DiCCEMBEE 30, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



9,S3 



Dr. Donald MacAlistee, the representative 

 of Cambridge on the General Medical Council 

 for the last fifteen years, has been elected 

 president of the council in succession to Sir 

 William Turner, K.C.B., principal of Edin- 

 burgh University. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the University of Marburg, on the occa- 

 sion of the four-hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous 

 of Hesse, conferred the honorary degree of 

 doctor of medicine on Professor Adolf Har- 

 nack, of Berlin, the famous historian of theo- 

 logical dogma. The reason of this distinction 

 is that Dr. Harnack contributed an essay on 

 medical matters in the earliest period of 

 church history to the Festschrift produced in 

 honor of his father-in-law, Professor Thiersch, 

 the distinguished surgeon of Leipzig. 



The Eev. Prancis Bashforth, second 

 wrangler 1843, formerly fellow of the college, 

 and distinguished for his researches in bal- 

 listics, has been elected to an honorary fellow- 

 ship of St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Dr. K. a. Hasselbach, docent of physiology 

 in the University of Copenhagen, has been 

 appointed head of the laboratory of the Finsen 

 Institute in that city. 



Professor John A. Miller, of Indiana LTni- 

 versity, will be among the American astron- 

 omers who will go to Spain next year to ob- 

 serve the total eclipse of the sun on Augaist 

 13, 1905. 



Dr. 0. Hecker, of the Potsdam Magnetic 

 Observatory, Germany, is now engaged at 

 Tokio, Japan, in gravity and magnetic meas- 

 urements and in making comparisons with 

 those of Professor A. Tanakadate, of the 

 Imperial University at Tokio. 



Mr. L. T. Ayson, commissioner and chief 

 inspector of fisheries for New Zealand, has 

 arrived in California for the purpose of taking 

 home with him eggs of the white fish and 

 salmon. 



Dr. Friedrich Hoffmann, an eminent stu- 

 dent of scientific pharmacy, died at his home 

 in Charlottenburg on JSToveniber 30. Dr. Hoff- 

 mann lived in New York City from 1862 to 1895 

 and was well known for his scientific work and 



as editor of the Pharmaceutische Eundschau. 

 He was a fellow of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



Professor J. L. Budd, for twenty-two years 

 at the head of the horticultural department 

 at the Iowa State Agricultural College, has 

 died at San Antonio, Texas. 



Dr. Gaetano CocChi, who was sent by the 

 Italian government to study malaria in South 

 America, has died of yellow fever at Merida 

 in Mexico. 



The heirs of Professor Virchow have given 

 about $12,000 to be applied towards the pre- 

 vention of infant mortality in Berlin. 



It is stated in Nature that a valuable col- 

 lection of specimens illustrative of the fauna 

 of the deep sea has recently been received at 

 the British (Natural History) Museum as a 

 gift from the king of Portugal. The collec- 

 tion is reported to include a number of deep- 

 sea fishes, among which are sharks of con- 

 siderable size. 



The Russian admiralty is perfecting ar- 

 rangements to send, as soon as the war is over, 

 an expedition headed by Admiral Vilchitsky, 

 chief of the Hydrographic Bureau, to explore 

 thoroughly the Arctic route to the Far East. 



The National Educational Association will 



meet at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, N. J., 



from July 3-7, 1905, under the presidency of 



-Dr. Wm. P. Maxwell, superintendent of 



schools of New York City. 



The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia an- 

 nounces the following program of popular sci- 

 ence lectures, to be given in Association Hall, 

 Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets, under the 

 joint patronage of the institute and the Cen- 

 tral Branch of the Y. M. C. A. : 



Friday, January 13. — Professor Leslie W. Mil- 

 ler, School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia, ' Civic 

 Beauty and Civic Duty.' 



Friday, January 20. — ^Mr. H. E. Duncan, Amer- 

 ican Waltham Watch Co., Waltham, Mass., ' The 

 Mechanism of the Pocket Watch.' 



Friday, January 27. — Mr. Fred. E. Ives, New 

 York, ' Here and There with a Color Camera.' 



Friday, February 3. — Professor Angelo Hellprln, 

 Philadelphia, ' El-Kantara : A Glimpse of the 

 African Desert.' 



