Makch 1, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. T. W. Eichaeds, professor of chemistry 

 at Harvard University, has received a fifth 

 grant of $2,500 from the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington. 



Mr. a. F. Burgess, secretary of the Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists, has ten- 

 dered his resignation as state inspector of 

 orchards and nurseries for Ohio, to go to 

 Massachusetts to experiment with insecticides 

 for the destruction of gypsy and brown-tail 

 moths. 



Professor Henry F. Osborn is expected to 

 return about Ajsril 1 from Egypt, where, with 

 the assistance of Messrs. Walter Granger and 

 George Olsen, he has been making paleon- 

 tological explorations in the Eayoum desert 

 on behalf of the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Professor Harold Heath, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, has been given leave of absence for 

 the second half year, and will go first to 

 Naples. He will return by way of Japan and 

 the Malay Archipelago. 



We learn from the New York Evening Post 

 that an archeological expedition, under the 

 direction of Professor John E. S. Sterrett, 

 will start on March 9 for Asia Minor. Pro- 

 fessor Sterrett has previously spent several 

 years in exploration and excavation in the 

 east. He will be accompanied by B. B. 

 Charles, instructor in Semitics, A. T. 01m- 

 stead, formerly fellow in the American 

 School at Jerusalem and now at Athens, C. 

 O. Harris, late instructor in Latin, now in the 

 American School at Athens, and J. E. 

 Wrench, late fellow at the University of Wis- 

 consin. 



The Society for Horticultural Science, of 

 which Professor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, is president, and the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, of which L. A. Goodman, 

 Kansas City, is president, will meet on the 

 grounds of the Jamestown Exposition on Sep- 

 tember 25 and 26. 



Professor Ernest Eutherford gave a 

 lecture at Clark University on February 15 

 on ' Eadium and Eadioactive Substances.' 



Professor W. T. Councilman, of the Har- 

 vard Medical School, delivered an address on 

 January 23, before the Harvard Club of Wor- 

 cester, on ' The New Medical School in its 

 Relation to the University.' He also gave the 

 opening address at the Tuberculosis Exhibit 

 at Taunton on January 31. His subject was 

 ' Tuberculosis : the nature of the disease and 

 the modes of relief.' 



The annual address before the Society of 

 the Sigma Xi was given at the University of 

 Nebraska on February 15 by Dr. Charles 

 Sedgwick Minot, of Harvard University, on 

 ' The Biological Interpretation of Life.' 



Mr. W. Bateson gave, on February 11 and 

 15, two lectures on ' Mendelian Heredity and 

 its Application to Man,' in the medical 

 schools of Cambridge University. 



The Boston Transcript states that the fund 

 which a special committee has been instru- 

 mental in assembling to be used for a mem- 

 orial to the late Professor Shaler, of Harvard 

 University, has been completed, and amounts 

 to $30,000. The committee, of which Edward 

 W. Atkinson is chairman, will meet to decide 

 upon the exact form the memorial will take. 



The Paris Municipal Council has appropri- 

 ated the sum of about $800 for a monument 

 in honor of Pierre Curie, to be erected in the 

 School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry. 



The Botanical Seminar of the University 

 of Nebraska is to celebrate the two hundredth 

 anniversary of the birth of Carl von Linne 

 on the eleventh of May next, the day before 

 the exact anniversary. Addresses are to be 

 made by Dr. Clements, Dr. Pound and Dr. 

 Bessey, in connection with the commemora- 

 tive exercises. 



Dr. J. PoscHL, professor of physics at the 

 Technological Institute at Graz, has died at 

 the age of seventy-nine years. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 le Roux, formerly professor of physics at the 

 Paris School of Pharmacy, and of Dr. Lyon, 

 decent for analytical chemistry at Geneva. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on March 20 and 21 for the position of scien- 



