June 10, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



901 



Colorado in September, Mrs. Cockerell will 

 take the position of teacher of biology and 

 physiography in the State Preparatory School 

 at Boulder. In this work she will be assisted 

 by Mr. Cockerell, who will also conduct a 

 research laboratory in the University of 

 Colorado. 



Pkofessou T. Steinmann has returned to 

 Freiburg from geological and paleontological 

 explorations in Bolivia. 



Foreign papers report that Dr. Gottfried 

 Merzbacher, who has been engaged for two 

 years on a scientific expedition in the Thian- 

 shan Mountains, in Central Asia, has returned 

 to Munich with many objects of geological, 

 paleontological, zoological and botanical in- 

 terest. 



It is reported that Lieutenant Peary has 

 chartered the sealer Eagle, at St. John's, New- 

 foundland, for a cruise to Littleton Island, 

 from July to September, in preparation for a 

 four years' stay in the Arctic regions. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the U. S. National 

 Museum, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Czecho-Slavonic Ethnological 

 Society of Prague. 



Dr. Burton E. Livingston, assistant in the 

 Department of Botany, of the University of 

 Chicago, has been awarded the Walker prize 

 by the Boston Society of Natural History for 

 a paper on ' Ionic Stimulation in Plants.' 



The Council of the Geological Society of 

 London has awarded the Daniel Pidgeon fund 

 to Mr. Lindsdall Richardson. 



Mr. Percy Wilson, administrative assistant 

 in the New York Botanical Garden, has ac- 

 cepted the position of assistant botanist of 

 the Estacion Agronomica of Cuba. Mr. W. 

 T. Home, fellow in botany in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant pathol- 

 ogist in the same institution. 



The Eede lecture at Cambridge will be de- 

 livered on June 11, by Dr. J. A. Ewing, F.E.S., 

 upon ' The Structure of Metals.' 



We learn from Nature that a mathematical 

 society of Vienna has been organized, the 

 meetings of which are to be held monthly. 

 The officers are Messrs. G. von Escherich 

 (president), E. Miiller and W. Wirtinger 



(vice-president), A. Lampa (secretary), and 

 A. Gerstel (treasurer). 



The death is announced of Senator Gaetano 

 Georgio Genunellaro, the Italian geologist; of 

 Professor Lengemann, who held the chair of 

 mining in the Technical Institute at Aachen, 

 and of Mr. Frank Eutley, the British geol- 

 ogist. 



The Weights and Measures (metric system) 

 Bill before the British parliament has been 

 read a third time and passed by the House of 

 Lords. 



The Chicago Academy of Sciences has se- 

 cured the collection of Lower Coal Measure 

 XDlants made by Dr. John'H. Britts, of Clin- 

 ton, Iowa. The collection contains many 

 species, named by Lesquereux, besides numer- 

 ous cotypes of species, described by David 

 White in Monograph 37, U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, on the 'Fossil Flora of the Lower Coal 

 Measures of Missouri.' The collection was 

 obtained through the generosity of Mr. Francis 

 S. Peabody, of Chicago. 



Five hundred mechanical engineers, repre- 

 senting the United States and foreign coun- 

 tries, were present on May 31 at the opening 

 of the forty-ninth annual meeting of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 

 which was a joint meeting with the Institu- 

 tion of Mechanical Engineers of Great Britain. 

 Addresses were made by Mr. Ambrose Swasey, 

 president of the American society, and Mr. 

 J. P. Hartley Wicksteed, president of the 

 English organization. 



The Philadelphia Botanical Club and the 

 Torrey Botanical Club will hold a joint field 

 meeting at McCall's Ferry, Pennsylvania, in 

 the valley of the Susquehanna River, July 2 

 to 9, 1904, which all botanists are cordially 

 invited to attend. Excursions will be made 

 from this point as a center, to points in the 

 vicinity, returning each day; botanists can, 

 therefore, conveniently take part in the meet- 

 ing by arriving at McCall's Ferry any after- 

 noon during the week. Informal evening con- 

 ferences will be held for the discussion of 

 topics that may be brought forward. Fares to 

 McCall's Ferry are as follows: 



