June 15, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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was professor of paleontology in Yale Uni- 

 versity and a member of the governing board 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School from 1897 

 to the time of his death in 1904, the friends 

 of Professor Beecher have established a fund 

 of $10,000 to be known as the Charles Emer- 

 son Beecher Memorial Fund. The income of' 

 this fund is to be devoted to the interests of 

 instruction or research in natural history 

 studies in the Sheffield Scientific School, but 

 during the life time of Mrs. Beecher and her 

 children the income of the fund is to be paid 

 to them. 



Dr. Karl Egbert Edouarp von Hartmann, 

 known for his philosophical and literary pub- 

 lications, died at Berlin on June 6, at the age 

 of sixty-four years. 



We learn from Nature that Baron C. E. 

 von der Osten Sacken, author of numerous 

 books and papers on the classification of 

 Diptera, died at Heidelberg on May 20 in his 

 seventy-eighth year. 



Columbia University is to have a 6j-inch 

 equatorial, suitable for student work. The 

 glass has been presented by Mrs. Wilde, and 

 completely refined and refigured by Messrs. 

 Alvan Clark's Sons, of Cambridgeport. 



Mr. Clarence B. Moore, of Philadelphia, 

 who has spent many years in exploring the 

 mounds of Florida, has made a gift of a large 

 part of his areheological collection to the 

 museums of Stockholm, Berlin, Tale and Har- 

 vard. 



Arrangements have been completed, under 

 a plan outlined by Alfred Mosely, to send, 

 between November and March, five hundred 

 British teachers to the United States and 

 Canada to study the educational systems of 

 the two countries. 



The committee on food standards of the 

 Association of' Official Agricultural Chemists, 

 w^ch has been commissioned by Congress to 

 collaborate with the secretary of agriculture 

 in fixing standards of purity for foods and de- 

 termining what shall be regarded as adulter- 

 ations, will hold its next meeting on June 

 18, at the bureau of chemistry, Washington, 

 D. C. 



We learn from The British Medical Jour- 

 nal that a General Institute of Psychology, 

 specially intended for the study of the phe- 

 nomena of subconsciousness, the investigation 

 of the causes of criminality and the discovery 

 of means of curing social evils will shortly 

 be formally constituted in Paris. Among 

 those to whom the initiation of the scheme 

 is mainly due are Professors Brouardel, 

 d'Arsonval and Gariel, and MM. Boutroux, 

 Giard and A. Picard. In January last M. 

 Dubief authorized a lottery of four millions 

 of francs, the product of which will be ap- 

 plied to the purchase of a site for the pro- 

 posed institute and the erection of a build- 

 ing containing a series of fully-equipped 

 laboratories, a library and a museum. 



On June 5 the senate bill for the preserva- 

 tion of American antiquities passed the House 

 of Representatives. The senate bill to regu- 

 late the landing, delivery, cure and sale of 

 sponges, passed the House of Representatives 

 with amendment. 



The British Medical Journal says : " Mr. 

 Henry S. Wellcome is organizing an exhibi- 

 tion in connection with the history of medi- 

 cine, chemistry, pharmacy and the allied 

 sciences. It is his aim to bring together a 

 collection of historical objects illustrating the 

 development of the art and science of healing 

 throughout the ages. The exhibition, which 

 will be strictly professional and scientific in 

 character, will not be open to the general 

 public. For many years Mr. Wellcome has 

 been engaged in researches respecting the early 

 methods employed in the healing art, both 

 among civilized and uncivilized peoples. In 

 particular it has been his object to trace the 

 origin of the use of remedial agents. There 

 is a considerable amount of information scat- 

 tered throughout the world in folk-lore, in 

 early manuscripts, and in printed books, but 

 the difficulties of tracing out and sifting the 

 evidence are great. Mr. Wellcome wiU great- 

 ly value any information sent him in regard 

 to medical lore, early traditions or references 

 to ancient medical treatment in manuscripts, 

 printed works, etc., and he undertakes that the 

 greatest care shall be taken of any objects of 



