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7 by Associate Professor Harold Heath, 19 by- 

 Assistant Professor John Otterbein Snyder, 

 21 by Curator Edwin Chapin Starks, 3 by 

 James Francis Abbott, 3 by Frank Cramer, 

 9 by Walter Kenrick Fisher, 13 by Henry 

 "Weed Fowler, 1 by Arthur White Greeley, 

 28 by Joseph Grinnell, 1 by James Alexander 

 Gunn, Jr., 2 by Flora Hartley (Mrs. C. W. 

 Greene), 4 by Edmund Heller, 1 by James 

 Franklin Illingworth, 1 by Eichard Critten- 

 don McGregor, 1 by Charles James Pierson, 

 4 by William Weightman Price, 4 by Clouds- 

 ley Eutter, 2 by Norman Bishop Scofield, 3 by 

 Alvin Scale, 4 by Eobert Evans Snodgrass, 

 2 by John M. Stowell and 4 by John Van 

 Denburgh. The publications of President 

 Jordan comprise 433 titles. The publications 

 of Professor V. L. Kellogg, of the separate 

 chair of entomology, are not included in this 

 list. 



The centenary of the discovery of morphine 

 by Adam Serteurner has recently been cele- 

 brated at Paderborn in Westphalia. 



A STATUE of Sir Thomas Browne, by Mr. 

 Henry Pegram, will be erected at Norwich. 



Mr. Frank Gustave Eadelfinger, assistant 

 professor of mathematics in George Washing- 

 ton University and a practising patent at- 

 torney, known for his work on differential 

 equations, died at Washington on August 15 

 at the age of thirty-four years. 



The Eev. Dr. Charles W. Shields, professor 

 of the harmony of science and revealed re- 

 ligion at Princeton "University since 1865, 

 died at Newport on August 25, at the age of 

 seventy-nine years. 



Professor Antoni Drascheq, a member of 

 the Austrian sanitary council, celebrated for 

 his investigations in the disease of cholera, 

 has died at Vienna. 



The death is also announced of Christof 

 von Sigwart, professor of philosophy at Tii- 

 bingen, and of the Eev. Dr. H. P. Gurney, 

 principal of the Durham College of Science 

 and professor of mathematics, who was killed 

 by an Alpine accident on August 13. 



As we have already announced, the Society 

 of Chemical Industry will meet in New York, 

 beginning on September 7. About one hun- 



dred foreign members are expected. The 

 meeting will open with a reception at the 

 Chemists' Club on Wednesday, and the reg- 

 ular sessions will begin at Columbia Univer- 

 sity on the following day. Elaborate arrange- 

 ments have been made for the entertainment 

 of the visitors, who will be taken by special 

 train to the chief centers of chemical industry 

 of the country and to the International Con- 

 gress of Arts and Science at St. 'Louis. 



The Belgian Academy of Sciences offers a 

 prize of 1,000 francs for the best research on 

 the development of Amphioxus. 



There is being held this month at Paris an 

 International Exposition of Hygiene. 



A chemical laboratory for the examination 

 of imported food products will be opened in 

 the Appraiser's Stores Building of the Treas- 

 ury Department in New York by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture on September 5. Five 

 expert chemists will be engaged. 



The Antarctic relief ship. Terra Nova, has 

 returned to England, and the first instalment 

 of the specimens of the National Antarctic 

 Expedition has arrived at the British Mu- 

 seum. The British Museum will undertake 

 the classification, description and publication 

 of the biological and geological collections. 



According to the Consular Reports the board 

 of directors of the German Colonial Society 

 has appropriated $7,140, to be paid in three 

 yearly instalments, as an aid to the scientific 

 experiment station which Dr. Hermann Meyer 

 is soon to establish in the German colony of 

 Neu-Wiirtemberg, Eia Grande do Sul, Brazil. 

 This station is being organized for the pur- 

 pose of making a large number of agricultural 

 experiments. It is hoped that it will help the 

 German colonists of the southern States of 

 Brazil to secure better returns in the way of 

 crops, which as yet, because of improper culti- 

 vation, have not been entirely satisfactory. 

 About 250 acres, near the town of Elsenau, 

 have been secured for the experiment station, 

 and on this a number of houses will be 

 erected, which will serve as workshops and 

 dwellings for those engaged in conducting the 

 experiments. 



