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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. ! 



through the Air, Journeying by Telescope, 

 Visit to the Moon and Planets, Our Sun, The 

 Stars. 



Arthur J. Frith, professor of engineering 

 in the Armour Institute, Chicago, died on No- 

 vember 10. 



The death is announced of Dr. Arthur Ed- 

 gar, instructor in chemistry at Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Edwin Klebs, the well-known patholo- 

 gist and bacteriologist, died at Dortmund, on 

 October 21, aged seventy-nine years. 



Sir John Batty Tuke, M.D., member of 

 parliament for the universities of Edinburgh 

 and St. Andrews, and Morison lecturer on in- 

 sanity and mental diseases in the Eoyal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of Edinburgh, died on Oc- 

 tober 31, aged seventy-eight years. 



Dr. Adolf Hoffman, professor of geology 

 in the mining school at Przibram, has died at 

 the age of sixty years. 



Dr. Simon von Nathusius, professor of 

 agriculture at Halle, has died at the age of 

 forty-eight years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Ferdi- 

 nand Blumentritt, of Leitmeritz, in Bo- 

 hemia, known for his scientific work in the 

 Philippine Islands. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for assistant in agri- 

 cultural technology, for men only, on Decem- 

 ber 3, 1913, to fill vacancies in this position in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The eligibles 

 obtained from this examination will be classi- 

 fied in two groups, with salaries ranging as 

 follows: Group A, $1,600 to $2,250 per annum; 

 group B, $1,200 to $1,440 per annum. The 

 services of the eligibles to be selected from 

 Group A aTe desired in the laboratory of agri- 

 cultural technology in the preparation of the 

 official cotton grades, their work requiring an 

 intimate knowledge of cotton grading and the 

 various processes of cotton manufacture. 



M. Durandeau, of Angouleme, has be- 

 queathed £2,000 to the Pasteur Institute, 

 Paris, for the foundation of a prize for re- 

 searches on the cure of meningitis. 



The International Congress of Hydrology 

 just held at Madrid decided that the next 

 meeting should take place two years hence at 

 Lyons. 



At the twenty-third annual meeting of the 

 Ohio Academy of Science, which wiU take 

 place at Oberlin College on November 27, 28 

 and 29, in addition to the reading of papers, 

 an address will be given by Professor L. B. 

 Walton, the president of the academy, on 

 " The Evolutionary Control of Organisms and 

 Its Significance " and an illustrated lecture 

 on " Sound," by Professor Dayton C. Miller, 

 of the Case School of Applied Science. 



A regular meeting of the American Phys- 

 ical Society will be held in Chicago on Friday 

 and Saturday, November 28 and 29. On Fri- 

 day afternoon there will be a special session 

 to discuss " The Photoelectric Effect and 

 Quantum Theory." 



A memorial meeting to the late Eeginald 

 Heber Fitz, Hersey professor of the theory and 

 practise of physic, emeritus, was held in the 

 Harvard Medical School, November 17. Ad- 

 dresses were made by Dr. W. W. Keen, of the 

 Jeiferson Medical College; President Charles 

 W. Eliot; Dr. Henry P. Waleott, chairman of 

 the Board of Health of the State of Massachu- 

 setts; Dr. William Sydney Thayer, of Johns 

 Hopkins University, and Dr. William T. 

 Councilman, of the Medical School. 



The faculty and the graduate students of 

 the department of botany in the University of 

 Illinois have recently organized a society 

 known as " Silphium." The purpose of the 

 organization is the presentation of original 

 articles by the members, the review of recent 

 literature, and also to obtain a better ac- 

 quaintance with the flora of the immediate 

 region. Dr. T. J. Burrill, professor emeritus 

 of botany, has been chosen its honorary chair- 

 man. 



The Physical Science Club of Oberlin Col- 

 lege has organized for the year with Dr. 

 Moore, associate professor of physics, as presi- 

 dent, and Professor Hubbard, head of the de- 

 partment of geology, as secretary and treas- 

 urer. The opening meeting was addressed by 

 Dr. Stetson, head of the department of psy- 



