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and assistant in anthropology with assignment 

 for field work among the Indians of California. 

 Professor J. C. Merriam of the paleontological 

 department has been given immediate charge 

 of the research. Dr. P. M. Jones is engaged 

 in archeological work with special reference 

 to Santa Rosa Island. An honorary advisory 

 committee has been appointed by the regents, 

 as follows : 



Dr. Benjamin I. Wheeler, President of the Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor F. W. Putnam, Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee. 



Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. 



Miss Alice C. Fletcher. 



Mrs. Zelia Nuttall. 



Dr. Franz Boas. 



Professor John C. Merriam. 



Mr, .1. G. M. E. d'Aquin has been appointed 

 assistant secretary and executive officer of the 

 department. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The eightieth birthday of Professor Rudolf 

 Virchow has been celebrated in Berlin with 

 elaborate ceremonies. The birthday actually 

 occurred on Sunday, October 13, but the pub- 

 lic exercises were on the previous day. There 

 was a reception in the Pathological Institute in 

 the afternoon and a banquet in the dining hall 

 of the Prussian Diet in the evening, followed by 

 an official reception in the parliament hall. 

 Professor Waldeyer, secretary of the Berlin 

 Academy of Sciences, presented 50,000 Marks, 

 subscribed by medical men in Germany toward 

 increasing the Virchow research fund. The 

 Emperor has conferred an order and a medal, 

 which have presumably been so long withheld 

 owing to Professor Virchow's active participa- 

 tion on behalf of liberal institutions. The 

 municipality of Berlin has resolved to call its 

 new hospital, containing beds for 1,700 patients, 

 the Virchowkrankenhaus. In New York City 

 there was a banquet in honor of Virchow on 

 October 12, when addresses were made by Drs. 

 William Osier, W. H. Welch, A. Jacobi and 

 A. H. Smith. Two days previously the Gesel- 

 ligwissenschaftliche Verein also celebrated the 



event, on which occasion addresses were made 

 by Drs. A. Jacobi, Franz Boas and J. N. Senner. 



A STATUE of Pasteur was unveiled on Sep- 

 tember 9, at Arbois, where he spent his child- 

 hood and his holidays in later life. The monu- 

 ment, erected at a cost of over $10,000, was 

 designed by M. Daillon and represents Pasteur 

 seated. On the pedestal are two bas-reliefs, 

 one representing inoculation against rabies and 

 the other agriculture profiting from Pasteur's 

 discoveries. On the occasion of the unveiling 

 addresses were made by M. Decrais, French 

 minister of the colonies, and M. Liard, repre- 

 senting the Department of Public Instruction. 



Among the scientific men who will be pres- 

 ent as delegates at the bicentennial celebration 

 of Yale University are : President H. S. Prit- 

 chett and Professors Wm. T. Sedgwick and 

 George F. Swain from the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology ; President Schurman from 

 Cornell University ; Professors J. M, Van 

 Vleck, W. N. Rice and W. O. At water from 

 Wesleyan University, and Dr. H. C. Bumpus 

 from the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. 



Dr. Rudolf von Leuthold, has been ap- 

 pointed StafF-Surgeon-General of the German 

 Army, in succession to the late Dr. von Coler. 



Surgeon general George M. Sternberg 

 has returned to Washington after a tour of in- 

 spection in the Philippines. 



Professor Bashford Dean has returned to 

 Columbia, after spending his sabbatical year in 

 the east. He has brought back an almost com- 

 plete series of developmental stages of the Port 

 Jackson Shark, Heterodontus japonicus, a num- 

 ber of stages in the development of Chlamydose- 

 lachus, two new Mijxinoids, a new Chimera, to- 

 gether with a general zoological collection. 

 During a visit to the Hokkaido (Yezo), he 

 brought together several hundred specimens of 

 Aino antiquities, which are now deposited in the 

 American Museum of Natural Hislory in New 

 York. He also secured a collection of interest- 

 ing glass sponges from the region of Misaki, 

 which are also destined for the American Mu- 

 seum. Among other specimens are included a 



