January 2, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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F. S. Earle, assistant curator, returned .from 

 'Jamaica on December 2. During his tour on 

 the island of Jamaica an investigation was 

 made of a number of diseases of the economic 

 plants and a large collection of fungi was 

 made. 



Mr. Hanburt, fellow of the Eoyal Geo- 

 graphical Society, reached Winnipeg on 

 December 15, after an absence of nearly two 

 years in the Arctic circle and the Hudson's 

 Bay regions. 



As has been fully reported in the daily 

 papers, Mr. Marconi has established com- 

 munication by wireless telegraphy between 

 Cape Breton and Cornwall. His announce- 

 ment, dated December 21, is as follows : " I 

 beg to inform you for circulation that I 

 have established wireless telegraph communi- 

 cation between Cape Breton, Canada, and 

 Cornwall, England, with complete success. 

 Inauguratory messages, including one from 

 the Governor General of Canada to King 

 Edward VII., have already been transmitted 

 and forwarded to the Kings of England and 

 Italy. A message to the London Times has 

 also been transmitted in the presence of its 

 special correspondent. Dr. Parkin, M.P." 



Dr. W. B. Wherry, associate in bacteriology 

 at the University of Chicago, has received an 

 appointment to the post of bacteriologist in 

 the Government Laboratories at Manila, P. I. 



Dr. David T. Day, chief of the Division 

 of Mineral Resources of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has been elected a member of the 

 board of managers of the National Geographic 

 Society to fill the unexpired term of Mr. 

 Henry Gannett. As Mr. Gannett will remain 

 in the Philippines for a year or more, en- 

 gaged in the census of the islands, he has 

 resigned temporarily, from the board. 



The first Livingstone gold medal has been 

 awarded by the council of the Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society to Sir Harry H. Johnston, 

 G.C.M.G., K.C.B., for his distinguished ser- 

 vices as an explorer and administrator in 

 Africa. 



Mr. Edmund Perrier has been elected as 

 the representative of the Paris Museum of 



Natural History on the French Council of 

 Public Instruction. 



Dr. J. B. DeToni has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of botany and director of the Botanic 

 Gardens at the University of Modena. 



Peofessoe G. W. Green, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the Illinois Wesleyan University, 

 has died at Bloomington, 111., at the age of 

 forty-five years. 



We learn from the American Geologist of 

 the death of Mr. R. A. Blair, at Sedalia, Mo. 

 He had spent many years in studying the 

 rocks of central Missouri, and had made val- 

 uable collections from the Chouteau limestone. 



The death is announced of Dr. J. Wisli- 

 cenus, professor of chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity at Leipzig. 



Peivy Councillor von Kupffer, professor 

 of anatomy at Munich, died on December 16. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Dr. 

 Eriedrich Eiidorff, formerly professor of in- 

 organic chemistry at the School of Technol- 

 ogy at Charlottenburg, at the age of 70 years; 

 of Dr. Wladislaw Celakowsky, professor of 

 botany at the German University at Prague, 

 at the age of sixty-seven years; of Dr. Lats- 

 chinow, professor of physics and meteorology 

 in the School of Forestry at St. Petersburg; 

 of M. Deherain, professor of vegetable physi- 

 ology in the Paris Museum of Natural His- 

 tory; of M. Hautefeuille, mineralogist in the 

 Faculty of Sciences at Paris, and of M. Mil- 

 lardet, professor of botany at Bordeaux, 

 known for his researches on phyloxera. 



The Board of Trustees of the Carnegie 

 Institution has made an appropriation of 

 $8,000 for the establishment and maintenance 

 of a desert botanical laboratory for the fiscal 

 year 1902-1903, and the executive committee 

 of the institution has appointed Mr. Fred- 

 erick V. Coville and Dr. D. T. MacDougal an 

 advisory board in relation to this undertaking. 

 The proposed laboratory has been established 

 for the purpose of making a thorough investi- 

 gation of the physiological and morphological 

 features of plants under the unusual condi- 

 tions to be found in desert regions, with par- 

 ticular reference to the relations of the char- 



