Aphil 8, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



599 



specimens of Costa Eican antiquities than are 

 found in all the museums of the world put to- 

 gether. 



At a meeting held at the College of Physi- 

 cians at Philadelphia on March 28, steps were 

 taken to effect the organization of the United 

 States Association for the Study of Tuber- 

 culosis, and Drs. E. L. Trudeau, George M. 

 Sternberg, W. H. Welch, L. F. Plick and 

 H. M. Biggs were appointed members of the 

 committee. Dr. Wm. Osier was chosen chair- 

 man and Dr. H. Barton Jacobs, secretary for 

 the committee, when it shall meet in connec- • 

 tion with the American Medical Association 

 at the annual session in June at Atlantic City. 



The American Neurological Association will 

 hold its meeting at St. Louis on September 

 15, 16 and 17 immediately preceding the ses- 

 sions of the various medical departments of 

 the Congress of Arts and Sciences, beginning 

 September 19. 



Owing, it is said, to the war in the east, the 

 Congress of Polish Scientific Men and Physi- 

 cians will not meet at Lemberg this year, as 

 has been announced. 



A Reuter telegram from Vienna, dated 

 March 19, states that at the request of the 

 Academy of Science, the Austrian Minister of 

 Agriculture, in order to facilitate the solution 

 of certain important questions relating to the 

 nature of radium, has ordered that from Janu- 

 ary 1 last until further notice no trading 

 should be permitted in the residues from the 

 manufacture of uranium colors at Joachims- 

 thal, and that 10,000 kilograms of those resi- 

 dues should be reserved for purchase by the 

 academy and another 10,000 kilograms for M. 

 Curie, the discoverer of radium, in Paris. 

 These consignments are to be devoted entirely 

 to the purpose of scientific experiment. 



M. Deutsch, having ofiered a prize of $25,- 

 000 for the first flying machine making a 

 flight in a circle of one kilometer, M. Ernest 

 Archdeacon has added a like sum and has ap- 

 pealed for further subscriptions.! 



The electric railway at Nice having inter- 

 fered with the magnetic observations of the 

 observatory, suit was brought by M. Bischoffs- 



heim, and damages have been awarded to the 

 amount of about $20,000. 



The Civil Service Commission invites atten- 

 tion to the following named scientific and 

 technical examinations to be held on April 19, 

 1904, with the statement that but few applica- 

 tions have been filed therefor: 



Aid, Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



Civil and electrical engineer. 



Civil and electrical engineer, Philippine Ser- 

 vice. 



Civil engineer, Philippine Service. 



Civil engineer and draftsman. 



Architectural computer (Supervising Archi- 

 tect's Office ) . 



Computer, Nautical Almanac Office. 



Computer, Naval Observatory. 



Deck officer. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



Topographical draftsman {Land Office Service). 



Library assistant. 



Manual training teacher. 



Trained nurse, Philippine Service. 

 As the commission has experienced con- 

 siderable difficulty in securing eligibles for the 

 positions named, qualified persons are urged 

 to enter the examination. Those who desire 

 to compete should at once apply to the United 

 States Civil Service Commission, Washington, 

 D. C, for a copy of the Manual of Examina- 

 tions and the necessary forms of application. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The assembly has passed a bill appropria- 

 ting $250,000 for the New York State College 

 of Agriculture at Cornell University. 



President C. E. Miller, of Heidelberg 

 University, Tiffin, Ohio, announced on March 

 24, that he had secured pledges to the amount 

 of $150,000 for the fuller equipment of the 

 university, $50,000 of this amount to be ex- 

 pended in buildings and $100,000 to be added 

 to the permanent endowment. 



A LADY, who has requested that her name be 

 not made known, has given $40,000 for the 

 erection of a dormitory for the women stu- 

 dents at Colby College, Waterville, Me. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $30,000 to 

 Berea College in Kentucky. The trustees of 

 the institution are preparing to test the con- 

 stitutionality of the law recently passed for- 

 bidding coeducation of the races. It is also 



