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and director of studies at the Ecole Polytecli- 

 nique, Paris, died on July 2Y, in his seventy- 

 sixth year. 



A New York state civil service examina- 

 tion on September 16 will select men for the 

 position of inspector of weights and measures 

 and inspector of cold storage plants at salaries 

 of $1,200. 



President Taft has issued a proclamation 

 setting aside as a national monument about 

 800 acres within the Sierra National Forest, 

 known as the Devil Post-pile and Rainbow 

 FaUs. 



We learn from Nature that among the be- 

 quests of M. Marino Corgialegno, a natural- 

 ized British subject, who died on April 26, 

 are : £40,000 to institute a school at Athens on 

 the lines of Eton or Harrow, " sharing in the 

 desire expressed to me by his Majesty King 

 George that education in Greece should be 

 rendered more perfect by the establishment of 

 a public or secondary school upon the model 

 of the English public schools, where boys will 

 receive a regular course of teaching as well as 

 of good breeding " ; £40,000 for a school for 

 craftsmen at Argostoli, in the island of 

 Gephalonia; £15,000 for technical scholar- 

 ships; £10,000 each for a school for girls in 

 Gephalonia, for schools or gymnasia in Ar- 

 gostoli, for a public library at Argostoli, for 

 the Agricultural Society at Athens, for a 

 polyclinical hospital in Athens, and for the 

 Society for the Propagation of Useful Books. 



The summer meeting of the Institution of 

 Mechanical Engineers was held at Zurich and 

 northern Switzerland, commencing on July 

 24. In addition to the meetings for the read- 

 ing of papers, an extensive program of visits 

 to works and hydro-electric power stations was 

 arranged. 



The fifth annual meeting of the Italian So- 

 ciety for the Advancement of Science, as we 

 learn from Nature, will be held in Eome on 

 October 12-18, under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor G. Ciamician. The sections of the as- 

 sociation, with their presidents, are as fol- 

 lows : mathematics, astronomy and geodesy, 

 Professor G. Castelnuovo and Professor A. Di 

 Legge ; physics. Professor P. Blaserna ; applied 



mechanics and electrotechnics. Professor 0. 

 Ceradini; pure and applied chemistry. Pro- 

 fessor E. PaternS; mineralogy and geology. 

 Professor E. Meli; geography. Professor E. 

 Millosevich; zoology, anatomy and anthropol- 

 ogy, Professors G. B. Grassi, F. Todaro and 

 G. Sergi; pure and applied botany, Professor 

 E. Pirotta; physiology. Professor L. Luciani.; 

 pathology, Professors A. Bignami and E. 

 Marchiafava; history and archeology. Pro- 

 fessors G. Beloch and L. Pigorini; philology. 

 Professor I. Guidi; social science. Professor 

 M. Pantaleoni; philosophy, Professor P. Eag- 

 nisco. Several lectures on subjects of wide 

 scientific interest will be delivered to general 

 meetings of the association as a whole, and 

 others to joint meetings of sections concerned 

 with related subjects. 



The report of the Pasteur Institute at Paris 

 for the year 1910, which has recently been 

 issued and is summarized in the British Med- 

 ical Journal, shows a continuous decrease in 

 the number of cases of rabies occurring or 

 treated in France. In the year 1886 the num- 

 ber of persons bitten by rabid animals and 

 treated at the Pasteur Institute was 2,671, and 

 of these cases 25 were fatal, probably because 

 treatment was too long delayed. In 1896 the 

 number of patients treated had fallen to 1,308, 

 with 4 fatal cases. Each subsequent year 

 showed a steady decline in the number of cases 

 of rabies, which numbered about 1,000 in 

 1902. In 1908 and 1909 the number of cases 

 had fallen to 524 and 467 respectively, with 1 

 fatal case in each year; in 1910 the cases 

 treated numbered 401, and for the first time 

 since its foundation the Pasteur Institute was 

 able to show a clean bill of mortality. 



The United States and -Canadian contrib- 

 utors to the eleventh edition of the Encyclo- 

 pedia Britannica, presented to Hugh Ohis- 

 holm, Esq., editor of the eleventh edition, a 

 loving cup, properly inscribed, and on receiv- 

 ing it he writes as follows : " It will long be 

 a matter of pride to myself and family to pos- 

 sess this memorial of American appreciation 

 of my share in directing the cooperation of 

 American scholars, men of letters, men of sci- 

 ence and technologists in various departments, 



