Apml 12, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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Gilmore's predecessor in the Alaskan field, 

 found many remains of mammoth, large bison 

 and horses of a peculiar type. 



Professors E. T. Jackson and J. B. Wood- 

 worth, of the department of geology and geog- 

 raphy of Harvard University, will conduct a 

 paleontological and geological excursion to 

 Yorktown, Va., during the April recess, 

 leaving Boston on Friday night, April 12. 



Dr. Schilling, head of the department of 

 tropical hygiene in the Berlin Institute of In- 

 fectious Diseases, has been granted by the 

 government eight months leave of absence in 

 order that he may pursue researches on im- 

 munization against tsetse fly disease. In the 

 course of his work he will make an expedition 

 to the Congo. 



Dr. Joseph Larmor, Lucasian professor of 

 mathematics at Cambridge University and 

 secretary of the Royal Society, presented an 

 address before the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences, on April 2, 1907, on ' Modem Views 

 of the Ultimate Structure of Matter.' It was 

 discussed by Professor F. W. Clarke, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, and Professor A. G. 

 Webster, of Clark University. 



Mr. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, has 

 accepted the invitation of Yale University to 

 deliver the annual Dodge course of lectures on 

 ' The Responsibilities of Citizenship.' He will 

 speak on May 13, 14, 20 and 21. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave an address, illustrated 

 by lantern slides, before the Society of Arts of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 

 Boston on March 28 on ' Recent Results of 

 Terrestrial Magnetic Observations.' 



Lord Avebury will preside at the annual 

 soiree of the Selborne Society, which will be 

 held in the halls of the Civil Service Commis- 

 sion on April 26. Illustrated addresses will 

 be given, and there will be a display of micro- 

 scopes and objects of interest. 



M. Edouard Hospitalier, professor of elec- 

 trotechnic at Paris, has died at the age of 

 fifty-four years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Rudolf 

 Aderhold, director of the Biological Institute 



for Agriculture and Forestry at Berlin, at the 

 age of forty-two years. 



On May 8, there will be civil service ex- 

 amination for the positions of laboratory 

 assistant and assistant physicist and labora- 

 tory assistant and assistant chemist in the 

 Bureau of Standards, the salaries varying 

 from $900 to $1,600. 



The third regular meeting of the Botanists 

 of the Central States was held at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 

 March 28-30. There was a representative 

 attendance of botanists at the meeting, and a 

 number of papers were read. One session was 

 devoted to the demonstration of microscopic 

 preparations. Professor F. C. Newcombe, of 

 the University of Michigan, the retiring presi- 

 dent read an address entitled ' A Need in 

 Botanical Science in America.' Professor T. 

 H. Macbride, of the University of Iowa, was 

 elected president for the ensuing year. 



The seventy-ninth Congress of German Men 

 of Science and Physicians will be held at 

 Dresden this year from September 15 to 21. 



Under the auspices of the University of 

 Illinois, a commission has been organized for 

 the purpose of conducting experiments on the 

 effect on the consumer of the preservatives in 

 common use in food stuffs, especially meats. 

 The work will be done under the direction of 

 Professor H. S. Grindley, of the department of 

 physiological chemistry of the university, and 

 with him on the commission are R. H. Chit- 

 tenden, professor of physiological chemistry, 

 Yale University; J. J. Abel, professor of 

 pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University, and 

 A. P. Mathews, professor of physiological 

 chemistry. University of Chicago. The ex- 

 pense of the investigations is to be borne in 

 part bv the university and in part by some 

 of the beef-packing houses of Chicago. 



Mr. Frank Leverett and other members of 

 the United States Geological Survey are au- 

 thors of two papers on flowing wells and 

 municipal water supplies of the southern 

 peninsula of Michigan. The results of their 

 studies, so far as they apply to the southern 

 counties, are embodied in Water-Supply and 

 Irrigation Paper No. 182 ; so far as they apply 



