and art sections of the Indian Mu- 

 seum of Calcutta. 



M. St. C. Hepites has retired from the 

 direction of the Rumanian Meteorological In- 

 stitute at Bukharest, after having held the 

 office for twenty-three years. He is succeeded 

 by M. I. St. Murat. 



Dr. Graham-Smith, Dr. Nuttall and Pro- 

 fessor Woodhead have been nominated to 

 represent Cambridge University at the In- 

 ternational Congress of Hygiene and Demo- 

 graphy to be held in Berlin in September. 



Professor Hermann von Ihering, director 

 of the Museo Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil, will 

 represent the museum at several scientific 

 conferences to be held this year in Europe. 

 During his absence Mr. Rodolpho von Ihering 

 will have charge of the museum. 



Professor A. S. Hitchcock, systematic 

 agTOstologist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has returned to Washington after five months 

 spent in Europe studying the types of Ameri- 

 can grasses in the herbaria at Antwerp, Brus- 

 sels, Paris, Madrid, Padua, Florence, Geneva, 

 Munich, Vienna, Graz, Prague, Halle, Got- 

 tingen, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Stockholm and 

 London. Much valuable material in the way 

 of photographs, drawings and portions of types 

 was secured for the national herbarium. 



Dr. Charles A. Davis, of the University of 

 Michigan, who has recently completed a report 

 on the peat deposits of Michigan, has been 

 engaged by the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey to make a reconnaisance survey of the 

 peat formations of the coastal plain from the 

 Carolinas northward during the summer. 



The Croonian lectures of the Eoyal College 

 of Physicians, London, have been delivered 

 by Dr. W. J. E. Simpson on " The Plague." 



In connection with the summer school of 

 Columbia University, a course of lectures on 

 recent advances in physics will be given on 

 successive Monday afternoons at 4:30 o'clock 

 in room No. 301, Fayerweather Hall, as fol- 

 lows: 



July 15 — " The Perception of Color and The- 

 ories of Color Vision," Professor F. L. Tufts. 



July 22 and 29 — " The Resolving Powers of Op- 

 tical Instruments," two lectures, Professor C. R. 

 Mann. 



August 5 — " The Phenomena of Radioactivity 

 and Their Bearing on Our Theories of the Struc- 

 ture of Matter," Professor William Hallock. 



August 12 — " Some Problems in Artificial Illu 

 mination," Professor F. L. Tufts. 



At the exercises commemorative of the 

 one hundredth anniversary of Henry Wads- 

 worth Longfellow, at Bowdoin College, it was 

 announced that the daughters of the poet. 

 Miss Alice H. Long-fellow, Mrs. Richard H. 

 Dana and Mrs. J. C. Thorpe, have given $10,- 

 000 to the college to endow a fellowship in 

 literature in memory of their father. 



Dr. C. B. Warring, for many years in- 

 structor in mathematics and physics in the 

 Poughkeepsie Military Institute and the au- 

 thor of works on the relation of the Bible to 

 modern science and other subjects, died on 

 July 5, at the age of eighty-two years. 



Professor Kuno Fischer, professor of phi- 

 losophy at Heidelberg, and well known for his 

 publications on the histoiy of philosophy, died 

 on July 5, at the age of eighty-three years. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. Karl 

 MiiUer, decent in botany in the Technical 

 Institute at Berlin; of Dr. Egon Ritter von 

 Oppolzer, associate professor of mathematics 

 and astronomy at the University of Innsbruck, 

 and of Dr. Hermann, emeritus professor of 

 mechanical engineering in the Technical In- 

 stitute at Aachen. 



The third Prehistoric Congress of France 

 will be opened at Autun on August 12, under 

 the presidency of Professor Adrien Guebhard, 

 and will close on August 18. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation says : " Representatives of the leading 

 anatomic associations of the world gathered 

 at Wiirzburg, Germany, during the last week 

 of April. Romiti, of Pisa, presided, and nu- 

 merous communications were presented show- 

 ing progress in all lines of comparative anat- 

 omy and embryology, and general microscopic 

 and macroscopic human anatomy and embry- 



