370 /Scientific Intelligence. 



The lecture by M. Paul Giraud on the medical technique and 

 results of the successful treatment of various malignant growths, 

 together with some of the theories of the mode of action of 

 radium, are well worth the perusal of both physician or physi- 

 ologist. The next lecture by M. Jacques Danne, at one time an 

 assistant to M. Curie, and a man who took a great part in the 

 discovery of radium, gives an excellent resume of the properties, 

 production and medical technique of the use of radium emana- 

 tion. This lecture treats of the work up to the latest times. M. 

 Gaston Danne, Chief of the Laboratory at Gif, describes the 

 various means of utilizing radium and the apparatus employed. 

 The final lecture by M. Henri Coutard treats of the action of 

 radio-active substances other than radium, their medical applica- 

 tion and the technique of their use. A very important part of 

 the publication is a complete bibliography of radium literature, 

 particularly as applied to medicine. s. g. 



Obituary. 



Rev. Osmond Fisher, of Graveley, Huntingdon, England, 

 well-known for his important papers on the geological history of 

 the earth, died on July 12 at the advanced age of ninety-six 

 years. A communication from his pen was published in the num- 

 ber for February last. 



Mr. Alfred John Jukes-Brown, formerly connected with 

 the Geological Survey of England, died on August 14 at the age 

 of sixty-three years. 



Dr. Eduard Reter, professor of Geology at the University 

 of Vienna, died recently at the age of sixty-six years. 



Professor Hermann Klein of Cologne, astronomer and 

 meteorologist, died recently at the age of seventy years. 



Dr. Francis Humphreys Storer, the eminent chemist, died 

 recently at the age of eighty-tw x o years. He was professor of 

 general and industrial chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology from 1867-1870 and professor of agricultural chem- 

 istry in Harvard University from 1870-1907. He was the author 

 of numerous books and papers upon chemical subjects. 



Dr. Frederick William True, the zoologist and assistant 

 secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in charge of the library 

 and exchanges, died on June 25 in his fifty-sixth year. 



Dr. Seth Eugene Meek, the zoologist and assistant curator in 

 the Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago, died on June 

 6 at the age of fifty-five years. 



Mr. Carl Fuchs, the entomologist, died at his home in 

 Alameda, California, on June 11 at the age of seventy-four years. 



Dr. Albert Smith Bickmore, naturalist and educator, died on 

 August 12 at the age of sevent}'-tive years. 



Professor Franklin William Hoop kr, director of the Brook- 

 lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, died on August 1 at the age 

 of sixty-three years. 



Rev. Horace Carter Hovey, known for his papers on caverns 

 and their fauna and flora, died recently in his eighty-second year. 



