June 9, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



We learn from Nature that the committee 

 of the Robert Koch memorial endowment for 

 the encouragement of research in the subject 

 of tuberculosis has decided to give grants to 

 Professor Schieck and Dr. Krusius for in- 

 vestigations on tuberculosis of the eyes, to 

 Dr. Weinberg for statistical inquiries relative 

 to tuberculosis and to Professor Gaffky for 

 the continuation of his researches. Since the 

 year 1908 the sum of £3,600 has been expended 

 by the committee in scientific work. 



A STATUE to the memory of Priestley is to 

 be erected in the market-place of Birstall, the 

 town of his birth. 



It is proposed to erect a monument to 

 Eiehard Lander at Forcados on the lower 

 Niger, of which he was the discoverer. 



Dr. Stanford Emerson Ohaille, for forty- 

 one years professor of physiology and pa- 

 thological anatomy in the medical department 

 of Tulane University, retiring as professor 

 emeritus in 1908, eminent for his contribu- 

 tions to hygiene and public health, died on 

 May 28 in his eighty-first year. 



Professor Solomon Woolf, professor emer- 

 itus of drawing and descriptive geometry in 

 the College of the City of New York, died 

 on May 27. He was born in Mobile, Ala., 

 seventy years ago, and was graduated from 

 the College of the City of New York in 1859. 

 He remained there as instructor and professor 

 for the rest of his life, being made professor 

 emeritus in 1901. 



Professor Keinosuke Otaki, professor of 

 ichthyology and fishery matters in the Agri- 

 cultural College at Sapporo, Japan, died on 

 April 26, 1911, his death being the result of 

 an injury in a railway accident three years 

 before, from which he never recovered. He 

 was the first Japanese student to enter Stan- 

 ford University, from which he graduated in 

 1894. He devoted himself to research on the 

 fisheries, was for a time an assistant on the 

 United States Pish Commission, and is the 

 author of several valuable papers on the fishes 

 and fisheries of Japan. Por some ten years 



he was professor of English in the Imperial 

 Military Academy in Tokyo. He was one of 

 the most active and efficient of the Japanese 

 naturalists. 



Dr. N. Story Maskelyne, from 1856 to 

 1895 professor of mineralogy at Oxford, died 

 on May 27, in his eighty-eighth year. 



The fifth International Philosophical Con- 

 gress will hold its meeting in the buildings 

 of the University of London in the spring of 

 1915. 



The Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Insti- 

 tute was organized in January, 1911. It is a 

 memorial to the late Otho S. A. Sprague, who 

 for many years was a resident of Chicago and 

 who died about two years ago in Pasadena, 

 California. Mr. Sprague designated his 

 brother, A. A. Sprague, as the chief instru- 

 ment through whom funds left by will should 

 be expended. The institute was organized by 

 Mr. A. A. Sprague with the following named 

 gentlemen as members of the corporation and 

 the first board of directors: Martin A. Eyer- 

 son, Charles L. Hutchison, A. C. Bartlett, 

 Byron L. Smith, Albert A. Sprague, 2d, Dr. 

 Frank Billings, John P. Wilson and Albert 

 A. Sprague. Por the present the directors 

 have decided upon medical research as the 

 chief object for which the income of the me- 

 morial funds shall be expended and have se- 

 lected Dr. H. Gideon Wells, associate pro- 

 fessor of pathology in the University of 

 Chicago and Eush Medical College, to direct 

 research in medical problems. The work will 

 be done in cooperation with existing institu- 

 tions, viz., the University of Chicago, Eush 

 Medical College, the Presbyterian Hospital 

 and the Children's Memorial Hospital of 

 Chicago. The institute will command a defi- 

 nite number of beds in the Presbyterian Hos- 

 pital for the study of any diseases under 

 investigation. An advisory council has been 

 appointed consisting of Drs. Prank Billings, 

 James B. Herrick, Joseph L. Miller and 

 Professors E. E. Le Count, Ludvig Hektoen, 

 E. O. Jordan and Julius Stieglitz. 



The Surgeon-General of the army an- 

 nounces that preliminary examinations for 



