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section of anatomy and physiology, replacing 

 the late M. Marion. 



The following have been appointed members 

 of the visiting committee of the National Bureau 

 of Standards : Dr. Ira Eemsen, president, Johns 

 Hopkins University ; Professor Elihu Thom- 

 son, electrician, General Electric Company ; 

 Professor E. L. Nichols, professor of physics, 

 Cornell University ; Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, 

 president, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy ; Mr. Albert Ladd Colby, metallurgical 

 engineer, Bethlehem Steel Company, and secre- 

 tary of the Association of American Steel Man- 

 ufactures. Professor E. B. Rosa, of Wesleyan 

 University, has been appointed physicist. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., keeper of 

 the Department of Geology of the British 

 Museum (Natural History), will retire in No- 

 vember, having some time since reached the 

 age limit. It is expected that he will be suc- 

 ceeded by Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, F.R.S., 

 under whom the depai'tment would certainly 

 be administered in accordance with the best 

 scientific methods. Dr. Woodward's visit to 

 this country last j^ear is remembered with great 

 pleasure by many American men of science. 



Professor C. Le Neve Foster, of the Royal 

 School of Mines, London, has resigned the 

 position of inspector of mines, which he has 

 held for the past twenty-eight years. 



We regret to learn that Professor Rudolf Vir- 

 chow has met with an accident, cutting his head 

 by a fall, on June 13. His health has for some 

 time past not been very good. Professor Vir- 

 chow will celebrate his eightieth birthday on 

 October 13. 



Professors David Hilbert (Gottingen), 

 Georg Cantor (Halle) and Ulisse Dini (Pisa) 

 have been elected foreign members of the Lon- 

 don Mathematical Society. 



J. W. LowBER, Ph.D., F.R.G.S., Austin, 

 Texas, has been elected a fellow of the Royal 

 Meteorological Society of London. 



The Belgian quinquennial jury of medical 

 sciences has awarded its prize of the value of 

 5,000 francs to Professor Van Gehuchten of 

 Louvain, for his researches on the brain and 

 spinal cord. 



Professor J. H. Ames, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has accepted the position of 

 associate editor of the American Journal of Sci- 

 ence held by the late Professor H. A. Row- 

 land. 



Dr. R. a. Daly has resigned his place as in- 

 structor of physiography at Harvard University 

 to accept a position on the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, where he will be attached to the party 

 that is marking the international boundary on 

 the Pacific slope. Mr. A. W. G. Wilson, who 

 has just received the degree of Doctor of Phi- 

 losophy in geology at Harvard, has also been 

 appointed to the Canadian Survey for work in 

 the country about Lake Nipigon. 



George G. Hedgcock, B.Sc, 1899, and 

 A.M., 1901, of the University of Nebraska, and 

 sometime fellow in botany, has been appointed 

 by the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture to investigate the diseases of the sugar 

 beets of Nebraska and other western states. 



Professor John B. Johnson, dean of the 

 College of Mechanics and Engineering of the 

 of the University of Wisconsin, opened the dis- 

 cussion on present tendencies in technical and 

 professional education at thfe twenty-ninth an- 

 nual Convocation of the University of the State 

 of New York, held at Albany last week. 



At a meeting of the Western Society of Engi- 

 neers on June 26, Professor B. E. Fernow, of 

 the New York State College of Forestry, deliv- 

 ered an address on ' The Relation of Forestry 

 to Engineering.' 



A COMMITTEE has been formed to erect in 

 Bern a memorial to the great anatomist and 

 physiologist Albrecht v. Haller, who was born 

 in Bern in 1708 and died there in 1777. 



Dr. John Fiske, the well-known lecturer 

 and author, died on July 4 after a short ill- 

 ness caused by the excessive heat. Born in 

 1842, he graduated from Harvard University in 

 1863 and was for a time connected with the 

 University as lecturer on philosophy and later 

 as assistant librarian. Fiske did much by his 

 books, lectures and articles to popularize the 

 doctrine of evolution, especially on the lines 

 laid down by Mr. Herbert Spencer. His ' Out- 



