Ndvembee 11, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Laisant, of the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 

 and Dr. Giuseppe Peano, professor of matlie- 

 maties at the University of Turin, have heen 

 elected honorary members of the Physico- 

 mathematical Society of Kasan. 

 • Professor E. Salkowski, chief of the 

 Chemical Laboratory of the Pathological In- 

 stitute of the University of Berlin, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the Society of 

 Sciences at Upsala. 



De. O. Drude, who has recently been in this 

 country to attend the International Congress 

 of Arts and Science, has celebrated his twenty- 

 fifth jubilee as professor of botany at the 

 Dresden Institute of Technology. Professor 

 Drude is also director of the Botanical Garden 

 at Dresden. 



We learn from Nature that the friends of • 

 Professor Carey Foster, P.E.S., are taking the 

 occasion of his recent retirement from the 

 principalship of University College, London, 

 as an opportunity of showing their apprecia- 

 tion of him by promoting a fund with the 

 object of having his portrait painted for pre- 

 sentation to the council of the college, and a 

 replica for presentation to Mrs. Poster. The' 

 president of the movement is the Eight Hon. 

 Lord Eeay, and the vice-presidents are Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir 

 Arthur Eiicker. 



Mr. N. C. HaMjs^er, a graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia in the class of 1902, and 

 Mr. A. W. Clark, a graduate of the University 

 of Vermont in the class of 1904, have been 

 appointed assistant chemists in the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station of the Pennsylvania 

 State College. The U. S. Secretary of Agri- 

 culture has appointed Mr. P. W. Christensen 

 assistant expert in animal nutrition, in con- 

 formity with the agreement recently made 

 with the station, and assigned him to duty in 

 connection with the cooperative experiments 

 with the respiration calorimeter. Mr. E. E. 

 Stallings has been transferred from the posi- 

 tion of assistant chemist to that of assistant 

 in animal nutrition, and during the remainder 

 of the year will devote his entire time to the 

 investigations with the respiration calori- 

 meter. 



At a recent meeting of the board of trustees 

 of the Ohio State University, James S. Hine, 

 associate professor of zoology and entomology, 

 was granted leave of absence for the winter 

 term of the present college year. He will 

 spend the time in Guatemala collecting zoolog- 

 ical specimens for the museum of that insti- 

 tution. 



Sir Dyce Duckworth has been appointed 

 medical referee to the British treasury and 

 adviser to the pensions' board, vice Dr. Lionel 

 Beale, F.E.S., resigned. 



The Gedge prize in physiology of Cam- 

 bridge University, has been awarded to Mr. 

 K. Lucas, fellow of Trinity, for his paper on 

 ' The Augmentor and Depressor EfPect of 

 Tensions on the Activity of Skeletal Muscle.' 



An examination of Black Eiver near Bes- 

 semer was made last summer by a Michigan 

 geological survey party including Mr. W. C. 

 Gordon and C. E. Smith. The latter has had 

 to resign from the Louisiana Survey on ac- 

 count of malaria. 



Mr. Desmond EitzGerald, of Boston, has 

 recently returned from Manila, where he was 

 sent by the United States government to re- 

 port on questions of sanitation. 



Mr. John Morley made the address at the 

 celebration of Founder's Day at the Carnegie 

 Institute, Pittsburg. 



A memorial meeting was held at Chicago 

 on October 23 in honor of the late Dr. IST. S. 

 Davis. The South Park commissioners have 

 named a park in his honor. 



Professor Clemens A. Winckler, the 

 eminent chemist, died at Dresden on October 

 8, at the age of sixty-six years. 



Professor Max Bartels, of Berlin, known 

 for his publications on ethnology, died on 

 October 22, at the age of sixty-two years. 



Dr. K. S. Lemstrom, professor of physics at 

 Helsingfors, died on October 2. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission in- 

 vites attention to the examination for scien- 

 tific aid in the Department of Agriculture, 

 applications for which may be filed at any 



