October 28, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The Thompson- Yates Laboratory of the 

 Liverpool University College was formally 

 opened by Lord Lister on October 8th. We 

 have already described the laboratories of pa- 

 thology and physiology presented to Liverpool 

 University College by Mr. Thotnpson-Yates, 

 which, under Professors Boyce and Sherrington, 

 are certain to make important contributions to 

 science. Before the opening of the laboratories, 

 Lord Lister was invested with the honorary 

 doctorate of science of the Victoria University, 

 and made an address. There was fvirther a 

 banquet given by the Lord Mayor, at which 

 speeches were made by the Lord Mayor, Lord 

 Lister, Earl Spencer, Mr. Edward Lawrence, 

 Sir William Turner, Professor Foster, Principal 

 Glazebrook, Professor Sherrington and Profes- 

 sor Virchow. 



It is proposed to erect a suitable memorial to 

 James Clerk Maxwell, in the parish church of 

 Corsock, of which he was a trustee and elder. 

 Subscriptions may be sent to the Rev. George 

 Sturrock, The Manse, Corsock by Dalbeattie, 

 N. B. 



A MONUMENT to the memory of Sigismondo 

 Boldoni, physician, poet and philosopher, has 

 been erected in Milan, where he was born in 

 1597. 



There will shortly be dedicated a monument 

 to the physiologist Ernst von Fleischlmarsow. 

 It consists of a bust in profile by Emil Fuchs 

 and will be unveiled with appropriate ceremo- 

 nies. 



Busts of General Champion de Nansouty and 

 of M. Vaussenat, the engineer, founders of the 

 National Meteorological Observatory on the 

 Pic du Midi, have been recently unveiled. Ad- 

 dresses were made by M. Mascart and M. Bail- 

 laud, Directors of the Toulouse Observatory. 



It is announced that Sir Andrew Noble will 

 give to the Kew Observatory the installation 

 needed to make direct comparisons with the 

 gas thermometer. This has been hitherto lack- 

 ing, although Kew is the British station for 

 standardizing thermometers. The entire en- 

 dowment of the Kew Observatory, it appears, 

 is only £470 and the free use of a building. It 

 is to be hoped that the government will follow 

 the advice of their Committee on a National 



Physical Laboratory, and provide the adequate 

 endowment for a laboratory at Kew. 



The vacancy in the Assistant Directorship of 

 Kew Gardens, says Nature, caused by the ap- 

 pointment of Mr. D. Morris as Commissioner of 

 Agriculture for the West Indies, will not be 

 filled. Mr. S. T. Dunn has been appointed 

 Secretary to the Director. Upon the nomi- 

 nation of the Director, Mr. C. A. Barber has 

 been appointed Government Botanist at 

 Madras, in succession to the late Mr. M. A. 

 Lawson. 



Mr. C. S. Parsons has been appointed 

 Director and Irrigation Engineer of the Ari- 

 zona Agricultural Experiment Station. 



The British Astronomer Royal (Mr. W. H. 

 M. Christie, C.B.) has been elected junior 

 warden of the Clockmakers' Company, which 

 received its charter in 1631 from King 

 Charles I. The late Astronomer Royal (Sir 

 George B. Airey) was also closely associated 

 with the Clockmakers' Company. 



We regret to record the death of Professor 

 Arzruni, mineralogist, in the Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute at Aix, and of the geologist de Windt, 

 while on a scientific expedition to Lake Tan- 

 ganyika. 



The ' Harben Lectures' in connection with 

 the Institute of Public Health, London, will be 

 delivered by Sir Richard Thorne Thorne, on No- 

 vember 2d, 9th and 16th. The subject will be 

 ' The Administrative Control of Tuberculosis.' 



Sir Douglas Galton, K.C.B., will give, on 

 October 17th, an address introductory to the 

 twenty-sixth course of lectures and practical 

 demonstrations in sanitary science arranged by 

 the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain for sani- 

 tary officers and students at the Parkes Mu- 

 seum. 



The third annual meeting of the New York 

 State Science Teachers' Association will be held 

 at the Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 New York City, on December 29th and 30th. 

 The President of the Association is this year 

 Professor Charles W. Hargitt, of Syracuse Uni- 

 versity ; the Secretary is Dr. Franklin W. Bar- 

 rows, of the Buffalo High School (45 Park St., 

 Buffalo, N. Y.), from whom information regard- 



