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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 636 



At a meeting of the American Ethnological 

 Society at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, on March 4, a public lecture was 

 given by Dr. George A. Dorsey, of Chicago, 

 on ' The Human Sacrifice Ceremony of the 

 Pawnee.' 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, has given a 

 course of lectures on ' Bird-lore ' at Wellesley 

 College. 



The fourth of the series of public lectures 

 on ' Problems of Insanity ' was delivered at 

 the Academy of Medicine, New York City, 

 on March 2. Subject : ' The Development of 

 the Legal Regulations concerning the Insane, 

 with Suggestions for Eeforms,' by Dr. Allan 

 McLane Hamilton. 



Professor F. E. Hutton, head of the de- 

 partment of mechanical engineering of Co- 

 lumbia University, will deliver the principal 

 address at the anniversary exercises of the 

 Clarkson School of Technology at Pottsdam, 

 N. T., in commemoration of the charter day, 

 on March 19. 



A MEETING in memory of the late William 

 Wells Newell, secretary of the American Folk- 

 lore Society, will be held at the first parish 

 church, Cambridge, on the afternoon of March 

 10. Among the speakers will be Colonel 

 Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Professor Toy, 

 of Harvard University, and Professor Boas, 

 of Columbia University. 



Professor Wilpielm von Bezold, director 

 of the Royal Prussian Meteorological Insti- 

 tute, died on February lY in his seventieth 

 year. 



The deaths are announced of Professor 

 Nicholas Menschutkin, professor of chemistry 

 at St. Petersburg; of Dr. Johann Rajewski, 

 associate professor of mathematics at Lem- 

 berg, and of Dr. K. Harz, professor of botany 

 at the Veterinary School at Munich. 



The position of resident naturalist at the 

 Station of the Marine Biological Association 

 of San Diego will be vacant after June 1, 

 190Y. A student well advanced toward the 

 doctor's degree should, provided he has had 

 considerable experience in marine biology, be 



competent for the place. Inquiries may be 

 addressed to Professor Wm. E. Ritter, Uni- 

 versity of California, Berkeley, Calif. 



The Treasury Department announces that 

 an examination will be held at Washington 

 on April 15 to examine candidates for as- 

 sistant surgeonships in the U. S. Public 

 Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Candi- 

 dates must be between twenty-two and thirty 

 years of age. The salary is $1,600, with quar- 

 ters provided. On April 29 there will be an 

 examination for assistant surgeons in the 

 army, there being at present twenty-five vacan- 

 cies. 



There will be civil service examinations on 

 March 13 and 14 for the position of engineer- 

 ing and hydrographic aid, at salaries ranging 

 from $720 to $1,200 per annum, in the Re- 

 clamation Service and Geological Survey. It 

 is probable that from eight to ten hydrographic 

 aids will be required for service under the 

 Geological Survey. From the eligible list sec- 

 ondary positions in the engineering and hydro- 

 graphic corps will be filled, with a salary of 

 $900 and upward. On the same day there will 

 be an examination to fill during the coming 

 season twenty to twenty-five vacancies in the 

 position of topographic aid in the Geological 

 Survey, and vacancies as they may occur in 

 any branch of the service requiring similar 

 qualifications. The salary of this position is 

 $900 per annum. 



Dr. W. Jarvis Barlow has presented to the 

 Clinical Association of Los Angeles, for the 

 use of the medical profession, a library build- 

 ing, the cost of which was $32,000, apart from 

 the ground. 



A LABORATORY for occanographical research, 

 organized through the efforts of Mr. W. S. 

 Bruce, leader of the Scottish Antarctic Expe- 

 dition, was formally opened at Edinburgh by 

 the Prince of Monaco during a visit to the 

 city in January. The laboratory is installed 

 in a portion of the Surgeons' Hall. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 preparations for the next International Medi- 

 cal Congress, which is to be held at Buda- 

 Pesth in 1909, are already in active progress. 



