October 28, 1904.] 



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The Eoyal Society of Sciences at Gottingen 

 has made grants, aggregating 5,600 Marks, to 

 Dr. Brendel to assist in the publication of his 

 edition of the works of Gauss; to Dr. Eiecke 

 and Professor Wiechert for the continuation 

 of their researches on atmospheric electricity; 

 to Professor Wiechert for seismological work 

 in the Alps, and to Dr. Wagner for a catalogue 

 of ancient maps. 



The International Surgical Congress, re- 

 cently in session at Paris, has appointed a com- 

 mittee of specialists to examine the claims 

 of Dr. Doyen that he has discovered a serum 

 curing cancer. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed at Copen- 

 hagen to collect fund for the erection of a 

 monument to Professor Niels Finsen. 



John Livingston Dinwiddie Brothwick, 

 chief engineer in the United States Navy (re- 

 tired), died from nervous prostration, at 

 Florence, on October 22, at the age of sixty- 

 four years. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 legacy of £25,000 left by the late Professor 

 Puschmann, of Vienna, to the University of 

 Leipzig, is to be applied to the study of the 

 history of medicine. It is proposed to found 

 a historical museum of medicine, and a special 

 seminary for training persons in medico-his- 

 torical research and in historiography, with a 

 salaried director and assistant. The names 

 of Dr. Sudhoff and Dr. von Oefele have al- 

 ready been suggested, both eminent in the 

 science of the history of medicine. Professor 

 Puschmann was professor of the history of 

 medicine at Leipzig until 1879, when he ac- 

 cepted a call to a similar chair at Vienna. 

 He died in 1899, and his will was at first con- 

 tested, but the money has now been paid to 

 the university. 



The annual meeting of the British Iron 

 and Steel Institute is being held in New York 

 City this week. About 350 members and 

 guests were expected to be present. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 foundation of a German Physiological Society 

 is one of the outcomes of the meeting of Ger- 

 man Men of Science and Physicians recently 

 held at Breslau. Professor Schenk, of Mar- 



burg is president and Professor Hiirthle, of 

 Breslau, treasurer of the new society. The 

 first meeting of the society will be held at 

 Marburg at Whitsuntide, 1905. 



We learn from the Bulletin of the American 

 Mathematical Society that an effort is being 

 made to establish a society for the study of 

 the history of the natural and technical sci- 

 ences. The subject was presented at the Third 

 International Congress of Mathematics at 

 Heidelberg last August, and at the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Philosophy at Geneva in 

 September and attracted favorable attention. 

 Those who are interested in the founding of 

 such a society are asked to communicate at 

 an early date with Ingenieur F. M. Feldhaus, 

 Eohrbach, Heidelberg, Germany. 



The University of Washington proposes to 

 establish a permanent marine station at a 

 point, yet to be decided on, at Puget Sound. 

 During the present summer a temporary sta- 

 tion was established at Friday Harbor, in 

 charge of Professor Trevor Kincaid and Dr. 

 T. C. Frye. 



Dr. Alexander F. Chamberlain, of Clark 

 University, Worcester, Mass., and William 

 Wallace Tooker, of Sag Harbor, Long Island, 

 are engaged upon a work to be entitled, ' The 

 Proverbs of Solomon, King of Israel. From 

 Eliot's Indian Bible. With Introduction, 

 Notes and Vocabulary.' This is the first 

 attempt to make accessible to scholars and to 

 the public in generfil any considerable portion 

 of this famous book. The tercentenary of 

 Eliot's birth occurs in 1904 and the ' Book of 

 Proverbs ' in this dress will be one of the 

 many tributes to the memory of the ' Indian 

 Apostle.' The difiiculties of the work are 

 such that no date of publication can be fixed. 



The London Times states that it never uses 

 the same type twice. Every day a new supply 

 is delivered at its ofiices by the Wicks Rotary 

 Type-Casting Company, amounting on the 

 average to as many as a million letters ; and 

 the whole of it is removed on the following 

 day to be put into the melting-pot. Such 

 lavishness could only be possible with type 

 made at extraordinary speed and with excep- 

 tional cheapness, and the invention that first 



