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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 696 



chemistry, will deliver the annual address at 

 the one hundred and fifty-second commence- 

 ment on June 17. 



By the will of Lord Kelvin, Lady Kelvin is 

 appointed sole executrix, and all his property 

 is bequeathed to her. According to the in- 

 ventory, the value of the property is over 

 $800,000. 



Professor K. G. Abel, head of the indus- 

 trial chemical laboratory at Stuttgart, died on 

 March 9, at the age of fifty-eight years. 



Professor Franz von Leydig, the zoologist, 

 died at Rothenburg on Monday, in his eighty- 

 seventh year. Dr. von Leydig studied at the 

 Universities of Wiirzburg and Munich, and 

 after holding a professorship at Tiibingen for 

 eighteen years, he was appointed to a chair 

 at Bonn University in 1875. He is well known 

 for his researches in comparative histology and 

 anatomy. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on May 14, 1908, to 

 fill a vacancy in the position of physical 

 chemist, in the laboratory of the United 

 States Geological Survey, at $2,160 per an- 

 num. No merely scholastic or clerical tests 

 will be given, and competitors will not be 

 assembled for examination. On May 20, there 

 will be an examination for preparator of 

 fossils in the Geological Survey, at a salary 

 of $25 a month. 



Prince Eoland Bonaparte has given the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences 100,000 francs for 

 scientific research. 



An expedition is being equipped, under the 

 auspices of the Eussian ministry of marine, 

 with the object of discovering a northeast 

 passagfe between the Atlantic and Pacific 

 Oceans. 



The thirteenth general meeting of the 

 American Electro-Chemical Society is being 

 held this week in Albany, N. Y. 



The Bridgeport Medical Association has 

 joined the Bridgeport Scientific and His- 

 torical Society this season in a series of 

 nine popular lectures, which have been well 

 received. 



The Lake Laboratory maintained by the 

 Ohio State University announces the usual 



program for the coming summer, including 

 courses in general zoology and botany, ento- 

 mology, ornithology, experimental zoology, 

 comparative anatomy, ecology, embryology, in- 

 vertebrate morphology and ichthyology; also 

 opportunities for research work and accom- 

 modations for investigators as in previous 

 years. The staff will include beside the 

 director. Professor E. L. Eiee, of Ohio 

 Wesleyan University, Professor Lynds Jones, 

 of Oberlin College; Professor Charles Brook- 

 over, of Buchtel College; Professor M. E. 

 Stickney, of Denison University, and W. B. 

 Herms, at present fellow in zoology at Har- 

 vard University. The opportunities offered 

 are excellent for fresh water, and special at- 

 tention is given to the aquatic life of the 

 locality. Opportunities for research work in 

 this line are very favorable. Independent 

 investigators are given the use of tables free 

 of charge, but are expected to furnish their 

 own microscopes and other apparatus. The 

 locality is an excellent one for summer work, 

 the laboratory being situated on the point 

 separating Sandusky Bay and Lake Erie, with 

 its frontage on a fine beach. For circulars 

 or detailed information letters may be ad- 

 dressed to the director. Professor Herbert Os- 

 bom, Ohio State University, Coltmibus, 

 Ohio. 



The spring lectures to be delivered in the 

 lecture hall of the museum building of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, on 

 Saturday afternoons, at four o'clock, are as 

 follows : 



May 2 — " A Botanical Expedition to Jamaica," 

 by Dr. Arthur Hollick. 



May 9 — " Early-flowering Trees and Shrubs," 

 by Dr. N. L. Britton. 



May 16 — "Plant Life of the Sea," by Dr. M. 

 A. Howe. 



May 23 — " Ornamental Shrubs : their Selection 

 and Arrangement," by Mr. George y. Nash. 



May 30 — " Plants that Feed on Insects," by 

 Dr. C. Stuart Gager. 



Jime 6 — "Adulterants in Foods and Drugs and 

 their Detection," by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 



From the annual report of the Nantucket 

 Maria Mitchell Association we learn that a 

 fire-proof observatory is in process of con- 



