October 11, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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chemistry and physics in the Imperial Univer- 

 sity of Kyoto, Japan, who have been spending 

 a few weeks in this country, sailed from New 

 York City, on October 8, for Europe, in continu- 

 ation of their eastward trip around the world. 

 They expect to reach Japan in February, in 

 time to resume their duties at the beginning of 

 the second half-year. 



The Hon. Andrew D. White, United States 

 Ambassador to Germany, arrived in New York 

 on October 5. He will return to his post in 

 Berlin shortly. 



There was a meeting of the students of the 

 graduate school of Harvard University on 

 October 3, at which Professor E. C. Pickering, 

 director of Harvard College Observatory, made 

 an address. 



Mr. S.. p. Jones, of Atlanta, Ga., has been 

 appointed assistant State Geologist of Georgia, 

 vice Dr. Thomas L. Watson, resigned. Mr. 

 Jones, after five years' work at the University 

 of Georgia, practiced law a year or more, and 

 then pursued a course of geological study with 

 Professors Le Conte, Lawson and Merriam at 

 the University of California. A year or two 

 was spent in teaching, and in 1900 he refused 

 an appointment on the Alabama Geological 

 Survey to accept a fellowship at Vanderbilt 

 University. 



Dr. Arthur Willey has resigned the post 

 of curator to the museum at Demarara, to 

 which he was recently appointed, and the 

 place will be filled by Mr. R. Evans, of Oxford. 



The Swiney lectures on geology, in connec- 

 tion with the British Museum (Natural History), 

 will this year be given by Mr. John S. Flett. 

 The subject of the course of twelve lectures is 

 ' The Geological Evidences of Former Geo- 

 graphical Conditions.' The first lecture will 

 be given on October 7. 



In the death of Frederick Fraley, born on 

 May 18, 1804, Philadelphia has lost one of its 

 most honored citizens. Mr. Fraley was always 

 ready to assist scientific work. He was one of 

 the original trustees of Girard College, since 

 1847 trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and since 1880 president of the American 

 Philosophical Society. 



Dr. a. F. W. Schimper, professor of botany 

 at Basle, died on September 9, at the age of 

 forty-five years. 



The London Times announces the death of 

 Mr. Martin Fountain Woodward, demonstator 

 in biology at the Royal College of Science, 

 South Kensington. He was the younger son of 

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

 department of geology in the British Museum, 

 and was drowned on the night of September 

 15, by the capsizing of a boat on the Irish 

 coast. Mr. Woodward was in temporary 

 charge of the marine biological laboratory of 

 the Fisheries Board for Ireland. He and his 

 friend, Mr. W. Watson, F.R.S., assistant pro- 

 fessor to Professor Riicker, at the Royal Col- 

 lege of Science, were crossing from Innisbofin, 

 when, about a mile from the shore, the boat 

 was caught by a sudden squall and capsized. 

 Mr. Watson and the fisherman who was with 

 them reached the shore with the aid of an oar, 

 but their companion was not seen again after 

 the boat turned over. Mr. Woodward entered 

 the Royal School of Mines and Normal College 

 of Science in 1883, where he obtained the Mur- 

 chison Prize and Medal. He was appointed 

 demonstrator in biology in 1885 by Professor 

 Huxley, and had since acted in that capacity to 

 Professor Howes. He was the author of vari" 

 ous papers on mollusca and on the dentition of 

 mammalia. In 1898-1900 he edited an English 

 edition of Korschelt and Heider's ' Text-book 

 of Embryology of Invertebrates.' He was sec- 

 retary of the Malacological Society of London, 

 and was specially devoted to marine zoology, 

 having on several occasions dredged the British 

 and French coasts. 



We learn from Nature that the Reale Isti- 

 tuto Veneto announces nine prizes for competi- 

 tion in the faculties of science, letters and arts, 

 for which essays have to be sent in at the close, 

 of the years 1901, 1902, 1903. The subjects in 

 science include the projective properties of the 

 two-dimensional algebraic surfaces of n-dimen- 

 sioual space, the geophysical and biological 

 characters of the lakes of the Venetian dis- 

 trict excluding the Lago di Garda, and the de- 

 velopment of the respiratory apparatus of the 

 pulmonate vertebrata. 



