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fund. Mr. Carnegie further defrayed the ex- 

 pense of publishing the report of the centen- 

 ary proceedings. 



Mr. Emil Maiilois', topographical draughts- 

 man of the Navy Department and a landscape 

 engineer, died on August 31. 



The Rev. George Pirie, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the University of Aberdeen, died on 

 August 21, at the age of sixty-one years. 



Professor Erich Benecke, of the Univer- 

 sity of Berlin, has died from blood poisoning, 

 after an operation he carried out. 



On September 14 there will be a civil ser- 

 vice examination to fill a vacancy in the posi- 

 tion of assistant in animal husbandry in the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, at $1,200 per annum. On Sep- 

 temberSl and 22 there will be an examination 

 to fill a vacancy in the position of artist 

 (female), at $900 per annum, in the Bureau 

 of Forestry, Department of Agriculture. 



The Harvard Observatory has acquired a 

 60-inch reflecting telescope, made by the late 

 A. A. Common. 



M. DuRAND has presented to the Paris Mu- 

 seum of Natural History his herbarium and 

 botanical library with $1,000 to defray the 

 cost of installation and $10,000 as an endow- 

 ment fund. 



Professor Mosso, of Turin, and Signer 

 Pagliani, the president of the Italian Alpine 

 Club, have selected a site on Monte Eosa, at a 

 height of 3,000 meters for the erection of an 

 Alpine research station. It is hoped that it 

 will be in working order in 1906. 



The National Antarctic relief ship, the 

 Morning, arrived at Port Stanley, in the PaUt- 

 land Islands, on July 17, after a fine weather 

 passage round Cape Horn, but with a high- 

 pressure cylinder cracked. The Discovery 

 was at Port Stanley on July 17, but has since 

 left. Some time was taken up in coaling the 

 Morning, and apparently she left the Falkland 

 Islands about July 29. She is expected to 

 arrive off Plymouth about September 29. 



The statistics of the enrolment at the re- 

 cent meeting of the National Educational 



Association held at the St. Louis Exposition 

 have been published. The total membership 

 was 4,873. This was largely local in char- 

 acter, the enrolment from Missouri being 

 2,264. There were only 282 members in at- 

 tendance from the north Atlantic states. 



The American Rontgen Ray Society will 

 hold its fifth annual meeting at St. Louis from 

 September 9 to 13. 



The present year being the jubilee of the 

 British Society of Engineers, the council have 

 decided that the event shall be celebrated by 

 a conversazione, to be held on the evening of 

 November 16. 



Professor Robert Koch has given his per- 

 mission to the publication in the London 

 Times of a translation of a private letter to 

 Mr. G. A. Heron in which he says : " It will 

 interest you to hear that the experiments 

 which were made at my suggestion in the Im- 

 perial Institute of Public Health concerning 

 human and bovine tuberculosis are practically 

 complete, and quite bear out my views. These 

 experiments were carried out on such a num- 

 ber of animals, and with so much care, that 

 they are, I firmly believe, incontrovertible. 

 Besides this, these experiments were made 

 during my absence (in Africa), and, there- 

 fore, were not influenced by me. They prove 

 that bovine and human tuberculosis are dif- 

 ferent from one another. Cattle can not be 

 infected with human tuberculosis. In very 

 rare instances can man be infected with bovine 

 tuberculosis. This work will be published in 

 detail in a few months." 



The Scottish Geographical Journal states 

 that Mr. "W. N. Macmillan has carried out his 

 intention of renewing his attempt to find a 

 commercial river-way between Abyssinia and 

 the Egyptian Sudan, and some details in re- 

 gard to his new expedition are now available. 

 So far the expedition is stated to have proved 

 two important things. It has, in the first 

 place, shown the possibility of navigation up 

 the Sobat and Baro Rivers to the Gambela 

 Cataract at the foot of the Abyssinian plateau. 

 This was demonstrated by Mr. Macmillan's 

 launches at the lowest water, although the 

 view was held by the Sudanese government 



