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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 627 



Peopessob E. Heesey Sneath has resigned 

 the chair of theory and practise of education 

 in Tale University owing to ill health. 



The special board for biology and geology 

 at Cambridge University has adjudged the 

 Walsingham medal for 1906 to W. E. Agar, 

 for his essay on ' Researches into the Embry- 

 ology of the Dipnoi,' and to W. L. Balls, for 

 his essay entitled ' Studies of Egyptian Cotton.' 



Professor H. W. Eisk, formerly professor 

 of mathematics at Eargo College, Eargo, N. 

 D., Messrs. P. H. Dike, formerly of the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, and E. H. Bovren, 

 formerly instructor in physics in the Uni- 

 versity of Maine, are at present engaged in 

 magnetic work under the auspices of the de- 

 partment of terrestrial magnetism of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington. 



Dr. H. E. Annett, professor of comparative 

 pathology in the University of Liverpool, has 

 gone to St. Vincent in order to study certain 

 diseases of animals for the government. 



De. Acland, having been appointed by the 

 Eoyal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons 

 official visitor to the examinations of the Cairo 

 Medical School, has left London for a few 

 weeks in connection with the appointment. 



De. von Lecoq, a scientific emissary of the 

 Prussian government, has arrived safely at 

 Srinagar, after making important excavations 

 in Chinese Turkestan. 



The Friday evening meetings of the Royal 

 Institution of Great Britain will be resumed 

 on January 18, when Sir Andrew Noble, Bart., 

 E.R.S., will give an address on ' Eifty Years 

 of Explosives.' On Eebruary 1 Sir Almroth 

 E. Wright, M.D., E.E.S., will speak on ' The 

 Methods of Combating the Bacteria of Dis- 

 ease in the Interior of the Organism.' 



Dr. Edward J. Nolan, recording secretary 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, is engaged on a history of the Acad- 

 emy from its foundation in 1812. He is de- 

 sirous of having access to any correspondence 

 or documents, apart from the official records 

 of the society, which may relate to its work, 

 especially during the first half century of its 

 existence. If such papers be confided to Dr. 



Nolan, they will be discreetly used and re- 

 turned safely to the owners. 



The Women's Medical Association of New 

 York City will hold a memorial meeting at 

 the Academy of Medicine on January 4, as a 

 tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Mary 

 Putnam Jacobi. There will be addresses by 

 Dr. William Osier, Dr. Charles L. Dana, presi- 

 dent of the Academy of Medicine; Professor 

 Eelix Adler, Mrs. Elorenee Kelley and others. 



The death is annoimced of Mr. John Ward, 

 a British geologist, known for his valuable 

 work on the carboniferous faunas. 



Dr. Ernst Pfitzer, professor of botany at 

 the University of Heidelberg, has died at the 

 age of sixty-one years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on January 16, 1907, 

 to fill a vacancy in the position of forest plant- 

 ing assistant, at $700 per annum, in the Eorest 

 Service of the Department of Agriculture. 



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 

 announces that the next award of the Alvar- 

 enga prize, being the income for one year of 

 the bequest of the late Senor Alvarenga, and 

 amounting to about $180, will be made on 

 July 14, 1907. 



According to foreign journals, a wealthy 

 landed proprietor named M. Audrac, who died 

 recently at Le Luc, near Draguignan, has left 

 the Pasteur Institute the whole of his fortune, 

 valued at the equivalent of $250,000 at least. 

 Interviewed on the subject. Dr. Roux, the dis- 

 tinguished director of the institute, stated 

 that he had received a visit from a lav?yer, 

 who informed him that a wiU had been found 

 bequeathing the whole of the property to the 

 institute. The reserve, however, was made 

 that another document might possibly come 

 to light making various bequests or otherwise 

 disposing of part or whole of the property; 

 consequently. Dr. Roux says that some time 

 must elapse before the Pasteur Institute can 

 know definitely how it stands with regard to 

 the inheritance. 



The Magnetic Survey yacht Galilee, en- 

 gaged in the magnetic survey of the Pacific 

 Ocean under the auspices of the Carnegie 



