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SCIENCE, 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 350. 



Section I. — Railways. Chairman, Sir Benjamiu 

 Baker. 



Section II. — Waterways and Maritime Works. 

 Chairman, Sir John Wolfe Barry, K.C.B., F.E.S. 



Section III. — Mechanical Engineering (Institution 

 of Mechanical Engineers). Chairman, Mr. W.H. Maw. 



Section 7 F.— Naval Architecture and Marine Engi- 

 neering (Institution of Naval Architects). Chairman, 

 the Eight Hon. the Earl of Glasgow. 



Section V. — Iron and Steel (Iron and Steel Insti- 

 tute). Chairman, Mr. William Whitwell. 



Section VI. — Mining ( Institution of Mining Engi- 

 neers). Chairman, Mr. James S. Dixon. 



Section VII. — Municipal Engineering (Association 

 of Municipal and County Engineers). Chairman, 

 Mr. E. George Mawbey. 



Section VIII. — Gas Engineering (Institution of 

 Gas Engineers). Chairman, Mr. George Livesey. 



Section IX. — Electrical (Institution of Electrical 

 Engineers). Chairman, Mr. W. E. Langdon. 



The Department of State has received from 

 the Russian Embassy, Washington, under date 

 of August 12, 1901, notice of the International 

 Exposition and Congress of Fisheries, to be 

 held in St. Petersburg in 1902. An invitation 

 is extended to the United States to participate 

 in the exposition and to send oflScial delegates 

 and experts to the congress. The exhibition 

 is open to Russian and foreign exhibitors. Its 

 objects consist in : (a) Determining the actual 

 condition of sea and fresh-water fisheries, and 

 of other similar pursuits ; (6) acquainting pro- 

 ducers and consumers with the various prod- 

 ucts of fisheries and with methods of prepar- 

 ing and preserving the same ; (c) exhibiting 

 the gradual development and actual state of 

 artificial fish breeding, as likewise the various 

 aspects of amateur fishing and angling ; {d) 

 promoting scientific research pursued in the 

 interests of fisheries. 



Dr. Calmette, the director of the Pasteur In- 

 stitute at Lille, and the discoverer of a cura- 

 tive serum for the efi'ect of snake-bite, was, as 

 a correspondent to the Lancet reports, recently 

 severely bitten on the hand by a trigono- 

 cephalus. Dr. Calmette without delay gave 

 himself an injection of his anti-venomous serum, 

 but nevertheless the hand swelled up and acute 

 fever set in ; but by the afternoon of the same 

 day Dr. Calmette was sufficiently recovered to 

 attend a sitting of the Conseil-Gen^ral of the 



Department, at which he argued in favor of a 

 grant in aid of the sanatorium which he has 

 undertaken to found at Lille. On the follow- 

 ing day he was perfectly well, having thus 

 afforded in his own person, albeit unwillingly, 

 a convincing proof of the efficacy of his excel- 

 lent remedy. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It appears that German soldiers are still oc- 

 cupying the buildings of the University at 

 Tien-Tsin, and the question has been brought 

 to the attention of our Department of State, 

 the institution being conducted under Ameri- 

 can auspices. 



Thomas L. Watson, Ph.D. (Cornell), assist- 

 ant state geologist of Georgia for the past four 

 years, has been elected professor of geology and 

 botany at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. 



Professor F. C. Van Dyck, who holds the 

 chair of electricity and mechanics at Rutgers 

 College, has been made dean of the faculty. 



E. B. Holt, M.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Har- 

 vard), has been appointed instructor in psy- 

 chology in Harvard University, succeeding Dr. 

 Robert MacDougall, recently called to the 

 chair of psychology in the School of Pedagogy, 

 New York University. 



Mr. Frank Nicholas Spindler has been 

 elected professor of psychology and pedagogy 

 in the State Normal College, at Stevens Point, 

 Wisconsin. 



Mr. a. H. Yoder, of the University of Indi- 

 ana, has been appointed professor of pedagogy 

 at the University of Washington. 



A. L. Kroeber, Ph.D. (Columbia), has been 

 appointed instructor in Indian anthropology in 

 the University of California. 



At Brown University, Mr. G. F. Parmenter 

 and Dr. N. A. Dubois have been appointed in- 

 structors in chemistry. 



Mr. S. Y. Wara has been awarded a teach- 

 ing fellowship in chemistry in the University of 

 Missouri. 



Dr. Rudolph Zuber has been promoted to a 

 full professorship of geology at the University 

 at Lemberg. 



