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the C. G. S. System ' was translated into many 

 languages. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 Karl Weigert, director of the Laboratory of 

 Pathological Anatomy of the Senckenburg 

 Foundation, Prankfort on Maine, well-known 

 for his important contributions to histology; 

 of Dr. Priedrich Eisenlohr, associate professor 

 of mathematics at Heidelburg, on July 21, 

 aged seventy-three years; of Dr. Lobry de 

 Bruyn, professor of chemistry at Amsterdam, 

 on July 22 at the age of forty-seven years; 

 of M. Jean Gabriel de Tarde, the author 

 of well-known works on social psychology, 

 at Paris at the age of sixty-one years, and of 

 M. Eobert Bieri, aged twenty-six years, re- 

 cently appointed professor of natural sciences 

 at the Berne Normal School, who was killed 

 by an Alpine accident on August 4. 



We call attention to advertisements in Sci- 

 ence announcing that applications are invited 

 for the professorship of geology and mineral- 

 ogy in the University of Melbourne and for 

 the post of assistant entomologist in the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Cape Colony. 



The annual meeting of the Association of 

 German men of science and physicians will 

 be held at Breslau, from September 18 to 24. 



The Sixth International Congress of Zool- 

 ogy met at Berne from August 14 to 19. 

 When the preliminary program was issued in 

 July 250 members had joined the congress and 

 70 papers had been placed on the preliminary 

 program. Among the papers was a discussion 

 on recently discovered stages in the evolution 

 of the horse and contemporary mammals in 

 North America, opened by Professor H. P. Os- 

 born; a paper on changes of animal cells dur- 

 ing youth and old age, by Professor Charles 

 S. Minot, and on peculiarities in the develop- 

 ment of Chimaera collici, by Professor Bash- 

 ford Dean. 



The Society of Chemical Industry will meet 

 in New York, from September Y to 12, under 

 the presidency of Sir William Ramsay, who 

 will give his address at Columbia University 

 on September 8. About one hundred British 

 members will attend the meeting. After the 

 adjournment in New York a tour has been 



arranged ending at St. Louis on September 19 

 in time for the Congress of Arts and Science. 



The British Medical Association will meet 

 next year in Leicester, under the presidency 

 of Mr. G. C. Pranldin. The meeting in 1906 

 will probably be in Toronto. 



The twelfth National Irrigation Congress 

 will be held at El Paso, Texas, from November 

 15 to 18. The congTess will meet in four sec- 

 tions, the names of which indicate that at- 

 tention will be paid to popular interests. They 

 are : ' Save the Porests,' ' Store the Ploods,' 

 ' Reclaim the Deserts ' and ' Homes on the 

 Land.' 



It is stated in Nature that a board of agri- 

 culture has recently been established in the 

 Bahamas, and a botanic station is to be started 

 in connection with it for which a curator 

 will be required. Applications for the post 

 should be made in the first instance to the 

 Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture for the 

 West Indies, Barbados. 



The field parties sent out by the Carnegie 

 Museum in the spring in order to make paleon- 

 tological collections report unusual success 

 in the field. The party operating in Montana 

 has succeeded in finding some valuable speci- 

 mens of Triceratops. Good collections have 

 been made in western Nebraska, and the col- 

 lections of invertebrates made in New York 

 and Canada are extensive. 



Investigations carried on during the last 

 year by Mr. S. W. McCallie, assistant state 

 geologist of Georgia, acting in cooperation 

 with the United States Geological Survey, 

 have revealed the presence of interesting and 

 perhaps valuable properties in some of the 

 ai'tesian waters in the Coastal Plain of that 

 state. Water taken from a deep well at 

 Baxley showed on analysis 5.5 parts per 1,000,- 

 000 of phosphoric acid, which would indicate 

 that it might be used for fertilizing as well 

 as for irrigating barren fields. In other words, 

 it may be acceptable to the desert land as both 

 food and drink. It is estimated that a layer 

 of this phosphoric acid-bearing water 12 inches 

 deep over one acre of land would exert a fertil- 

 izing effect equal to that of 200 pounds of com- 

 mercial fertilizer. 



