October 21, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



541 



and ' Meteorology in the Colleges and Uni- 

 versities.' 



INDIAN METEOROLOGY. 



The opening address in the subsection on 

 cosmical physics at the recent British Asso- 

 ciation meeting in Cambridge was by Sir John 

 Eliot, late meteorological reporter to the gov- 

 ernment of India. Sir John Eliot's address 

 is published in full in Nature for August 25, 

 and deals with Indian meteorology in relation 

 to the general meteorology of the Indo- 

 oceanic region, and with the abnormal features 

 of the meteorology of that area for the unique 

 period 1892-1902. It also suggests a coordi- 

 nation of the meteorological observations of 

 the British Empire, and the creation of a cen- 

 tral office for the investigation of problems of 

 general meteorology. 



E. DeC. Ward. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The last issue of the program of the Inter- 

 national Congress of Arts and Science pub- 

 lishes the names of 301 speakers, of whom 64 

 are not teachers in universities or other insti- 

 tutions of learning, the rest being distributed 

 as follows, only those universities represented 

 by three or more being given: 



23: Columbia. 



22: Chicago. 



21 : Harvard. 



11: California. 



10: Berlin, Paris, Yale. 



8: Cornell. 



7 : Johns Hopkins. 



6 : Vienna. 



5 : Cambridge, Wisconsin. 



4 : Heidelberg, Leipzig, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, Stanford, Michigan, 

 Nebraska. 



3: McGill, Tokio. 



Fifty-seven institutions were represented by 

 one or two speakers. 



Professor Robert Koch has recently re- 

 turned from Detmond, where he was engaged 

 in investigating an outbreak of typhoid fever 

 for the German government, and has since 

 been at Paris, where he was entertained by 

 the Pasteur Institute. In the course of the 

 winter he will proceed ■ to German East 



Africa in order to continue those studies of 

 tropical and other diseases which he had not 

 completed during his recent visit to Rhodesia. 

 In particular he will continue to investigate 

 the part played by ticks in conveying the in- 

 fection of various cattle diseases. 



Sir William Ramsay was entertained by the 

 Physical Science Department of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences at a banquet in 

 Union League Club, on the evening of October 

 24. On the morning of the same day he spoke 

 to the students of the College of Arts and 

 Engineering of the Brooklyn Polytechnic 

 Institute. 



Dr. James Ward, professor of moral philos- 

 ophy and logic, at Cambridge University, who 

 gave a course of lectures at the University of 

 California and one of the addresses at the 

 International Congress of Arts and Science, 

 has returned to England after giving addresses 

 and being entertained at Princeton, Johns 

 Hopkins, Wesleyan, Cornell and Columbia 

 Universities. 



Courses of Lowell lectures are being given 

 by Principal C. Lloyd Morgan, of University 

 College, Bristol, on 'The Interpretation of 

 Nature,' and by Dr. Pierre Janet, of the Col- 

 lege de France, on ' Hypnotism and Allied 

 Phenomena.' 



Dr. Ewald Hering, professor of physiology 

 at the German University of Prague, has re- 

 cently celebrated his seventieth birthday. 



Professor I. C. Russell, of the University 

 of Michigan, has been engaged the past sum- 

 mer in examining the surface geology of the 

 jSTorthern part of Lake Michigan. 



Mr. G. V. Nash, of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, accompanied by Mr. Taylor, sailed 

 from New York to Inagua, on October 5, for 

 the purpose of continuing the work on the 

 flora of the Bahamas. Dr. H. H. Rusby re- 

 turned from Kew in September, having spent 

 several weeks at work in the herbarium of 

 that institution and in the British Museum, 

 making investigations on the flora of Co- 

 lombia, South America. Dr. M. A. Howe has 

 also returned from an extensive tour among 

 European herbaria. Visits were made to the 

 herbaria at Kew, British Museum, Lund, 



