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Dr. Edmund Weiss, director of the Astrono- 

 mical Observatory of the University of 

 Vienna, has celebrated his seventieth birthday. 



Dr. Franz von Leydig, formerly professor 

 of anatomy and zoology at Bonn, has cele- 

 brated the sixtieth anniversary of his doc- 

 torate. 



The Broca prize of the Society of Anthro- 

 pology of Paris has been awarded this year to 

 M. Lapicque for his manuscript entitled 

 "Investigation of the Negro Eaces." The 

 value of the prize is 1,500 francs. Of this 

 amount M. Lapicque receives 1,200 francs. A 

 Broca medal and 300 francs, with honorable 

 mention, have been awarded to M. Chaquet 

 for his manuscript memoir on " The Teeth 

 According to Sex and Eace," and a Broca 

 medal, with honorable mention, to E. Eisher 

 for a research on "The Variations of the 

 Human Eadius and Ulna." 



Professor "W. O. Teague has resigned his 

 position in the experimental engineering de- 

 partment at Purdue University, Lafayette, 

 Ind., to accept the management of the Brook- 

 line Motor Car Company, of Brookline, Mass. 

 Professor Teague has been at Purdue for two 

 and a half years in charge of the engineering 

 laboratory, giving especial attention to the 

 work in connection with automobile power. 



Charles George Cirane, B.S. (Wesleyan 

 '07), has been appointed assistant in the 

 Division of Zoology of the U. S. Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, in the 

 place of Dr. David G. Willets, who has 

 resigned. 



Major James Careoll, surgeon, U. S. Army, 

 professor of bacteriology and pathology in the 

 George Washington University, eminent for 

 his investigations on yellow fever, died at his 

 home' in Washington on September 16, at the 

 age of fifty-three years. 



Dr. Francis H. Markoe, professor of clin- 

 ical surgery at Columbia University, and 

 previously demonstrator of anatomy, died, on 

 September 13, at the age of fifty-two years. 



At a recent meeting of the Kentucky Stal;e 

 Bar Association the following resolutions were 

 adopted in regard to expert testimony: 



Whereas, The abuses of expert testimony have 

 groivn to such proportions as to become a public 

 reproach and often actually to pervert justice; 

 and. 



Whereas, The rules of the present system or 

 lack of system regulating such testimony are de- 

 serving of the most serious consideration in all 

 the branches thereof; and, 



Whereas, The State Medical Association is 

 qualified to give great assistance in consideration 

 of the subject of medical expert testimony; now, 

 therefore, be it 



Resolved, That this association create a com- 

 mittee to be composed of three members to be 

 appointed by the president, whose duty it shall 

 be to consider the subject of expert testimony in 

 all branches; that said committee be instructed 

 to confer with a like committee from the State 

 Medical Association on medical expert testimony, 

 and further instructed to report back to this asso- 

 ciation at its next annual meeting. 



The Eome correspondent of the London 

 Times reports that the number of states which 

 have ratified the convention for the creation 

 of an International Institute of Agriculture 

 in Eome now reaches 44; and they include 

 almost every country in the world of any im- 

 portance from the point of view of agricul- 

 tural production. Of the English colonies 

 and possessions, Canada, Australia and India 

 have applied for separate representation. The 

 palace which is being erected for the institute 

 in the gardens of the Villa Borghese is rap- 

 idly approaching completion, and before the 

 end of September will be roofed in. The 

 building, designed by the architect Signer 

 Pompeo Passeroni, promises to do credit to 

 Italian taste. Invitations for the meeting of 

 the permanent committee and for the inaugu- 

 ration of the institute will probably be issued 

 in the course of November next, and with the 

 first meeting of the committee in the spring 

 of next year the institute will enter upon its 

 career of activity. In the meantime, the 

 Italian Eoyal Commission has appointed Pro- 

 fessor Pantaleoni to superintend an inquiry 

 for the purpose of ascertaining exactly the 

 extent of the information which the different 

 countries which have adhered to the convention 

 are in a position to supply with regard to their 

 agricultural production. This information. 



