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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 553. 



University of Manitoba, has been invited by 

 the University of London to deliver a course 

 of lectures on ' The Ductless Glands.' 



The x\nierican Medical Association has 

 taken steps for the erection of a suitable 

 memorial to Dr. N. S. Davis, who is regarded 

 as the founder of the association. 



The committee appointed on March 25, 1873, 

 to consider the steps to be taken to raise a 

 memorial at Cambridge to the late Professor 

 Sedgwick has issued a final balance-sheet with 

 a list of subscribers. The receipts were : Sub- 

 scriptions for the building, £10,651 Os. 6d. ; for 

 the statue of the professor, £506 Is.; interest 

 on deposit, £811 19s. lOd. ; dividends, £13,714 

 Is. 3d.; profit on sale of investments, £1,769 

 19s. 9d. ; total, £27,453 2s. 4d. The payments 

 were : Printing, advertising, etc., £186 14s. 7d. ; 

 university for the building, £26,125 ; Mr. Ons- 

 low Ford for statue, £1,050; balance in hand, 

 £91 7s. 9d., which has been paid over to the 

 university financial board. 



A TABLET was unveilcd on July 14, by Signor 

 G. Marconi, on the house in which Sir 

 Humphry Davy once lived at Clifton, Bristol. 



Dr. J. Latchenberg, professor of physiology 

 in the veterinary school of Vienna, died on 

 June 21, at the age of fifty-seven years. 



The death is announced of Mr. Charles 

 Moore, director of the Sydney Botanical Gar- 

 dens, at the age of eighty-six years. 



There will be civil service examination on 

 August 16 and 17 to fill the position of phys- 

 ical chemist in the government laboratories 

 at Manila, at a salary of $1,800 a year. 



Oaving to the occurrence of several cases of 

 hydrophobia in Penang, four of which have 

 already ended in death, Leong Fee, the Chinese 

 consul, has made an offer to the British gov- 

 ernment to build and equip a Pasteur institute 

 for the Straits Settlements and the neighbor- 

 ing regions. 



Dr. E. G. Gaue has presented his native city 

 of JBergen, Norway, with $30,000 to equip and 

 support a laboratory for pathologic anatomy. 



The Bressa prize of the Turin Academy of 

 Sciences will be awarded at the end of the 



present year for the most important work in 

 the science during the preceding three years. 

 The value of this prize is about $2,000. 



Despatches to the daily papers state that 

 German astronomers are making unusual 

 preparations for the observation of the forth- 

 coming total eclipse of the sun. The Ham- 

 burg Observatory will send an expedition to 

 Algiers, which will take an extensive series of 

 observations, giving special attention to elec- 

 trical phenomena. Photographs of the sky 

 adjacent to the eun will be taken in the hope 

 of discovering a planet within the orbit of 

 Mercury. The observatories at Potsdam and 

 Gottingen will send astronomers to Spain and 

 Algiers for observations. The Prussian Me- 

 teorological Observatory at Potsdam is send- 

 ing an expedition to Burgos, Spain, to study 

 atmospheric and electrical phenomena the 

 week before and the week after the eclipse. 



At the meeting of the International Zoo- 

 logical Congress, to be held in Boston in 1907 

 under the presidency of Mr. Alexander Agas- 

 siz, the prize founded by Emperor Nicholas II. 

 will be awarded. The subject is new experi- 

 mental researches on hybrids. The researches 

 which may be in manuscript or printed after 

 this announcement must be sent before June 

 1, 1907, to Professor E. Blanchard, Boulevard 

 St. Germain, 226. The papers must, it ap- 

 pears, be written in French, or be accompanied 

 by an abstract in French. 



There were about 600 botanists present at 

 the International Congress held at Vienna,, 

 from June 11 to 18. The third congress will 

 be held at Brussels in 1910. 



In connection with the present visit of the 

 British Association to Rhodesia, the British 

 South African Company have issiied a special 

 set of postage stamps, the design on which 

 represents a view of the Victoria Falls. This- 

 issue will also serve to commemorate the formal 

 opening, during the British Association's visit 

 to the falls, of the bridge across the Zambesi 

 Piver, one of the greatest engineering marvels 

 of modern times, and a most important link in 

 the Cape to Cairo railway. 



The American Medical Association will 

 meet next year at Boston at a time to be sub- 



