NoVembee 8, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



741 



Pkofessor William Libbey, of Princeton 

 University, and his family have sailed for 

 Europe and will be absent for a year. 



It is reported that the Duke of the Abruzzi 

 will visit the United States next February, 

 with a view to arranging for another expedi- 

 tion to the North Pole. 



Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer, professor of an- 

 atomy at Berlin, was entertained at dinner in 

 New York City on October 26. Addresses were 

 made by Drs. George W. Jacobi, A. Jacobi, 

 William H. Welch and Carl Beck. 



Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, leader of the 

 Swedish Antarctic expedition, was entertained 

 by Sir Clements Markham, president of the 

 Royal Geographical Society at the Royal So- 

 ciety's Club, London, on October 25. The 

 Antarctic left Falmouth the following day for 

 Buenos Ayres and the Falkland Islands. 



Drs. Beyer, Formento and Salomon, of New 

 Orleans, have been appointed civilian members 

 of the government Yellow Fever Institute. 



Dr. R. G. Perkins has been given an ap- 

 pointment to carry on research at Western 

 Reserve University under the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research. Similar appoint- 

 ments at McGill University have been given to 

 Dr. G. A. Charlton and Dr. P. G. Wooley. 



Professor Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard 

 University, will give a series of eight Lowell 

 lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, beginning on November 11, on 'The 

 Results of Experimental Psychology.' 



Mr. Gerow D. Brille, a graduate of Cornell 

 University, has been appointed director of the 

 Agricultural School and Experiment Station, to 

 be established by the United States Government 

 on the island of Negros in the Philippines. 



W. D. Straight, instructor in drawing in 

 Cornell University, has resigned to accept a 

 position in the customs service in China. 



Professor Lawrence Bruner and a party 

 from the department of entomology and ornith- 

 ology of the University of Nebraska, as we 

 learn from The Auk, spent during the early 

 summer some time in the Pine Ridge region of 

 northwestern Nebraska, investigating the birds 

 of the region and making collections. 



Dr. Reid Hunt, associate professor of phar- 

 macology in the Johns Hopkins Medical School 

 has spent the summer at the Montana Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Bozeman, investigat- 

 ing certain poisonous plants for the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. Part of the work 

 was done in conjunction with Mr. V. K. Ches- 

 nut, of Washington. Considerable attention 

 was given to one of the so-called ' loco ' or 

 crazy weeds, and some progress was made in 

 discovering the mode of action of this plant, 

 which has baffled investigators for so many 

 years. 



The Revue generate des sciences, as we have 

 already noted, organized this year a scientific 

 excursion to Asia Minor and Palestine. The 

 party sailed from Marseilles on September 14 

 on the steamship Senegal, chartered for the ex- 

 cursion. Shortly afterwards two members of 

 the crew were found to be affected with the 

 plague, and the steamship returned. There 

 were a number of scientific and medical men in 

 the party. 



Six deaths from the bubonic plague have oc- 

 curred at Liverpool, and the disease has reap- 

 peared in Glasgow. 



Dr. Calmette, director of the Pasteur Insti- 

 tute at Lille, was, as we recently reported, 

 bitten in the hand by one of his rattlesnakes 

 while he was making experiments. Dr. Calmette 

 immediately inoculated himself with his anti- 

 venomous serum, but it was found necessary to 

 amputate one of his fingers. 



The Royal University of Ireland has con- 

 ferred its D.Sc. on Mr. Walter Noel Hartley, 

 F.R.S. , professor of chemistry in the Royal 

 College of Science for Ireland. 



Surgeon-General W. Taylor, M.D.,C.B., 

 has been appointed Director-General of the 

 British army medical service. 



The fund which is being raised to found a 

 memorial to the late Dr. D. J. Leech, for 

 twenty years professor of materia medica and 

 therapeutics at the Owens College, Manchester, 

 has now reached the sum of £1,230. 



Privy Councilor Maercker, professor of 

 agricultural chemistry at the University of 

 Halle, died on October 20. 



