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sciences? It certainly shows admirably the 

 defects of the advocating method of research — 

 the dangers of the ruling hypothesis. Prob- 

 ably also a more respectful reception has been 

 given in this country to these hypotheses be- 

 cause they ■were voluminously presented in 

 German and backed by the prestige of a 

 German professorship, than if they had origi- 

 nated in this country. But if the writer is not 

 mistaken, in Germany, preeminently the land 

 of science, voluminous presentation is a 

 fashion, and around the large body of high- 

 grade work is a larger aureole of pseudo-science 

 than is found in either England or America. 

 We are sadly in need of knowing more German 

 and in making larger use of foreign literature, 

 but discrimination is necessary, and the writer 

 is inclined to think that some Germans in turn 

 might make larger use of scientific literature 

 in the English language. 



Joseph Bahkell 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The New Zealand meeting of the British 

 Association has been abandoned. It will be 

 remembered that a number of distinguished 

 American men of science are on the way to 

 attend the meeting as guests of the New Zeal- 

 land government. 



Sir Adolph Eouthieb has been elected 

 president of the Eoyal Society of Canada in 

 succession to Professor Prank D. Adams. 



The commission authorized by the New 

 York state legislature to undertake the scien- 

 tific study of the causes of bovine tuberculosis, 

 its economic and health effects upon the state, 

 has been appointed by Governor Glynn. The 

 members of the commission include: Dr. Th. 

 Smith, director of the division of animal 

 pathology, Rockefeller Institute ; Dr. Hermann 

 M. Biggs, commissioner of health. New York; 

 Dr. Linsly P. Williams, deputy commissioner 

 of health. New York; Dr. Philip Van Ingen, 

 of the New York Milk Commission ; Dr. Henry 

 L. K. Shaw, professor of children's diseases, 

 Albany Medical College; Seth Low, and Pro- 

 fessor Veranus A. Moore, dean of the New 

 York State Veterinary College, Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 its La Caze prize of $2,000 to Dr. Gley, pro- 

 fessor at the College de France, for his works 

 on physiology. 



The Sir Gilbert Blane medal of the Eoyal 

 College of Surgeons of England has been 

 awarded to Surgeon G. E. Syms, E.N. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Eockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research, has been made di- 

 rector of the Military Hospital at Lyons, 

 throughout the war. 



It is said that Dr. A. L. Skoog, professor of 

 neurology in the University of Kansas, has 

 been made temporary head of the La Petrie 

 Hospital in Paris. Dr. Skoog was doing clin- 

 ical work at the institution when the entire 

 hospital staff was obliged to undertake mili- 

 tary service. 



Dr. August Lydtin, the author of impor- 

 tant contributions to veterinary medicine and 

 animal breeding in Germany, has celebrated 

 his eightieth birthday. 



The first of the short addresses at the dedi- 

 cation of the new building of the Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory published in Science for 

 August 14, should have been attributed to Pro- 

 fessor Erank R. Lillie, director of the labora- 

 tory. 



Mr. C. a. McLendon, botanist and plant 

 pathologist of the Georgia Experiment Sta- 

 tion, has accepted a position with the South 

 Carolina Experiment Station as field pathol- 

 ogist. Mr. McLendon succeeds Mr. L. O. Wat- 

 son who has gone to the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry to take charge of the cotton wilt work 

 ill the south. 



Professor Charles P. Berkey, of the de- 

 partment of geology, Columbia University, ac- 

 companied by Dr. Clarence N. Eenner, of the 

 Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, sailed 

 from New York on August 15 for Porto Rico 

 to make a geological reconnaisance of the is- 

 land. This party represents the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, which has undertaken, 

 in connection with the government of Porto 

 Rico, a complete natural history survey of the 

 island. It is hoped during the present season 



