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[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 481. 



Pkofessor Kuno Fischer, of Heidelberg, 

 will not retire, as has been announced, but 

 offers this summer four lectures a week on 

 ' The History of Modern Philosophy.' 



At the instance of Professor John Marshall 

 and Professor Edgar F. Smith, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, thirty-four Americans, 

 who formerly studied chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Gottingen, have united to send a 

 gift to Heinrich Mahlmann, who is celebra- 

 ting his fiftieth year of service as ' Diener ' in 

 the Chemical Laboratory at Gottingen. 



Dr. Henry P. Osborn, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity and the American Museum of Natural 

 History, lectured before the Academy of Sci- 

 ence and Art at Pittsburg in the Carnegie 

 Institute on March 10, his subject being ' The 

 Evolution of the Horse.' 



We regret to record the deaths of Dr. 

 Magnus Blix, professor of physiology at the 

 University of Lund, at the age of fifty-five 

 years; of Dr. Ludwig Beushausen, docent for 

 geology and paleontology at the Berlin School 

 of Mines, at the age of forty-one years, and 

 of Professor F. S. Schmitt, director of the 

 Natural History Museum at Stockholm. 



The St. Petersburg Academy of Science has 

 offered $3,750 for information in regard to 

 the party of Baron Toll, the Arctic explorer, 

 from whom nothing has been heard since he 

 left the yacht Zaria, in 1902, and started for 

 Bennett Island. 



Several subscriptions are announced for 

 the Institute of Medical Sciences, to be es- 

 tablished under the auspices of the University 

 of London, the largest of which is $25,000 

 from Mr. Alfred Beit. 



The American Electrochemical Society will 

 hold its fifth general meeting at Columbian 

 University, Washing-ton, D. C, on April 7, 8 

 and 9. The headquarters wil be at the Shore- 

 ham Hotel. The chairman of the local com- 

 mittee is Colonel Samuel Eeber, and the chair- 

 man of the executive committee. Dr. H. W. 

 Wiley. 



The Southern Society for Philosophy and 

 Psychology was organized on February 23 in 

 Atlanta, Ga. Its officers are: President, Pro- 

 fessor J. Mark Baldwin, Johns Hopkins Uni- 



versity; Secretary, Professor Edward Franklin 

 Buchner, University of Alabama; Council, the 

 president, secretary. Dr. William T. Harris, 

 Washington, D. C, Mr. Eeuben Post Halleck, 

 Louisville, Ky., and Professor A. Casewell 

 Ellis, University of Texas. The aim of the 

 organization is to promote the welfare of phi- 

 losophy and psychology in southern institu- 

 tions. 



We are requested to state again that the 

 Association for maintaining the American 

 Women's Table at the Zoological Station at 

 Naples and for promoting Scientific Research 

 by Women announces the offer of a second 

 prize of one thousand dollars for the best 

 thesis written by a woman on a scientific sub- 

 ject, embodying new observations and new 

 conclusions based on an independent labora- 

 tory research in biological, chemical or phys- 

 ical science. The theses offered in competi- 

 tion are to be presented to the executive com- 

 mittee of the association and must be in the 

 hands of the chairman of the committee on 

 the prize, Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., 

 before December 31, 1904. The prize will be 

 awarded at the annual meeting in April, 1905. 



We learn from The Ohservatory that an 

 observatory has been established at Zagreb, 

 the capital of Croatia (Hungary), under the 

 direction of Professor Otto Kucera. This in- 

 stitution, which is an offshoot of the Croatian 

 Philosophical Society, established in 1887, 

 aims at doing good astronomical work as well 

 as popularizing the science in Croatia. It 

 already possesses equatorials of 6.4 inches and 

 4.25 inches aperture, as well as other instru- 

 ments, and with these it is proposed to observe 

 the sun and planets, and variable and colored 

 stars. 



A parliamentary paper has been published 

 relating to the proposed adoption of a metric 

 system of weights and measures for use within 

 the British empire. The London Times states 

 that in a circular sent from the Colonial 

 Ofiice, dated December 9, 1902, the colonial 

 governors were asked to say what action was 

 likely to be taken in their respective colonies 

 with regard to the resolution adopted at the 



