September 23, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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Professor W. Kolle has been appointed 

 head of the newly erected laboratory of hy- 

 giene and bacteriology at Berne. 



The centenary of the death of the Italian 

 naturalist Filippo Cavolini will be commem- 

 orated by a series of meetings to be held in 

 Naples beginning on September 12. 



Dr. James Nevins Hyde, of Chicago, for 

 thirty-one years professor of dermatology in 

 the Kush Medical College, died on Septem- 

 ber 6. 



Professor Edouard Heinrich Henoch, one 

 of the founders of modern pediatrics, died at 

 Dresden on August 22, in his ninety-first year. 



Professor von Eecklinghausen, since 1872 

 professor of pathology at Strasburg, died on 

 August 26 at the age of ii,eventy-six years. 



The death is announced of Professor Ped- 

 roso, president of the Geographical Society of 

 Lisbon. 



The ninth International Conference on 

 Tuberculosis will take place at Brussels on 

 October 5-8. Nature states that among the 

 subjects likely to be brought under considera- 

 tion are : Hereditary tuberculosis contagion ; 

 the pre-disposition to the disease; the protec- 

 tion of children against tuberculosis; tubercu- 

 losis and the school; the part of women in the 

 campaign against tuberculosis. Reports on 

 the progress of the war against tuberculosis 

 in diil'erent countries, milk supply, solar radia- 

 tion, international statistics and interna- 

 tional marks indicating the condition of the 

 lungs will be presented, and a paper will be 

 read by Dr. Nathan Eaw on the general 

 measures recommended by the International 

 Conference to the public authorities for the 

 prevention of the spread of tuberculosis in 

 different countries. 



The first mid-summer meeting of Illinois 

 farmers was held in August at the University 

 of Illinois. The purpose of holding this insti- 

 tute in the middle of the summer was to give 

 an opportunity to farmers and others inter- 

 ested in agriculture to see the agricultural 

 experiment plots, the oldest in the United 

 States, at a time when they were bearing 

 crops. The institute was attended by about 

 2,500 farmers, bankers, teachers and various 



other professional men who were interested in 

 agriculture. One of the leading addresses de- 

 livered at this meeting was by N. Kaumans, 

 German commissioner for agriculture. The 

 main idea in the address was the necessity of 

 the conservation of the soil. Commissioner 

 Kaumans was merely emphasizing, however, 

 what Professor Cyril G. Hopkins, the head of 

 the department of agronomy at the university, 

 and others have been saying for a number of 

 years. 



The following arrangements are given in 

 Nature for the opening of the winter session 

 of the London medical schools : St. George's 

 Hospital, King's College Hospital and Lon- 

 don Hospital will open on October 1. At the 

 first-named Dr. S. Squire Sprigge will deliver 

 an oration " On Prizes." St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital (at which 

 Dr. F. W. Mott, F.E.S., will deliver the eighth 

 Huxley lecture, on " The Hereditary Aspect of 

 Nervous and Mental Diseases"), Guy's Hos- 

 pital, London (Royal Free Hospital), School 

 of Medicine for Women (at which an address 

 on " Women's Sphere in Medicine " will be 

 given by Dr. E. W. Roughton), Middlesex 

 Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, University Col- 

 lege Hospital and Westminster Hospital wiU 

 reopen on October 3. The opening day for St. 

 Thomas's Hospital is October 4, and that of 

 the London School of Tropical Medicine is 

 October 14, when Dr. H. A. Miers, F.R.S., will 

 give an address. At the opening of the medi- 

 cal school of the Victoria University of Man- 

 chester, on October 3, Professor W. Thorburn 

 will speak on " The Evolution of Surgery." 



The availability of even low-grade phos- 

 phate rock for use as a fertilizer gives impor- 

 tance to the enormous phosphate deposits in 

 Idaho, Wyoming and Utah, many of which 

 are on government land. The total area of 

 public phosphate lands now withheld from 

 entry is more than two and a half million 

 acres. Portions of the lands thus withdrawn 

 were examined in 1909 by geologists of the 

 United States Geological Survey, whose re- 

 ports have just been published as an advance 

 chapter of the survey's Bulletin 430. This 

 chapter includes two reports, one on deposits 



