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SCIENCE 



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lege, Cambridge, died on June 5, in his sixty- 

 eighth year. 



Professor F. 0. Cooper, for twenty years 

 professor of chemistry in the University of 

 St. John's, Shanghai, died on June 4, while 

 on a furlough in England. 



Professor Pieter Zeeman, of the Univer- 

 sity of Leiden, has died at the age of fifty 

 years. His discovery of the effect of mag- 

 netism on the emission of spectral lines and 

 other work in physics, have given him distinc- 

 tion. He received the Nobel Prize in 1902. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an examination on July 13 for 

 associate chemist, for men only, to fill a va- 

 cancy in this position in the Bureau of 

 Standards, Department of Commerce, Wash- 

 ington, T>. C, at a salary ranging from $2,000 

 to $2,500 a year. It is desired to secure elig- 

 ibles having a thorough scientific training 

 and several years' experience in the investi- 

 gation of problems involving the chemistry, 

 physical chemistry and metallurgy of metals. 

 Candidates should be able to initiate and 

 carry on independent research in the prepara- 

 tion, analysis and properties of metals and 

 alloys. Competitors will not be assembled for 

 examination, but will be rated on education, 

 experience and publications. Graduation, 

 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, from 

 a fuU four-years' course at a college or uni- 

 versity of recognized standing, and at least 

 three years' subsequent research work in the 

 chemistry of metals and alloys, are prerequi- 

 sites for consideration for this position. 



The Bureau of Standards has completed the 

 plans for its new chemical laboratory build- 

 ing, the cost not to exceed $200,000, for which 

 appropriation was made by congress last win- 

 ter. The architects, Donn and Deming, have 

 drafted the specifications, which are about to 

 go to press. It is expected that advertisements 

 for proposals for the construction of this lab- 

 oratory will be published during June. The 

 laboratory will be situated on Pierce Mill Road 

 near Connecticut Avenue, in the northwest 

 suburbs of Washington, D. C, and wiU form 



the seventh of the group of special laboratory 

 buildings erected for the bureau. 



The International Commission on the 

 Teaching of Mathematics has issued, through 

 the Bureau of Education at Washington, from 

 which it can be obtained, a bulletin on the 

 teaching of elementary and secondary mathe- 

 matics in the leading countries of the world. 

 This bulletin, prepared by J. C. Brown, sets 

 forth the nature of the mathematics taught 

 in every school year, from the first through 

 the twelfth, in the standard type of school. 



The second annual conference of the Society 

 for Practical Astronomy will convene August 

 16, 17 and 18, at the University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, ni. All persons interested in astron- 

 omy, and friends of the science, whether mem- 

 bers of the society or not, are cordially in- 

 vited to attend the regular sessions of the con- 

 ference, and will be made welcome there. The 

 program will consist of papers from members, 

 illustrated lectures an astronomical subjects, 

 and conversazioni. Eor at least two of the 

 evenings excursions have been planned to the 

 Dearborn Observatory of Northwestern Uni- 

 versity, in Evanston, 111., and to the (private) 

 Petrajtys Observatory, in South Chicago, 111. 



Governor Hiram W. Johnson has declined 

 to approve the anti-vivisection bill which was 

 passed by the California legislature at its last 

 session. The committee on medical instruc- 

 tion of the regents of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, the deans of the California and Stan- 

 ford medical schools, the biological and agri- 

 cultural investigators, the medical profession, 

 and many other citizens had protested against 

 the measure as an unwarrantable interference 

 with science. In declining to approve the bill 

 Governor Johnson announced that its pro- 

 vision that any humane ofiicer should be per- 

 mitted to invade any scientific laboratory 

 without a search warrant was an unconstitu- 

 tional interference with personal liberty and 

 the rights of privacy. 



A PARAGRAPH in the latest number of Astro- 

 nomische Nachrichten, No. 4,802, brings some 

 encouragement as to the solidarity of science 

 in contrast to the international animosities re- 

 ported from Europe in the daily press. Pro- 



