APRIL 10, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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On May 5 and 6 there is an examination for 

 the position of field assistant in forestry at a 

 salary of $1,000. 



On May 16, there are examinations for posi- 

 tions in the Bureau of Plant Pathology In- 

 dustry of plant physiologist, at a salary of 

 $1,500; of plant pathologist, at a salary of 

 $1,600; of viticulturist, at a salary of $1,600; 

 and of physiological chemist in cereal investi- 

 gations, at a salary of $1,500. Further de- 

 tails concerning these and similar examina- 

 tions can be obtained from the U. S. Civil Ser- 

 vice Commission, Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor Hermann Struve, of Konigsberg, 

 has been given the gold medal of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society. 



The University of Halle has conferred a 

 gold medal on Professor J. P. Pawlow, of St. 

 Petersburg, for his research on digestion. 



The Institute of France has awarded to 

 Dr. Emile Eoux, the subdirector of the Pas- 

 teur Institute, the prize of $20,000, founded 

 by M. Daniel Osiris, for the person that the 

 institute considered the most worthy to be 

 thus rewarded. It is said that Dr. Eoux will 

 give the money to the Pasteur Institute. 



Dr. F. Schaudinn, of Berlin, has been 

 awarded the Tiedemann prize by the Senken- 

 burg Society, at Frankfurt a. M., for his 

 biologic studies and monograph on the Coc- 

 cidia. 



M. T. H. ScHLOESiNG, Jr., has been elected 

 a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 in the section of agriculture in the place of 

 the late M. Deherain. 



We noted last week the election of Dr. 

 Robert Koch, as foreign associate of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, in succession to Pro- 

 fessor Rudolf Virchow. It may be added 

 that Dr. Robert Koch received twenty-six 

 votes, Dr. Alexander Agassiz eighteen votes. 

 Dr. S. P. Langley six votes and Professor van 

 der Waals, of Amsterdam, one vote. 



Professor Solms-Laubach, of Strasburg, 

 and Professor K. Goebel, of Munich, have 



been elected honorary members of the Botan- 

 ical and Zoological Society of Vienna. 



Professor H. A. Surface, of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College, has been appointed eco- 

 nomic zoologist to the state of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Leonard P. Kinnicutt, professor of 

 chemistry at the Worcester Polytechnic In- 

 stitute, has been appointed consulting chemist 

 to the Connecticut State Sewage Commission. 



Mr. E. E. Ewell has resigned the position 

 of assistant chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, for the 

 purpose of accepting the position of manager 

 of the Atlanta office of the Propaganda De- 

 partment of the German Kali Works. Mr. 

 Ewell's service in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture dates from August, 1889. 



Professor J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., professor 

 of mechanism and applied mechanics at Cam- 

 bridge University, has been appointed director 

 of naval education. Great Britain. 



Mr. T. H. Holland has been appointed 

 director of the Geological Survey of India, 

 in succession to Mr. C. L. Griesbach, who has 

 retired. 



Professor H. H. Donaldson, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, has been elected president of 

 the Chicago Neurological Society for 1903. 



Mr. Alfred Noble has been elected presi- 

 dent of the American Society of Civil En- 

 gineers. 



Professor John M. Coulter, head of the 

 Department of Botany, in the University of 

 Chicago, will be absent in Europe during the 

 spring, summer and autumn quarters. 



Dr. J. Mark Baldwin, professor of psychol- 

 ogy at Princeton University, sailed for Europe 

 on April 4. 



Dr. John Marshall, professor of chemistry 

 in the Medical School of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been granted leave of ab- 

 sence and will spend the time abroad. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, direetor-in-chief of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, and Mrs. Britton 

 returned from Cuba on April 4. During the 

 brief visit made to the island a large collection 

 of herbarium specimens was made principally 

 from the region around Matanzas, and some 



