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and will be accompanied by a booklet contain- 

 ing his portrait, a biographical sketch and a 

 bibliography of his works. 



Ten thousand dollars has been contributed 

 to the University of Pennsylvania to estab- 

 lish a memorial to the late Dr. J. A. Scott, 

 adjunct professor of medicine in that insti- 

 tution. This memorial will take the form of 

 a fellowship for medical research. 



It is proposed to erect in Amsterdam a 

 monument to the memory of the late Pro- 

 fessor van't Hoff. 



Dr. Charles A. Oliver, of Philadelphia, 

 known for his contributions to ophthalmology, 

 has died at the age of fifty-seven years. 



Mr. Arthur Eay Maxson, instructor in 

 mathematics at Columbia University, died on 

 April 13, at the age of thirty years. 



Dr. Jak. M. Van Bemmelen, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Leyden, died on March 

 14 in his eighty-first year. 



The paleontologist. Professor Joseph La- 

 husen, died in St. Petersburg, on March 8, at 

 the age of sixty-six years. 



Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen, the 

 Dutch entomologist, has died at seventy-seven 

 years of age. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society gives the names and theses of candi- 

 dates who received doctorates in mathematics 

 from the German universities during the aca- 

 demic year 1909-10. They number 38, Leip- 

 zig leading with seven. About fifteen doctor- 

 ates in mathematics are given annually by the 

 universities of the United States. 



The Eussell Sage Institute of Pathology, 

 which was founded in 190Y when Mrs. Sage 

 gave $300,000 for pathological research work in 

 connection with the hospitals and charitable 

 institutions on Blackwell's Island, has resolved 

 to terminate the agreement existing with the 

 Public Charities Department. 



The London Times states that at a meeting 

 of the Paris Academy on April 3, Prince 

 Albert, of Monaco, announced that he would 

 shortly commission a new steamship, the 

 Eirondelle II., to take the place of the Prin- 

 cesse Alice II., which had 12 scientific cruises 



to her credit. He informed the academy that, 

 thanks to a new dredging apparatus, interest- 

 ing specimens of the denizens of the inter- 

 mediate depths of the ocean had been secured. 

 The apparatus consisted of a net, which could 

 be dragged at a speed of 15 kilometers an hour 

 at any depth. In 1910 the Princesse Alice had 

 towed this appliance at a depth of 5,000 meters, 

 and a dozen new kinds of fish had been brought 

 to the surface in as many days. Arrangements 

 had likewise been made for taking instantane- 

 ous color photographs of the specimens as 

 soon as they were hauled up out of the water. 



According to Nature three expeditions from 

 England will observe the total solar eclipse of 

 April 28, on Varau, a small coral island of the 

 Friendly Group. They are as follows : (1) A 

 government expedition from the Solar Physics 

 Observatory with Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, in 

 charge, and accompanied by Mr. F. K. Mc- 

 Clean, left London on February 3, with the 

 necessary gear, and journeyed to Sydney by 

 the Orient steamship Otway. From there the 

 instruments were transhipped to H.M.S. En- 

 counter, of the Australian Squadron, and the 

 expedition started for the Friendly Islands on 

 March 25. (2) An expedition from the Joint 

 Permanent Eclipse Committee will be under 

 the charge of Father A. L. Cortie, S.J., from 

 Stonyhurst Observatory, who will be assisted 

 by Mr. W. McKeon, S.J., and Father E. F. 

 Pigot, S.J. Father Cortie's expedition also 

 travelled by the Otway from London, and pro- 

 ceeded to Varau on board the Encounter. 

 (3) A private expedition in charge of Mr. J. 

 H. Worthington, who has had a special equip- 

 ment made for this eclipse. 



Perhaps no other metal has been used in so 

 great a variety of ways during so compara- 

 tively brief a history as has aluminum. It is 

 a question whether the automobile industry 

 would have made such a remarkable progress 

 during the last decade without the accompany- 

 ing development of the metallic aluminum in- 

 dustry, for very many of the castings used in 

 the manufacture of motor cars are made from 

 this light, rigid metal. The use of aluminum 

 in the recently born art of aviation is also of 

 great popular interest, and here again the same 



