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[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 541. 



Professor Lancere.vu, of Paris, has been 

 elected president of the International Society 

 for Combating Tuberculosis. 



Professor C. H. Wind, having been appoint- 

 ed to a professorship in the University of 

 Utrecht, has resigned the directorship of the 

 Dutch Meteorological Institute, and Dr. E. 

 van Everdingen has been appointed provi- 

 sional director. 



Dr. Herman V. Hilprecht, professor of 

 Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, 

 sailed for Germany on May 2. 



A TESTIMONIAL banquet and special exer- 

 cises will be held. May 18, by the alumni of 

 the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in recogni- 

 tion of Professor James M. Good's having 

 completed his thirtieth year as a member of 

 the faculty of that institution. He was also 

 dean of the faculty from 1878 to 1903 in- 

 clusive. 



Dr. William H. Dalrymple, M.RC.V.S. 

 (Eng.), of the department of veterinary medi- 

 cine in the Louisiana State University, has 

 been elected to membership in the Royal In- 

 stitute of Public Health, London. 



Mr. William Henry Pulsifer^ a manufac- 

 turing chemist, who was elected a fellow of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science in 1879, has died at the age 

 of seventy-four years. 



We regret also to record the deaths of M. 

 Henri de Saussure, the zoologist, at the age 

 of seventy-six years; of Dr. Julius Nessler, 

 the agricultural chemist of Karlsruhe, at the 

 age of seventy-seven years, and of Dr. Paul 

 Behrens, professor of technical chemistry in 

 the Technical Institute at Danzig. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on June 14 to fill vacancies in the position of 

 scientific assistant in the Department of Agri- 

 culture, at salaries of from $840 to $1,200 a 

 year, depending on qualifications and experi- 

 ence. 



The thirty-second general meeting of the 

 American Chemical Society will be held in the 

 rooms of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sci- 

 ences, Buffalo, N. y., June 22-24, 1905. The 



preparation of the program for the meeting is 

 in the hands of a committee consisting of 

 Victor Lenher, for the section of inorganic 

 chemistry; Marston T. Bogert, for the section 

 of organic chemistry; W. E. Whitney, for the 

 section of physical chemistry; John H. Long, 

 for the section of sanitary, agricultural and 

 biological chemistry, and Francis A. J. Fitz- 

 gerald, for the section of industrial chemistry. 

 Mr. Fitzgerald will give an address on Friday 

 evening, June 22, upon the subject of ' Elec- 

 trochemical Industries at Niagara Falls.' Ex- 

 cursions to industrial establishments in Buf- 

 falo will be arranged for Friday afternoon and 

 an excursion to Niagara Falls is arranged for 

 Saturday. There will be the usual subscrip- 

 tion dinner at the Hotel Iroquois on Friday 

 evening. 



The annual soiree of the Selborne Society 

 was held on May 3. Lord Avebuiy was ex- 

 pected to preside, and a large number of 

 archeological and natural history exhibits 

 were planned. 



The French government has granted a sub- 

 vention of $20,000 in aid of the International 

 Congress on Tuberculosis, which is to be held 

 in Paris in October, 1905. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed 

 at Albany by the Bausch, Lomb, Saegmuller 

 Company, the object of the new corporation as 

 set forth in the papers being the maniif acture 

 of engineering, astronomical, physical and 

 other instruments of precision. The manu- 

 facturing plant of the company will be at 

 Koehester, N. Y., in the north end of the new 

 addition to the Bausch & Lomb factory, and 

 the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, at 

 Rochester, N. Y., will be the sales' agents of 

 the new company. Mr. George N. Saeg- 

 muller will transfer his establishment from 

 Washington to Rochester. He is well known 

 for the important scientific instruments that 

 have come from his shops, including the tele- 

 scopes of the Chamberlain, Georgetown, 

 Manila and other observatories, and other as- 

 tronomical and optical instruments. It is said 

 to be the intention to establish a scientific 

 bureau for computation and research on the 

 lines of the Carl Zeiss works of Jena, the re- 



