Febbuaey 22, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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His death has left a void in the lives of 

 many and has deprived the cause of culture 

 of a strong supporter. A. M. T. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 By the will of M. Daniel Osiris, the 

 Pasteur Institute of Paris receives an addi- 

 tional endowment of $5,000,000. It is said 

 that the institute will establish branches for 

 scientific research in various places in France 

 and the French colonies. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has elected 

 to membership Dr. Johannes Orth, professor 

 of pathological anatomy; Dr. Max Eubner, 

 professor of hygiene, and Dr. Albrecht Penck, 

 professor of geography, all of the University 

 of Berlin. 



As has been already announced, the build- 

 ings of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, will 

 be dedicated on April 11, 12 and 13. A num- 

 ber of distinguished foreigners will be present, 

 including among men of science: Sir Robert 

 Ball, professor of astronomy, Cambridge Uni- 

 versity; Mr. Gugliehno Marconi; Dr. P. 

 Chalmers Mitchell, secretary of the London 

 Zoological Society; Sir William Henry Preece, 

 electrical engineer ; Sir William Turner, prin- 

 cipal of Edinburgh University; M. Marcellin 

 Boule, director of the Paris Museum of 

 Natural History, and Professor Friedrich S. 

 Archenhold, director of the Treptow Observa- 

 tory. 



Sir Charles Todd, F.R.S., director of the 

 Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory 

 of South Australia, has retired, having 

 reached the age of eighty years. He was, 

 until last year, also postmaster general and 

 superintendent of telegraphs. Sir Charles is 

 succeeded in the directorship of the observa- 

 tory by Mr. F. Griffith. 



At a meeting of the Nebraska Academy of 

 Medicine, held in Lincoln on January 10, a 

 committee of five, consisting of Drs. Solon K. 

 Towne, Alexander S. von Mansfelde, Henry 

 B. Ward, Eohert H. Wolcott and H. Winnett 

 Orr, was appointed to make an effort to obtain 

 the Wobel prize for Dr. James Carroll, U. S. 

 Army. 



De. N. L. Britton, director of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Britton and Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, cura- 

 tor of botany in the Field Museum of Natural 

 History, have gone to Nassau, where a 

 schooner will be chartered for a cruise among 

 the smaller islands of the Bahamian group. 

 This is Dr. Britton's fourth trip to the Ba- 

 hamas, and it is understood that a volume on 

 their flora will be published by him in con- 

 nection with Dr. Millspaugh. 



At the Leicester meeting of the British 

 Association the evening lectures will be by 

 Mr. W. Duddell, on ' The Arc and the Spark 

 in Eadio-telegraphy,' and by Dr. F. A. Dixey, 

 on 'Eecent Developments in the Theory of 

 Mimicry.' The lecture to the operative classes 

 will be given by Professor H. A. Miers, F.E.S., 

 on ' The Growth of a Crystal.' 



Lord Avebury has been elected president of 

 the Eoyal Microscopical Society. 



At the annual meeting of the London Ento- 

 mological Society, on January 23, the retiring 

 president, Mr. F. Merrifield, made the address. 

 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse was elected president 

 for the ensuing year. 



Professor A. Lawrence Lowell, who holds 

 the chair of the science of government at 

 Harvard University, has been selected to be 

 the special Harvard lecturer at Tale Univer- 

 sity for 1907. This lectureship, as will be re- 

 membered, was founded in 1905 by the gift of 

 $10,000 from an anonymous Harvard grad- 

 uate; the income of the fund to be used in 

 securing members of the Harvard faculty to 

 give lectures at Yale. 



Dr. David P. Barrows, director of the 

 Bureau of Education of the Philippine Is- 

 lands, gave a lecture on ' Mohammedanism in 

 the Philippine Islands' before the California 

 branch of the American Folk-lore Society on 

 February 7. 



The ninth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 Course will be delivered by Professor W. T. 

 Councilman, professor of pathology. Harvard 

 University, at the New York Academy of 

 Medicine, on Saturday, February 23 at 8:30 

 P.M. Subject: 'The Relation of Certain 



