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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 650 



The friends of Dr. K. Mitsukuri, the dis- 

 tinguished professor of zoology and dean of 

 the School of Science of the Imperial Uni- 

 versity in Tokyo, have been pained to learn 

 that he was attacked on April 17 with apo- 

 plexy. After lying unconscioiis for a week 

 or more he was on May 13 slightly better, but 

 still seriously ill. 



Dr. Thomas S. Fiske, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Columbia University, has been given 

 sabbatical leave of absence for next year. 



Mr. Andrew Watt has been elected meteor- 

 ological secretary of the Scottish Meteorolog- 

 ical Society in succession to the late Dr. 

 Buchan. 



Professor Maurice Henriot has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Experimental Labora- 

 tory of the Paris Mint. 



The Transvaal government has appointed a 

 commission, consisting of Dr. Kynaston (Geo- 

 logical Survey Department), Mr. T. N. Leslie 

 (Vereeniging), Mr. J. P. Johnson (Johannes- 

 burg), and Professor R. B. Young (Transvaal 

 University College), 'to report to the govern- 

 ment on the Bushmen paintings and stone 

 etchings existing in the Transvaal, and as to 

 what steps should be taken to preserve them 

 from decay and mutilation.' 



A GRANT of £150 has been made from the 

 Balfour fund, Cambridge University to W. E. 

 Agar, of King's College, in furtherance of his 

 proposed expedition to the Paraguayan Chaco. 



Dr. Bergen Davis, instructor in physics at 

 Columbia University, has been appointed to 

 the Ernest Kempton Adams fellowship for 

 next year. 



The fellowship sustained by the alumnae 

 association of the W^oman's College of Balti- 

 more, to be awarded annually to a member of 

 the association, has this year been awarded to 

 Miss Mary J. Hogue, of the class of 1905. 

 Miss Hogue has already held the foundation 

 scholarship in biology at Bryn Mawr College 

 and the graduate scholarship in the same insti- 

 tution. She will pursue the study of biology 

 in German universities. The Woman's Col- 

 lege of BaltimoTe maintains three tables at 



the United States Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory at Woods HoU, Massachusetts. The fol- 

 lowing students have been awarded scholar- 

 ships entitling them to the use of tables during 

 the coming session: Anita Shemwell Dowell, 

 Grace Imogene Guy, M. Louise Erazee. 



The Phi Beta Kappa address at Vassar was 

 given on June 10 by Dr. Elmer Ellsworth 

 Brown, U. S. Commissioner of Education. 



Dr. W. W. Folwell, professor of political 

 economy at the University of Minnesota and 

 formerly president of the institution, will 

 make the address at Hobart College, on June 

 18, on the occasion of the laying of the corner- 

 stone of the William Smith Hall of Science. 



The two-hundredth anniversary of the birth 

 of LinnaBus was celebrated on May 23 at the 

 Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio. 

 An address was made by Dr. John M. Coulter, 

 head professor of botany in the University of 

 Chicago. 



We learn from English journals that 

 among those upon whom an honorary degree 

 was conferred at the recent celebrations at 

 the University of Upsala in commemoration 

 of the bicentenary of Linnaeus were Mr. Will- 

 iam Carruthers, E.E.S., former president of 

 the Linnean Society of London, and Mr. 

 Francis Darwin, F.R.S., who represented Cam- 

 bridge University. 



Speaking at the forty-seventh annual dinner 

 of King's College, London, on May 27, Dr. 

 Headlam, the principal, referred to the loss 

 which the college has sustained by the death 

 of Dr. MacFadyean, and suggested that there 

 should be a public recognition of one who died 

 as a martyr in the cause of science, and for 

 the sake of amelioration of disease and the 

 benefit of the human race. 



Sir Dietrich Brandis, F.E.S., the son of 

 Dr. C. H. Brandis, professor of philosophy at 

 Bonn University, and for many years in- 

 spector general of the forests of India, died on 

 May 29, at the age of eighty-three years. 



There will be on June 19 a civil service 

 examination for the position of scientific as- 



