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laboratory of the Henry Phipps Institute for 

 the Study aud Treatment and Prevention of 

 Tuberculosis, Philadelphia. 



Dr. Andrew D. White, formerly president 

 of Cornell University and ambassador to Ger- 

 many, has decided to spend the winter in Ger- 

 many and Italy. He will consequently be 

 unable to give the lectures that had been 

 planned at Yale and Coriiell Universities. 



Mr. E. S. Williams, museum aid at the 

 New York Botanical Garden, has been sent to 

 the Philippine Archipelago to make collec- 

 tions for the garden. 



Dr. p. L. TdftSj tutor in physics in Colum- 

 bia University, has been given a year's leave 

 of absence to spend in research in Germany. 



Dr. Eugene C. Sullh^an, of the University 

 of Michigan, and Mr. Waldemar T. Sehaller, 

 of San Francisco, have been appointed assist- 

 ant chemists in the United States Geological 

 Survey. The appointments were made upon 

 the basis of civil service examinations. 



Me. J. C. Cadman has been elected president 

 of the British Institution of Mining Engi- 

 neers. 



Professor Augustus Eadcliffe-Grote, di- 

 rector of the Museum in Hildesheim, an 

 authority on entomology, died on September 

 23. He lived for many years in New York 

 State, being director of the Buffalo Academy 

 of Science. 



The death is announced of the Rev. Max- 

 well Henry Close, at Dublin on September 15, 

 at the age of eighty-one years. He had de- 

 voted himself to scientific pursuits since 1861, 

 having published papers on astronomical and 

 other subjects. 



The Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, 

 Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis 

 has arranged for the coming fall and winter 

 a series of lectures on various phases of tuber- 

 culosis. The first of these lectures will be 

 given by Dr. E. L. Trudeau, of Saranac Lake, 

 N. Y., during the last week in October, 

 his subject being ' The History of the Develop- 

 ment of the Tuberculosis Work at Saranac 

 Lake.' The following have been invited to 

 give the subsequent lectures : Dr. Pannwitz, of 



Germany, in November ; Dr. William Osier, of 

 Baltimore, in December; Dr. Calmette, direc- 

 tor of the Pasteur Institute, at Lille, France, 

 in January; Dr. Herman M. Biggs, of New 

 York, in February, and Dr. Maragliano of 

 Italy, in March. All of them have accepted 

 with the exception of Dr. Calmette, who will 

 come if it is possible. 



The American Grape Acid Association, 318 

 Front St., San Francisco, Cal., offers a pre- 

 mium of $25,000 for any person who devises 

 a process or formula for the utilization of 

 California grapes containing over twenty per 

 cent, of saccharin, worth $10 a ton, to pro- 

 duce tartaric acid at a price that would permit 

 of exportation without loss. The decision in 

 awarding the amount is to rest with a jury 

 of five, of which Professor E. W. Hilgard, of 

 the University of California, is one. The 

 offer closes on December 1, 1904. 



A Japanese translation of ' Elements of 

 Sanitary Engineering,' by Professor Mansfield 

 Merriman, has recently been . published at 

 Tokio. The translator is B. Onuma, principal 

 of the Kogyokusha Engineering College at 

 Shiba. 



A cablegram to the daily papers states that 

 a high speed trial over the Zossen experimental 

 electric railroad on September 26 resulted in 

 attaining a speed at the rate of over 117 miles 

 per hour. Every part of the 100-ton car was 

 intact and the roadbed was not affected. 



A correspondent of the London Times 

 writes that students of the history and of the 

 prehistoric times of the Scandinavian coun- 

 tries have been much surprised by the recent 

 discovery of an artistically highly-finished 

 ' sun chariot ' — a structure of ancient religious 

 and sacrificial import — in a moor of Seeland 

 in Denmark. From the site where it was 

 found it is supposed to be not less than 3,000 

 years old. It is now in the museum at Copen- 

 hagen. The subject is of great interest for the 

 whole Scandinavian and Germanic race. 



We learn from the London Times that it 

 is stated that a scheme is on foot for the or- 

 ganization of a floating industrial exhibition 

 of British manufactures, which is to make 



