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to the Department of Agriculture of the 

 Transvaal government, with headquarters in 

 Pretoria. 



Father Edmund Goetz, S.J., who has re- 

 cently been in this country and is now in 

 Paris, is to take charge of an astronomical, 

 magnetic and meteorological observatory which 

 is to be situated at Buluwayo, Rhodesia, South 

 Africa. 



Dr. T. G. Brodie, lately director of the 

 laboratories of the Royal Colleges, London, 

 succeeds Dr. J. Rose Bradford as superin- 

 tendent of the Brown Animal Sanatory Insti- 

 tution. 



We learn from The British Medical Jour- 

 nal that Dr. A. S. F. Griinbaum has been 

 appointed director of the Cancer Research 

 for which Mr. Sutton Timmis, of Liverpool, 

 has recently generously initiated a fund by 

 a donation of £10,000. The work is to be 

 carried on in connection with University Col- 

 lege and the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool. 



The committee of the Royal Society ap- 

 pointed to investigate the ' sleeping sickness ' 

 in Uganda has received reports from the ob- 

 servers whom they despatched to Uganda in 

 July last. The investigations so far carried 

 out not being considered conclusive, the com- 

 mittee, in view of the great gravity of the 

 situation, have obtained the consent of Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel Bruce, F.R.S., one of their 

 own members, to proceed at once to Uganda 

 to superintend further investigations into 

 this disease. 



Dr. Jean Charcot, of Paris, will leave in 

 May with a staff of scientific experts for arctic 

 explorations north of Franz Josef Land and 

 Nova Zembla. 



The senate has passed a bill pensioning the 

 widow of the late Colonel Walter Reed at the 

 rate of $125 a month. The house committee 

 on pensions has given a hearing on the bill 

 providing for a pension of $4,000 a year. 

 Those invited to address the committee in- 

 cluded President Gihnan, of the Carnegie 

 Institution; Professor William Welch, of 

 Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Alexander 

 Graham Bell and Surgeon-General Robert 

 O'Reilly, U.S.A. 



We learn from Nature that an influential 

 committee has been formed in Rome to take 

 measures to honor the memory of Father A. 

 Secchi, S.J., the distinguished astronomer and 

 meteorologist, on the occasion of the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of his death, which occurred 

 on February 26, 1878. The president of the 

 committee. Father G. Lais, S.J., vice-director 

 of the Vatican Observatory (address. Via 

 Torre Argentina, 76, Rome), will be glad to 

 add the names of scientific men and institu- 

 tions to the list of those interested in this 

 celebration. 



The Rev. Norman Macleod Ferrers, D.D., 

 F.R.S., since 1880 master of Gonville and 

 Caius College, Cambridge, died on January 

 31 in his seventy-fourth year. He was senior 

 wrangler in 1851. He for a time edited the 

 Quarterly Journal of Mathematics in con- 

 junction with the late Professor Sylvester, 

 and made numerous contributions to that 

 journal. His best knovrai work was a treatise 

 on spherical harmonics. 



Mr. James Glaisher, F.R.S., well-known for 

 his work in meteorology and aeronautics, has 

 died at the age of ninety-four years. He was 

 for many years superintendent of the meteoro- 

 logical department of the Greenwich Observa- 

 tory. 



Dr. David George Ritchie, professor of 

 logic and metaphysics at St. Andrews Uni- 

 versity, died on February 3, aged fifty years. 

 He was from 1878 to 1894 fellow of Jesus Col- 

 lege, Oxford. He was the author of numerous 

 articles and books on philosophy, political sci- 

 ence and ethics. Though belonging to the 

 group of philosophical students influenced by 

 Thomas Hill Green, he was well acquainted 

 with modern science and published in 1899 a 

 book entitled ' Darwinism and Politics.' 



Professor Edward R. Shaw, recently elected 

 superintendent of Public Schools of Rochester, 

 ]Sr. Y., and until recently dean of the New 

 York University School of Pedagogy, died on 

 February 11. 



The deaths are also announced of M. 

 Sirodot, honorary professor at Rennes and a 

 corresponding member in botany of the Paris 



