NOVEMBEK 22, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The erection of this monument is the outcome 

 of the action of the American Fisheries Society 

 at a meeting held at Wood's Holl in the sum- 

 mer of 1900, when resolutions presented by Dr. 

 H. M. Smith, providing for an appropriate me- 

 morial to Professor Baird, were unanimously 

 adopted. The boulder is of granite, weighs 

 about six tons, and was taken from the shores 

 of Nonamesset Island by permission of Mr. J. 

 Malcolm Forbes, whose father, the late John 

 Murray Forbes, manifested great interest in the 

 establishment and work of the station. The 

 memorial will be completed when a suitably 

 inscribed artistic bronze tablet is attached to 

 the stone. This will probably be deferred until 

 next spring. 



A MEDALLION in memory of Dr. W. Kiihne, 

 formerly director of the Physiological Institute, 

 was unveiled at the University of Heidelberg 

 on October 20. 



Professor Richmond Mayo-Smith, since 

 1883 professor of political economy and social 

 science at Columbia University, died, as the re- 

 sult of a fall, on November 11. He was born 

 in Ohio in 1854 and graduated from Amherst 

 College in 1875. Professor Mayo-Smith was 

 the author of numerous important contributions 

 to statistics and other departments of political 

 economy, including books on ' Emigration and 

 Immigration (1890), ' Sociology and Statistics ' 

 (1895) and 'Statistics and Economics' (1899). 

 He was the only representative of political 

 science in the National Academy of Sciences. 



The death is announced of Professor Ralph 

 Tate, since 1876 professor of natural science in 

 the University of Adelaide. He was the author 

 of numerous papers on geology and zoology and 

 was in 1893 president of the Australasian As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science. 



Dr. Alexander Hughes Bennett, the 

 eminent physician, known for his work on 

 diseases of the nervous system, died in London 

 on November 1, at the age of fifty three years. 

 On his special subjects of epilepsy and paraly- 

 sis he had written largely, and was the author 

 of the well-known ' Practical Treatise on Elec- 

 tro-diagnosis in Diseases of the Nervous Sys- 

 tem,' and of the smaller text-book founded 

 upon that work. 



Mr. Henry Spencer Smith, one of the 

 original fellows of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, London, died on October 29, at the age 

 of eighty -eight years, Mr. Smith was secretary 

 to the first government inquiry into the pathol- 

 ogy and treatment of contagious diseases, and 

 was a fellow and formerly vice-president of the 

 Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society. He contrib- 

 uted frequently to the medical journals and 

 translated several works, including Professor 

 Schwann's work on 'Microscopical Researches 

 into the Accordance in the Structure and 

 Growth of Animals and Plants,' which obtained 

 for its author, in 1845, the award of the Copley 

 Medal of the Royal Society of London. 



We also regret to record the deaths of Dr- 

 Marcel Nencki, professor of biological chemistry 

 in the University of St. Petersburg, at the age 

 of 56 years ; of Professor Max Marcker, director 

 of the Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Halle, at the age of 59 years, and of Professor 

 Miguel Colmeiro, director of the Botanical 

 Gardens at Madrid, at the age of 86 years. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000,- 

 000 as an additional endowment of the Car- 

 negie Institute and has added $1,000,000 to the 

 million dollars he has already given toward an 

 endowment of the Carnegie Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute, to be erected at Pittsburg. Mr. Carnegie 

 has also offered $50,000 to Springfield, Mo., for 

 a free piiblic library building. 



A New York State civil service examination 

 will be held in various cities throughout the 

 State on or about December 7, 1901, for the 

 position of director of the New York State 

 Pathological Institute, with a salary of $5,000. 

 The subjects and weights for the examination 

 are : Pathological anatomy of the nervous sys- 

 tem, technique and methods of neural investi- 

 gation, architecture of the nervous system and 

 lines of research to be applied to the study 

 of the pathology of insanity, 8 ; experience, 2. 

 The position is open to non-residents of the 

 State, subject to the provision that if the eligible 

 list contains the names of three or more per- 

 sons who are citizens and residents of New 

 York State, such persons shall be preferred in 

 certification over non-residents. Examinations 

 will also be held for the positions of assistant 



