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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 577. 



Dr. William James, professor of philosophy, 

 at Harvard University, is at present lecturing 

 at Stanford University, where he will stay un- 

 til June. 



The ■ fifth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 Course will be given by Professor W. H. 

 Park, at the New York Academy of Medicine, 

 on Saturday, January 20, at 8 :30 p.m., his sub- 

 ject being ' A Critical Study of Serum 

 Therapy.' All interested are invited to at- 

 tend. 



Dr. E. Pflijger, professor of physiology, at 

 Bonn, celebrated, on December 15 the fiftieth 

 anniversary of his doctorate. 



Dr. Max PIeinze, professor of philosophy, 

 Leipzig, celebrated, on December 13, his seven- 

 tieth birthday. 



Sir Michael Foster and Sir Philip Magnus 

 are candidates for parliament from the Uni- 

 versity of London. 



A committee has been formed under the 

 patronage of Prince Bernhard of Saxe- 

 Meiningen for the erection of a memorial of 

 the late Professor von Mikulicz, at Breslau. 



A POSITION as computer at the Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory is , now vacant. The incumbent, 

 who may be either man or woman, will devote 

 considerable time to measuring and reducing 

 stellar spectrograms, in addition to performing 

 miscellaneous computations. The salary 

 which can be offered at present is fifty dollars 

 per month. Applications should be made to 

 Professor Edwin B. Frost, Williams Bay, Wis- 

 consin. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will meet at Lyons, on August 

 2, under the presidency of M. Lippmann, pro- 

 fessor of physics in the Sorbonne. 



Mr. W. D. D. Crotch has left his residuary 

 estate (some £8,000) to the Museum of Zool- 

 ogy, Oxford University. His brother, Mr. 

 G. R. Crotch, had previously left considerable 

 gifts in collections, books and money, to the 

 same institution. 



The department of entomology of the 

 American Museum of Natural Plistory has 

 received as a gift from William Schaus, Esq., 

 formerly of New York City, a valuable col- 

 lection of moths embracing some 26,000 speci- 



mens, mainly from Mexico, Central America 

 and South America. Four years ago the 

 museum received from the same gentleman a 

 collection of 5,000 butterflies, including many 

 rare specimens from Europe, Asia, Africa, 

 Australia and New Zealand. 



Senor Teodoro Dehesa, the governor of 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico, has donated to the Car- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa., a Mexican idol, 

 which was regarded as the gem of his archeo- 

 logical collection. The idol was stolen some 

 years ago and finally came into the possession 

 of the Carnegie Museum, which purchased it, 

 without knowing its previous history. When 

 the authorities of the museum discovered the 

 facts, they offered to restore the specimen to 

 its owner, but he has requested them to retain 

 it as his gift. 



It is stated in the London Times that Mr. 

 W. O. B. Macdonough, of San Francisco, 

 California, has presented to the trustees of 

 the British Museum the skull and limb bones 

 of the celebrated race horse Ormonde, in the 

 opinion of many good judges the best horse 

 of the nineteenth century. The remains re- 

 cently arrived in good condition, and are now 

 in the hands of the museum preparator to be 

 mounted for exhibition in the hall of domesti- 

 cated animals, which already contains speci- 

 mens of several English thoroughbreds, in- 

 cluding the skull of Bend Or, the sire of 

 Ormonde, and the skeleton of Stockwell, of 

 whom he was. a lineal descendant. 



Announcement is made by the board of 

 directors of the National Association for the 

 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis of the 

 preliminary arrangements for the second an- 

 nual meeting of the association, which will be 

 held in Washington, May 17-19, 1906. Two 

 new sections have been established, one on 

 surgical tuberculosis and the other on tu- 

 berculosis in children. The officers of the 

 sections are as follows: Sociological section — 

 chairman, Mr. William H. Baldwin, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; secretary. Miss Lilian Brandt, 

 New York. Clinical and Climatological sec- 

 tion — chairman, Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch, 

 Boston, Mass. ; secretary, Dr. Edwin A. Locke, 

 Boston, Mass. Pathologic and bacteriologic 



