September 15, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



343 



Captain Lyons, F.E.S., has resigned from 

 the lectureship in geography at University of 

 Glasgow. 



ADMffiAii Heez has retired from the director- 

 ship of the German Nautical Observatory at 

 Hamburg. 



Me. T. Sheppard, of the Hull Municipal 

 Museums, has been appointed expert adviser 

 to the new public museum at Scunthorpe. 



Me. "William Maeconi has been at St. Johns, 

 E". F., conducting experiments with the object 

 of ascertaining the advisability of installing a 

 more powerful station on the spot where his 

 first wireless telegraph tests were made. 



Me. Arthur Allen, to whose expedition to 

 Colombia attention was recently called in 

 Science, goes as a representative of the De- 

 partment of Birds and Mammals of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. 



Professor Junius Henderson, of the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado, has spent the greater part 

 of the summer in North Park and Middle 

 Park with one of the State Geological Survey 

 parties. He has been working out the strati- 

 graphic positions of the various sedimentary 

 formations. Large collections of fossils were 

 obtained, as well as living land and fresh- 

 water mollusks. 



SiGNOR Calissano, Italian Minister of Posts 

 and Telegraphs, accompanied by telegraphists 

 who had assembled at Como from all parts of 

 the world, went on September 1 to Camnago 

 to pay a visit to the grave of Alessandro Volta, 

 the inventor of the electric battery which 

 bears his name. The minister and delegates 

 placed wreaths on the tomb, and Signor Calis- 

 sano, Signor Battelli, a member of the Italian 

 Chamber, M. Buels, director of the Belgian 

 Telegraphs, and Sig-nor Pietro Volta, a nephew 

 of the inventor, made speeches. A memorial 

 stone was unveiled bearing an inscription re- 

 cording the esteem in which Volta is held by 

 telegraphists all over the world. 



De. Francis A. Maech, professor emeritus 

 of comparative philology and English litera- 

 ture at Lafayette College, and eminent for 

 his contributions to the scientific study of 



language, died on September 9, aged eighty- 

 six years. 



Dr. Albert Ladenbueg, professor of chem- 

 istry at Breslau, and distinguished for his 

 researches in organic chemistry, died on Au- 

 gust 15, aged sixty-nine years. 



De. Louis C. de Coppet, known for his work 

 in physical chemistry, has died at Nice, at the 

 age of seventy years. 



Reveeend F. J. Jervis-Smith, F.E.S., late 

 university lecturer in mechanics at Oxford, 

 died on August 23, aged sixty-three years. 



Masuchika Shimose, a Japanese chemist 

 who gave his name to the Shimose powder, 

 died on September 6, aged fifty-two years. 



Of the seventy-five doctorates in philosophy 

 conferred by Columbia University this year, 

 nine were in chemistry and one in physics. 

 In the report published in Science on August 

 18, those who presented theses on the weight 

 of a falling drop were attributed to physics 

 instead of to chemistry. 



The fourth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Chemical Engineers will be 

 held in Washington, D. C, Wednesday to 

 Friday, December 20 to 22. A number of 

 papers will be presented on the general sub- 

 ject of patents, and the manufacture and 

 testing of explosives as well as of a number of 

 other chemical engineering subjects. One 

 day will probably be devoted to visits to the 

 technical chemical engineering plants in Bal- 

 timore and vicinity. Visits to laboratories 

 and other points of interest in Washington 

 will also be arranged for. 



The seventh International Congress for 

 Criminal Anthropology will meet at Cologne, 

 from October 9 to 13. 



Mrs. E. H. Hareiman has given $50,000 for 

 the establishing of a bacteriologic and patho- 

 logic laboratory to be attached to the present 

 Southern Pacific General Hospital, San 

 Francisco. It is to be known as the Harri- 

 man Memorial Laboratory. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the second field 

 commission for the investigation of pel- 



