JUXE 24, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



985 



Rubber Regenerating Co. His address is 

 Mishawaka, Ind. 



Dr. Chas. W. Hargitt, professor of zoology 

 in Syracuse University and director of the 

 zoological laboratories, bas been granted leave 

 of absence for the coming year, and will devote 

 his attention to research at several American 

 and European laboratories. 



Professor Egbert H. Eichards, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, left on 

 June 10 for summer school work with his 

 mining students. He was accompanied by 

 Professor Bugbee and Instructor Hayward. 

 The party go to Buffalo, and from there take 

 an ore steamer to Duluth, where they will see 

 the ore docks. They expect to visit the Mich- 

 igan copper region at Keweenaw Point, the 

 nickel mines at Sudbury, Ontario, and the 

 silver mines at Cobalt, Ontario. 



The collection of fresh-water sponges of the 

 TJ. S. National Museum is now being critically 

 examined by Dr. K'elson Annandale, superin- 

 tendent of the Indian Museum in Calcutta, 

 an authority on this subject. 



M. D.ARBOUX, permanent secretary of the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences, has been elected 

 president of the Societe de secours des Amis 

 des Sciences. 



Professor J. C. Ewart, F.E.S., of Edin- 

 burgh, will give a course of lectures on the 

 principles of breeding, at the Graduate School 

 of Agriculture to be held at Ames, la., in July. 



A BUST of Pasteur was unveiled on June 5 

 in the garden of the Ecole Normale Su- 

 perieure, Paris, where was his first laboratory 

 and where he taught for thirty-seven years. 



In memory of the late Dr. Howard T. 

 Ricketts, of the University of Chicago, who 

 recently died in Mexico of typhus fever while 

 investigating the disease, there has been estab- 

 lished in Rush Medical College, of the univer- 

 sity, a prize of the value of $25 to be awarded 

 annually to the student presenting the best 

 thesis embodying the results of original in- 

 vestigation on some topic relating to derma- 

 tology. The prize will be known as the 

 " Howard T. Ricketts Prize." 



Dr. 'Williasi Hexry Seaman, examiner in 

 the U. S. Patent Office and professor of chem- 

 istry in Howard University, died on June 12, 

 at the age of seventy-three years. 



There will be a New York State Civil 

 Service Examination on June 2.5, for the posi- 

 tion of civil engineer, at a salary of $2,224, 

 and of chemist in the Department of Agri- 

 culture, at a salary of $900 to $1,200. 



Elaborate plans for the enlargement of the 

 New York Aquarium are now being prepared 

 by the Zoological Society, under the super- 

 vision of Director Townsend, by Mr. J. Stew- 

 art Barney, architect. The plans involve 

 greatly improved architectural effect and wiU ■ 

 treble the present capacity of the aquarium. 

 The institution is by far the most popular of 

 its kind in the world. The attendance, under 

 the administration of the Zoological Society, 

 has increased very rapidly. This year it will 

 probably equal, if not exceed, four and a half 

 millions. 



Plans for the extension of the American 

 Museum of Natural History are now being 

 prepared by the trustees, and designs for the 

 new west entrance pavilion and transept on 

 Ninth Avenue will soon be submitted to the 

 commissioner of parks. The committee on 

 building and plans is also at work upon de- 

 signs for the completion of the entire south 

 half of the great museum of the future. The 

 present building, erected between 1874 and 

 1908, includes eight units, that is, the south 

 transept (the original building), the south 

 entrance pavilion (the second building), three 

 fagade wings (two on the south and one on 

 the west) and two corner pavilions, completing 

 the south fagade. The plans now in prepara- 

 tion contemplate the addition of six units 

 more, which wiU complete the central haU and 

 east and west transepts, the east entrance 

 pavilion and the southeast fagade. 



We learn from Nature that the valuable 

 collections of native African art made by Mr. 

 E. Torday in the southern Belgian Congo are 

 now being classified and arranged by the au- 

 thorities of the British Museum. The most 



