May 13, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



737 



University, died on May 5 at the age of forty- 

 seven years. 



Dr. Julius Post, professor of industrial 

 hygiene in the Berlin School of Technology, 

 has died at the age of sixty-four years. 



Dr. C. B. Plowright, formerly professor of 

 comparative anatomy and physiology at the 

 Royal College of Surgeons and known for his 

 vfork in natural history, especially on the 

 origin of fungi, has died at the age of fifty- 

 one years. 



Among the New York state civil service ex- 

 aminations to be held on May 28 is one for 

 the position of zoologist in the Educational 

 Department, with a salary of $1,200. 



The senate on May 2 amended and passed 

 a bill which already had passed the house to 

 create a Bureau of Mines in the Interior De- 

 partment. In addition to carrying on mining 

 work heretofore done by the Geological Sur- 

 vey, the bureau will investigate the causes of 

 mine explosions. 



The prize of the foundation George Monte- 

 fiore, of the value of about $4,000, will be 

 awarded for the first time in IQll, for a 

 printed or manuscript work on the technical 

 applications of electricity. Further infor- 

 mation may be obtained from the secretary 

 M. G. L'Hoest, Liege, Belgium. 



M. DE MoNTEFiORE has given 150,000 francs 

 to the Paris Academy of Sciences to establish 

 a triennial prize in electrical science. 



At the University of Illinois an Aero Club 

 has been formed by some twenty-five under- 

 graduates. It intends to affiliate with the 

 American Intercollegiate Aeronautic Associa- 

 tion. 



More than seventy-five international asso- 

 ciations are holding a congress in Brussels 

 this week, in connection with the World's Fair. 

 Among them are the Interparliamentary 

 Union, the Institution of International Law, 

 the International Office for Weight and Meas- 

 ures, the International Geodetical Association, 

 the Institut Marey, the International Office of 

 the American Republics, the Nobel Institute 

 and the International Groups of Esperanto. 



A PRELIMINARY program has been issued of 

 the International American Scientific Con- 

 gress to be held in Buenos Aires from July 

 10 to 25, in celebration of the centenary of 

 the revolution of May, 1810. The sections 

 into which the congress is divided are as 

 follows : Engineering, Physics and Mathe- 

 matics, Chemistry, Geology, Anthropology, 

 Biology, Geography and History, Economics 

 and Statistics, Military Science, Naval Sci- 

 ence and Psychology. Programs and infor- 

 mation in regard to the congress may be ob- 

 tained from the president of the committee of 

 propaganda, care of the Argentine Scientific 

 Society, 269. Calle Cevallos, Buenos Aires. 



The nineteenth session of the Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory of the Leland Stanford 

 Junior University at Pacific Grove will begin 

 on June 1. The regular course of instruction 

 will continue six weeks, closing July 12. The 

 investigators and students working without 

 instruction may make arrangements to con- 

 tinue their work through the summer. The 

 laboratory will be under the general super- 

 vision of Professor F. M. McFarland. 



During the months of July and August the 

 facilities of the seed laboratory of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, United States Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, will be 

 available as far as space permits to any one 

 who wishes to consult the seed collection and 

 become familiar with the practical methods of 

 seed testing for mechanical purity and germ- 

 ination. For further information address 

 Mr. E. Brown, botanist in charge. 



The fourth session of the Graduate School 

 of Agriculture under the auspices of Asso- 

 ciation of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations will be held at the 

 Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, July 4r-29. 

 The new hall of agriculture, erected and 

 equipped at a cost of $375,000, will be the 

 seat of activity during the session but the 

 other buildings and laboratories of the de- 

 partments will be available for instruction. 

 The purpose of the Graduate School of 

 Agriculture is to give advanced instruction 

 with special reference to the methods of in- 

 vestigating agricultural problems and teach- 



