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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 486. 



Professor Paul Hanus, who holds the chair 

 of education at Harvard University, will be 

 given leave of absence next year, and will 

 spend the time making a study of foreign 

 systems of school administration. Professor 

 George Santayana, of the department of phi- 

 losophy, will also spend the year abroad. 



Professor Leverett Mears, Ph.D., of the 

 chemistry department of Williams College, 

 has been granted a year's leave of absence and 

 will probably go abroad. 



Professor H. C. Jones, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has received a grant of $1,000 

 from the Carnegie Institution for research in 

 physical chemistry during the year 1904-1905. 

 The grant will be used for a research assistant, 

 Dr. H. P. Bassett, who is now working at the 

 Johns Hopkins University. This is a renewal 

 of the grant which was made to Professor 

 Jones for the year 1903-1904, and with which 

 he received the assistance for the present year 

 of Dr. P. H. Getman. 



The Carnegie Institution has renewed its 

 grant of last year of $500 to Professor M. 

 Gomberg, of the chemistry department of the 

 University of Michigan. This sum is ex- 

 pended for the payment of an assistant. 



At the recent council meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Anthropological Association, held at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York, Mr. George Grant MacCurdy was elected 

 secretary of the association in the place of 

 Dr. A. L. Kroeber, resigned. 



Dr. Carlo von Marchesetti has been ap- 

 pointed director of the botanical gardens at 

 Trieste. 



Sir WiLLLiM Ramsay, of University Col- 

 lege, London, will give the address at the 

 next commemoration day of the University of 

 Glasgow. His subject will be ' Joseph Black,' 

 lecturer on chemistry 1756-66 in the old col- 

 lege, and enunciator of the doctrine of latent 

 heat. 



The death is announced, on February 4, 

 of Dr. Kazuyoshi Taguchi, professor of anat- 

 omy in the medical faculty of the University 

 of Tokio. 



The second annual meeting of the South 

 African Association for the Advancement of 



Science was opened at Johannesburg, on April 

 4, when Sir Charles Metcalfe delivered the 

 inaugural address. Lord Milner occupied the 

 chair. 



Reuter's Agency is informed that the Brit- 

 ish Antarctic vessel Discovery, with Captain 

 Scott and his staff, is not likely to return to 

 England before the autumn. Some little time 

 will be spent at Christchurch in repairing the 

 vessel, after which Captain Scott will enter 

 upon the work of taking a line of soundings 

 between New Zealand and Cape Horn. It is 

 expected that the relief ships Morning and 

 Terra Nova will sail direct for home. 



The Goldsmith's Company has given £1,000 

 to the Royal Society for research on radium 

 and radio-active bodies. 



The Institute of France has received a be- 

 quest from M. Jean Debrousse, yielding an 

 annual income of about $6,000. A thousand 

 dollars has been appropriated for the publica- 

 tion of a lunar table. 



Professor J. H. van't Hoff has placed at 

 the disposal of the Zeitschrift fiir Physihali- 

 sche Chemie the sum of $300 for prizes for 

 papers on the literature of the phenomena of 

 catalysis. The papers may be published in 

 the journal and must be received before June 

 30, 1905. 



The Royal Astronomical Society is making 

 a collection of portraits of its past presidents, 

 and has recently received from Sir Robert 

 Ball a portrait of Professor Brinkley; of 

 Manuel Johnson, who was Radcliffe observer 

 in the middle of the last century, and of Dr. 

 Rambaut. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on April 19-20, to 

 secure eligibles to fill a vacancy in the posi- 

 tion of assistant (male) in the Nautical 

 Almanac Office, at $1,000 per annum, and 

 other similar vacancies as they may occur. 

 The commission also announces an examina- 

 tion on May 11-12, 1904, for the position of 

 assistant biologist (male) in the Division of 

 Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, 

 at $1,200 per annum. 



The Lake Laboratory announces courses of 

 instruction in various branches of zoology and 



