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SCIENCE 



871 



Trotter. Mr. M. J. Collins, of the Board of 

 Trade, will act as secretary to the committee. 



The members of the committee appointed 

 to arrange for Germany's participation in the 

 International Congress on Tuberculosis that 

 is to meet in Washington next September in- 

 clude Victor, Prince of Hohenlohe and Count 

 von Lerchenf eld ; Baron von Knesebeck ; Dr. 

 Abb, secretary of the civil cabinet of the em- 

 peror at Berlin; Dr. Bunun, president of the 

 Imperial Board of Health, and Professor Dr. 

 Schjerring, general chief of the army sani- 

 tary corps. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the 

 president of the committee, is the imperial 

 secretary of the interior. Ernst von Men- 

 delssohn Bartholdy, of the banking house of 

 that name, and a member of the Prussian 

 Diet, is the treasurer. Besides the members 

 of ofBcial rank the list contains the names of 

 many eminent men of science, including those 

 of Dr. Eobert Koch and Professor von Behr- 

 ing. 



The tablet in honor of Dr. Horace Wells, 

 discoverer of anesthesia, which was sent to 

 this country from Madrid by the Spanish 

 Odontological Society, has reached Hartford 

 by way of the Spanish minister at Washing- 

 ton. The memorial is composed of a silver 

 plate surrounded by a wreath of white metal 

 showing laurel leaves on one side and the oak 

 on the other, with laurel berries in white and 

 acorns in gilt. Above the plate is an ancient 

 lamp with its light burning. The tablet is 

 thirty-three inches by two feet. It bears the 

 following inscription : " The Spanish Odonto- 

 logical Society to Horace Wells. Madrid, 

 January 14, 1907." 



We learn with regret of the death of Dr. 

 Heinrich Maschke, professor of mathematics 

 in the University of Chicago, at the age of 

 fifty-five years. 



M. Albert de Lapparent, the eminent 

 French geologist, has died at the age of sixty- 

 seven years. 



We regret also to record the death of Dr. 

 K. Mobius, professor of zoology at Berlin, at 

 the age of eighty-three years. 



The it. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on June 17 to fill two,, 

 and possibly three, vacancies in the position 

 of medical interne (male) and one vacancy in- 

 the position of medical interne (female), at 

 $600 per annum each, with maintenance, in 

 the Government Hospital for the Insane,. 

 Washington, D. C, and vacancies requiring 

 similar qualifications as they may occur. 



Tables at the laboratory of the United' 

 States Bureau of Fisheries, at Beaufort, North- 

 Carolina, will be available for the use of in- 

 vestigators after July 1. Requests for further- 

 information should be addressed either to the 

 Commissioner of Fisheries, Washington, D. C.,. 

 or to the director of the laboratory, Beaufort. 



The public opening of the Museum of the 

 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sci- 

 ences at the Borough Hall, St. George, Bor- 

 ough of Richmond, took place on Saturday 

 afternoon. May 23. 



The provision of a Pasteur Institute for 

 Burma is said to be now assured, though some 

 little time must elapse before the work can be 

 started. 



We learn from the Journal of the American' 

 Museum of Natural History that the museum, 

 has secured as a loan exhibit the series of 

 eight paintings of Mt. Pele, Martinique, made- 

 by the late Professor Angelo Heilprin of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 

 and Tale University. Professor Heilprin 

 visited Martinique during the eruptions of 

 1902 and 1903, first as the delegate of the 

 National Geographic Society and afterwards 

 on his own account. The paintings now at 

 the museum were made from sketches, photo- 

 graphs and other studies in the field and are- 

 valuable not only from an artistic point of 

 view, but also from their giving a record of 

 the impressions of an observer who was a 

 scientist as well as an artist. The paintings 

 have been installed in the lobby of the central 

 hall of the second floor. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The public bequests announced under the 

 will of the late Mr. T. Webb include £5,000^ 



