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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 524. 



At the meeting of the California Academy, 

 of Sciences, recently held in San Francisco, 

 Mr. Walter K. Fisher, assistant in the depart- 

 ment of zoology, of Stanford University, de- 

 livered a lecture entitled ' Bird-life on a 

 Tropical Island of the Pacific. 



Dr. Otto Nordenskiold lectured on his 

 Antarctic exploration before the French Geo- 

 graphical Society on December 16. 



Plans have been made to erect a memorial 

 to Dr. Franz Riegel, professor of medicine 

 at Giessen, who died last August. 



Nature states that it is proposed to estab- 

 lish in the TJniversity of Liverpool a memorial 

 to Mr. E. W. H. T. Hudson, late lecturer in 

 mathematics, whose brilliant career was so 

 tragically cut short at the end of last Sep- 

 tember. The memorial will probably take 

 the form of an annual prize in mathematics, 

 to be awarded for distinction in geometry, 

 the subject in which Mr. Hudson's work 

 chiefly lay. 



Dr. Ben.jamin West Frazier, professor of 

 mineralogy and metallurgy at Lehigh Uni- 

 versity since 1871, died as the result of a 

 stroke of apoplexy on January 4, at the age 

 of sixty-three years. 



Mr. C. C. Barrett, an English entomolo- 

 gist, has died at the age of sixty-eight years. 



Sir Lothian Bell, F.E.S., the author of 

 works on metallurgy, died on December 2P 

 at the age of eighty-eight years. 



The death is also announced of Professor 

 Hermann Wilfarth, director of The Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station at Bernburg; and 

 of M. Paul Tannery, author of works on the 

 history of science. 



Foreign exchanges state that the Circolo 

 Matematico di Palermo inteufls to offer an 

 international prize for geometry at the fourth 

 International Mathematical Congress, which 

 will meet at Koine in 1908. The prize will 

 consist of a sniali gold medal, to be called the 

 Guiccia medal, after its founder, and of 3,000 

 francs, and will be given by preference, though 

 not necessarily, to an essay which advances 

 the knowledge of the theory of algebraical 

 curves of space. The treatises may be written 

 in Italian, French, German or English, and 



must be sent to the president of the Circolo 

 Matematico before July 1, 1907. 



The New York Evening Post states that in 

 pursuance of the written agreement between 

 Harvard and New York Universities, to carry 

 on for ten years a biological station in the 

 Bermuda Islands, a supervising committee has 

 been completed by the acceptance of a third 

 member of the committee, Hugo Baring, who 

 was nominated by the Royal Society of Lon- 

 don, which is a contributor to the enterprise 

 through the Bermuda government. Harvard 

 University is represented on the committee by 

 Hon. Charles S. Fairchild, ex-secretary of the 

 United States Treasury, and New York Uni- 

 versity by Mr. William M. Kingsley, the treas- 

 urer of the university. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $263,000 to 

 the Maryland Institute School of Art and 

 Design, thus doubling the assets of the institu- 

 tion. A new building will be erected to re- 

 place the one destroyed in the Baltimore fire. 

 It is also stated that Mr. Carnegie has inti- 

 mated to officials of the Franklin Institute, 

 of Philadelphia, that if they can secure the 

 Franklin fund amounting to about $155,000, 

 in the hands of the Board of City Trusts, he 

 will add an equal sum to the amount. The 

 Franklin fund, £1,000, was left to the City of 

 Philadelphia by Dr. Benjamin Franklin in 

 1790, to be used in making loans to young 

 married artificers under certain conditions. 

 No loans under the conditions have been made 

 for years. The money will be used for the 

 erection of a new building. 



The Mexican Department of Agriculture 

 is planning a series of meteorological stations 

 to be conected by telegraph with the meteoro- 

 logical observatory in Mexico City. 



Professor Boyce, of Livei-pool University, 

 has proposed to the Liverpool Chamber of 

 Commerce a scheme for the establishment of 

 a commercial museum and bureau of scien- 

 tific information. 



The new tuberculosis building at the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital, adjoining the general dis- 

 pensary, will be formally opened about Jan- 

 uary 35. It is the gift of Mr. Henry Phipps, 

 of Pittsburg, who gave $20,000 last winter. 



