April 10, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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morial Expedition to South America. The 

 expedition will leave in June, going from New 

 York to Eio Janeiro, and remaining in Brazil 

 until the rainy season in October. The Bra- 

 zilian government has offered facilities to the 

 expedition. Upon leaving Brazil, Professor 

 Woodworth will go to Chili for the purpose of 

 investigating shore-line changes. 



On April 2, Dr. A. Hrdlicka, of the U. S. 

 National Museum, delivered a lecture on 

 " The physical type of Indian men and wo- 

 men " before the Pittsburg Academy of Sci- 

 ences. 



Dr. Anton von Braunmuhl, professor of 

 mathematics in the Technical Institute at 

 Mimich, has died at the age of fifty-five years. 



A FOREST survey of Illinois is to be carried 

 on jointly by the State Laboratory of Natural 

 History at the University of Illinois and the 

 U. S. Forest Survey, the two contributing 

 equally to the expense of the work. 



The Imperial Meteorological Congress 

 planned to be held in Ottawa in May has 

 been postponed to the last week in July and 

 will take place in Quebec immediately after 

 the close of the ter-centenary celebration of 

 Champlain's landing. 



The third International Congress for Phi- 

 losophy will be held at Heidelberg from Au- 

 gust 31 to September 5, under the presidency 

 of Professor Windelband. 



The Fourth International Congress of 

 Electrotherapy and Radiology will be held in 

 Amsterdam from September 1 to 5, 1908. 



The commissioner of education has received 

 from the organizing committee of the first 

 Pan-American Congress at Santiago, Chile, 

 the following annoimcement, with the request 

 that measures be taken to give it due pub- 

 licity : " The organizing committee of the 

 fourth scientific (first Pan-American) con- 

 gress took into consideration in one of its last 

 sessions the requests which various distin- 

 guished Americans have made that the date 

 of opening the congress might be postponed 

 to a later date than December 1, 1908, which 

 was announced as the time of opening in the 

 official communication previously sent. The 

 objection to opening the congress on Decem- 



ber 1 came principally from teachers in the dif- 

 ferent American countries who are attending 

 to their scholastic duties at that time. Under 

 the circumstances, and in order that the at- 

 tendance of foreign delegates and members 

 may be as large as possible, the organizing 

 committee has decided to postpone the date 

 of opening of the congress to December 25, 



1908, and the closing exercises will take place 

 January 6, 1909." 



The fourth annual dinner of the graduates 

 and former students of the School of Civil 

 Engineering of Columbia University will be 

 held in the college room of the Hotel Astor 

 on Thursday evening, April 23, 1908, at seven 

 o'clock. The toastmaster of the evening will 

 be Mr. Allen N. Spooner, C.E., '86, commis- 

 sioner of docks and ferries. Other speakers 

 of the evening will include President Nicholas 

 Murray Butler; Mr. C. M. Jacobs, chief engi- 

 neer in charge of the construction of the 

 Pennsylvania Eailroad and McAdoo tunnels ; 

 Mr. William G. McAdoo; Eev. Hugh Birk- 

 head, '99, of St. George's Church; Mr. John 

 A. Bensel, chairman of the board of addi- 

 tional water supply; Mr. William Barclay 

 Parsons, '82, and Dean Frederick A. Goetze. 



The Naples Table Association for Pro- 

 moting Laboratory Research by Women an- 

 nounces the offer of a fourth prize of one 

 thousand dollars for the best thesis written by 

 a woman, on a scientific subject, embodying 

 new observations and new conclusions based 

 on an independent laboratory research in bio- 

 logical, chemical or physical science. The 

 theses offered in competition are to be pre- 

 sented to the executive committee of the asso- 

 ciation and must be in the hands of the chair- 

 man of the committee on the prize, Mrs. Ellen 

 H. Richards, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Boston, Mass., before February 25, 



1909. The prize will be awai'ded at the an- 

 nual meeting in April, 1909. Each thesis 

 must be submitted under a pseudonym and 

 must be accompanied by a sealed envelope, 

 enclosing the author's name and address, and 

 superscribed with a title corresponding to one 

 borne by the manuscript. The papers pre- 

 sented will be judged by a regularly appointed 

 board of examiners, or by such specialists as 



