August 19, 1904.] 



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professor of mathematics in the Durham Col- 

 lege of Science. 



The daily papers state that Professor Fred- 

 erick Starr, professor of anthropology at the 

 University of Chicago, will resign and will 

 make an extended expedition to Japan and 

 China. 



The N. Y. Evening Post states that Pro- 

 fessor E. W. Woodworth, of the department of 

 entomology at the University of California, 

 has for some time heen studying silkworm cul- 

 ture on the Pacific Coast. He is trying to 

 determine whether silkworms may be raised in 

 California on a scale that would make their 

 propagation a commercial success. 



James H. Montgomery, Ph.D., vice-presi- 

 dent of Allegheny College, Meadsville, Pa., 

 member of the American Association, died 

 on August 11, at the age of fifty years. 



Dr. Joseph Wiener, who came from Bo- 

 hemia to New Tork in 1849 and was at one 

 time professor of pathology in the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, died on August 11, 

 at the age of seventy-six years. 



Dr. Peiedeich Eatzel, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Leipzig, well-known in this country 

 for his important work on the geography of 

 North America, died on August 9. 



The deaths are announced of Sir "William 

 Banks, a well-known British surgeon who took 

 a prominent part in the work of the medical 

 school of the University of Liverpool, where 

 he was emeritus professor of anatomy, and of 

 Sir Frederic Bateman, a prominent physician 

 of Norwich, the author of works on aphasia 

 and other subjects. 



There will be a civil service examination on 

 September 14 and 15 to fill a vacancy in the 

 position of anatomist (male), at $1,600 per 

 annum, in the Army Medical Museum, olSce 

 of the surgeon-general, and other similar 

 vacancies as they may occur. 



The committee appointed by the Texas 

 legislature to investigate methods for the ex- 

 termination of the boll weevil and pay a re- 

 ward of $50,000 to the discoverer of any such 

 method has decided that no one has earned 

 this reward. 



The American Microscopical Society will 

 meet at Buffalo, New Tork, on August 23, 

 24 and 25, under the presidency of Professor 

 T. J. Burrill, of the University of Illinois. 

 The meetings will be held in the lecture room 

 of the Buffalo Society of Natural History, 

 Hotel Lafayette being the headquarters. The 

 subject of the president's address, which will 

 be given on the evening of August 24, will be 

 ' Microorganisms of the soil and human wel- 

 fare.' Attention may be called to the fact that 

 this meeting is the consummation of 25 years 

 of existence and is therefore of special interest. 

 A National Microscopical Congress, held at 

 Indianapolis, Ind., in 1878, appointed a com- 

 mittee on organization, and at Buffalo, N. T., 

 in 1879, was founded the American Society of 

 Microscopists, which, in 1892, became the 

 American Microscopical Society; thus the 

 twenty-fifth year of the society's' existence 

 ends with this meeting, the twenty-seventh if 

 we count the meeting in Indianapolis, the 

 twenty-sixth if we begin with the Buffalo meet- 

 ing. 



The St. Marylebone Natural Science So- 

 ciety, London, which has been in existence 

 for the past six years, has celebrated the open- 

 ing of a new museum and lecture hall, 444 

 Edgware Road. The work of the society is 

 carried out entirely by working people and is 

 self-supporting. 



A LONG vacation course which lasted till 

 August 16, was arranged by the Oxford School 

 of Geography, and was opened with an intro- 

 ductory address by Mr. H. J. Mackinder, stu- 

 dent of Christ Church and reader in geog- 

 raphy. According to a report in the London 

 Times he said they were met together as a body 

 of secondary and university teachers for the 

 purpose of what he might describe as mental 

 refreshment. It was their intention to spend 

 the greater part of the next three weeks in the 

 study of geography. Summer schools, of 

 course, had their limitations, but none were 

 more defensible than those intended for teach- 

 ers. If secondary teaching was to retain its 

 vitality, it was essential that, in the narrower 

 subjects at any rate, there should be periodical 

 contact between those whose daily duty it was 

 to teach in school and those who were fortu- 



