XOVKMBER 6, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



607 



The council of the Royal Meteorological 

 Society has awarded the Synions gold medal 

 to Ilofrath Dr. Julius llann, of Vienna, in 

 recognition of the valuable work which he has 

 done in connection with meteorological sci- 

 ence. The medal, which is awarded biennially, 

 was founded in memory of Mr. G. J. Symons, 

 r.R.S., the originator of the British Rainfall 

 Organization. It will be presented to Dr. 

 Hann at the annual meeting of the society on 

 January 20. 



Pkofessor Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., has 

 been appointed a delegate from the University 

 of London to the International Congress of 

 Archeology to be held at Athens in April, 1905. 



I'he Botanical Gazette states that Dr. O. 

 Melville Ball, of Batesville, Va., has been 

 elected a member of the German Botanical 

 Society. 



Dr. II. X. Stokes, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has been appointed chemist in the 

 National Bureau of Standards. His tem- 

 porary and mail address is Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Mr. W. J. Palmer, a graduate of the On- 

 tario Agricultural College, has been appointed 

 director of agriculture in the Orange River 

 Colony at a salary of $6,000 per annum. 



President H. S. Pritchett, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has, accord- 

 ing to the daily papers, tested the high speed 

 electrical railway at Zossen, and has examined 

 the Hamburg closed harbor. He will sail 

 from Cherbourg for Xew York on November 

 11. 



Dr. Albert D. Mead, professor of compara- 

 tive anatomy in Brown University, has re- 

 turned from a three months' trip through 

 England, Holland, Germany, Italy and France, 

 during which a thorough insi)ection was made 

 of all the important biological laboratories and 

 experiment stations. 



Mr. W. T. Swixole has returned to Wash- 

 ington after a study of the plants in the re- 

 gions about the Mediterranean. 



Profe.ssoh Filibert Roth, who holds the 

 chair of forestry in the University of Mich- 



igan, has been elected forest warden of the 

 state. 



The American Geologist notes appoint- 

 ments as follows : Professor E. C. Perisho, of 

 the State Normal School of Platteville, Wis., 

 has been appointed state geologist of South 

 Dakota and professor of geology in the State 

 University. Dr. A. G. Leonard, assistant 

 state geologist of Iowa, has been appointed 

 professor of geology in the University of 

 North Dakota, and Dr. A. F. Wilder, lately 

 state geologist of North Dakota, has accepted 

 the professorship of geology in the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa. 



H. Chester Crouch, professor of mechan- 

 ical engineering at the University of Colorado, 

 died on October 29, in Boulder, of tyi)hoid 

 fever at the age of thirty-two. 



The death is announced of Dr. Wilhelm 

 Rimpau, of Schlanstadt, Germany, known for 

 his work on plant breeding. 



The winter meeting of the American Chem- 

 ical Society will be held at St. Louis, Mo., on 

 December 28 and 29, in connection with the 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



The Association of the American Agricul- 

 tural Colleges and Experiment Stations will 

 meet at Washington on November 17, 18, 19 

 and 20. The Association of Official Agri- 

 cultural Chemists will meet at the same place 

 on November 19 to 21. 



A cosferen'ce on secondary education was 

 held last week at Northwestern University. 



The second International Congress of Com- 

 parative Religions will be held at Basle next 

 year. 



Through the gift of Dr. Thomas Biddle, 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences has acquired in Berlin a valuable collec- 

 tion of anthropoid apes. 



The British committee appointed to con- 

 sider the alleged physical, deterioration of the 

 people has held its first meeting under the 

 chairmanship of Mr. Almeric W. FitzRoy. 



The Botanical Gazette states that Mr. Bar- 

 bour Lathrop, of Chicago, who has made sev- 

 eral expeditions at his own expense to different 



