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the motor car being run at a speed of five or 

 six miles per hour by means of electricity. 



Dr. Charles Anthony Goessmann, born in 

 Germany in 1S27, since 1869 professor of 

 chemistry at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, known for his important contribu- 

 tions to agricultural chemistry, died on Sep- 

 tember 1. 



Frederick Augustus Genth, Jr., formerly 

 assistant professor of chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, where his father was 

 professor of chemistry, died at his home in 

 Philadelphia, on September 1, at the age of 

 fifty-five years. 



John Talbot Porter, well known for his 

 work in chemical and steam engineering, died 

 at ITontclair, N. J., on August 21, at the age 

 ■of eighty-five years. 



Dr. Louis Hubert Farabeuf, former pro- 

 fessor of anatomy at the Paris College of 

 Medicine and member of the Academic de 

 Medeeine, has died, at the age of sixty-nine 

 years. 



The death is announced of Louis Olivier, 

 founder and editor of the Revue Generale des 

 Sciences. 



The American Institute of Mining Engi- 

 neers will hold a meeting in the Canal Zone, 

 Panama, in November, 1910. A special 

 steamship, accommodating about 150 pas- 

 sengers, has been engaged for the trip, and 

 will sail with the party from New York on 

 October 21, returning to 'New York about 

 November 15. 



The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the 

 American Public Health Association, will be 

 Tield in Milwaukee, September 5-9, under the 

 presidency of Dr. Charles O. Probst. The 

 general topics for discussion are " The Rela- 

 tion of the University to Public Health 

 Work," " Methods of Handling State Health- 

 Work," " The Inter-relation of National Or- 

 ganizations Working in the Interests of 

 Health," " Section Reports for General Meet- 

 ing," " The Present Organization and Work 

 for the Protection of Health in the Four 

 Countries Represented in the Association," 

 ■" Sanitary Engineering Questions," " The 



Prevention of Mental Defects and Mental 

 Diseases," " The Relation of Unnecessary 

 Noises to Health," and " The Necessity for 

 Terminal Disinfection and Quarantine." 



The program of the International Congress 

 on Radiology and Electricity, to be held at 

 Brussels on September 13-15 is summarized 

 in Nature. Among the important matters to 

 be brought forward is the question of radium 

 standards and nomenclature. The congress 

 will be divided into three sections. In the first 

 section, general questions of terminology and 

 methods of measurement in radio-activity and 

 subjects connected with ionization will be dis- 

 cussed. The second section will be devoted to 

 subjects relating to the fundamental theories 

 of electricity, the study of radiations (includ- 

 ing spectroscopy, the chemical eifects of 

 radiations, and allied subjects), radio-activity, 

 atomic theory and cosmical phenomena, such 

 as atmospheric electricity and the radio-activ- 

 ity of the atmosphere. The third section is 

 biological, and will be devoted to the con- 

 sideration of the effects of radiations on liv- 

 ing organisms. This section will deal with 

 purely biological subjects, as well as the use 

 and application of various radiations for med- 

 ical purposes. A long list of papers already 

 promised is given in the program, as well as a 

 list of members up to date. A special exhibit 

 of apparatus relating to the work of members 

 is to be held in connection with the congress, 

 and members are invited to forward exhibits 

 to the Physical Laboratory of the University 

 of Brussels. A number of excursions have 

 already been arranged to take place after the 

 congress, and special facilities will be granted 

 to members on the Belgian and French rail- 

 ways. 



The Union Government, South Africa, has 

 contributed £500 to Captain Scott's Antarctic 

 expedition. The mayor of Pretoria has also 

 opened a fund, which Lord Gladstone, the 

 governor-general, has headed with a subscrip- 

 tion of £50. 



A Bureau of British Marine Zoology has 

 been established under the directorship of Mr. 

 S. Pace, late director of the Millport Marine 



