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Tortugas. Dr. Davenport is proposed as di- 

 rector of the former station and Dr. Alfred 

 G. Mayer, of the Museum of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences, as director of 

 the latter station. Fuller details are prom- 

 ised as the plans of the department progress. 

 Peofessor BLiRL ScHLEicH, of Berlin, has 

 received from the University of Wiirzburg a 

 medal and a 1,000 Mark prize for the discov- 

 ery of a method of making surgical operations 

 painless by what he calls the ' Infiltrationsan- 



The University of Giessen has conferred its 

 honorary doctorate on Herr Hermann Strebel, 

 of Hamburg, for his work in zoology and 

 Mexican archeology. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. Eobert Fletcher, editor 

 of the Index Medicus, will be presented to the 

 Library of the Surgeon General's office, Wash- 

 ington. 



Professor Chantemesse, professor of ex- 

 perimental and comparative pathology at the 

 University of Paris, has been appointed to 

 succeed the late Professor Proust as general 

 inspector of the French Sanitary Service. 



Professor W. F. M. Goss, of Purdue Uni- 

 versity, who has been engaged for some time 

 in testing locomotives, has been granted 

 $5,000 by the Carnegie Institution to carry 

 on the work. 



Professor Josiah Eoyce, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, will give the following lectures at 

 Columbia University at 4 :30 p.m. 



February 1, ' The Comparative Study of Scien- 

 tific Concepts.' 



February 2, ' General Survey of Certain Funda- 

 mental Concepts of Science ; ( 1 ) Classes and 

 Classification, (2) Relations and their Types, (3) 

 Ordinal Concepts and Ordinal Series.' 



February 8, '(4) Concepts of Transformation, 

 (5) Concepts of Levels.' 



February 9, ' Application of the Survey to 

 Various Special Problems.' 



February 15, ' Philosophical Consideration sug- 

 gested by the Survey.' 



Dr. W. M. Bayliss is giving a course of ten 

 lectures on ' Enzymes and their Actions,' at 

 University College, London. 



The Sibley Journal of Mechanical Engineer- 

 ing has published a memorial number in honor 



of the late R. H. Thurston. It contains a 

 biographical notice by William Kent; an ap- 

 preciation entitled ' Our Friend,' by John H. 

 Barr ; an article entitled ' Dr. Thurston's Work 

 in Sibley College,' by H. J. Ryan and E. C. 

 Carpenter; an article entitled 'The Literary 

 Work of Dr. Thurston,' by H. Diederichs; 

 and a partial list of papers by Dr. Thurston. 



The steamship Princess Irene, bringing the 

 remains of James Smithson, arrived in New 

 York on January 20. These were transferred 

 to the Dolphin of the U. S. Navy and taken 

 to Washington. They have been deposited in 

 the Smithsonian Institution until arrange- 

 ments can be made for suitable burial in the 

 grounds of the institution and the erection of 

 a monument. As readers of Science know, 

 the remains were brought to this country by 

 Dr. A. Graham Bell, at whose instance the 

 regents arranged for the removal, owing to the 

 fact that the English cemetery at Genoa in 

 which Smithson was buried was to be aban- 

 doned. 



The Eev. George Salmon, F.E.S., provost 

 of Trinity College, Dublin, and eminent for 

 his mathematical publications, died on Jan- 

 uary 22 at the age of eighty-five years. 



We regret also to record the death of Dr. 

 Wilhelm Behrens, professor of botany at Got- 

 tingen. 



The sum of four thousand dollars has been 

 granted to the Lick Observatory by the Car- 

 negie Institution for the employment of assist- 

 ants in the year 1904, in continuation of the 

 grant of an equal sum for the year 1903. 



The daily papers report that Professor A. 

 H. Phillips, of Princeton University, has ex- 

 tracted radium from carnotite, an ore found in 

 Utah, and that an abundant supply of this. 

 ore exists. 



The observing station of the D. 0. Mills, 

 expedition to the southern hemisphere, from 

 the Lick Observatory of the University of 

 California, was completed in October. It is 

 located on the summit of San Cristobal, a hill 

 1,000 feet high in the northeast suburbs of 

 Santiago, Chile. The elevation of the plain 

 on which Santiago is built is about 1,800 feet 

 above sea level. The principal item of equip- 



