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Dr. G. R. P.\rkix has returned to superin- 

 tend the election of Rhodes scholars for 1905 

 throughout the United States and Canada. 



Professor Boyce and the members of the 

 malarial expedition who left Liverpool for 

 West Africa some time ago are returning on 

 a steamer, which left Sierra Leone on January 

 8 for Liverpool. 



Professor Friedrich Brauer, director of 

 the Zoological Department of the Natural 

 History Museum at Vienna, and Professor 

 T. H. Fuchs, director of the Geological and 

 Paleontological Department, have retired. 



At a meeting of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, on January 10, Sir William White 

 gave an account of the visit paid to the United 

 States and Canada by the institution last 

 year during his term of office as president. 



A conference on school hygiene has been 

 arranged by the Royal Sanitary Institute to 

 be held under the presidentship of Sir Arthur 

 Riicker in the University of London from 

 February 7 to 10. 



Dr. Westbrook, of Minneapolis, was elected 

 president of the American Public Health 

 Association at the recent Havana meeting. 



Dr. Hans H. Meyer, professor of pharma- 

 cology in the University of Vienna, has ac- 

 cepted an invitation to deliver the second 

 course of Herter lectures at the Johns Hop- 

 kins Medical School next October. 



Mr. Joseph Chamberlain will preside at the 

 banqiiet of the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine to be held on May 10. 



Dr. L. Courvoisier, assistant in the observa- 

 tory near Heidelberg, has been appointed ob- 

 server in the Royal Observatory at Berlin. 



The deaths are announced of Dr. Carl Otto 

 Weber, an authority on the chemistry of india- 

 rubber; of Mr. George H. Harris, an agent 

 of the Division of Entomology, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; of E. G. T. Lueder, a 

 botanist, and of Professor Frank A. Leach, 

 a teacher of science. 



The deaths arc reported of Dr. Antcm 

 Miittrich, professor of physics at the School 

 of Forestry at Eberswalde, at the age of 

 seventy-one years, and of Dr. Jacob Walz, pro- 



fessor of botany at Odessa, at the age of sixty- 

 three years. 



We learn from Nature of the deaths of Mr. 

 G. W. Hemming, a mathematician, at the age 

 of eighty-four years, and of Mr. Robert Harris 

 Valpy, geologist, at the age of eighty-five 

 years. 



The French government has recommended 

 an appropriation of $200,000 for the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Tuberculosis to be held 

 shortly in Paris. 



The third International Congress of Philos- 

 ophy will be held at Heidelberg in 1908. 



An International Association of Anatomists 

 will be established at a meeting to be held at 

 Geneva from August 7 to 10 of the present 

 year. The initiative has been taken by the 

 anatomists of the Swiss universities and has 

 the support of the anatomical societies of 

 Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy and 

 America. 



The German Astronomical Society offers a 

 prize of 1,000 Marks for the most exact cal- 

 culation of the next appearance of Halley's 

 comet. The paper may be written in English 

 and need not be presented until the end of the 

 year 1908. 



The Henry Saxon Snell prize was founded 

 to encourage improvements in the construc- 

 tion or adaptation of sanitary appliances, and 

 is to be awarded by the council of the Royal 

 Sanitary Institute at intervals of three years, 

 the funds being provided by the legacy left 

 by the late Mr. Henry Saxon Snell. The first 

 prize, which will consist of £50 and a medal of 

 the institute, is offered in the year 1905 for 

 an essay on ' Domestic sanitary appliances, 

 with suggestions for their improvement.' 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces examinations on January 30 for posi- 

 tions under the Istlunian Canal Commission, 

 including those of assistant civil engineer at 

 salaries of $200, $225 and $250 per month. 



According to Terrestrial Magnetism and At- 

 mospheric Electricity, the efforts of Professors 

 Reattie and Morrison towards securing mag- 

 netic data in South Africa are receiving ade- 

 quate recognition. The magnetic survey was 



