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of the Agricultural Station at Darmstadt, in 

 the section of agriculture; Dr. Sven Hedin, 

 of Stockholm, in the section of geography, 

 and Professor Julius Bernstein, of Halle, in 

 the section of physiology. 



Dr. Ernst Ehlers, professor of zoology at 

 Gottingen, has celehrated the fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of his doctorate. 



Mr. C. V. Gregory, bulletin editor and head 

 of the agricultural journalism department at 

 the Iowa College and Station, has resigned to 

 become editor of the Prairie Farmer of Chi- 

 cago. 



Mr. H. H. Harrington, director of the 

 Texas Agricultural Station, has resigned to 

 become agricultural director of the St. Louis, 

 Brownsville and Mexico Eailroad. 



Dr. Eichaed Mohlau, professor of the 

 chemistry of dye-stuffs in the Technical Insti- 

 tute at Dresden, has retired from active serv- 

 ice. 



Professor H. C. Wilson, director of Good- 

 sell Observatory of Carleton College and 

 editor of Popular Astronomy, has returned 

 after a sabbatical year spent at the Lick Ob- 

 servatory. The assistant editors of Popular 

 Astronomy are both absent for the coming 

 year, Dr. Ealph E. Wilson entering upon a 

 two-year appointment at the Lick Observa- 

 tory and Mr. Curvin H. Gingrich spending 

 the year in study at the Terkes Observatory. 



Before an enthusiastic audience at the Uni- 

 versity of California Sir John Murray gave, 

 on May 11, an account of his researches in 

 the life of the deep sea and of his explorations 

 of the structure and composition of the bot- 

 tom deposits of the Pacific and Atlantic 

 oceans. The lecture was illustrated by views 

 of the deep-sea fishes discovered by the lec- 

 turer in his recent cruise on the Atlantic in 

 the Norwegian fishery research steamer, 

 Michael Bars. 



The monument to Avogadro, erected to 

 commemorate the centenary of the law which 

 bears his name, will be unveiled at Turin on 

 September 24. 



Baron Arthur de Saint-Joseph, the ento- 

 mologist who recently died, has bequeathed 



his collections and his library to the Paris 

 Museum of [Natural History. 



Dr. Johann Paul Schweitzer, professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Missouri from 

 1872 until 1910, when he became professor 

 emeritus, has died at Columbia. He was born 

 in Berlin in 1840 and came to the United 

 States in 1865. He was known for his work 

 in analytic and agricultural chemistry. 



Professor E. Grawitz, director of the de- 

 partment of internal medicine in the munici- 

 pal hospital at Charlottenburg, known for his 

 work on diseases of the blood, died in that 

 city on July 11, aged fifty-one years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces that the government desires to secure 

 a ceramic chemist who will be able to take 

 charge of the ceramic section of the structural 

 material work of the Pittsburgh laboratory of 

 the Bureau of Standards, salary $3,000 to 

 $4,000 per annum, depending upon the experi- 

 ence of the man available. The duties of the 

 position will include the direction of the work 

 of investigation and testing of clay and clay 

 products. The qualifications of the persons 

 under consideration will be passed upon by an 

 impartial board of scientific men. Only per- 

 sons of established reputation as ceramic 

 chemists will be given consideration for this 

 vacancy. As the selection for this position 

 will he made about September 1, qualified 

 persons who desire to be considered are invited 

 to submit their names to the U. S. Civil 

 Service Commission at Washington, D. C, 

 before this date. 



To counteract effects of exaggerated reports 

 about the small earthquake in San Erancisco 

 on July 1, the newspaper publishers of that 

 city have announced the results of a careful in- 

 quiry. Concurring in the findings are Hiram 

 Johnson, governor of California, and other 

 state and city officers, as well as the observa- 

 tory chief at the University of California and 

 the acting director of the Lick Observatory. 

 " Absolutely no damage," the publishers' 

 statement says, " was done by the shock in 

 question to persons or property in San Eran- 

 cisco. . . . The only place in the state which 



