NOVEMBEE 11, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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Professor David Hilbert, university professor 

 of mathematics at Heidelberg. The jury con- 

 sisted of two foreign mathematicians — Poin- 

 caro (to whom the prize was awarded in 1905) 

 and G. Mittag-Leffler — and two Hungarians, 

 Y. Konig and G. Eados, both from Budapest. 



The eightieth birthday of Professor J. D. 

 Van Bemmelen, the eminent physical chemist 

 of the University of Leyden, was celebrated 

 on November 3. Some sixty memoirs have 

 been received for a Festschrift to be published 

 in his honor. 



Professor George A. Osborne, the only re- 

 maining member of the original faculty of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 retired from the active duties of his chair. 



In honor of Dr. William Jack, who recently 

 retired from the professorship of mathematics 

 at Glasgow, there have been presented to the 

 university a portrait of Dr. Jack, painted by 

 Sir James Guthrie, and the sum of £300 for 

 a William Jack prize fund, the prize to be 

 awarded to the author of the best thesis on a 

 mathematical subject for the degree of doctor 

 of science. 



With appropriate ceremonies, the twenty- 

 fourth anniversary of the professorates of Dr. 

 von Reuss, professor of ophthalmology, and 

 Dr. Urbantschitsch, professor of otology, have 

 been celebrated at Vienna. 



The College of Physicians and Surgeons of 

 Philadelphia announces that the Alvarenga 

 prize for 1910 has been awarded to Dr. M. 

 Katzenstein, of Berlin, Germany, for his essay 

 entitled " The Formation of an Arterial Col- 

 lateral Circulation in the Kidney." 



The following appointments have been 

 made to the staff of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research: Francis Henry Mc- 

 Crudden, M.D., chemist to the hospital ; 

 Thomas S. Githens, M.D., fellow in the de- 

 partment of physiology and pharmacology; 

 James B. Murphy, M.D., fellow in the depart- 

 ment of pathology and bacteriology; A. E. 

 Dochez, M.D., bacteriologist to the hospital; 

 F. Medigreeeanu, M.D., laboratory assistant 

 to the hospital, and W. H. Manwaring, M.D., 

 assistant in pathology. 



Dr. Ernst Lederle, commissioner of health 

 of New York City, has formed an advisory 

 board of statisticians to the health depart- 

 ment. With Commissioner Lederle the board 

 will consist of Dr. Roger S. Tracy, formerly 

 registrar of the department. Dr. William S. 

 Guilfoy, the present registrar, Dr. Cressy L. 

 Wilbur, Professor C.-E. A. Winalow, of the 

 City College, and Professor Walter F. Will- 

 cos, of Cornell University, who is also con- 

 sulting statistician of the state department of 

 health. The board will endeavor to outline a 

 plan for the better computation of health and 

 mortality statistics. 



Dr. a. J. McLaughlin, assistant director of 

 health in the Philippines, and Dr. P. K. Gil- 

 man, assistant professor of surgery in the 

 Philippine Medical School, have left for the 

 United States on leave of absence. 



Dean Eugene Davenport, of the College of 

 Agriculture of the University of Ulinois, with 

 the members of the committee on agriculture, 

 the board of trustees and the sub-committee 

 on agriculture of the State Farmers' Institute, 

 have started on a tour of inspection of agricul- 

 tural colleges in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota 

 and Wisconsin. On their return they will 

 make a report upon which will depend the 

 share which the College of Agriculture will 

 receive in the biennial budget of the univer- 

 sity which is to be submitted to the next 

 session of the state legislature. 



Professor C. T. Knipp, of the physics de- 

 partment of the University of Illinois, is in 

 Europe on a year's leave of absence. He will 

 spend the greater part of the year in Cam- 

 bridge studying under Professor J. J. Thom- 

 son. 



Shinkicki K. Suzuki, the Japanese chemist 

 who was detailed by the U. S. government at 

 the College of Agriculture of the University 

 of Wisconsin, has been relieved of his work 

 and has been sent to Europe on a special mis- 

 sion by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. Hjppolyte Gruener, professor of chem- 

 istry in the College for Women of Western 

 Reserve University, is absent on leave for the 

 year, which he is spending in Europe. Mr. 



