December 22, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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in the Victoria University, Mancliester, has 

 been elected Fullerian professor of physiology 

 to the Koyal Institution, London. 



Dr. William Osler, regius professor of 

 medicine at Oxford, is a passenger on the 

 Caronia, which is due in New York at the 

 end of this week. 



The Botanical Gazette states that Professors 

 Macbride and Shimek, of the University of 

 Iowa, spent part of last summer in the south- 

 western deserts, especially in the Salton basin. 

 The university herbarium now contains a 

 fairly complete representation of the flora of 

 New Mexico and Arizona. 



Dr. W. Wirtinger, professor of mathematics 

 at Vienna, has been elected a member of the 

 Vienna Academy of Sciences. 



The Eoyal Society of Arts has awarded a 

 silver medal to the Hon. Eobert P. Porter, 

 former head of the U. S. Census Office, for 

 his paper read before the society, on ' London 

 Electric Railways.' 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 Professor Czerny has resigned the chair of 

 surgery in the LTniversity of Heidelberg, 

 which he has held since 1877, in order to 

 devote himself entirely to the duties of di- 

 rector of the Institute of Cancer Research. 

 He will be succeeded in the chair of surgery 

 by Professor Garre, who accepted a call to 

 Breslau after the death of Professor von 

 Mikulicz. 



Dr. a. B. Meyer has been dismissed from 

 the directorship of the Zoological and Ethno- 

 graphical Museum at Dresden for alleged 

 irregularities in the conduct of the museum. 



On December 29 Dr. Thomas Darlington, 

 health commissioner of New York, will de- 

 liver a public lecture at the Academy of 

 Medicine on the results of the work of the two 

 commissions appointed last spring to study 

 pneumonia and cerebrospinal meningitis. 



The committee appointed to carry the pro- 

 posal of a memorial to Rudolf Virchow into 

 effect has now a sum of $20,000 at its disposal. 

 Of this amount $9,000 has been contributed 

 by subscribers and $11,000 by the city of 

 Berlin. Three prizes, of the value respect- 



ively of $750, $500 and $250, are offered for 

 the best design of a memorial. Drawings 

 must be sent in before April, 1906. 



Dr. Walter WiSLiCEisfus, associate professor 

 of astronomy at Strassburg, died on October 

 3, at the age of forty-six years. 



The death is announced of Professor von 

 Leuthold, surgeon-general of the German 

 army. 



Dr. Ernst Ziegler, professor of pathology 

 in the University of Ereiburg, died on No- 

 vember 30, in his fifty-seventh year. 



In connection with the approaching meeting 

 of the American Association the New England 

 Passenger Association offers a rate of a fare 

 and a third to Washington or other trunk line 

 southern or western termini, added to one 

 fare plus twenty-five cents for the round trip 

 (this does not include the Eastern Steamship 

 Company). 



The fourth annual meeting of the American 

 Paleontological Society (Vertebrates) will be 

 held at the American Miiseum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York, on Wednesday and Thursday, 

 December 27 and 28. This is the second 

 regular meeting, and will be presided over by 

 Professor William B. Scott of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, Dr. Marcus S. Earr, of the same insti- 

 tution, acting as secretary. Professor Scott's 

 presidential address will be upon the geology 

 and paleontology of South Africa, so far as 

 obse*"ved during his recent visit in connection 

 with the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



A meeting of those members of the Division 

 of Plydrology of the United States Geological 

 Survey who are engaged in artesian water and 

 related geologic investigations was held in 

 Washington on December 9, for the purpose of 

 organizing a society for the discussion of 

 problems relating to underground waters and 

 methods of increasing the efficiency and eco- 

 nomic value of investigations. Among those 

 attending the meeting were E. H. Newell, 

 chief engineer of the Geological Survey, and 

 officials and members of the division of hydrol- 

 ogy. The formation of the new society was 

 decided upon, but the details of organzation 

 Avere left to a future meeting. 



