April 24, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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in the Gulf states and in Central America, 

 will correspond with him and send him ma- 

 terial. Investigators already engaged in mos- 

 quito work, like Dr. John B. Smith, of Eutgers 

 College, and Professor Glenn W. Herrick, of 

 the Mississippi Agricultural College, will co- 

 operate, it is hoped. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The University of London will, on June 

 24, confer the honorary degree of Doctor of 

 Science on Lord Kelvin and on Lord Lister. 



Professor Theodore Boveri, of the Univer- 

 sity of Wiirzburg, and Professor W. M. 

 Wheeler, who has recently accepted a call from 

 the University of Texas to the American Mu- 

 seum of ISTatural History, have been elected 

 correspondents of the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Natural Science. 



The Donohoe comet-medals of the Astro- 

 nomical Society of the Pacific have been 

 awarded to M. Michel Giacobini, astronomer, 

 Nice, Erance, for his discoveries of unex- 

 pected comets on December 2, 1902, and Jan- 

 uary 15, 1903. 



Dr. Oskar Uhlworm, director of the Ger- 

 man bureau of the International Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature, has been given the title 

 of professor. 



Eear-Ajdmiral J. G. Walker, General P. C. 

 Hains, Major William M. Black and Professor 

 William H. Burr, the members of the Ameri- 

 can commission which is to make an inspection 

 of the Panama Canal route, have arrived at 

 the Isthmus. 



Among the American physicians who have 

 gone to Madrid to attend the International 

 Medical Congress are Dr. Abraham Jacobi, 

 of New York City; Dr. Nicholas Senn, of 

 Chicago; Dr. Howard Kelly, of Baltimore; 

 and Surgeon-General E. S. Eeilly, U.S.A. 



Professor L. G. Carpenter, of the depart- 

 ment of Civil and Irrigation Engineering of 

 Colorado Agricultural College, has been 

 ■ granted a temporary leave of absence in order 

 to act as state engineer of Colorado, which 

 includes lines of work much the same as have 

 been carried on in connection with the work 

 of the experiment station. In the meantime 



Professor Carpenter will retain his connection 

 with the experiment station and have super- 

 visory control of the Department of Civil and 

 Irrigation Engineering at the college. 



Mr. J. W. B^mo, Ph.D. (Cornell), has been 

 appointed by the trustees of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution to a research assistantship in psy- 

 chology with Professor Titchener for the aca- 

 demic year 1903-4. 



A portrait of Dr. Eichard Caton, the first 

 professor of physiology in University College, 

 Liverpool, has been presented to the college. 



Plans are being made to erect a monument 

 to the philosopher Kant in Berlin, to be un- 

 veiled on the occasion of the hundredth anni- 

 versary of his death, in 1904. 



Dr. Albert Huntington Chester, professor 

 of chemistry and mineralogy at Eutgers Col- 

 lege, died on April 13, at the age of sixty 

 years. He graduated from the Columbia 

 School of Mines in 1868 and later took the 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the same 

 institution. Before going to Eutgers College 

 in 1891, he was for twenty-one years professor 

 at Hamilton College. 



Dr. G. a. Eunge, assistant director of the 

 Meteorological Institute at Copenhagen, died 

 on March 28. 



We learn from Professor George E. Hale 

 that Miss Helen E. Snow, of Chicago, has 

 provided for the reconstruction of the coelo- 

 stat reflecting telescope of the Yerkes Obser- 

 vatory as a memorial to her father, the late 

 George W. Snow. The telescope will be pro- 

 vided with solar and stellar spectrographs, 

 spectroheliographs and other important acces- 

 sories. It will be remembered that the coelo- 

 stat reflector which the new telescope is to 

 replace was seriously injured by fire last De- 

 cember, giving rise to erroneous but wide- 

 spread statements that the main building of 

 the Yerkes Observatory, as well as the 40-inch 

 refractor, had been destroyed. 



The directors of the Benjamin Ap thorp 

 Gould fund have appropriated the sum of 

 $400 in aid of the determinations of stellar 

 parallax, in progress at the Washburn Ob- 

 servatory. 



