NOVEMBEK 4, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



615 



At the sixth International Congress of 

 Physiology at Brussels, Professor Heger, the 

 president, inaugurated a movement to erect 

 a monument to Marey, the inventor of the 

 sphygmograph. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on November 22 and 23 to fill positions as 

 irrigation engineer and drainage engineer, in 

 connection with the irrigation and drainage 

 investigations in the Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions, Department of Agriculture. The initial 

 salary will be from $1,500 to $2,000 per an- 

 num according to qualifications. On the 

 same days there will be an examination to 

 fill the position of pharmacologist at a salary 

 of $800, and of chemist and collector at a 

 salary of $1,500 in the Bureau of Government 

 Laboratories at Manila. On November 30 

 there will be an examination- to fill the posi- 

 tion of scientific assistant in the Bureau of 

 Fisheries at a salary of $750. 



The International Society of the Directors 

 of Museums met at Nuremberg, from October 

 3 to 5. 



The fifth Italian Pediatric Congress will 

 be held in Rome on October 28 to 31. 



The Committee on Awards of the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 'have con- 

 ferred upon the Wellcome Chemical Research 

 Laboratories a grand prize and three gold 

 medals, in recognition of the importance and 

 educational value of the chemical and pharma- 

 cognostical researches conducted under the 

 direction of Dr. Frederick B. Power. 



A PARTY of about 150 French physicians 

 and surgeons have paid a visit to London. 

 They were entertained at the various medical 

 institutions of the city. 



An amendment to the state constitution, 

 which will be voted upon at the next election 

 in November, provides for exempting from 

 taxation the property of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



The lectures given by Professor de Vries, 

 at the University of California, during the 

 summer of 1904, are being edited by Dr. D. 

 T. MacDougal and will be published by the 

 Open Court Publishing Co., of Chicago, in 

 January, in a volume entitled ' Species and 

 Varieties ; their Origin by Mutation.' 



We learn from The American Geologist tha.t 

 the ijaleontological library of the late Pro- 

 fessor Charles E. Beecher, of Yale University, 

 is for sale. It comprises more than 3,000 

 pamphlets and 200 volumes. Those wishing 

 for further information should apply to Pro- 

 fessor Charles Schuchert, Yale University 

 Museum, New Haven, Conn. 



Nature states that an attempt is being made 

 to establish an association of teachers of sci- 

 ence, art and technology who are engaged in 

 teaching at London institutions. It is hoped 

 that the new association may become ulti- 

 mately a national body. It has been agreed 

 at meetings already held that the principal 

 aims and objects of the association should be 

 the general advancement of technical educa- 

 tion; the interchange of ideas regarding meth- 

 ods of teaching technical subjects; the pro- 

 motion and safeguarding of the professional 

 interests of the members of the association in 

 such matters as tenure, pensions and registra- 

 tion; to lay the views of the association be- 

 fore educational authorities and before the 

 public; and to enable the members to coop- 

 erate as a body with other scientific and edu- 

 cational associations. Arrangements have 

 been made for a general meeting to be held 

 on October 22 at the Birkbeck College, Chan- 

 cery Lane, at 3:30. All London teachers of 

 science, art and technology, other than those 

 employed in secondary schools, are invited to 

 be present. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that the next congress of French scientific 

 societies will be held at Algiers in 1905. The 

 following are the questions proposed for dis- 

 cussion in the section of medicine: Tubercu- 

 losis and the means of diminishing contagion ; 

 sanatoriums at high altitudes and by the sea- 

 side; hygiene of hot countries; methods of 

 disinfection against contagious diseases and 

 the results obtained in towns, in rural dis- 

 tricts and in the institutions where the dis- 

 infection of dwellings and living rooms is 

 practised; the conveyance of water to towns; 

 the different forms of plague and its propaga- 

 tion; the part played by insects in the dis- 

 semination of disease; the prophylaxis of 



