October 10, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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PREsrosNT Wilson has nominated Col. 

 Dan 0. Kingman, corps of engineers, as 

 chief of engineers, with the rank of brigadier 



Dr. E. Lowenherz has been appointed cu- 

 rator of the chemical museum of the Berlin 

 School of Technology. 



Mr. W. F. Piske has been requested by the 

 Tropical Diseases Committee of the Eoyal 

 Society to investigate the life-history of the 

 tsetse flies in Uganda. 



Dr. HroEYO ISToguohi, of the Eockefeller 

 Institute, New York, on September 23 pre- 

 sented the results of his researches on the 

 etiology of rabies before the German Associa- 

 tion of Men of Science and Physicians. 



A REPORT on tropical diseases prevalent in 

 Ecuador and adjacent republics is being made 

 to Superintendent Smith, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins Hospital, by Dr. A. W. Sellards who was 

 the representative of the Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital in the expedition sent out by the Har- 

 vard Medical School, under the direction of 

 Dr. Eichard P. Strong. 



The Eoyal Geographical Society's specially 

 designed Antarctic medals will be presented 

 to the surviving members of the Scott expe- 

 dition by Lord Curzon of Kedleston at a 

 meeting of the society on November 10. At 

 the same time, at the request of the Italian 

 Geographical Society, the president will pre- 

 sent to Lady Scott the great Humbert gold 

 medal awarded by that society in memory of 

 Captain Scott. Silver duplicates will be pre- 

 sented to Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Gates, Mrs. Bow- 

 ers and Mrs. Evans, widow of petty ofiicer 

 Evans. 



The Harveian oration before the Eoyal Col- 

 lege of Physicians, of London, will be deliv- 

 ered by Dr. J. Mitchell Bruce, on October 18. 



The School Review, published by the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago Press, will hereafter be 

 under the editorial charge of Eollo LaVerne 

 Lyman, this year appointed associate pro- 

 fessor of the teaching of English in the 

 School of Education. Frank Nugent Free- 

 man, instructor in educational psychology. 



has been placed in editorial charge of the 

 Elementary School Teacher. 



Professor Lucien Agustus Wait, emeritus 

 professor of mathematics in Cornell Univer- 

 sity, with the faculty of which he was con- 

 nected from 1870 until his retirement in 

 1910, has died, aged sixty-seven years. 



Dr. Eeginald Faber Fitz, professor emeri- 

 tus in the Harvard Medical School, where 

 for many years he was Shattuck professor of 

 pathological anatomy, died on September 30, 

 aged seventy years. 



The death is announced of Edward Gard- 

 ner Murphy, who was active in educational 

 and social matters, and under the name Kel- 

 vin McKready was the author of various 

 publications in astronomy. 



The deaths are also announced of Mr. 

 Samuel Eoberts, F.E.S., president of the 

 London Mathematical Society from 1880 to 

 1882, and De Morgan medallist in 1896, and 

 of Mr. John Greaves, bursar and senior 

 mathematical lecturer at Christ's College, 

 Cambridge. 



The government through Secretary of Com- 

 merce Eedfield has decided to change the sale 

 of all the government catch of seal, fox and 

 other Alaska furs, from London to St. Louis. 

 At the present time St. Louis is said to be the 

 largest primary fur market in the world. It is 

 estimated that three fourths of all the furs 

 trapped on the North American Continent are 

 shipped to St. Louis houses to be sold. 



The British secretary of state for the col- 

 onies has nominated a committee to report: 

 (1) Upon the present knowledge available on 

 the question of the parts played by wild ani- 

 mals and tsetse flies in Africa in the mainte- 

 nance and spread of trypanosome infections of 

 man and stock. (2) Whether it is necessary 

 and feasible to carry out an experiment of 

 game destruction in a localized area in order 

 to gain further knowledge on these questions, 

 and, if so, to decide the locality, probable cost, 

 and other details of such an experiment, and to 

 provide a scheme for its conduct. (3) Whether 

 it is advisable to attempt the extermination of 



