Maech 18, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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The death is announced, at the age of 

 thirty-three years, of Mr. J. F. Ferry, known 

 as an ornithologist, who had been connected 

 with the Field Museum of Natural History 

 and the U. S. Biological Survey. 



Mr. Edwaed Saunders, F.E.S., eminent for 

 his contributions to systematic entomology, 

 died on February 6, in his sixty-second year. 



M. Phillippe Thomas, known for his geo- 

 logical work in northern Africa, has died at 

 the age of sixty-seven years. 



Dr. Arthur Bordier, professor of natural 

 history at the medical school of Grenoble, has 

 died at the age of sixty-nine years. 



The scientific societies and universities of 

 Australia are, as we have already noted, ta- 

 king steps to arrange that the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science shall 

 visit Australia in 1913 or 1914. An influen- 

 tial deputation, at the head of which was Sir 

 John Madden, chancellor of Melbourne Uni- 

 versity, waited on the federal prime minister 

 recently with a request for a federal guarantee 

 up to the sum of £10,000. The prime minister 

 is said to have expressed his personal approval. 



A BILL has been introduced in the Ohio 

 senate to appropriate $1,000 to organize and 

 equip a Pasteur Institute for the treatment of 

 hydrophobia at the Ohio State University, 

 Columbus, and to appropriate $1,000 annually 

 for maintenance. 



It is reported that Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

 has offered to give a prize of $25,000 to the 

 first student of the Carnegie School of Tech- 

 nology, of Pittsburgh, who will construct an 

 aeroplane satisfying certain conditions. 



The trustees of Mr. Otto Beit's gift of 

 £215,000 for the foundation and endowment 

 of medical research scholarships met on Feb- 

 ruary 23, and awarded the first set of the fel- 

 lowships. Nature states that seventy applica- 

 tions were received — ^fifty-eight from England, 

 three from Scotland, one from Ireland, one 

 from Wales and seven from abroad. The fol- 

 lowing fellows were elected, and were author- 

 ized to proceed with the researches mentioned 



after their names: Mr. G. H. Drew, the zo- 

 ological distribution of cancer and a syste- 

 matic study of an experimental character on 

 the mode of origin of neoplasms (tumors) ; Dr. 



F. W. Edridge-Green, various problems con- 

 nected with vision and color-vision, especially 

 in relation to the correct reading of signals on 

 land and sea; Mr. E. Hindle, the morphology 

 and treatment of protozoic blood parasites, 

 especially Sporochceta duttoni and trypano- 

 somiasis (sleeping sickness) ; Dr. T. Lewis, the 

 mechanism of irregularities of the heart; Dr. 



G. 0. McKay Mathison, (a) the nervous con- 

 trol of respiration and (h) the effect on res- 

 piration of changes in the chemical composi- 

 tion of the blood; (c) the mechanism of biliary 

 secretion and its general effect in digestive 

 processes; Dr. Otto May, clinical and experi- 

 mental research on the lesions of peripheral 

 nerves; Mr. E. Mellanby, the significance of 

 the large excretion of creatin in cancer of the 

 liver and its diminished excretion in cirrhosis 

 of the liver, etc.; Dr. F. P. F. Eansom, the 

 mode of action of caffeine, theobromine and 

 allied substances on the muscular and nervous 

 systems ; Dr. S. Euss, the association of radio- 

 activity with cancer; Dr. Ida Smedley, the 

 processes involved in the formation of fat in 

 the organism. The next election of fellows 

 will be held about December 15 next. All in- 

 quiries should be addressed to the honorary 

 secretary, Beit Memorial Fellowships for Med- 

 ical Eesearch, 35 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, 

 London, W. 



The second session of the Biological Station 

 of the University of Michigan will begin July 

 5 and continue for eight weeks, closing August 

 26, 1910. The station is located on the shores 

 of Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, in north- 

 ern Michigan, and is particularly well located 

 for field and laboratory courses in zoology and 

 botany. The work of the station is under the 

 supervision of Professor Jacob Eeighard, head 

 of the department of zoology in the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, as director. The active staff 

 will consist of Dr. A. S. Pearse, instructor in 

 zoology in the University of Michigan and 

 assistant director of the Biological Station; 

 Assistant Professor Eaymond J. Pool, of the 



