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SCIENCE. 



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Geographical Society of London, and also by 

 Dr. Nansen, Professor von Drygalski and 

 •other scientific men. 



American Medicine states that during the 

 epidemic in New Orleans an opportunity has 

 been afforded for careful study of conditions 

 leading to the infection, with the result, it is 

 believed, that the causative microorganism has 

 been isolated and identified. The work has 

 been conducted at the emergency hospital by 

 Drs. P. E. Archinard, J. Birney Guthrie and 

 J. C. Smith. The life history of the organism 

 discovered by Dr. Archinard has feeen fol- 

 lowed, and its presence in the blood of patients 

 .confirmed. 



Sir Thomas Browne, the author of ' Eeligio 

 Medici,' was born on October 19, 1605, and 

 the quatercentenary will be celebrated at 

 JSTorwich on the same date this year. The 

 British Medical Journal states that the me- 

 znorial statue of Sir Thomas Browne, erected 

 in the Market Place, will be unveiled at 12 :30 

 P.M. by Lord Ayebury, F.R.S. ; afterwards a 

 luncheon will be held at the Blackfriars Hall. 

 At 8 :30 P.M. there will be a service in memory 

 of Sir Thomas Browne in the Church of St. 

 Peter Mancroft, Norwich, near which he lived 

 for many years, and in which he worshipped, 

 and lies buried; the sermon will be preached 

 \>j the Right Rev. Bishop Mitchinson, master 

 of Pembroke College, Oxford, of which college 

 Sir Thomas Browne was a member. 



Dr. Alfred Schaper, assistant to the pro- 

 fessor of embryology at Breslau, has died at 

 the age of forty-two years. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. Franz 

 Ruch, docent in geodesy in the Technical In- 

 stitute at Prague, and of Dr. Rudolf Pernth- 

 ner von Lichtenfelds, docent in architectural 

 engineering in the Polytechnic Institute at 

 Vienna. 



The second general international sanitary 

 convention will meet in Washington on Oc- 

 tober 9. The different South American re- 

 publics will be represented, and many Euro- 

 pean men of science will be in attendance. 



A Civil SER^acE examination will be held 

 October 25, 1905, to establish a register of 

 eligibles from which to fill four positions as 



laboratory assistant in the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, Washington. Three of these positions 

 are in the Electrical Division of the Bureau 

 and one in Weights and Measures ; the salaries 

 are $900 and $1,000. 'The examination will 

 consist of: 



Education and experience (rated on applica- 

 tion form) 50 



General jjliysics 25 



Special subjects (it is optional with the com-' 

 petitor to take more than one of these sub- 

 jects) — (a) electrical measurements; (6) 

 weights and measures 25 



Total 100 



Any one wishing to take the examination 

 should address the IJ. S. Civil Service Com- 

 mission requesting application blanks. Fur- 

 ther information may be obtained by address- 

 .ing the director of the Bureau of Standards. 

 Applicants must be between 20 and 35 years 

 of age. 



The Smithsonian Institution has received 

 information through the Department of State, 

 from Consul General George Heimrod, of 

 Apia, Samoa, that between August 2 and 4, 

 last, a new volcano broke out in Savaii, about 

 eight miles east of the old volcano Mangi, and 

 ten miles south of Matautu. Mr. Heimrod 

 states that the activity of this volcano is phe- 

 nomenal, as in a single fortnight it created a 

 new mountain with three peaks, one of which 

 will soon reach a height of 800 feet or 2,000 

 feet above sea-level. The ejected matter rep- 

 resents many millions of tons of unsmelted 

 rocks, slag, cinders and ash, which at the be- 

 ginning of the outbreak in its fiery state was 

 moving towards the sea, the settled part of 

 the island. The mass is about five miles long 

 and one fourth of a mile wide, and as it has 

 almost come to a standstill and is hardening 

 at its extreme ends, danger for life and prop- 

 erty is not anticipated. 



In connection with the Conservatoire des 

 Arts et Metiers a museum of industrial hy- 

 giene will be opened this month at Paris by 

 the president of the republic. 



According to The Journal of the Society of 

 Arts the British consul at Naples reports that 

 the work on the new wing which is being 



