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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. Will. No. 4.)9. 



SCIEyTIFW NOTES AND NEWS. 



The new medical buildings and laboratories 

 of Toronto University, described by Professor 

 A. B. Macallum in a recent issue of Scienc.5, 

 were officially opened on October 1. The open- 

 ing address was given by Professor Charles 

 S. Sherrington, of Liverpool. Speeches were 

 made by j'epresentatives of the various insti- 

 tutions, and an address in the evening was 

 made by Professor William Osier, of the Johns 

 -Hopkins University. A special convocation 

 was held on October 2, at which the following 

 distinguished visitors received the honorary 

 degree of LL.D. from the university : William 

 Williams Keen, Jefferson Medical College, 

 Philadelphia; William Henry Welch, Johns 

 Hopkins University; William Osier, Johns 

 Hopkins University; Eussell Henry Chit- 

 tenden, Yale University; Charles S. Sherring- 

 ton, University of Liverpool ; Henry Pickering 

 Bowditch, Harvard University (in absentia). 



Professor von Behring, the eminent pa- 

 thologist, has been made a member of the 

 Russian privy council. 



Professor Charles M. Bristol, of New 

 York LTniversity, returned on October 7 from 

 the Bermuda Islands, where he has had charge 

 of the Biological Station. He spent the last 

 three weeks in making a collection of tropical 

 fishes, which are to be exhibited under the 

 auspices of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries at 

 its salt-water aquarium in St. Louis during 

 the World's Fair of 1904. 



Sir Daniel Morris, British Imperial Com- 

 missioner of the Department of Agriculture 

 for the West Indies, and Mr. John R. Rovell, 

 of the Agricultural Department of Barbadoes, 

 are at Charleston, to make a study of the culti- 

 vation of cotton. 



M. Dybowski, the French inspector of 

 colonial agriculture, has been sent on a mis- 

 sion to study the agricultural conditions in 

 Senegal and French Guinea. 



Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sailed 

 on October 5 from New York on the steamer 

 Kronprinz for Germany. It is expected that 

 he will be absent from Boston for only about 

 four weeks. 



Mr. W. N. McMillan, of St. Louis, who 

 recently failed in an attempt to explore the 

 course of the Blue Nile, is returning to this 

 country. He expects to start with another 

 expedition in December. 



Dr. G. S. Fraps, assistant professor of 

 chemistry at the North Carolina College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and assistant 

 chemist at the North Carolina Experiment 

 Station, has been appointed assistant chemist 

 to the Texas Experiment Station at Colleg>3 

 Station. 



Mr. Clarence T. Johnston, for several 

 years past assistant in the irrigation investi- 

 gations of the Department of Agriculture, and 

 in charge of the oifice at Cheyenne, Wyoming;, 

 has resigned to accept the appointment of 

 state irrigation engineer of Wyoming. 



Mr. Clarence B. Lane, assistant in dairy 

 husbandry at the New Jersey station, has 

 been appointed assistant chief of the dairy 

 division of the Agricultural Department. He 

 succeeds Mr. Harry Haywood, who resigned 

 during the summer to assume charge of the 

 newly organized agricultural department at 

 the Mount Herman School, near Northfield, 

 Mass. 



The French government has appointed a 

 commission to study the causes of the disap- 

 pearance of the sardine. It consists of M. 

 Vaillant, professor at the Museum of Natural 

 History; M. Domergue, inspector general of 

 marine fisheries ; and M. Canu, director of the 

 agricultural station at Bologne-sur-Mer. 



Professor Ferdinand Hueppe, of Prague, 

 is giving this month at King's College, Lon- 

 don, the Harben lectures of the Royal Institu- 

 tion of Public Health. 



The Christian A. Herter lecture, at the 

 Johns Hopkins University, the first of the 

 series established by Dr. and Mrs. Herter, of 

 New York City, a year ago, was given by Dr. 

 Herter on October 6, his subject being ' The 

 Work of Pasteur.' 



Among the lecture coiirses arranged for the 

 present season by the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences is a course of six lectures 



