February 16, 1906.] 



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New York on the tenth of this month on his 

 fourth journey to Martinique. 



Dr. George Byron Gordon, of Philadelphia, 

 and Dr. Charles Peabody, of Cambridge, have 

 been appointed delegates from the American 

 Anthropological Association to the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Anthropology and Prehis- 

 toric Archeology to be held at Mocano, April 

 16, 1906. Mr. David I. Bushnell, Jr., who is 

 in Europe making a special study of the 

 American collections in the museums of Italy, 

 Prance and England, has been appointed a 

 delegate from the Peabody Museum of Har- 

 vard University to the congress. 



On February 6 Dr. Wm. E. Eitter, professor 

 of zoology in the University of California and 

 scientific director of the Marine Biological 

 Station of San Diego, sailed from San Fran- 

 cisco on a journey around the world. He will 

 spend a month in the Plawaiian Islands, two 

 or three months in Japan, and will attend the 

 Congress of Oceanography and Fisheries at 

 Marseilles, France, as a representative of the 

 oceanographic and marine biological investi- 

 gations being carried on by the University of 

 California through the San Diego Marine 

 Biological Station. During Dr. Hitter's ab- 

 sence from America, Professor C. A. Kofoid 

 will be acting-director of the San Diego work. 

 Inquiries concerning the laboratory may be 

 addressed to him at Berkeley, Cal., until May 

 15. After this date, during the summer, his 

 address will be La Jolla, California. 



The Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 

 Christchurch, New Zealand, has opened a fund 

 with the object of establishing a memorial to 

 the late Captain F. W. Hutton, F.E.S., presi- 

 dent of the New Zealand Institute. It is pro- 

 posed to devote the fund to the encouragement 

 of original research in natural science in New 

 Zealand by making grants for original re- 

 search, and by the award of a bronze medal, 

 to be called the- ' Hutton medal.' 



Emperor William, of Germany, cfelebrated 

 his forty-seventh birthday on January 27. 

 In honor of the birthday a Leibnitz medal 

 has been established to be awarded annually 

 by the Berlin Academy of Sciences for notable 

 scientific achievements. 



Dr. John Slade Ely, professor of the 

 theory and practise of medicine in- the Tale 

 Medical School since 1897, died on February 

 7, as a result of a fracture of the skull due 

 to a fall from his horse. Dr. Ely was born in 

 New York City, in 1860. He had been as- 

 sistant in pathology in the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and 

 professor of pathology in the Woman's Med- 

 ical College. 



Professor Karl von Koristka, formerly 

 professor of geodesy in the Technical Insti- 

 tute of Prague, has died at the age of eighty 

 years. 



Miss Ellen B. Scripps, of La Jolla, Cali- 

 fornia, has addressed a letter to President 

 Benj. Ide Wheeler and Professor Wm. E. 

 Eitter, of thfe University of California, signi- 

 fying her intention of giving $50,000 to the 

 board of regents of the university for the 

 Marine Biological Station at La Jolla. This 

 gift is in recognition of the need of buildings, 

 equipment and endowment for the station, to 

 the support of which Miss Scripps and her 

 brother, Mr. E. W. Scripps, of Miramar, Cali- 

 fornia, have previously contributed consider- 

 able sums. Miss Scripps expresses the wish 

 that a laboratory building be erected some- 

 where in the vicinity of San Diego to be 

 known as the George W. Scripps Laboratory. 



It is hoped that the Cancer Institute, in the 

 foundation of which Professor Czerny has 

 taken a leading part, will be opened at Heidel- 

 berg on the occasion of the Cancer Congress 

 which is to be held there in the middle of 

 September next. Already a sum of $175,000 

 has been contributed towards the cost, and the 

 government of the Grand Duchy of Baden 

 and the University of Heidelberg have be- 

 tween them undertaken to maintain the insti- 

 tute for at least fifty years. 



The Hamburg Institute of Marine Pathol- 

 ogy and Tropical Diseases is about to be en- 

 larged. Both the teaching staff and the ac- 

 commodation for workers will be increased; 

 the course of study for medical ofiicers of the 

 army, navy and colonies will be extended, and 

 the library enlarged. It is proposed to offer 



