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on sleeping sickness under the auspices of the 

 German government. 



Dr. Walter R. Brinckerhoff, of the patho- 

 logical department of the Harvard Medical 

 School, has been appointed director of the 

 Leprosy Station at Molokai, Hawaii. 



The thirteenth lecture in the Harvey So- 

 ciety course v^ill be delivered by Professor W. 

 H. Hov^ell, of Johns Hopkins University, at 

 the New York Academy of Medicine, on 

 March lY, at 8 :30 p.m., on ' The Cause of the 

 Heart Beat.' This is the last lecture of the 

 series given during the present year. The 

 twelfth lecture was delivered by Professor 

 Theobald Smith, of the Harvard Medical 

 School, his subject being ' The Parasiticism 

 of the Tubercle Bacillus and its Bearing on 

 Infection and Immunity.' 



Professor Hugo Munsterberg will give the 

 last of the Harvard lectures at Yale Univer- 

 sity this year, on March 16. The subject will 

 be ' Science and Idealism.' 



Professor George H. Howison, of the Uni- 

 versity of California, will give a course of 

 lectures at Yale University on ' The Human 

 Import of Philosophy.' 



Dr. G. Marconi will lecture before the New 

 York Electrical Society, at Columbia Univer- 

 sity, on March 28. It is said that he will 

 come to the country especially for that pur- 

 pose. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has contributed 

 £9,300 to complete the fund for a memorial 

 to James Watt, which will take the form of 

 a commemorative public building and statue 

 at Greenock, his birthplace. Subscriptions to 

 the fund from Great Britain amount to £700 

 and from the United States to £190. 



A memorial tablet has been erected by the 

 London County Council, on the house, No. 

 110 Gower Street, where Charles Darwin 

 lived from 1839 to 1841. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that the late Dr. Domenico Barbieri, of 

 Vienna, bequeathed a sum of 300,000 crowns 

 for the creation of a fund to be called by the 

 name of Theodor Billroth. Dr. Barbieri was 

 an assistant and a close personal friend of the 



famous Vienna surgeon, who entrusted him 

 with the administration of the anesthetic in 

 some of his most daring operations. The in- 

 terest of the fund is to be given in bursaries 

 to poor students in the Second Surgical Clinic 

 of Vienna, of which Billroth was the head, 

 and, if possible, also to students in the First 

 Clinic. The bursaries, which are to be 

 awarded by the professorial college without 

 distinction of nationality or creed, are of the 

 yearly value of 2,000 crowns, and are tenable 

 for three years. 



The death is announced of Professor Jean 

 Louis Cabanis, the well-known ornithologist, 

 for many years curator in ornithology at the 

 Berlin Museum. 



Announcement was made at the opening, on 

 March 5, of the Widener Memorial Home for 

 Crippled Children, that Mr. P. A. B. Widener, 

 who gave $2,000,000 for the building, has given 

 $3,000,000 for a maintenance fund. 



The Verein Deutsche Ingenieure, which has 

 more than 20,000 members, will celebrate its 

 fiftieth anniversary this year, the meeting be- 

 ing held at Berlin from June 10 to 14. 



The Eoyal Sanitary Institute will, this year, 

 hold its congress in Bristol from July 9 to 

 14, under the presidency of Sir Edward Fry. 

 The Snell prize of the institute consists of 

 £50 and a medal which is offered this year for 

 an essay on ' Suggestions for improvements in 

 sanitary appliances for use in workmen's 

 dwellings and laborers' cottages under the 

 varying conditions of water supply and drain- 

 age usually obtaining in towns and villages.' 



On La Zacualpa plantation in Chiapas, 

 Southern Mexico, there has been established 

 a botanical station, the principal object of 

 which is to study the Central American rubber 

 tree (Castilla elasticd), its culture, and the 

 preparation of commercial rubber from this 

 tree. On La Zacualpa and affiliated planta- 

 tions there are now planted Over three million 

 trees and at least two additional million trees 

 will be planted. In connection with the bo- 

 tanical station, there is a laboratory for chem- 

 ical and physiological investigation of the 

 latex. A complete meteorological observatory 



