October 17, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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tional volumes and involve an unforeseen ex- 

 pense of at least $40,000. To defray this ex- 

 pense it is proposed to form a Euler society, 

 with dues of ten francs per year, the receipts 

 of vphich are to be devoted entirely to this 

 purpose. 



Plans have been completed for publishing 

 the complete vrorks of the late Henri Poincare. 

 The publication will be undertaken at once by 

 Gauthier-Villars under the direction of the 

 French minister of public instruction and the 

 academy of sciences of Paris. 



Professor Louis Kuttner, of Berlin, known 

 for his work on intestinal diseases, died on 

 October 5, aged forty-seven years. 



The French toxicologist. Dr. Jules Ogier, 

 has died at sixty years of age. 



There are several important places in metal- 

 lurgy under the Bureau of Mines, to be filled 

 by civil service examination on November 10. 

 The salaries of these positions range from 

 $2,000 to $4,800. Several of the vacancies are 

 in Denver, San Francisco and Pittsburgh. 



It is reported that steps are being taken, 

 under the auspices of the Resident-General of 

 France and of his Highness the Bey of Tunis, 

 to establish in Tunisia a reserve in which the 

 disappearing fauna of the country may find 

 immunity from persecution. For this pur- 

 pose some 4,000 acres of wild mountainous 

 country, with an adjoining marsh of 5,000 

 acres, have been secured. 



The Russian government will establish a 

 physical observatory at Vladivostok and experi- 

 mental stations on the Pacific coast with the 

 view of cooperating with the authorities of 

 meteorological stations in China and Japan. 

 Mr. S. D. Griboyedov has been commissioned 

 to investigate suitable sites for the proposed 

 stations. 



The general reorganization and rearrange- 

 ment of the Rocky Mountains Park Museum 

 maintained by the park department of the 

 Canadian government at Banff, Alberta, has 

 been carried out by Harlan I. Smith, of the 

 Geological Survey, Canada. The museum 

 has been limited in scope to the Rocky 

 Mountain region of Alberta and British Co- 



lumbia. Only the collections on hand, local 

 park employees and local supplies were used 

 with the exception of a few labels, maps and 

 books given for the purpose by the Geological 

 Survey, the Milwaukee Public Museum, the 

 American Museum of Natural History of New 

 York, the Conservation Commission of Can- 

 ada and the Central Experimental Farm at 

 Ottawa. The museum has been divided into 

 the following sections : Mammals, birds, fish, 

 reptiles, insects, plants, minerals, rocks, fos- 

 sils, weather and Indians, of the Rocky 

 Mountains Park, respectively. Professor 

 Allen, of the University of Alberta and the 

 Geological Survey, assisted in the work of the 

 geological sections. The chief features of the 

 museum are the initiation of large sectional 

 labels, ease labels and a few general labels to 

 species, in addition to the individual labels- 

 all interpreting the truths of science in 

 simple words for the tourists who visit the 

 park. The cases and labels have been 

 painted to harmonize with the natural finish 

 of the building and the letters on the labels 

 have been made in the color of the knots and 

 grain of the wood. 



Secretary Houston, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, says that the state and federal 

 governments should work together for high- 

 way improvement in order that a large pro- 

 portion of the money annually spent for road 

 construction may not be wasted. In his own 

 department the ofiice of public roads has been 

 demonstrating the value of proper road-build- 

 ing by the construction of certain object-les- 

 son roads, and the forest service is carrying 

 out his idea of national and state cooperation 

 in road building. The law requires that ten 

 per cent, of the gross receipts from the na- 

 tional forests shall be spent in the states in 

 which the forests are situated. This money 

 is expended for road improvement under di- 

 rect control of the secretary of agriculture. 

 The amount appropriated under this act, 

 based on the receipts of the national forests 

 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, is 

 $234,638.68. From the 1912 receipts for this 

 ten-per-cent. road item, there is an additional 

 $134,831.10, which is still available. In ad- 



