April 21, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Professor Hans Meyer, of the University 

 of Vienna, has accepted the invitation to de- 

 liver the Herter lectures at Johns Hopkins 

 University on October 5 and 6. His subject 

 will be, ' The Physiological Eesults of Phar- 

 macological Research.' 



Three lectures, followed by demonstrations 

 in the grounds, will be given at the New York 

 Botanical Garden to children of the public 

 schools of the Bronx during April and May. 

 The lectures will be given by Dr. Marshall A. 

 Howe, Mr. George V. Nash and Dr. N. L. 

 Britton. They will be repeated three times. 



The Civil Service Commission announces 

 an examination at Washington, on May 17, 

 to fill a vacancy in the position of adminis- 

 trative biologist, at $2,500 per annum, in the 

 Division of Biological Survey, Department of 

 Agriculture. The applicant should have had 

 ample experience in scientific and adminis- 

 trative affairs and be capable of critically 

 examining reports submitted for publication, 

 and sufiiciently familiar with the United 

 States and with its mammal and bird faunas 

 to enable him to exercise general supervision 

 over the scientific and economic work of the 

 Biological Survey, including the mapping of 

 the geographic distribution of species. 



Mr. Benjamin Ferguson, a lumber mer- 

 chant, has bequeathed $1,000,000 to the Art 

 Institute of Chicago, the income of which is 

 to be used for the erection of statues and 

 monuments in the city. 



The New Mexico legislature has passed a 

 law authorizing a geological survey of the 

 state; the appropriation is $6,000, and is to be 

 expended under the direction of the New 

 Mexico School of Mines at Socorro. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $150,000 

 for a library building at Springfield, Mass. 



The Astronomical Observatory built by the 

 late Dr. Henry Draper at Hastings-on-Hud- 

 son in 1860 and used by him for his re- 

 searches until his death in 1882 was destroyed 

 by fire on March 31. The telescopes and other 

 instruments were removed to Harvard Uni- 

 versity in 1886, where, under the direction of 

 Professor E. C. Pickering, Mrs. Henry Draper 

 established the Draper Memorial Fimd, but 



photographic negatives and other material of 

 historic interest have been destroyed. 



The American Physical Educational Asso- 

 ciation has been meeting during the present 

 week at Teachers College, Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 



The membership of the New York Academy 

 of Medicine has reached the limit of one 

 thousand, and now, for the first time, there is 

 a waiting list. 



The Harpswell Laboratory of Tufts Col- 

 lege, established at South Harpswell, Maine, 

 in 1898, to afford opportunities for the study 

 of the northern marine fauna and flora, will 

 he open in 1905 from June 12 to September 9, 

 the regular courses of instruction beginning 

 July 3, and continuing for six weeks. In 

 addition to regular courses of instruction the 

 laboratory offers its facilities to a limited 

 number of persons who are able to carry on 

 investigation without assistance. While not 

 agreeing to collect material for their re- 

 searches, the laboratory will aid them in this 

 respect so far as possible without interfering 

 with its other work. Seven private rooms are 

 available for investigators. All communica- 

 tions concerning the laboratory should be ad- 

 dressed to the director. Professor J. S. Kings- 

 ley, Tufts College, Mass. 



The Belgian government has recently ap- 

 pointed a committee, composed of cabinet 

 officers, members of parliament, financiers and 

 industrial leaders, for the purpose of organ- 

 izing an international congress, to be held at 

 Mons in the latter part of September, 1905. 

 The object of the congress is to discuss com- 

 mercial economics, industrial development 

 and progress, facility of communication, open- 

 ing and civilizing new countries, instruction, 

 statistics, customs, policy, maritime questions 

 and questions concerning the civilizing effects 

 of exi^ansion and the means and power of ex- 

 pansion in general. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Dr. Edwin A. Alderman was installed as 

 president of the University of Virginia on 

 April 13. It was annoimced that in addition 

 to the conditional gift of $500,000 from Mr. 



