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chief consulting chemist of the Arlington 

 Mills. 



The secretary of state for the colonies has 

 selected Mr. Joseph Pearson, D.Sc, F.L.S., as 

 director of the museum at Colomho, Ceylon, 

 in succession to Dr. Arthur Willey, now ap- 

 pointed professor of zoology at McGill Uni- 

 versity, Montreal. Dr. Pearson's removal has 

 created a vacancy in the zoological staff at the 

 "University of Liverpool which will be filled by 

 the appointment of Mr. E. Douglas Laurie as 

 senior demonstrator and assistant lecturer, 

 while Dr. W. J. Dakin.will join the staff as 

 second demonstrator. 



Professor Robert Gans has been appointed 

 geologist in the Geological Bureau at Berlin. 



Dr. F. a. Bather, F.R.S., will represent the 

 British Museum of Natural History at the 

 Stockholm International Geological Congress. 



Professor R. DeC. Ward, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, sailed for Brazil on July 20 in order 

 to make a study of the economic climatology 

 of the coffee region of Sao Paulo. 



Botanical field work in Mexico will be en- 

 gaged in nest September by a class now being 

 organized by the department of botany at the 

 University of Chicago. The class will be in 

 charge of Dr. J. M. Coulter, head of the de- 

 partment, assisted by Assistant Professor C. J. 

 Chamberlain and W. J. G. Land and J. G. 

 Brown, instructors in botany. 



Professor C. "W. Edmunds, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, is spending the summer at 

 the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health 

 and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, 

 doing special research work in pharmacology. 



The medical faculty of the Johns Hopkins 

 University received during the session 1908-9 

 the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars from 

 Dr. A. E. Malloch, of Hamilton, Ontario, with 

 the request that it be awarded as a prize to 

 the student presenting in competition the best 

 essay upon " The Life and Work of Lister." 

 The nine essays received were examined by a 

 committee appointed by the faculty, who 

 awarded the. prize to Mr. Charles Chauncey 

 Wiusor Judd. The successful essay will be 



published in the Johns Hopkins Hospital 

 Bulletin. 



A series of lectures on the conservation 

 movement by several of the government ex- 

 perts is in progress this summer at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, forming part of the pro- 

 gram of public lectures which, according to 

 custom, are open to all who care to attend. 

 The subjects of the addresses thus far an- 

 nounced are " Conservation of Mineral Re- 

 sources," " Reclamation of Waste Lands " and 

 " Conservation of Forests." Among the 

 speakers announced are: Charles W. Hayes, 

 chief geologist of the United States Geological 

 Survey; Frederick H. Newell, director of the 

 Reclamation Service, and Chief Forester 

 Henry S. Graves. 



The death is announced of Samuel Bowd- 

 lear Green, dean of the school of forestry of 

 the University of Minnesota, known for his 

 publications on horticulture and forestry, at 

 the age of fifty-one years. 



Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, the emi- 

 nent Italian astronomer, died on July 4, at 

 the age of seventy-five years. 



Johann Gottfried Galle, the great German 

 astronomer, died on July 10, at the age of 

 ninety-eight years. 



Dr. Julius Weingarten, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Freiburg, has died at the age of 

 eighty-five years. 



M. Louis Eaffy, professor of mathematics 

 at the University of Paris, has died at the age 

 of sixty-five years. 



Dr. Hugo Erdmann, professor of chemistry 

 in the Berlin School of Technology, has been 

 drowned, at the age of forty-eight years. 



It is reported that the first output of radium 

 from the Trenwith mine, St. Ives, Cornwall, 

 has been obtained. It consists of about 24 

 grains of radium and is valued at $150,000. 



The next meeting of the American Ornith- 

 ologists' Union will be held in Washington, 

 D. C, beginning Monday, November 14. 



A Servian Geographical Society has been 

 founded at Belgrade, with Professor J. Cvijic 

 as the first president. It will issue a quarterly 

 publication. 



