902 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 362. 



Mr. Joseph W. T. Duvel, who is holding for 

 the third time the Ferry Fellowship in botany 

 at the University of Michigan, spent the sum- 

 mer and fall in Europe, inspecting the several 

 botanical experiment stations. He is again 

 carrying on research work on the conditions af- 

 fecting the germination of seeds, in the botan- 

 ical laboratory of the University of Michigan. 



Dr. William R. Harper, president of the 

 University of Chicago, has accepted the direc- 

 torship of the educational congresses to be held 

 in connection with the World's Fair in St. Louis. 



Mr. John Hyde has resigned the editorship- 

 in-chief of the National Geographic Magazine, 

 which he has held since 1895, with a view to 

 devoting so much of his time as is not occupied 

 with his exacting duties as statistician of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture to work in a 

 much-neglected branch of economic science. 



Dr. Remlinger, director of the Antirabic 

 Institute at Constantinople, has been appointed 

 chief of the Imperial Bacteriological Institute, 

 replacing Professor Nicolle. Dr. Remlinger will 

 continue also to hold his former post. 



Mr. Alfred L. Jones, the originator of the 

 School of Tropical Medicine at Liverpool, has 

 been made a Knight Commander of the Order 

 of St. Michael and St. George. 



Mr. William Marconi left London on No- 

 vember 25, for Newfoundland, where he will 

 select sites for the erection of stations for his 

 system of wireless telegraphy. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has made 

 an appropriation of 3,000 Marks to Dr. Blanco 

 for a continuation of his geological investiga- 

 tions, and of 1,500 Marks to Professor Boveri 

 for investigations on the fertilization and early 

 development of the egg. 



We regret to announce the death of the emi- 

 nent magnetist, Professor Max Eschenhagen, at 

 the age of 43 years. He has been in charge of 

 the Royal Prussian Magnetic Observatory since 

 its establishment in 1899, and he took a very 

 active part in the planning of the magnetic 

 work of the German Antarctic expedition and 

 in arranging the international work to be car- 

 ried out simultaneously over the entire globe 

 during the period of the expeditions. His con- 

 tributions to terrestrial magnetism are numer- 



ous, his skill exhibiting itself especially in 

 the improvement of magnetic instruments and 

 in the designing of new ones. His light, con- 

 venient, portable magnetographs will be ex- 

 tensively used in the international work. 



The death is announced at the age of 59 

 years of Mr. A. H. Smee, author of valuable 

 contributions to chemistry and physiology. He 

 was the principal medical adviser of the 

 Gresham Life Assurance Society, and his sta- 

 tistical reports on rates of mortality are stand- 

 ard authorities. 



The archeological field work, conducted in 

 central New Brunswick during the past summer 

 by Mr. Samuel W. Kain, yielded good results, 

 but owing to Mr. Kain's ill health the report 

 will not be published for some time. 



The Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna 

 has received, according to Nature, intelligence 

 of the botanical expedition in Brazil, from its 

 chief. Professor R. von Waldheim, down to Sep- 

 tember 10, from Sao Paulo. The rivers Rio 

 Branco, Rio Mambu and Rio Aguapihy, flow- 

 ing through an almost unexplored country, had 

 been navigated in canoes ; and large consign- 

 ments have already been sent to Vienna in the 

 form of living plants and roots, herbarium 

 specimens, preparations in spirit, woods, fruits 

 and economic products. 



Reuter's Agency reports from St. Petersburg 

 that uneasiness is no longer felt regarding the 

 fate of the scientific expedition under Lieu- 

 tenant Kozloflf, which was reported some time 

 ago to have been massacred by a band of 

 Tibetans, as news has been received stating 

 that the expedition left Si-ning-fu, which is 

 near Lake Kokonor, on September 12, for Fus- 

 har. The expedition was escorted by Chinese 

 soldiers, and further news has been received 

 from the Russian Consul at Chuguchak, who 

 had been informed by local authorities that the 

 party had passed through Jan-Ian and Datum. 



The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp 

 announces an exposition to be opened in that 

 city in May next. The object is to popularize 

 geographical sciences, to make those countries 

 recently opened to commercial activity better 

 known, and to contribute to the development 

 of the mercantile marine and of maritime enter- 



