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Dr. Charles Fahlberg, associated with Dr. 

 Ira Eemsen in the discovery of saccharine and 

 subsequently a manufacturing chemist, died 

 at Bad Nassau, on August 15. 



Mr. John Coles, for twenty-three years 

 map curator and instructor in practical as- 

 tronomy and surveying of the Eoyal Geo- 

 graphical Society, has died at the age of 

 seventy-seven years. 



The death is announced of Dr. R. Klee, 

 head of the veterinary clinic at Jena. 



An International Congress on Pathology 

 will be held in Turin in 1911. 



The second International Congress of En- 

 tomology, will, on the invitation of Professor 

 Poulton, meet at Osford in 1912. 



The third International Congress of Edu- 

 cational Hygiene was opened at Paris on Au- 

 gust 2, at the Sorbonne, under the honorary 

 presidency of Professor Landouzy, dean of the 

 Paris College of Medicine, with 1,600 members 

 in attendance. 



According to a cablegram to the daily 

 papers the Pan-American Congress, now 

 meeting at Buenos Ayres, has approved the 

 recommendation of the bureau of the Pan- 

 American Union to create a section dealing 

 with commerce, customs duties and statistics, 

 and to prepare a measure for establishing uni- 

 form values in international commerce. The 

 congress also approved a recommendation to 

 adopt the metric system, which will be sub- 

 mitted to the next Pan-American Congress. 

 It indorsed the taking of the census in 1920 

 simultaneously in all the American republics. 

 A convention relating to trade-marks was ap- 

 proved, according to which any trade-mark 

 registered in any of the countries is to be con- 

 sidered as registered in all. 



The New York Academy of Medicine has 

 purchased the property at No. 10 West 44th 

 Street and No. 15 West 43d Street. This 

 property has been acquired by the academy 

 for the purpose of either remodelling its pres- 

 ent building, which is adjacent to the new 

 property, or erecting a new one. 



The following lectures will be given by the 

 Harvey Society on Saturday evenings at the 



New Tork Academy of Medicine : October 15, 

 " Die Bedeutung der pathologischen Autop- 

 sie," by Dr. H. Chiari, of Strassburg, Ger- 

 many ; November 12, " Unit Characters in 

 Heredity," by Professor W. E. Castle, of Har- 

 vard University; December 10, " Certain 

 Clinical Aspects of Dyspituitarism," by Pro- 

 fessor Harvey Cushing, of Johns Hopkins 

 University; January 14, a lecture by Pro- 

 fessor Arthur R. Cushny, of the University of 

 London ; February 4, " The Chemistry of the 

 Proteins," by Dr. Thomas B. Osborne, of the 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion; February 25, a lecture by Professor 

 Jacques Loeb, of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research; March 18, a lecture by 

 Professor H. Gideon Wells, of the University 

 of Chicago. 



Nature notes that the useful work of the 

 extension section of the Manchester Micro- 

 scopical Society is to be continued during the 

 coming winter session. The purpose of this 

 section is to bring scientific knowledge, in a 

 popular form, before societies unable to pay 

 large fees for lectures. In some eases a small 

 fee is charged, but all money thus obtained is 

 devoted to the expenses of the section. The 

 work of lecturing and demonstrating is en- 

 tirely voluntary and gratuitous on the part of 

 the members of the society. The list of lec- 

 tures from which secretaries of societies may 

 choose includes some sixty-one subjects and 

 the names of seventeen lecturers. 



The British Board of Education has issued 

 a pamphlet containing a translation of the 

 syllabus of instruction in mathematics which 

 forms part of the new courses of study in the 

 Austrian gymnasia. It has been thought de- 

 sirable to make the translation in view of the 

 fact that the reforms suggested by the Aus- 

 trian program are similar to those which are 

 being discussed in Great Britain. An addi- 

 tional reason for the publication of the pam- 

 phlet is to be found in the interest which has 

 been aroused in the work of the International 

 Commission on Mathematical Teaching es- 

 tablished in connection with the International 

 Congress of Mathematicians to be held in 

 Cambridge in 1912. 



