June 17, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



933 



Dr. Wilhelm Eein, professor of education 

 in the University of Jena, has accepted an in- 

 vitation to deliver two lectures before the 

 University of Manchester. The university 

 will confer on him the degree of Doctor of 

 Letters. 



A BRONZE statue of Dr. Benjamin Rush, 

 given to the nation by the American Medical 

 Association, was unveiled at Washington on 

 June 11. The statue, which stands in the 

 grounds of the U. S. Naval Museum, is of 

 heroic size. It stands on a base of Indian 

 limestone, on which are four bas-relief panels. 

 The one in front bears the inscription, ' Dr. 

 Benjamin Hush, Physician and Philanthropist. 

 1Y45-1813.' One panel bears crossed swords 

 and a wreath and beneath is inscribed, 

 ' Signer of the Declaration of Independence.' 

 Another panel bears a scroll, a pen and wreath 

 with the inscription, ' First American Alienist.' 

 The remaining panel bears the staff of 

 Mercury, and the quotation ' Studium Sine 

 Calamo Somnium. Mr. Louis R. Metcalfe 

 was the architect of the statue, Mr. E. Hinton 

 Perry the sculptor, and J. W. Pacey the 

 builder. The statue was presented by Dr. J. 

 H. Musser, president of the American Medi- 

 cal Association, and accepted by President 

 Roosevelt. An address in honor of Dr. Rush 

 was given by Dr. J. C. Wilson, of Philadel- 

 phia. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the street at Nancy, 

 where Liebeault lived im.til his death last 

 February, has been named after him, and will 

 be known henceforth as Rue du Docteur Lie- 

 beault. He was the founder of the Nancy 

 school of hypnology, and was in his eighty- 

 second year at the time of his death. 



A BRONZE medallion portrait in memory of 

 the late Professor Adamson was unveiled at 

 the University of Manchester on June 3, Pro- 

 fessor Sorley, of Cambridge, making the prin- 

 cipal address. 



Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., the well- 

 known British entomologist, whose work has 

 been more particularly on the neuroptera, 

 died on May 23, at the age of sixty-seven 

 years. 



We regret also to record the deaths of M. 

 E. D. del Oastilo, the botanist, and of Pro- 

 fessor Amato Amati, an Italian writer on 

 geography. 



The British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science has been invited to meet in 

 York in 1906. 



The Station for Experimental Evolution of 

 the Department of Experimental Biology of 

 the Carnegie Institution at Cold Spring Har- 

 bor, L. I., was formally opened on Saturday, 

 June 11. An introductory address was made 

 by Director C. B. Davenport and a historical 

 address by Mr. Walter R. T. Jones, of the 

 Wawepex Society, which has presented land 

 for the station. Dr. John S. Billings made 

 an address of acceptance as chairman of the 

 executive committee of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, and Dr. Franklin W. Hooper made an 

 address of welcome on behalf of the biological 

 laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute. The 

 scientific address was made by Professor Hugo 

 De Vries, director of the Botanical Gardens 

 at Amsterdam. 



We learn from the London Times that a 

 first report of the application of the Liverpool 

 Cancer Research Fund, given by Mr. Sutton 

 Timmis, as a memorial of his wife, has just 

 been published. The fund consists of a sum 

 of £10,000, of which an amount not exceeding 

 £1,500 may be spent annually under the direc- 

 tion of a committee, the proceedings of which 

 have been brought into close relation with the 

 Liverpool Royal Infirmary and with the Liver- 

 pool University. In addition to a brief his- 

 tory of the establishment of the fund, and to 

 a financial statement, the report contains an 

 account, by the director of the research. Dr. 

 Griinbaum, of the lines upon which it has 

 been begun and will be continued. These are 

 chiefly experimental, as it is felt that statis- 

 tical and geographical inquiries may be more 

 effectively undertaken by the London and Ger- 

 man committees. 



Some further details are now announced in 

 regard to the eighth International Geographic 

 Congress, to be held in September, and for 

 the first time in the United States. It will 

 open at the Columbian University, Washing- 



