August 5, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



189 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. C. H. Tittmann, chief of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, has left Washington for 

 Alaska, where he will meet Dr. W. P. King, 

 chief astronomer of Canada, in order to mark 

 the boundary line between Alaska and Canada 

 in accordance with the decisions of the com- 

 mission that met last year in London. 



Me. Bailey Willis, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has returned from China, where he 

 has been making geological explorations under 

 the auspices of the Carnegie Institution. 



Professor Charles E. Bessey, of the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, is visiting the Minnesota 

 Seaside Laboratory at Vancouver Island. 



Professor H. H. Eusby, of the New York 

 College of Pharmacy, is at the Kew Botanical 

 Gard,ens studying the herbaria from South 

 America. 



Dr. T. Homen, professor of physics at the 

 University of Helsingfors, and three other 

 professors of the university have been deported 

 to Eussia as a consequence of the assassination 

 of General Bobrikoff. It is taken for granted 

 that these professors had no connection with 

 this crime, but in any case the conditions must 

 be regarded as unfortunate. 



The senate of Heidelberg University pro- 

 poses to establish a gold medal in honor of 

 Professor Kuno Fischer to be conferred once 

 in five years for work on the history of phi- 

 losophy in Germany. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has decided 

 to award its LeCompte prize of the value of 

 $10,000 to M. Blondlot for his researches on 

 the so-called n-rays. 



At the celebration of the foundation of the 

 University of Giessen on July 1, the rector. 

 Dr. E. Brauns, made an address on the de- 

 velopment of geology and mineralogy at the 

 university since the year 1850. 



A medallion in memory of the late Sir 

 George Gabriel Stokes, which has been erected 

 in the north aisle of the choir of Westminster 

 Abbey, was unveiled on July 7 by the Duke 

 of Devonshire, chancellor of the University of 

 Cambridge, and formally transferred to the 

 authorities of the Abbey. Addresses were 



made by Sir William Huggins, Lord Eayleigh 

 and Lord Kelvin. 



The monument erected to the memory of 

 Pasteur in the Place de Breteuil, Paris, was 

 unveiled on July 16 by President Loubet. In 

 addition to Mme. Pasteur, there were present 

 numerous oifieers of the government, members 

 of the diplomatic corps and men of science. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, that Professor Czerny 

 has endowed a prize in honor of his deceased 

 father-in-law, the famous clinician, Adolf 

 Kussmaul. The sum of $2,500 has been paid 

 for the purpose to the Heidelberg University, 

 and the income will be awarded every third 

 year, on Kussmaul's birthday, Pebruary 22, 

 for the best therapeutic achievement during 

 the preceding three years, published first in 

 German literature. 



A portrait-bust of Dr. Otto Kahler, former- 

 ly professor of medicine at Vienna, has been un- 

 veiled in the arcades of the school of medicine. 



A PUBLIC meeting has been held at Bury, 

 England, to celebrate the bi-centenary of the 

 birth of John Kay, of Bury, inventor of the 

 fly-shuttle, to promote a public fund for the 

 erection of a statue in memory of the inventor 

 and to institute scholarships. 



Mrs. Mary B. Coulston, recently appointed 

 assistant in agriculture in the University of 

 California, died on July lY. 



Sir John Simon, K.C.B., former vice-presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal Society and president of 

 the Eoyal College of Surgeons, well known for 

 his important services on behaK of the public 

 health, died on July 23, at the age of eighty- 

 eight years. 



Mr. Alfred H. Allen, the author of a well- 

 known work in eight volumes on commercial 

 organic analysis and of many papers on ap- 

 plied chemistry, died at Sheffield on July 14, 

 at the age of sixty years. 



Dr. Eudolph Amandus Philippi, for many 

 years director of the Natural History Museum 

 at Santiago, Chili, and the author of many 

 contributions to zoology and botany, has died 

 at the age of ninety-six years. 



We regret also to record the death of Dr. 

 Gustav Hempel, professor of agriculture at 



