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SCIENCE 



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Agricultural Experiment Station, at Santiago 

 de las Vegas. 



Mb. a. K. Chittenden has been appointed 

 assistant in the United States Forest Service 

 to investigate the White Mountain and Ap- 

 palachian Mountain forests with a view toward 

 the proposed national park. Mr. Karl Wood- 

 ward has charge, for the U. S. Forest Service, 

 of a study of forest conditions in Montana, 

 in cooperation with the Northern Pacific Eail- 

 Toad Company. Mr. Chittenden and Mr. 

 Woodward are graduates of the Tale Forest 

 School and are sons of distinguished Ameri- 

 can men of science. 



Dr. J. AsHBURTON Thompson, M.D., perma- 

 nent head of the department of public health 

 of the government of New South Wales, has 

 arrived in London. 



At a meeting of the Physico-chemical Club 

 of Boston and Cambridge, held on Wednesday 

 evening, October 30, Professor T. W. Eichards 

 spoke on " Chemical Eesearch and Instruc- 

 tion in Berlin," and Dr. H. T. Kahnus pre- 

 sented a paper on " Some Properties of Fused 

 Salts." Profesor Eichards was elected presi- 

 dent. Dr. A. A. Noyes vice-president, Pro- 

 fessor Sherrill secretary and Mr. Frevert 

 treasurer. 



Nature states that on October 13 the Clif- 

 ton (Bristol) Scientific Club celebrated its 

 twenty-first anniversary by entertaining Sir 

 William Eamsay and other past members, 

 when Sir William, who was one of the found- 

 ers of the club, delivered an address on the 

 recent history of chemical science and on the 

 nature of matter. On the previous evening 

 he visited Clifton College, where he gave an 

 account of the experiments by which argon 

 and other gases of the atmosphere were dis- 

 covered. 



Mb. Herman DeC. Stearns, associate pro- 

 fessor of physics in Stanford University, died 

 of tuberculosis on October 21. Professor 

 Steams has been absent from the university 

 on sick leave for the past three years. 



The death is announced of Dr. A. Fiirt- 

 wangler, professor of classical archeology at 

 Munich. 



M. N. Vaschide, assistant director of the 

 Laboratory of Pathological Psychology of the 

 University of Paris, died on October 13, at the 

 age of about thirty-three years. 



The Civil Service Commission announces 

 an examination on December 4 to fill such 

 vacancies as may occur in the positions of 

 laboratory assistant qualified as textile and 

 paper analyst and laboratory assistant in 

 polariscopic work in the Bureau of Standards, 

 Department of Commerce and Labor, at $1,000 

 and $1,200 per annum. 



Under the will of the late Dr. Nathaniel 

 Eogers, the senate of the University of Lon- 

 don offers a prize of £100 for the best original 

 investigations made on any medical patholog- 

 ical subject during the preceding two years. 

 Candidates will be permitted to present papers 

 published during the preceding year. 



Fobeign journals announce that a large 

 meeting was held at Eangoon on September 

 19 to consider the establishment of a Pasteur 

 Institute in Burma. It was resolved that the 

 institute should be established at Maymyo. 

 A committee was formed with powers to un- 

 dertake measures preliminary to the formation 

 of the institute. The subscriptions already 

 amount to 80,000 rupees, which secures the 

 success of the movement. Other subscriptions 

 have been promised, which will be sufficient 

 to enable the institute to start on a wide basis. 



A telegram has been received at the Har- 

 vard College Observatory from Professor W. 

 W. Campbell, director of the Lick Observa- 

 tory, stating that prominent bright knots have 

 been visible during the past week in Saturn's 

 rings, two east, two west, symmetrically 

 placed. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The report of the treasurer of Yale Uni- 

 versity states that gifts and legacies to funds 

 during the fiscal year have been $527,545, as 

 compared with $629,705 the year before, cor- 

 responding figures for gifts to income being 

 $112,238 and $250,602. The gifts, most of 

 which have been already announced, include 

 the Tale alumni fund, $52,692; the Belden 



