July 21, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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by Professor H. S. Grutsall, of the College of 

 Architecture, and will be erected in a stone 

 niche of the new Thurston Hall of Engineer- 

 ing, now in process of construction. 



A BUST of the electrical inventor, Charles J. 

 Van Depoele, has been placed in the Lynn 

 Public Library. 



Mr. Rollo Appleyard has presented to the 

 Royal Institution a portrait of the late Pro- 

 fessor J. D. Everett, the physicist. 



Dr. Edward Stickney Wood, since 1876 pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the Harvard Medical 

 School, died on July 11, -at the age of fifty- 

 nine years. 



Dr. J. M. Cunningham, formerly surgeon- 

 general of India, has died at the age of seventy- 

 one years. 



Dr. Hermann von Wissmann, the African 

 explorer, has died at the age of fifty-one years. 



Professor Hermann Nothnagel, professor 

 of clinical medicine in Berlin, and an emi- 

 nent authority on the subject, died on July 7, 

 at the age of sixty-four years. 



Professor von Milulicz, professor of sur- 

 gery at Breslau, and surgeon-general of the 

 Prussian army, died on June 14. 



Professor Jacques Elisee Eeclus, pro- 

 fessor of geography at the new University of 

 Brussels, has died at the age of eighty-five 

 years. 



The TJ. S, National Museum is about to 

 receive a large collection of South American 

 moths, the gift of Mr. Wm. Schaus, of 

 Twickenham, England, and IsTew York. This 

 is one of the finest collections from this region 

 extant, containing some 60,000 specimens and 

 hundreds of types, mostly the result of Mr. 

 Schaus's personal collecting. 



The west pavilion of the stone building, 

 known during the Louisiana Pu'rehase Ex- 

 position as the Palace of Fine Arts, was 

 formally opened on July 1 to the public as the 

 St. Louis Museum, embracing in the thirty- 

 six rooms, collections of exhibits from forty 

 different countries, valued collectively at 

 $500,000. 



We learn from the Electrical World that 

 the United Engineering Building Committee 



voted a contract last week for $795,000 to the 

 Wells Brothers Company, of New York City, 

 for the construction of the new building under 

 the Carnegie gift, on West Thirty-ninth 

 Street, New York. This contract does not 

 include anything for electrical plant, wiring, 

 steam heating, etc., but deals solely with the 

 construction of the edifice. The lots have 

 already been excavated, and work will begin 

 without delay. October, 1906, is spoken of as 

 the time of completion and readiness. 



Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern 

 University was damaged by fire on July 15 

 to the extent of $1,000. None of the instru- 

 ments was harmed. 



The Bureau of Forestry, to which the con- 

 trol of the national forest reserves have been 

 transferred, will hereafter be known as the 

 forest service. 



It is stated in the Electrical World that a 

 conference has been called by the Reichsan- 

 stalt as a preliminary to the meeting of the 

 International Commission on Electrical Units 

 and Standards. To this conference the Eeichs- 

 anstalt has invited the heads of bureaus in 

 America, England, Belgium, Austria-Hun- 

 gary, also Lord Rayleigh, Professors Kohl- 

 rausch, M. Mascart and Carhart, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. The conference will be 

 held in Berlin, probably the latter part of Oc- 

 tober, the exact date not having as yet been 

 fixed. It seems probable that the commission 

 will be called together within the next two 

 years. 



At a meeting of a number of members of 

 !^arliament on July 4, the following resolution 

 was unanimously passed : " That this meeting, 

 being satisfied of the necessity of further state 

 aid to the National Physical Laboratory, at 

 Teddington, as regards both equipment and 

 maintenance, requests the chairman and con- 

 veners of this meeting to prepare and present 

 a memorial to the chancellor of the Exchequer 

 asking for such additional aid, and that the 

 memorial be signed by members here present 

 or who, being absent, may be in sympathy with 

 its objects." 



The University of Colorado, at Boulder, 

 has been able to acquire, through the gener- 



