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[N. S. Vol. XVin. No. 455. 



SCWMTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. E. B. Copeland, instructor in bionomics, 

 at Stanford University, has been appointed 

 chief botanist of the United States Philippine 

 Commission. A. D. E. Ehner, assistant in 

 systematic botany, has been appointed assist- 

 ant field collector on the same commission. 



The British Eainfall Organization founded 

 in 1860 by the late G. J. Symons, will hence- 

 forth .be carried on under the sole charge of 

 Dr. H. E. Mill, as Mr. Sowerby Wallis has 

 been compelled by ill health to retire after 

 more than thirty years connection with the 

 association. 



Jamaica has abandoned its weather service 

 and Mr. Maxwell Hall, government meteor- 

 ologist, has resigned the position which he has 

 held since 1880. The compilation of the 

 weather reports will hereafter be undertaken 

 by the Chemists' Department. 



The Hanbury Gold Medal of the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society of London has this year been 

 awarded to M. Eugene Collin. 



George Benjamin White (Ph.D. Yale) has 

 been appointed assistant in the Department of 

 Bacteriology, of the Hoagland Laboratory in 

 Brooklyn. 



Dr. Frank Russell has resigned the in- 

 struetorship of anthropology at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, which he has held since 1897. Owing 

 to his health, he will live on a ranch in 

 Arizona. 



Professor S. J. Barnett, of the Department 

 of Physics of Stanford University, has re- 

 turned from Alaska, where he had charge of 

 a party, sent out by the U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. 



Goverxor La Follette, of Wisconsin, has 

 appointed a commission, consisting of Dr. 

 Gustav Schmitt, Milwaukee, Professor H. L. 

 Eussell, bacteriologist at the State University, 

 Madison, and Dr. M. E. Merrill, whose duty 

 it is to determine the advisability of the es- 

 tablishment of a state hospital for the treat- 

 ment of tuberculosis. 



Secretary Wilson, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, gave this week an address before 



the Irrigation Congress, meeting at Ogden, 

 Utah. 



President A. T. Hadley, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, was a passenger on the steamer Pri7izess 

 Irene which arrived at New York last week 

 from Mediterranean ports. 



Anton J. Carlson, Ph.D., of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, who was appointed research assistant 

 by the Carnegie Institution last year, is now 

 at San Diego doing research work in the 

 temporary laboratory of the University of 

 California. The subject of his investigations 

 is ' the mechanism of the inhibition of the 

 heart in invertebrates.' 



During the past year Mr. T. W. Vaughan, 

 of the United States Geological Survey, has 

 devoted most of his time to a study of the 

 later Tertiary corals of the United States and 

 the West Indies. The manuscript of his 

 monograph is far advanced and illustrations 

 for sixty or seventy plates have been jsre- 

 pared. 



Captain Lefant, of the French army, is 

 about to explore the Niger Basin, under the 

 auspices of the Paris Geographical Society 

 and the French Colonial Office. 



A BUST in honor of the late Mr. W. Martin- 

 dale will be unveiled at the London School of 

 Pharmacy on October 1, when Dr. J. W. 

 Swan, F.E.S., will make an address in con- 

 nection with the opening of a new section of 

 the school. 



There has been unveiled at Langres, 

 France, a monument in honor of the chemist, 

 Laurent. 



The deaths are announced of Dr. Eugen 

 Askenasy, honorary professor of botany in 

 the University of Heidelberg, at the age of 

 fifty-eight years, of Dr. J. Lange, the mathe- 

 matician, director of a Berlin Eealgymna- 

 sium, at the age of fifty-seven years, and' of 

 Ernst Krause, who wrote on popular nat- 

 ural history under the name Carus Sterne, 

 at the age of sixty-four years. 



Mr. W. W. Astor has contributed $100,000 

 to the British Cancer Eesearch Fund. 



At the instance of Dr. N. L. Britton, di- 

 rector of the New York Botanical Garden, 



