November 27, 1003.] 



SCIENCE. 



703 



Dr. Charles J. Mahtik, F.K.S., formerly 

 professor of physiology at the University of 

 Melbourne, who was appointed director of the 

 Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine some 

 months ago, has now taken up his duties. 



Mr. William Roscoe Thaykr has under- 

 taken, at the request of Mr. Fiske's family, 

 to edit the letters of the late John Fiske. He 

 earnestly requests that persons having any of 

 Mr. Fiske's letters will send them, or copies of 

 them, to Xo. 8 Berkeley St., Cambridge, Mass. 



A LECTURESHIP has been endowed in the 

 University of Birmingham by an anonymous 

 friend in memory of the life and work of the 

 late Professor Huxley. Sir Michael Foster 

 has been invited to give the first lecture. 



A PROJECT has been started to found at 

 Peterhouse, Cambridge, a prize for physics in 

 memory of Professor Tait, of Edinburgh, for 

 many years a fellow, and at his death an hon- 

 orary fellow, of the college. 



TuE weekly assembly exercises of November 

 18 at the State University of Iowa were 

 devoted to a memorial service in honor of 

 Dr. Frank Russell, of Harvard University, 

 whose untimely death we have recorded. Im- 

 pressive addresses were delivered by Dr. 

 Samuel Calvin, Professor A. G. Smith and 

 Professor C. C. Xutting. A letter was also 

 read from Professor F. W. Putnam, of the 

 Peabody Museum. Dr. Russell was a grad- 

 uate of the University of Iowa with the class 

 of 1892 and conducted his first scientific ex- 

 plorations in the far north under the auspices 

 of that institution. 



Dr. Hexry Carrixoton Boltox, well known 

 as a chemist and bibliographer, died at Wash- 

 ington on November 19 in his sixty-first year. 



Professor Arthur Allin, B.A. (Toronto), 

 Ph.D. (Berlin), since 1S97 head of the De- 

 partment of Psychology and Education in the 

 University of Colorado, at Boulder, died on 

 November 17, of typhoid fever. Dr. Allin had 

 given much time recently to the study of 

 sociological problems viewed from the psy- 

 chological standpoint. 



Dr. George J. Exgelmaxx, of Boston, an 

 eminent physician and gynecologist, son of the 



well-known botanist, died on November 16 

 from pneumonia at the age of fifty-six years. 



Mr. J. Staxley Grimes, a writer and lec- 

 turer on scientific subjects, especially on the 

 physiology of the brain, died at Evanston, 111., 

 on October 1, at the age of ninety-six years. 

 Mr. Grimes had been a fellow of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 since 1874. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Sir 

 Charles Nicholson, Bart., who practised medi- 

 cine in Sydney, and was the first chancellor 

 of the University of Sydney, on November 8, 

 in his ninety-fifth year; of Dr. Nabel, pro- 

 fessor of geodesy in the Technological Insti- 

 tute of Dresden, aged eighty-three years; of 

 Dr. Otto Nasse, formerly professor of physi- 

 ological chemistry in the University of Ros- 

 tock, at the age of sixty-four years, and of 

 Dr. G. R. Dahlander, professor in the Tech- 

 nological Institute of Stockliolm. 



Dr. George R. Tabor, Texas State Health 

 Ofiicer, proposes to extend invitations to Sur- 

 geon General Wyman and the representatives 

 of the Health Departments of Louisiana, Mis- 

 sissippi and Alabama to accompany him to 

 Mexico next January for the purpose of hold- 

 ing a conference with the Superior Board of 

 Health of that country to determine upon a 

 concerted plan of action that would prevent 

 another epidemic of yellow fever in Mexico 

 and the spread of the disease to Texas and 

 the south. 



The scientific mission imder the charge of 

 Drs. Todd and Dutton, which has been des- 

 patched to Central Africa under the auspices 

 of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 

 has arrived at Boma. The object of the mis- 

 sion is to study the pathology of various trop- 

 ical maladies, including sleeping sickness. 



The Brilish Medical Journal states that 

 Lieutenant-Colonel Bruce, F.R.S., who re- 

 turned from Uganda some weeks ago, has es- 

 tablished by experiments conducted in con- 

 junction with Dr. Nabarro and Captain Grieg, 

 I.M.S., two important points. The first is 

 that monkeys inoculated with the cerebro- 

 spinal fluid of patients suffering from sleeping 

 sickness, or with blood from natives not yet 



