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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 491. 



It is stated in the Condor that Mr. W. L. 

 Dawson, the author of ' The Birds of Ohio,' 

 intends to move to the state of Washington, 

 where he will undertake, in co-authorship with 

 Mr. J. H. Bowles, of Tacoma, an illustrated 

 work upon the ' Birds of Washington.' 



The monument in honor of Benjamin Hush, 

 presented to the nation by the American Med- 

 ical Association, will be unveiled at Wash- 

 ington, on June 11, at four o'clock in the 

 afternoon. There will be an introductory ad- 

 dress by the president of the American Med- 

 ical Association; an oration on Benjamin 

 Eush by Dr. J. C. Wilson, Philadelphia, and 

 ah address of the president of the United 

 States accepting the gift. 



The fellowship established at the Univer- 

 sity of California in honor of the late Pro- 

 fessor Joseph Le Conte has been awarded to 

 C. 0. Esterly, at present assistant in zoology 

 at the University. 



News has just been received by cable that 

 Professor E. J. Marey died on May 16. 

 Physiology has thus lost one of its ablest ex- 

 ponents and a leader in the application of 

 methods of physical research to the study of 

 biological phenomena. 



Professor Wilhelm Hiss, professor of 

 anatomy at Leipzig and eminent for his con- 

 tributions to that science, died on May 1, at 

 the age of seventy-two years. 



Dr. George Johnston Allman, F.R.S., for 

 more than forty years professor of mathe- 

 matics in Queen's College, Galway, has died 

 at the age of eighty years. He was the au- 

 thor of numerous contributions to mathe- 

 matics, especially on the history of the science. 



We regret also to record the death of M. 

 Emile Godfernaux, a well-known French civil 

 engineer, and of M. Charles Soret, who held, 

 since 18Y9, a chair at the University of 

 Geneva, first of mineralogy and then of phys- 

 ics, on April 4. 



Fredekick a. Walpole, the botanical artist 

 of the Department of Agriculture, died on 

 May 11, 1904, of typhoid fever, at Cottage 

 Hospital, Santa Barbara, Cal. He was consid- 

 ered the best plant artist in the United States, 

 his drawings having been used to illustrate 



various reports published by the Department 

 of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, as well as the narrative of the Harriman 

 Alaska expedition. Mr. Walpole was bom in 

 Essex County, New York, in 1861, and at an 

 early age moved with his parents to Illinois 

 and later to Portland, Oregon, where he was 

 engaged for some years as artist of a litho- 

 graphic establishment. In 1896 his draw- 

 ings of plants came to the notice of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture and procured for 

 him the position which he has since occupied. 

 His method was to make his drawings from 

 living plants growing under their natural wild 

 conditions. His summers were spent mainly 

 in the field, and his winters at the National 

 Herbarium in Washington, where he com- 

 pleted and perfected his work. The greater 

 part of his drawings remain unpublished, 

 including a remarkable series of colored paint- 

 ings of the native poisonous plants of the 

 United States, now on exhibition by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture at St. Louis. He was 

 a member of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, the National Geo- 

 graphic Society and the Biological Society of 

 Washington. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on June 8 for the position of civil engineer 

 in the Philippine Service Bureau of Forestry, 

 at a salary of $2,400. On June 15 there will 

 be an examination for the position of labora- 

 tory assistant in the Bureau of Standards at 

 a salary of $900. 



The New York Civil Service Commission 

 will hold examination on June 7, for director 

 of Pathological Laboratories, Department of 

 Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, New York 

 City. The salary is $5,000 a year; the suc- 

 cessful candidate will be required to devote all 

 his time to the work. 



Colonel J. E. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass., 

 is erecting a museum in that town to contain 

 his valuable collection of birds. 



Mr. E. E. Thomas has given $40,000 to the 

 Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, 

 which makes available conditional gifts 

 amounting to $125,000. 



