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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 574. 



Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathol- 

 ogy in the Johns Hopkins University, has been 

 elected a trtistee of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, to fill the vacancy caused by 

 the death of John Hay. 



Professor F. E. Lloyd, of Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of resident investigator at the Desert Bo- 

 tanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, 

 at Tucson, Arizona. 



Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, for the past two 

 years instructor in botany in Stanford Univer- 

 sity, has been selected to take charge of a 

 botanical station in tropical Mexico for the 

 investigation of problems connected with the 

 cultivation of rubber and coffee. The station 

 is established by the Hidalgo and La Zaeualpa 

 Companies, which own twelve large planta- 

 tions in the region in cfuestion devoted to the 

 raising of rubber and coffee. 



Professor Harold Heath, associate pro- 

 fessor of zoology in Stanford University, will 

 be absent from the university during the com- 

 ing semester on sabbatical leave. He will oc- 

 cupy the Smithsonian table at the Naples 

 Aquarium for two months, visiting Egypt, 

 India and spending two months in Japan, 

 returning to take up his work September, 1906. 



Dr. L. Radlkofer, professor of botany at 

 Munich, has celebrated the fiftieth anniversary 

 of his doctorate. 



Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, whose resig- 

 nation of the post of director of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens at Kew we announced last 

 week has held that appointment since 1885, 

 and for ten years — 1875-1885 — before his pro- 

 motion he was assistant director. His suc- 

 cessor, Lieutenant-Colonel David Prain, had a 

 distinguished university career at Aberdeen 

 and Edinburgh before he entered the Indian 

 Medical Service in 1884. Three years after 

 his arrival in India he was nominated curator 

 of the Calcutta Herbarium; in 1895 he be- 

 came professor of botany at the Medical Col- 

 lege, Calcutta, and superintendent of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden there, and in 1898 he 

 was appointed director of the Botanical Sur- 

 vey of India. He is forty-eight years of age. 



Dr. Richard Hodgson," secretary of the 

 American Branch of the American. Society 

 for Psychical Research, died suddenly at Bos- 

 ton on December 20. 



Professor Heinrich Meininger, formerly 

 professor of technical physics, at Karlsruhe, 

 has died at the age of eighty-four years. 



We are requested to state that owing to a 

 strike in the printing office at Easton, Pa., 

 the issue of the December number of the 

 Journal of the American Chemical Society 

 has been delayed, and the issue of that journal 

 and of the American Chemical Journal for 

 January will also be delayed. 



The engineering students of Washington 

 and Lee University met on December 4 for 

 the purpose of organizing a local scientific 

 society. Addresses were made by Professors 

 Stevens, Humphreys, Campbell and Howe. 



The council of the Iron and Steel Institute 

 has arranged that the annual general meet- 

 ing of the institute shall be held in London 

 on May 10 and 11, 1906. In place of the 

 usual autumn meeting, a joint meeting with 

 the American Institute of Mining Engineers 

 will be held in London on July 23 to 28. It 

 is intended during the week following to give 

 the American visitors an opportunity of see- 

 ing some of the ironmaking districts. It is 

 anticipated that the visiting party will include 

 many of the leading ironmasters who enter- 

 tained the Iron and Steel Institute in America 

 in 1890 and 1904. The Lord Mayor has con- 

 sented to act as chairman of the London re- 

 ception committee, and to give an evening 

 reception at the Mansion-house. 



The sixth International Congress of Crim- 

 inal Anthropology will open at Turin on April 

 28, 1906. The following questions are pro- 

 posed for discussion, and the communications 

 presented will, as far as possible, be grouped 

 round these as central themes : (1) the treat- 

 ment of juvenile criminality according to the 

 principles of criminal anthropology, to be 

 introduced by M. von Hamel; (2) the treat- 

 ment of female criminality, to be introduced 

 by Dr. Pauline Tarnowsky; (3) the relations 

 of economic conditions to criminality, to be 

 introduced by Professor Kurella; (4) the 



