July 14, 1911] 



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Professor Waldeyer, the eminent anato- 

 mist of the University of Berlin, will celebrate 

 the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate on 

 July 22. 



Dr. Erich Martini, who has been studying 

 the bubonic plague in the far east for several 

 years, has been visiting in New York City, 

 before returning to Germany. 



Dr. George E. Hale, director of the Mount 

 Wilson Observatory, has returned to this 

 country after a prolonged visit to Europe. 



Dr. H. C. Cowles, of the departmept of 

 botany at the University of Chicago, sailed 

 in June to spend six months in Europe. He 

 is to attend the British Association, in con- 

 nection with which there is to be an excursion 

 of plant geographers in England. He will 

 spend some time in France and Switzerland, 

 and will attend the Tenth International Geo- 

 graphical Congress in Eome, October 15-22. 



Dr. Charles J. Chamberlain, of the de- 

 partment of botany at the University of Chi- 

 cago, will leave Vancouver in September for 

 a visit to New Zealand, Australia and South 

 Africa, returning April 1, 1912. His prin- 

 cipal object is to study Cycads in the field and 

 to collect material, not only of Cycads, but of 

 other Gymnosperms as well, for detailed 

 study, and also to pay special attention to 

 Pteridophytes. The expedition is being made 

 under a grant by the university. 



Dr. W. W. Stockberger, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, sailed, on 

 July 8, for Hamburg, and will spend three 

 months in special agricultural investigations 

 in Germany, Austria, France, Belgium and 

 England. He will also attend the Interna- 

 tional Conference on Genetics which will be 

 held in Paris in September. 



Dr. Arthur Orlo Norton, assistant pro- 

 fessor of education at Harvard, is writing a 

 history of the German universities, and he is 

 now in Italy to consult the libraries, espe- 

 cially in Florence and Padua. 



There will be held a Congress of Monists 

 at Hamburg from September 8 to 11, with 

 Professor Ernst Haeckel as honorary presi- 



dent, and Professor Wilhelm Ostwald as pre- 

 siding officer. 



Nature reports that at the meeting of the 

 Association Internationale de I'Institut Marey 

 held on June 6, the resignation of Professor 

 Kronecker as president was received. The 

 members of the association elected Professor 

 Charles Eichet as president, and Dr. Augustus 

 D. Waller as vice-president. The Institut 

 Marey is under the patronage of the Associ- 

 ated Academies. It is situated in the Pare 

 des Princes, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris, and 

 contains laboratories, library and living 

 rooms for the accommodation of workers. 

 The acting director is Dr. Lucien Bull. 



A MONUMENT to John Stuart Mill is being 

 erected at Avignon, where he resided during 

 the last years of his life, and where he died 

 in 1873. 



Dr. G. Johnston Stoney, F.E.S., born in 

 Ireland in 1826, eminent for his contribu- 

 tions to astrophysics, died on July 5, at his 

 home in London. 



Dr. Harris Eastman Sawyer, A.B., A.M., 

 Ph.D. (Harvard), assistant chemist in the 

 Bureau of Chemistry until he removed to 

 New Hampshire on account of pulmonary 

 tuberculosis, the author of contributions to 

 the chemistry of sugar and alcohol, died on 

 July 5, aged forty-three years. 



Mrs. Esther Herrman, a patron of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and for many years a regular at- 

 tendant at its meetings, a liberal benefactor 

 of the scientific societies of New York City, 

 died on July 4, in her eighty-ninth year. 



According to the daily papers the earth- 

 quake of July 1 did considerable damage at 

 Lick Observatory, on Mount Hamilton. The 

 36-inch telescope was moved three-quarters of 

 an inch out of place on its concrete pier, but 

 was restored without trouble. The case of 

 the Eiefler clock was wrecked and minor dam- 

 age was done to the working parts. The 

 chimneys of the observatory buildings were 

 injured and a brick structure which houses a 

 number of astronomers was cracked so as to 



