May 18, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The death is announced of M. Edouard Grim- 

 aux, the eminent chemist, member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences and professor in the 

 Polytechnic School of Paris, until deprived of 

 this oiEce by General Billot for maintaining his 

 belief in the innocence of M. Dreyfus. We 

 have no information that the wrong done him 

 on that occasion had been repaired in view of 

 the more recent developments. M. Grimaux's 

 numerous publications include ' Equivalents, 

 atomes et molecules' (1866), ' Chimie organ- 

 ique ' (1872-1878), 'Chimie inorganique ele- 

 mentaire ' (1874-1879), ' theories et notations 

 chimiques ' (1884), and 'Lavoisier.' 



Dr. Langdon -Carter Gray of New York 

 City, a specialist in nervous and mental diseases 

 and a past president of the American Neuro- 

 logical Association, died on May 8th at the age 

 of 50 years. 



The death is announced of Dr. George Viner 

 Ellis, who held the" chair of anatomy in Uni- 

 versity College, London, for twenty-seven years 

 and was the author of several works on human 

 anatomy. He became a member of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons 65 years ago. 



The Senate Committee on Commerce on May 

 10th agreed to report the Philadelphia Com- 

 mercial Museums Bill carrying an apjiropriation 

 of $200,000. 



The mansion of P. A. B. Widener, at Broad 

 Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, was 

 presented to the city on May 8th to be used as 

 a free library and art gallery. The gift is valued 

 at $1,000,000, and it is said that Mr. Widener 

 intends to endow the institution amply. 



The forty-first meeting of the American So- 

 ciety of Mechanical Engineers was held at the 

 Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, 0., May 15 to 18, 

 1900. 



The Geologische Beichsanstalt of Vienna will 

 commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its 

 foundation at a meeting to be held on June 9th. 



The German Congress of Medicine which has 

 been holding its sessions at Wiesbaden will 

 meet next year at Berlin under the presidency 

 of Professor Senator. In the German Surgical 

 Congress Professor Czerny has been elected pre- 

 sident in succession to Professor von Bergmann. 



Two hundred and sixteen cases of the plague 

 have now been reported at Sydnej', of which 

 number one-third were fatal. Twenty cases 

 including thirteen deaths have been reported 

 at Port Said. The disease shows no abatement 

 in India. During the last week regarding 

 which records are at hand there were in the 

 Bombay Presidency 730 deaths, in Karachi 315 

 deaths, in Calcutta 648 deaths, and iu Hong 

 Kong the disease was increasing. Cholera is 

 seriously epidemic in the famine districts of 

 India. 



The British Medical Journal reports that all 

 the arrangements have now been made for the 

 carrying out of the experiments as to the pre- 

 vention of malaria which were referred to by 

 Dr. Manson in his address before the Colonial 

 Institute. A mosquito-proof malaria hut has 

 been constructed by Messrs. Humphrey, of 

 Knightsbridge, and will be sent out to Italy 

 about the first week in May. The experiments, 

 the cost of which is to be defrayed by the Co- 

 lonial OflSce, will be begun in June and con- 

 tinued till October, thus covering the malaria 

 season. Dr. Luigi Sambon, lecturer of the 

 London Tropical School of Medicine, and Dr. 

 G. C. Low, a distinguished student of the school, 

 have volunteered to be the subjects of the ex- 

 periment by occupying the hut throughout the 

 period indicated. Their business will be to 

 keep themselves from being bitten by mosqui- 

 toes. Professor Celli has kindly offered every 

 assistance in furtherance of the experiments, 

 and will select a site for the huts within the 

 area of his own field of experimental work on 

 malaria. The Italian government has also ex- 

 pressed its sympathy with the objects of the 

 expedition, and Professor Baccelli has promised 

 his assistance. A series of correlative experi- 

 ments will be made in England by exposing 

 healthy Britons to the bites of malaria-infected 

 mosquitoes, which will be supplied for the pur- 

 pose by Professors Bignami and Bastianelli, 

 of Rome. In this case, too, several persons 

 have already offered themselves as subjects of 

 the experiments, including a son of Dr. Man- 

 son's. 



The report of the Corporation of Glasgow on 

 the Museums and Art Galleries, for 1899, shoT)'s 



