July 8, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given to the 

 British Museum the restoration of a skeleton 

 of Diplodocus, made under the direction of 

 Mr. J. B. Hatcher. Invitations veere sent by 

 Dr. E. J. Holland, director of the Carnegie 

 Museum, to view the restoration on June 30. 



The council of the jubilee foundation for 

 German industry, which recently met in Ber- 

 lin, has made appropriations amounting to 

 over $12,000. Among the subsidies is one of 

 $2,500 to Dr. Garbe, of Berlin, to study the 

 American railway system, and one of $1,200 

 to Professor Nernst at Gottingen for re- 

 searches at high temperatures. 



At the forty-fifth meeting of the Society of 

 German Engineers, held recently at Frank- 

 fort, it was announced that the lexicon of tech- 

 nology undertaken by the society is about half 

 completed. The cost of this work will be over 

 $100,000, for which the society has made itself 

 responsible. 



A L.iBORATORY for the study of beet sugar 

 manufacture, a branch of the Agricultural 

 School of Berlin, was opened on May 8. 



The London Times states that Mrs. Percy 

 Sladen, of Northbrook-park, Devonshire, in 

 the desire to perpetuate the memory of her 

 late husband, Mr. Walter Percy Sladen, some- 

 time secretary and vice-president of the Lin- 

 nsean Society, has undertaken to devote the 

 sum of £20,000 to the promotion of scientific 

 research, particularly in the subjects in which 

 he was chiefly interested. She proposes to 

 assign this sum under the name of the Percy 

 Sladen Memorial Eund to certain trustees, in 

 the first place of her own appointment, who 

 are directed to employ the income arising 

 therefrom, in their uncontrolled discretion, to 

 ' any research or investigation in natural sci- 

 ence, and more especially in the sciences of 

 zoology, geology and anthropology.' They are 

 also empowered, if they think fit, to accumu- 

 late the income for the purpose of fitting out, 

 or assisting to fit out, any expedition designed 

 to further such research. The following gen- 

 tlemen, whom Mrs. Sladen has requested to 

 be the first trustees, have consented to serve: 

 Her brother. Dr. Tempest Anderson, of York; 

 Mr. Bailey Saunders, Mr. Henry Bury, Dr. 



Henry Woodward, F.E.S., Professor Howes, 

 F.R.S., and Professor Herdman, F.R.S. On 

 the occurrence of any vacancy among these 

 trustees Mrs. Sladen reserves to herself the 

 right to nominate their successors; but by the 

 deed of endowment it is provided that eventu- 

 ally five trustees shall be severally nominated 

 for a period of five years each by the following 

 bodies in rotation, so far as they may have 

 signified their acceptance of the power of 

 appointment; the Royal Society, the Linnsean 

 Society, the trustees of the British Museum and 

 the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 



From September 15 to 18, 1903, a confer- 

 ence of the engineers of the Reclamation 

 Service was held at Ogden, Utah. At the 

 time of this meeting the Reclamation Service 

 had been in active operation for over a year 

 and projects in each state had reached a point 

 at which their relative merits demanded con- 

 sideration. It was, therefore, deemed ad- 

 visable to bring the principal engineers to- 

 gether, in order to discuss somewhat inform- 

 ally the methods and results of work. The 

 eleventh irrigation congress was in session 

 then at Ogden, and delegates were in attend- 

 ance from the thirteen states and three terri- 

 tories named in the reclamation law, as well 

 as from Texas and the country farther east. 

 The engineers of the Reclamation Service 

 were thus enabled to meet public men and 

 others who are interested in the work of irri- 

 gation and to exchange views freely with them. 

 The proceedings of this conference of reclama- 

 tion engineers, compiled by Mr. F. H. Newell, 

 chief engineer, have been recently published 

 by the United States Geological Survey as No. 

 93 of its series of Water-Supply and Irrigation 

 Papers, a volume of about 350 pages filled 

 with valuable data. Besides the purely tech- 

 nical discussions and addresses, the paper in- 

 cludes several interesting speeches made to 

 the engineers by various governors, senators 

 and other prominent people. It is published 

 for gratuitous distribution and may be ob- 

 tained by application to the Director of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, Washing-ton, D. C. 



The Paris correspondent of the London 

 Times reports that some fifty men of science 



