May 29, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



877 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. Eugene Hodenpyl, of New York, has 

 been elected president and Dr. Simon Flexner 

 vice-president of the American Association 

 of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, 



Dr. a. C. Abbott, professor of hygiene at 

 the University of Pennsylvania, has been ap- 

 pointed chief of the Bureau of Health at 

 Philadelphia. 



The freedom of the city of Eome was con- 

 ferred on Mr. G. Marconi on May 7. 



The Stockholm Society of Anthropology 

 and Geography has awarded its Vega medal 

 to Professor von Richthofen, of Berlin. 



Dr. M. Nother, professor of mathematics 

 at Erlangen, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



Cambridge University has conferred the de- 

 gree of D.Sc. on Dr. Eobert Bell, F.E.S., act- 

 ing director of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. 



Dr. Florian Cajori, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Colorado College, has been ap- 

 pointed representative of the United States 

 on the international committee of the Con- 

 gress for the Study of the History of the Sci- 

 ences, which committee will make arrange- 

 ments for the next meeting of the Congress 

 at Berlin in 1906. Officers of the commiittee 

 are : President, P. Tannery, Paris ; Secre- 

 taries, P. Giaeosa and G. Loria, Genoa. 



Professor C. V. Hartman, the well-known 

 archeologist, whose work upon the antiquities 

 of Costa Eica was recently published by the 

 Eoyal Geographical Society of Sweden, and 

 who several months ago accepted service in 

 the Carnegie Museum as the curator of 

 archeology and ethnology, is at present in 

 Costa Eica in the interest of the museum. 

 The Carnegie Museum has secured by pur- 

 chase from Senor Don Pedro Maria Velasco 

 the extensive collection of Costa Eican An- 

 tiquities at present on deposit in the Areheo- 

 logical Museum of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. Dr. W. J. Holland, the director 

 of the Carnegie Museum, announces that it 

 is not his intention, however, to remove the 

 collection from the temporary custodianship 



of the museum in Philadelphia, until a later 

 date. 



Secretary Coetelyou, of the Department 

 of Commerce and Labor, has appointed a 

 commission to take under consideration all 

 the statistical work of the bureaus included 

 in his department for the purpose of recom- 

 mending any changes that can be made for 

 improving this branch of the service. The 

 commission consists of Mr. Carroll D. Wright, 

 coromissioner of labor, chairman; Mr. S. TST. 

 D. North, of the Census Bureau, vice-chair- 

 man; Mr. Frank H. Hitchcock, chief clerk. 

 Department of Commerce, secretary; Mr. 

 James E. Garfield, commissioner of corpora- 

 tions; Mr. O. H. Tittmann, superintendent 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey; Mr. George M. 

 Bowers, commissioner of fish and fisheries; 

 Mr. F. P. Sargent, commissioner-general of 

 immigration, and Mr. O. P. Austin, chief of 

 the Bureau of Statistics. 



The New York Evening Post says that 

 Professor L. M. Hoskins, of the civil en- 

 gineering department of Stanford University, 

 has been appointed by the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion a member of the co mm ittee of investiga- 

 tion to conduct a joint inquiry into mathe- 

 matical, astronomical, physical, chemical and 

 geological phases of the earth and problems 

 that lie in the common domain of these 

 sciences. 



Professor Israel C. Eussell, of the de- 

 partment of geology in the University of 

 Michigan, will make an extended journey in 

 central Oregon during the coming summer, 

 for the purpose of studying the geology and 

 especially the artesian conditions. The work 

 is to be done for the United States Geological 

 Survey, and is in continuance of explorations 

 in the arid portion of the West, in which 

 Professor Eussell has been engaged for sev- 

 eral years. 



Dr. George C. Martin, assistant in paleon- 

 tology at Johns Hopkins University, is in 

 charge of an expedition, sent out by the U. 

 S. Geological Survey to study coal and oil 

 resources of the Cook's Inlet region in Alaska. 



Dr. Thiele has been made a curator in the 

 Zoological Museum at Berlin. 



