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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVIII. No. 450. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



'Rear Admiral George W. Melville, chief 

 of tlie Bureau of Steam-engineering of the 

 navy, retired from active service on August 8. 



Professor E. C. Pickering, of Harvard Col- 

 lege Observatory, has been given the degree of 

 Doctor of Science and Mathematics by the 

 University of Heidelberg on the occasion of 

 the celebration of the centenary of its re- 

 opening. 



Professor Carl Pearson, of University Col- 

 lege, London, will give this year the Hirxley 

 memorial lecture, his subject being ' On the 

 Inheritance in Man of Moral and Mental 

 Characters and its Relation to the Inheritance 

 of Physical Characters.' 



Dr. a. G. Leonard, assistant state geologist 

 of Iov7a, has been elected state geologist of 

 North Dakota. 



Dr. Charles B. Hare, of the University of 

 Michigan, has been appointed government bac- 

 teriologist in the Philippines. 



The University of Edinburgh has conferred 

 its honorary LL.D. on Professor S. S. Laurie, 

 lately professor of education in the university, 

 and on Sir Henry MacLaurin, chancellor of 

 the University of Sydney, vcho has made 

 various contributions to medical literature. 



General A. W. Greely, chief of the Signal 

 Service, represented the United States at the 

 conference on Wireless Telegraphy, which met 

 at Berlin on August 4, on the call of the 

 emperor of Germany. 



Professor Victor Goldschmidt, of the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg, the distinguished miner- 

 alogist and crystallographer, arrived in New 

 York on the Kurfurst, on August 5, and will 

 remain in this country until November. He 

 will visit the Pacific coast and the Yellow- 

 stone Park, and be the guest of American 

 mineralogists at Harvard University, Yale 

 University, Columbia University, the King- 

 ston (Can.) and Houghton (Mich.) Mining 

 Schools, the University of "Wisconsin and the 

 Case School of Applied Science. 



Dr. E. O. Hovet sailed for Europe on the 

 Molthe, on August 6. He will represent the 

 American Museiim of Natural History at the 



International Geological Congress at Vienna, 

 and afterwards will spend some time in the 

 Puy de Dome region of southern France. 



Mr. Harlan I. Smith, assistant curator of 

 archeology, is making investigations in the 

 state of Washington for the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



Mr. Adolph Hempel, an American engaged 

 in scientific work in Brazil, recently shipped 

 to the zoological laboratory of Harvard Uni- 

 versity several living specimens of Cavia 

 aperea, the wild guinea-pig of Brazil. Three 

 of the animals have reached Cambridge in 

 safety and will be used in experimental studies 

 in heredity. 



The expedition of investigation sent to the 

 Bahama Islands by the Baltimore Geograph- 

 ical Society returned on July 30. 



The Antarctic relief ship Terra Nova is ex- 

 pected to proceed to Hobart, Tasmania, at the 

 end of the present month by way of the Suez 

 canal. She will there be joined by the Morn- 

 ing. 



Professor J. A. Ewing, F.E.S., has been 

 appointed a member of the Explosives Com- 

 mittee of the British govermnent in the place 

 of the late Sir W. C. Roberts Austen. 



The Royal Society has awarded its Mac- 

 kinnon research studentships to Mr. F. Horton 

 in physics and to Mr. A. L. Embleton in 

 biology. 



Me. W. E. Hartley, B.A., of Trinity Col- 

 lege, has been appointed assistant observer in 

 the Cambridge Observatory. 



Dr. George R. Parkin, who recently visited 

 the United States to make arrangements in 

 regard to the Rhodes scholarships, is at pres- 

 ent in South Africa on the same mission. 



The plan of changing the name of the 

 Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine to 

 the Lister Institute of Medicine, referred to 

 elsewhere in this issue of Science, has been 

 carried into effect by a unanimous vote of the 

 members of the institution. 



The centenary of the birth of C. C. J. 

 Jacoby, the mathematician, occurs nest year 



