Februakt 9, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The U. S. goyernmeiit lias commissioned 

 President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford 

 University, and Professor Charles H. Gilbert, 

 head of the department of zoology, to conduct 

 an investigation of the fish and fisheries of 

 Japan and the Island of Sakhalin during the 

 coming summer. Professors J. O. Snyder and 

 Harold Heath, of Stanford University, and 

 Professor H. H. Torrey, of the University of 

 California, will also accompany the expedi- 

 tion. 



Professor P. H. Eolfs left the Subtropical 

 Laboratory at Miami, Fla., on Janviary 31, 

 being succeeded as pathologist in charge by 

 Dr. Ernst A. Bessey. Professor Eolfs began 

 on February 1 his duties as director and horti- 

 culturist of the Florida Experiment Station at 

 Lake City. 



Dr. H. E. Patten, instructor in physical 

 chemistry in the University of Wisconsin, has 

 accepted a position in the Bureau of Soils, 

 Washington. 



Dr. Fritz Zerban has returned from the 

 University of Berlin to take up the Carnegie 

 research assistantship to Professor Baskerville, 

 in the place of Dr. Leo. F. Guttmann, who has 

 been appointed tutor in physical chemistry at 

 the College of the City of New York. 



Professor Koch is said to have decided to 

 apply the Nobel prize recently awarded to him 

 to the publication of a complete edition of his 

 scientific writings. 



The seventh lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course will be delivered by Professor Frederic 

 S. Lee, of Columbia University, at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine, on February 3, 

 at 8 :30 p.m., his subject being ' Fatigue.' 



Professor W. B. Scott, -of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, was announced to lecture, on February 

 7, before the Geographical Society of Phila- 

 delphia, on ' The Geology of South Africa, 

 Notes of a Journey from Cape Town to the 

 Falls of the Zambesi.' 



Dr. Frederick V. Coville, curator of the 

 National Herbarium and botanist of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, gave, before the Philadelphia College of 



Pharmacy, on February 2, a lecture on ' The 

 LTses of Plants by the American Indians,'' 

 which was illustrated with a number of lantern 

 slides. 



Charles A. Scott, of the United States; 

 Forest Service, manager of the Dismal Eiver, 

 Forest Eeserve, has just completed a course of 

 lectures on practical problems in forestry be- 

 fore the students in the forestry courses of the 

 University of Nebraska. 



The death is announced of Dr. Karl von; 

 Fritsch, professor of geology and paleontology 

 in the University of ^"alle. 



It is proposed to place a bust of the late Dr. 

 E. Ziegler in the pathological laboratory of the- 

 University of Freiburg. 



The Journal of The American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that a large oil painting of John 

 Morgan, founder of the medical school of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, has Just been 

 added to the collection of portraits owned by 

 the university and will occupy a position on 

 the walls of Houston Hall. The portrait is 

 the gift of the Hon. David T. Watson, Pitts- 

 burg, who is a descendant of John Morgan. 

 The tablet fastened to the frame is inscribed 

 as follows: "Dr. John Morgan, born 1735, 

 died 1789. Copy of original by Angelica 

 Kaufiman, in Eome, 1763-64." Dr. Morgan 

 was born in Philadelphia in 1735, and was. 

 graduated in 1757 with the first class of the 

 College of Philadelphia, which later became 

 the University of Pennsylvania. He subse- 

 quently studied medicine in Philadelphia,, 

 later in Edinburgh, Paris and Padua, obtain- 

 ing his professional degree from Edinburgh in 

 1763. He became the first teacher of medi- 

 cine in the College of Philadelphia, and with 

 William Shippen organized the medical school 

 of the University of Pennsylvania. He was 

 one of the early members of the American 

 Philosophical Society, and also the first gen- 

 eral director of the medical service of the 

 continental army. 



A meeting of the committee of the Inter- 

 national Association of Academies will be held 

 at Vienna on May 30, 1906. 



