September 12, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



359 



Dr. Tempest Asderson, an ophtlialmic sur^ 

 geou of York, known for his publications on 

 earthquakes and volcanoes, died on August 20, 

 aged sixty-nine years, while returning from 

 the Philippine Islands. 



Mr. J. E. Sheldon, formerly professor of 

 agriculture at the Koyal Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester, has died, aged seventy-three years. 



Egbert Eieder Pasha, formerly professor of 

 surgery at Bonn and afterwards inspector- 

 general of medical schools in Turkey, has died 

 at the age of fifty-one years. 



The death is announced, as the result of an 

 accident, of Professor C. Bourlet, professor of 

 mechanics at the Conservatoire des Arts et 

 Metiers in Paris. 



We learn from Nature that by the will of 

 Professor Emil Chr. Hansen and his wife a 

 fund bearing his name has been established. 

 At intervals of two or three years, beginning 

 in 1914, a gold medal bearing his effigy and 

 accompanied by a sum of at least 2,000 kroner 

 is to be awarded on May 8 to the author of a 

 meritorious publication on some microbiolog- 

 ical subject, and recently published in Den- 

 mark or elsewhere. In 1914 the medal will be 

 awarded to a worker in the field of medical 

 microbiology. The president of the board of 

 trustees is Professor S. P. L. Sorensen, the 

 chemical department of Carlsberg Laboratory, 

 Copenhagen, from whom all information may 

 be obtained. 



Provision has been made for the establish- 

 ment of a national museum by the Dominican 

 government in the city of Santo Domingo for 

 the purpose of retaining and preserving in the 

 country objects and relics of historical char- 

 acter connected with the discovery and develop- 

 ment of the country. The museum is to be 

 established in the old palace known as the 

 house of Don Diego Colon. The sum of $20,- 

 000 has been appropriated by the National 

 Congress for repairing the building. 



The Field Museum of Natural History has 

 arranged its thirty-ninth free lecture course 



on science and travel for Saturday afternoons, 

 at three o'clock, as follows : 



October 4 — ' ' Korea, ' ' Mr. Homer B. Hulbert, 

 Springfield, Mass. 



October 11 — "The Scenery and Resources of 

 Alaska, ' ' Professor Lawrence Martin, University 

 of Wisconsin. 



October 18 — ' ' The Physical Basis and Deter- 

 mination of Sex, ' ' Dr. Horatio H. Newman, the 

 University of Chicago. 



October 25 — ' ' Our Forests, ' ' Mr. Huron H. 

 Smith, assistant curator of dendrology. 



November 1 — ' ' Zoological Collecting in South 

 America," Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood, assistant cura- 

 tor of mammalogy and ornithology. 



November 8 — ' ' The Inhabitants of Fresh 

 Water," Dr. Victor B. Shelf ord, the University 

 of Chicago. 



November 15 — ' ' Migration of Plants, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor L. H. Pammel, Iowa State College. 



November 22— "The Joseph N. Field South 

 Pacific Expedition, ' ' Dr. A. B. Lewis, assistant 

 curator of African and Melanesian ethnology. 



November 29 — "New Zealand," Dr. Carlos E. 

 Cummings, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 



The Macbride Lakeside Laboratory, located 

 on West Lake Okoboji, Iowa, has just closed 

 its most successful session, under the direction 

 of Professor Thomas H. Macbride. Courses 

 were offered in botany, zoology and geology, 

 special emphasis being placed on field work. 

 The laboratory was established in 1909 by the 

 alumni of the State University of Iowa, and 

 was named in honor of its director. It is 

 aiBliated with the colleges of the state through 

 the state university, and is devoted to research 

 by special students and teachers of the natural 

 sciences. The work was in charge of the fol- 

 lowing staff: Professor Thomas H. Macbride, 

 LTniversity of Iowa, and Mr. A. F. Ewers, 

 McKinley High School, St. Louis, botany; 

 Dr. T. C. Stephens, Morningside College, gen- 

 eral zoology and ornithology," Professor J. C. 

 Carman, University of Cincinnati, geology;. 

 Professor C. E. Bartholomew, Ames, entomol- 

 ogy. Special series of lectures were given by 

 Dr. Lynds Jones, of Oberlin, on ornithology, 

 and by Professor L. PI. Pammel, of Ames, on 

 plant diseases. 



