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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 689 



Professor Ivan Stozir, founder and for- 

 merly director of the Eoyal Meteorological 

 Observatory at Agram, Hungary, died on 

 February 12. 



A CONFERENCE of imperial and colonial 

 meteorologists has been convened by the Royal 

 Society of Canada, to meet at Ottawa in May. 



The Prehistoric Society of France will hold 

 its annual meeting at Chambery from August 

 24 to 30. 



The Second Congress of the American 

 School Hygiene Association will convene in 

 Atlantic City, New Jersey, on April 17 and 

 18, 1908. A program is being prepared which 

 includes papers on legislation relative to 

 school hygiene; medical and sanitary inspec- 

 tion of schools and school children; treatment 

 following the medical inspection of school 

 children; nursing systems in public schools; 

 and other subjects of allied nature. Papers 

 have been promised by Dr. Martin Fried- 

 rich, health offieei-, Cleveland, Ohio; Dr. 

 John J. Cronin, assistant chief medical 

 inspector, New York City; Dr. C. Ward 

 Crampton, assistant physical director, public 

 schools, New Tork City; Joseph P. Chamber- 

 lain, lawyer, San Francisco; E. C. Sturgis, 

 chairman, schoolhouse committee, Boston ; 

 Dr. Adolf Meyer, director Pathological Insti- 

 tute, State Commission in Lunacy, New 

 Tork; Dr. Henry D. Holton, secretary. State 

 Board of Health, Vermont; Dr. George L. 

 Meylan, adjunct professor of physical edu- 

 cation, Columbia University; Joseph Lee, 

 Boston; A. C. Vandiveer, counsel. Medical 

 Society, County of New Tork; Dr. Charles 

 Harrington, secretary, Massachusetts State 

 Board of Health; Samuel G. Dixon, commis- 

 sioner of health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; 

 Dr. Myles Standish, professor of ophthalmol- 

 ogy, Harvard Medical School, and Hon. Curtis 

 Guild, Jr., governor of Massachusetts. 



According to Terrestrial Magnetism and 

 Atmospheric Electricity the superintendent of 

 the Coast and Geodetic Survey has decided to 

 continue the operation of the magnetic ob- 

 servatory at Baldwin, Kansas, which it had 

 been the intention to discontinue at the end 

 of the year 1907. On account of the useful- 



ness and the needs of continuous magnetic 

 records in this region of the United States it 

 is proposed now to continue the Baldwin ob- 

 servatory until it is possible to construct and 

 establish another observatory in its place 

 somewhere west of the Mississippi River. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that a delegation of 200 

 members of the Medico-Chirurgical Faculty of 

 Maryland was given a public hearing on Feb- 

 ruary 12 by the legislature at Annapolis, to 

 urge the passage of the biU asking for an ap- 

 propriation of $100,000 for the erection of a 

 public-health institution and medical library 

 building in Baltimore. Speeches were made 

 in favor of the bill by Drs. Charles O'Dono- 

 van, president of the faculty; William H. 

 Welch, of Johns Hopkins Medical School; 

 Edward N. Brush, superintendent of Shep- 

 pard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, and 

 Dr. Clotworthy Birnie, Taneytown, formerly 

 a member of the legislature. 



The twenty-first annual exhibition by the 

 department of microscopy of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences will be held 

 on Saturday evening, March 14, 1908, at the 

 galleries of the Art Building, 174 Montague 

 Street, from 7:45 to 11 o'clock. It will in- 

 clude a display of objects viewed with the 

 microscope, also apparatus, photomicrographs, 

 lantern slides of microscopic objects and- other 

 matter pertaining to microscopy. Admission 

 is by ticket, which may be secured by applica- 

 tion at the office of the institute or of the 

 president of the department, J. J. Schoon- 

 honn, 34 Second Place, Brooklyn, N. T. 



The University of Washington will send a 

 botanical field party to Alaska during the 

 present summer under the direction of Dr. T. 

 C. Frye, of the department of botany. The 

 general plan is to leave Seattle about July 1, 

 and go as far north as Skagway. From the 

 chief cities as a base excursions will be made 

 into the mountains, to glaciers, to mines and 

 along the sea shore. The work wiU close in 

 Alaska six weeks from date of sailing from 

 Seattle. The expense will be $20 incidental 

 fee, about $70 steamer fare, and the living 

 expenses which are estimated at $80 for the 



