Mat 4, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



719 



The laboratories of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Eesearch at Avenue A and 

 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York City, will 

 be opened on May 11, at 4 p.m. Addresses 

 will be made by President Charles W. Eliot, 

 of Harvard University; President Nicholas 

 Murray Butler, of Columbia University; Dr. 

 William H. Welch, president of the board of 

 directors, and Dr. Luther E. Holt, secretary 

 of the board of directors. 



There will be a scientific exhibit at the 

 Harvard Medical School in connection with 

 the approaching Boston meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association. Those who are 

 willing to contribute to this exhibit .should 

 write either to Dr. E. B. Wynn, Indianapolis, 

 or to Dr. W. T. Councilman, Boston. 



The New York Section of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry will devote the meeting of 

 Friday evening. May 25, to a symposium on 

 color photography, at which meeting any new 

 facts or specimens as examples of this new 

 method of illustrating can be presented by 

 applying to the secretary. Dr. H. Schweitzer, 

 128 Duane Street, New York City, or to Dr. 

 George E. Kunz, 405 Eifth Avenue. 



Nature states that on behalf of the family 

 of the late Professor Manuelli, of Modena, 

 Herr T. Waitzfelder has presented the Munich 

 Museum with an interesting collection, in 

 which are some original pieces of apparatus 

 used by Galvani and other Italian investi- 

 gators, together with some pieces of alchem- 

 istic apparatus. 



A Congres de I' Alliance frangaise et des 

 Societes de Geographie will be held at Mar- 

 seilles in the middle of next September, under 

 the presidency of M. Charles Roux. The 

 congress is to be held at the National Colonial 

 Exhibition at Marseilles, which is open from 

 April 15 to November 15. 



On April 17 the free alcohol bill was passed 

 by the House of Representatives by a vote of 

 224 to 7. 



The State Cancer Laboratory, Buffalo, wiU 

 receive this year $21,000 from the state, $3,000 

 of which will be devoted to meet the deficit of 

 last year. 



Foreign exchanges state that a sum of 

 $150,000 has been voted for the building of 

 the new observatory at Bergedorf, with a 

 further sum of $75,000, spread over two years, 

 for equipment. 



Announcements of the work offered at the 

 Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State University 

 have recently been issued and show some de- 

 cided additions to those previously available. 

 The staff of instructors has been increased to 

 seven, and includes besides the director Pro- 

 fessor E. L. Landaere, O.S.U.; Dr. W. E. 

 Kellicott, Barnard College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity; Professor L. B. Walton, Kenyon Col- 

 lege; Professor Malcolm Stickney, Denison 

 University; Professor E. L. Rice, Ohio Wes- 

 leyan University, and Mrs. Harriet Gilbert, 

 Painesville High School. Courses in general 

 zoology, embryology, entomology, ichthyology, 

 ornithology, invertebrate morphology, experi- 

 mental zoology, vertebrate comparative anat- 

 omy and research work in zoology, general 

 botany, ecology and special courses in botany. 

 The laboratory also offers free tables to in- 

 vestigators who are prepared to do independ- 

 ent work. The courses of instruction open 

 on June 25 and close on August 3, but in- 

 vestigators may use the laboratory for addi- 

 tional time if desired. Eor detailed informa- 

 tion as to courses or copies of the announce- 

 ment, application should be made to the di- 

 rector. Professor Herbert Osborn, Columbus, 

 Ohio. 



Two parties consisting of 105 junior engi- 

 neering students of the University of Wis- 

 consin spent the Easter recess visiting a large 

 number of the important electrical and ma- 

 chinery plants in the east and the west. The 

 western party, consisting of seventy-five stu- 

 dents, inspected Chicago and Milwaukee car 

 shops, electric plants, street railway and light- 

 ing power stations, foundries, ship yards and 

 telephone exchanges, and similar works at 

 Lockport and Joliet. The eastern party of 

 thirty made a tour of the electrical power 

 stations at Niagara Ealls and Buffalo; the 

 Westinghouse electrical machine and air 

 brake plant; the Nernst Electrical Lamp Co., 

 Pittsburg ; the Brooks Locomotive works, at . 



