NOVEMIIF.R ;!, 1!)1 1] 



SCIENCE 



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now PittHburKli Houril of Public E<luoiil;iori, 

 wliioli, under tho now sohool codo of tlio stato, 

 assumos control of tho oducatioiial system of 

 tho city on Novomhor 13. 



TiiP! "Hole of the Salts in tho Prosorviition 

 of Life " wna tho subjoct of tho Wosloy M. Oar- 

 pontor loctiiro, delivered at tho Now York 

 Academy of Medicine on October 19, by 

 Jacques Loob, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., of tho 

 liockofellcr Institute. 



Etiikii day was obsorvod October Id at tho 

 MaHHucdiusottfl General Hospital in IJoston by 

 the usual clinics and luncheon. In tho after- 

 noon Dr. Simon Floxncr K^ve an address on 

 " Tlio Biologic Basis of Kpocific Therapy." 

 'I'lio uliimni mot for a ban(|uot in the ovoning 

 and were addressed iiy Drs. Simon Ficxnor, 

 New Vork City; (Jharles F. Stokes, Siirnoon- 

 (Jcjnoral U. S. Army, and llarvoy (Jushlnp;, 

 .Hultimoro, who is to be in charge of the surg- 

 ical side of tho now Potcr Hent Brigham Hos- 

 pital, now in process of construction. 



A oouuHij of six lectures will bo given by 

 Professor Franz Oumont, of Brussels, on " As- 

 trology and Kcligion," at tho University of 

 Pennsylvania at 4 i".m. on tho following days: 



Monday, October .10 — Tlio CJIialdoans. 



Thursday, NovoiMl)or 2 — lialiylonia and Onioci!. 



Monday, Novoinljor — DiHHiiiriination of AHtrol- 

 ogy in tho West. 



Tliiirsday, Novoinljor 9 — Astral Tlioology. 



Monday, November 1 3 — Astral Mystidisni ; JOtliics 

 and Cult. 



Thursday, Nov«ni)j(ir 10 — Astral Dontrimi of Mm 

 l''uture Life. 



This twenty-ninth annual congress of tho 

 American Ornithologists' Union will convene 

 in Phi]adoli)hia, on November 13, at 8 i-.m. 

 The evening session will bo devoted to tlie 

 election of officers and tho transaction of otlier 

 routine business. Tlic meetings, which arc 

 open to tho public and devoted to tho reading 

 and discussion of scientific papers, will bo 

 hold in tho lecture hall of tho Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, 10th and Haco Sts. (Logan 

 Square), commencing on Tuesday, Novomhor 

 14, and continuing for three days. Informa- 

 tion regarding the eongross can bo had by 



addressing the secretary, Mr. .lohn II. Sago, 

 Portland, Conn. 



Tun British government is sending out a 

 further commission to central Africa in con- 

 nection with slo(!i)ing sickness. This will be 

 in cliargo of Colonel Sir David Bruce, who 

 will be acc^ompanied by Lady Bruce and as- 

 sisted by Captain ilamerton, K.A.M.C., Pro- 

 fessor Newstoad, of tlio Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine, Major llarvoy, lt.A.IVI.(J., 

 StulT Sergeant (Jibbons and Mr. James Wil- 

 son. Tho work of the commission will on 

 this occasion bo confiiuid iu Nyasahuid, where 

 over 40 cases of sleeping si<!kn(!ss have oc- 

 curred since UK)!). Tho commission, which is 

 also under tho auspices of the Uoyal Society, 

 is expected to bo absent from i'lngland for 

 throo years. Sir David and I^ady Bruco and 

 the other members will Iciave MarseillcH on 

 November 10, and will jiroeeed uj) the Zam- 

 besi and tho Shire rivisrs to I'.hintyro and 

 Zondia, tho cui)ital of Nyasahuid. 



Tun London TimaH states that Mmo. Ourio 

 has asked M. Nonot, tho archit(!ct of tho 

 " Uadium Palace," which is being built on tho 

 site of a former convent in tho Jtuo Saint 

 .lac(|ues, to add to it a laboratory for pur- 

 tioses of instruction. M. Nenot, wlir) is official 

 arehitiKd; to the Sorbonne, has replied that tho 

 additional building would entail an expendi- 

 ture of .i;l,(iO(), and that he will ask tho Uni- 

 versity of Paris to iuithori/-o its construction. 



LwjTiiiiKH before tho Koyal Ceographical 

 Society will bo given as follows: 



Novombor 0— 'J'lio NorHoirii'.n in Aincricn, by \>r. 

 Fridtjof Nanson. 



Novomhor 20- -Vol win i"; <;ratc,rH and KxiihoiionH, 

 by Dr. 'J'ompost Andorson. 



:i)oc,omboi' -1 — Tho (Joogrnpliy and Mronomii', (Jo- 

 volo[)inont oC J!ritinh (lontrnl Al'ric.a, by Hir All'rod 

 Hharjio. 



IJor.oinhor IH Anioriwui JJonortH, by Or. T. M<v 

 iJongal. 



At tho occasion of tho two hundredth anni- 

 versary of M. V. Lomonosov, the Academy of 

 Scienc(!S of St. Pet(!rsburg founded the " Lo- 

 monosov Institute" for investigations in 

 pbyHicH, choiriistry and geology. A building 



