September 22, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



881 



Professor Omori, the Japanese seismologist, 

 has concluded his visit to India, where he has 

 been investigating the conditions of earth- 

 quakes. 



Professor Frederick Starr, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, has been granted leave of 

 absence of more than a year, which time he 

 will spend among the savage tribes of Central 

 Africa. 



A Reuter telegram from Liverpool states 

 that, at the request of the colonial office, the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has, 

 with the consent of the university authorities, 

 requested Professor Boyce to visit Belize, in 

 British Honduras, to report on the sanitary 

 measures in that colony necessary in view of 

 the recent outbreak of yellow fever. Professor 

 Boyce, who is now at New Orleans, will, after 

 completing his observations of the methods 

 employed by the Americans in combating yel- 

 low fever there, proceed to Belize. The latest 

 mail advices from Brazil have brought news 

 that both members of the yellow fever expedi- 

 tion of the Liverpool School at Manaos have 

 been ill with yellow fever, one very seriously. 

 The latter has now been invalided to Madeira 

 to recuperate,, but proposes to return to con- 

 tinue his work. The members of the expedi- 

 tion express the hope that they will now be 

 immune. The medical officers of Manaos have 

 shown them the greatest attention and kind- 

 ness during their illness. The surviving mem- 

 bers of the sleeping sickness expedition which 

 the school sent to the Congo in August, 1903, 

 returned to England by the steamship Ot'on 

 on September 5. 



The Journal of the New York Botanical 

 Garden reports that Dr. P. A. Rydberg re- 

 turned from two months' work in western 

 Utah and Nevada, late in August. A large 

 number of herbarium specimens were secured 

 which will furnish much valuable material for 

 the furtherance of his studies on the flora of 

 the Rocky Mountains. Mr. George V. Nash 

 has recently returned from an exploring trip 

 to the interior of Hayti. Some regions hith- 

 erto unvisited by the botanist were reached 

 and a large amount of preserved material, 

 seeds and living plants were secured, together 



with many valuable notes on distribution. 

 Professor F. E. Lloyd, of Teachers College,' 

 has returned from a summer of work at the 

 Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution 

 at Tucson, Arizona. Professor Lloyd is carry- 

 ing out some investigations upon the trans- 

 piration of desert plants under a grant from 

 the Carnegie Institution. 



Dr. Stephan Krusper, emeritus professor 

 of mathematics in the Polytechnic School at 

 Buda Pesth, has died at the age of eighty- 

 seven years. 



Dr. Franz Reuleaux, emeritus professor 

 of technology in the Berlin Technological In- 

 stitute, died on August 20, at the age of 

 seventy-six years. 



Count de Brazza, known for his explora- 

 tions in Central Africa, has died while on a 

 special mission' from the French government 

 to that region. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas, one of the editors of 

 the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, died on 

 August 28, in his ninety-first year. 



The eclipse expeditions to Spain were, on 

 September 8, entertained at lunch by the 

 mayor and municipality of Madrid. The 

 toast of the day was proposed by the mayor, 

 Sefior Vincenti, and answered by Dr. Janssen, 

 on behalf of the astronomical representatives 

 of France, Germany, Holland, Italy, America, 

 Russia, Spain and Great Britain. 



It has been stated that a member of the 

 Brazilian Chamber of Deputies had proposed 

 that a prize of $2,000,000 should be offered for 

 the discovery of a certain method of stamping 

 out consumption. The British Medical Jour- 

 nal announces that the proposal has been 

 approved by the Brazilian Parliament. The 

 offer, however, is larger in scope than was at 

 first reported, for it appears that the prize will 

 be given to any one, native or foreign, who 

 shall discover a certain means of prevention 

 or cure of syphilis, or tiiberculosis, or cancer. 

 The Brazilian minister of the interior will, 

 it is said, refer the proposal to a committee 

 composed of a representative of the National 

 Academy of Medicine, and four other mem- 

 bers of kindred bodies in France, England, 

 Germany and Italy. The Brazilian govern- 



