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lecturer in the School of Forestry at Stuttgart ; 

 and of Dr. v. d. Crone, assistant in plant 

 physiology in the Agricultural School at 

 Bonn-Poppelsdorf. 



There will be a New York state civil ser- 

 vice examination, on April 14, to fill the posi- 

 tion of zoologist in the education department, 

 vacant by the death of Dr. F. 0. Paulmier. 

 The candidate should be well versed in sys- 

 tematic and descriptive zoology and possess an 

 acquaintance with the species of the New 

 York fauna, especially those of mammals, 

 birds, reptiles, fishes and mollusks. Museum 

 experience in the care of such collections, in 

 mounting, labeling and disinfecting, is essen- 

 tial, as the work is in a large degree curatorial. 

 The salary is $1,200. 



We learn from the daily papers that, on 

 March 27, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell's tetra- 

 hedral kite was put to use in some experiments, 

 near Washington, with wireless telegraphy. 

 It has been found troublesome to send mes- 

 sages across the Atlantic for want of towers 

 in midocean. The idea of sending up kites 

 of the tetrahedral pattern from midocean sta- 

 tion steamers would solve the problem. Dr. 

 Bell loaned one of his largest kites, having 

 230 cells, which was operated by W. F. Bed- 

 win. The kite was sent up 2,000 feet, and 

 from antennae 400 feet long messages were 

 caught and transmitted down over a steel 

 wire. Messages were received from the United 

 States naval wireless station at the Washing- 

 ton navy yard, from the De Forest station at 

 Galilee, N. J., near Atlantic Highlands, and 

 from the steamer Bermudian, 100 miles out 

 from New York and more than 350 miles 

 from the kites. 



The New York Evening Post states that 

 Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden, professor of pathol- 

 ogy at Columbia University and a graduate 

 of Yale University, has given to the Peabody 

 Museum of Yale University his collection of 

 archeological objects connected with the an- 

 cient cliff-dwellers and Pueblos of southern 

 Utah, southern Colorado, and the territories of 

 Arizona and New Mexico, as well as some 

 modern Pueblo material. The collection con- 



sists largely of pottery, textile fabrics, orna- 

 ments and objects used in ancient religious 

 rites. With the collection Dr. Prudden gives 

 the necessary cases, his field notes, and a map 

 of the region drawn by himself. 



The sixth meeting of the Association of 

 Teachers of Mathematics in the Middle States 

 and Maryland will be held at Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, on April 14. 



We learn from Nature that the position of 

 the South Africa medal fund for the endow- 

 ment of a medal and scholarship or student- 

 ship in commemoration of the visit of the 

 British Association to South Africa in 1905 is 

 stated in a circular just issued by Professor J. 

 Perry, honorary treasurer to the fund. The 

 subscriptions promised or paid amounted to 

 £752; and to this the council of the British 

 Association has resolved to add the unexpended 

 balance of the special South African fund, 

 amounting to about £800. The following re- 

 port of the executive committee was adopted 

 at a meeting of subscribers on March 2, and 

 approved by the council of the British Associa- 

 tion: — (a) That the fund be devoted to the 

 preparation of a die for a medal to be struck 

 in bronze, 2J inches in diameter, and that the 

 balance be invested and the annual income 

 held in trust; (h) that the medal and income 

 of the fund be awarded by the South African 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 for achievement and promise in scientific re- 

 search in South Africa ; (c) that, so far as cir- 

 cumstances admit, the award be made an- 

 nually. 



The German government has decided to 

 establish a meteorological station on Lake 

 Constance, near Friedrichshafen. It will 

 cost $15,000, the states of Bavaria, Wiirttem- 

 berg, Baden and Alsace-Lorraine joining in 

 the expense. Extensive study of the atmos- 

 phere will be made daily by means of kites 

 from specially constructed boats on the lake. 

 Similar stations already exist in northern 

 Germany at Lindenberg and Hamburg, and 

 plans are being made to erect another station 

 in the northeast. 



Me. Fee writes, in a consular report, that 

 the new standard time for India was adopted 



