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SCIENCE. 



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at Munich. At the general sessions papers 

 were presented by Professor W. Wien, of 

 Wiirzburg, on ' Electrones ' ; Professor Nocht, 

 of Hamburg, on ' Tropical Diseases ' ; Pro- 

 fessor H. Molisch, of Prague, on ' The Eeac- 

 tion of Plants to Light ' ; Professor H. Diirck, 

 of Munich, on ' Beri-Beri ' ; Dr. CI.. Neisser, 

 of Lublinitz, on ' Individuality and Psy- 

 choses ' ; and by Professor J. Wimmer, of 

 Yienna, on the ' Mechanics of the Develop- 

 ment of Animals.' At a meeting of the entire 

 association papers on heredity were presented 

 hy Professor C. Correns, of Leipzig; K. 

 Heider, of Insbruck, and B. Hatschek, of 

 Vienna. The association met in thirty sec- 

 tions for the reading of scientific papers, of 

 which seventeen were in medicine and thirteen 

 in natural science, the latter being as follows : 



(1) Mathematics, astronomy and geodesy; 



(2) physics; (3) applied mathematics and 

 physics; (4) chemistry; (5) applied chemistry ; 

 (6) geophysics and meteorology; (7) geog- 

 raphy; (8) mineralogy, geology and paleon- 

 tology; (9) botany; (10) zoology; (11) an- 

 thropology, ethnology and archeology; (12) 

 TQathematical and scientific education; (13) 

 pharmacology. 



The sixth Congress of Criminal Anthro- 

 pology will meet at Turin on April 28, 1906, 

 Tinder the presidency of Professor Lombroso. 

 An exhibition of criminal anthropology will 

 '"be held in connection with the congress. 



The nineteenth annual convention of the 

 Association of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations will be held at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, in the early part of November 

 next. 



The Sank County Historical Society has 

 heen organized, in Wisconsin, to further 

 archeological and historical research, by 

 Messrs. A. B. Stout and H. E. Cole, members 

 of the Wisconsin Archeological Society. 



Erom June 21 to 26, 1906, a large agricul- 

 tural exposition is to be held at Berlin, which 

 will also comprise a special division for pre- 

 served-food articles, such as products of the 

 dairy, dough, potatoes, fruits, wines and ex- 

 tracts, meats, beer, etc. Money prizes, diplo- 

 mas and medals will be awarded. In order to 



test the preserving capacity of these exhibits 

 they will be sent to the tropics. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 By direction of the late Mrs. Adolphus F. 

 Eliott, a hospital, to cost $175,000, has been 

 given to the University of Minnesota. 



The University of Melbourne attains its 

 jubilee next year, and preparations are already 

 in progress to celebrate the event. 



The board of Trinity College, Dublin, has 

 instituted a diploma in economics and com- 

 mercial knowledge. The course for the ex- 

 amination includes, as obligatory subjects, the 

 theory of economics, commercial history and 

 geography, accountancy and commercial law; 

 and as optional subjects a modern language 

 (French or German or Spanish), any one of 

 a variety of special economic subjects, and 

 any one of the following branches of economic 

 and business organization — banking, railways, 

 insurance, agriculture. 



The summer course in experimental pho- 

 netics at the University of Marburg was de- 

 livered this year by Dr. E. W. Scripture. 

 The course had been previously given by the 

 Abbe Rousselot, of the College de France, 

 Paris. 



Mr. Samuel M. Kintner^ for some years 

 professor of electrical engineering at the West- 

 ern University of Pennsylvania, has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor of electrical engi- 

 neering in the Carnegie Technical School. 



Mr. W. p. Brooks has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege and Experiment Station, in succession to 

 the late Henry Hill Goodale. 



M. Lavasseur, the statistician, has suc- 

 ceeded M. Gaston Paris as executive head of 

 the College de France. 



Dr. Verneuil ana Dr. Rosenstiehl have been 

 appointed professors of applied chemistry in 

 the National Conservatory of Arts and Meas- 

 ures. Dr. Deperet has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of geology and mineralogy in the fac- 

 ulty of sciences at the University of Lyons 

 and Dr. Rivals professor of technical chem- 

 istry at Aix-Marseilles. 



