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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No, 559. 



It is stated in American Medicine that 

 Lawrence F. Flick, of the Phipps Institute, 

 . Joseph Walsh, Mazyck P, Pavenel and D. J. 

 McCarthy, of Philadelphia, will sail on Sep- 

 tember 16 to attend the third International 

 Congress on Tuberculosis in Paris, where they 

 will read papers. 



Dr. Edmund Neusser, professor of medicine 

 in the University of Vienna, has received 

 from the emperor a life patent of nobility. 



Dr. Robert Koch, who is still in east 

 Africa, has been appointed an honorary mem- 

 ber of the Royal Institute for Infectious Dis- 

 eases, Berlin. 



Dr. Julius Kuhn, known for his contribu- 

 tions to scientific agriculture, will celebrate 

 his eightieth birthday on October 23. 



Dr. J. A. Mayer has retired from the 

 curatorship of the Bavarian National Mu- 

 seum at Munich and is succeeded by Dr. P. 

 Halm, hitherto librarian of the museum. 



Dr. H. Fischer has been appointed director 

 of the Bacteriological Station in the Agricul- 

 tural School at Berlin. 



Dr. Wm. E. Ritter, director of the San 

 Diego Marine Biological Laboratory, has been 

 granted a leave of absence for the current 

 academic year from his diities as professor of 

 zoology at the University of California. He 

 will spend the first half, at least, of the period 

 at La Jolla, where the new laboratory of the 

 San Diego Marine Biological Association is 

 located, in study and in looking after the in- 

 terests of the biological survey being carried 

 on by the laboratory. 



Mr. Alvin Seale, who is abou.t to graduate 

 from Stanford University, after special work 

 in zoology, has been employed by the govern- 

 ment of the Hawaiian Islands to make experi- 

 ments with certain fishes from the southern 

 states to determine whether these will exter- 

 minate the mosquitoes that have been intro- 

 duced into the Hawaiian Islands. 



During the field season just closed, a num- 

 ber of men from the department of geology, 

 of the University of Oklahoma, have been in 

 the field. Professor Charles IST. Gould, with 

 two advanced students, T. B. Matthews and 



E. F. Schramm, spent two months in the Texas 

 Panhandle studying the geology and water 

 resources of the region for the Division of 

 Hydrology of the U. S. Geological Survey. 

 Professor E. G. Woodrufi during the same 

 time has been a member of the survey party of 

 Mr. N. H. Darton in the Big Horn Mountains, 

 Wyoming. Mr. Ira Montgomery and Mr. L. 

 L. Hutchinson were members of the field party 

 of the Oklahoma Geological Survey and with 

 Professor A. H. Van Vleet spent a number of 

 weeks in the field in the northwestern part of 

 Oklahoma. 



Mr. Chester A. Reeds, B.S. ('05, Okla- 

 homa), spent the summer collecting fossils 

 from the Hunton (Helderbergian) limestone 

 in the Arbuckle Mountains for the department 

 of paleontology at Yale, where he has an as- 

 sistant's position with Professor Schuchert the 

 coming year. 



Cavendish House and grounds, situated on 

 the south side of Clapham, where Henry Cav- 

 endish made his remarkable experiments, has 

 been sold at auction. 



A monument in honor of Professor B. 

 Maerckers, known for his contributions to 

 agricultural science, will be unveiled in Halle 

 on October 24. 



Dr. Ernst Theodor Schweiger, professor 

 of ophthalmology at Berlin, died on August 

 26, at the age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. H. Laehr, a leading German psychia- 

 trist, has died at the age of eighty-six year's. 



The health commissioner of the state of 

 Pennsylvania has posted an entomologist at 

 the harbor to watch fruit vessels from foreign 

 ports, and make a collection of mosquitoes that 

 come with the fruit. These mosquitoes will 

 be carefully examined to ascertain if any of 

 the yellow fever variety are reaching Phila- 

 delphia. 



M. Medeiros, of Rio de Janeiro, a member 

 of the Brazilian legislature, has submitted to 

 the chamber of deputies the offer of a prize of 

 £400,000 to be awarded to the discoverer of a 

 certain means of stamping out consumption. 



Sir Alfred Jones and Mr, W. H. Lever 

 have both promised £1,000 a year for four years 



