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The daily papers state that on the French 

 Line steamship La Savoie, which arrived 

 from Havre on March 19, was a commission 

 of men of science to study geology and for 

 general scientific research. Professor Googg 

 of ,the High School of Commerce at Geneva ; 

 Lieut. Bouree of the French navy. Comman- 

 der Massari of the Italian navy, M. Richard, 

 M. de la Burahaye, Count d'Audiffret-Pas- 

 quier, and M. Langlois comprise the commis- 

 sion. The officers were granted leave of ab- 

 sence to come to this country. 



Peofessor H. p. Osborn has accepted an 

 invitation to give an evening lecture before 

 the British Association at Cambridge, on 

 August 20, and has chosen as his subject ' The 

 Evolution of the Horse.' He will also lecture 

 before the International Zoological Congress 

 at Berne, Switzerland. 



Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell 

 University, lectured before the students of 

 science in the University of North Carolina 

 on the evening of February 11 on ' Physical 

 Chemistry and General Science.' On the 

 morning of the twelfth he gave a lecture to 

 special students in chemistry on ' Physical 

 Chemistry and the Pare Earths.' 



Professor Charles S. Hastings, of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 

 lectured at the Woman's College of Baltimore, 

 on March 14. The title of the lecture was 

 ' A Lost Medieval Art,' Professor Hastings 

 treating the subject of stained glass from a 

 scientific standpoint. A reception by the 

 physics department was given after the lec- 

 ture. 



Under the auspices of the Henry Phipps 

 Institute for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, 

 at Philadelphia, arrangements have been made 

 with Dr. C. Maragliano, professor in the Uni- 

 versity of Genoa, and senator in the Italian 

 parliament, to lecture on March 28, on ' The 

 Serum Treatment for Tuberculosis.' 



We learn from Nature that a committee 

 has been formed with the object of obtaining 

 subscriptions for a memorial to the late Pro- 

 fessor Nicol, in association with the Univer- 

 sity of Aberdeen, in which he taught for 

 twenty-five years. The form the memorial 



should take has not been decided, but a sug- 

 gestion has been made that if a memorial 

 brass, similar to those erected to the memory 

 of his predecessors, the late Professor Mac- 

 gillivray and Nicholson, were provided, and 

 placed with them in the University of Aber- 

 deen, the ornithologist, stratigraphist and pa- 

 leontologist who have brought honor to the 

 university would be fittingly remembered in 

 association with the scene and center of their 

 life work. The secretary and treasurer, to 

 whom subscriptions should be sent, is Dr. W. 

 Mackie, 13 North Street, Elgin. 



Arthur Greeley, professor of biology at 

 Washington University, St. Louis, died on 

 March 15 after an operation for appendicitis. 



Mjr. John I. Jegi, B.S. (Chicago, 1896), 

 professor of psychology and physiology in the 

 Milwaulvee State Normal School, died at his 

 home in Milwaukee on January 7. Among 

 his publications are ' A Syllabus of Human 

 Physiology' (1901), 'Practical Lessons in 

 Human Physiology' (Maemillan, 1903), and 

 ' A Comparative Study of Auditory and Vis- 

 ual Memory,' in the ' Contributions to Philos- 

 ophy ' of the University of Chicago. 



We regret to record the death of M. P. A. 

 Fouque, of Paris, the well-known French 

 geologist and mineralogist, on March 7, in 

 his seventy-sixth year. 



The House of Lords has unanimously 

 passed a bill making compulsory the metric 

 system in Great Britain on April 5, 1906, or 

 at such later date as may be directed by an 

 order in council. 



The Washing-ton Star states that the For- 

 tifications Board of the War Department, 

 which has appropriated $50,000 for the aero- 

 drome experiments of Secretary S. P. Lang- 

 ley, has decided not to make further appro- 

 priations for this purpose. 



The Russian government has offered a 

 prize of about $25,000 for the discovery of 

 some method to make alcohol undrinkable. 



The fifteenth annual session of the Biolog- 

 ical Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences will be held at Cold Spring 



