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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 543. 



Professors John C. Smock and Edward B. 

 VooRHEES, of Eutgers College, have been ap- 

 pointed to serve on the New Jersey State 

 Forestry Commission. 



Dr. J. Aderhold has been appointed di- 

 rector of the newly established Imperial Bio- 

 logical Institute for Agriculture and Forestry 

 at Berlin. 



The Paris Geographical Society has award- 

 ed its gold medal to Dr. Paul Doumer. 



Henry Cook Boynton, instructor in mining 

 and metallurgy at Harvard University, has 

 been awarded the Carnegie research scholar- 

 ship of $500 by the Iron and Steel Institute 

 of London. 



Professor Russell H. Chittenden, director 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School, has been 

 invited to deliver the annual Shattuck lecture 

 before the Massachusetts Medical Society. 



Foreign papers state that it is again pro- 

 posed to affix a marble tablet to the Villa 

 Medici, which is French property, to remind 

 passers by and posterity that Galileo was kept 

 prisoner there from June 24 to July 6, 1633. 

 Italy has already erected a small monument 

 to Galileo at the very door of the villa, with 

 the following inscription : " The neighboring 

 palace, which belonged to the Medici, was the 

 prison of Galileo Galilei, guilty of having 

 seen the earth revolving round the sun." 



The deaths are announced of Dr. Henry 

 Dufet, professor of physics at Paris, in his 

 fifty-seventh year; of Di*. C. Eckhardt, pro- 

 fessor of physiology at Giessen, in his eighty- 

 third year; of Dr. Andreas Kornhuber, 

 emeritus professor of natural history in the 

 Institute of Technology at Vienna, in his 

 eighty-fourth year; of Professor A. Piccini, 

 professor of chemistry at Florence, and of 

 Colonel Renard, director of the National 

 Aeronautical Park at Meudon. 



Plans for the International Congress of 

 Radiology and Ionization to be held at Liege, 

 September 12-14, 1905, are being rapidly ma- 

 tured. The ' Comitc de Patronage ' has been 

 carefully selected and is an unusually dignified 

 body, consisting of MM. Arrhenius, Barus, 

 Becquercl, Berthelot, Birkeland, Blondlot, 



Bouchard, Crookes, Curie, D'Arsonval, Drude, 

 Elster, Geitel, Goldstein, Hittorf, Kelvin, 

 Larmor, Lenard, Lodge, Lorentz, Mascart, 

 Nernst, Poincare, Potior, Ramsay, Rayleigh, 

 Riecke, Righi, Rutherford, Schuster, J. J. 

 Thomson, Voigt and Wiedemann. It is hoped 

 that an American committee may be arranged 

 for at an early date, or at least that papers of 

 a finished character may be sent from this 

 country to the congress. 



The Congres des Societes savants met this 

 year in Algeria under the presidency of M. 

 Heron de Villefosse, president of the archeo- 

 logical section of historic and scientific work. 



The following resolution was passed by the 

 council of the Society of Arts at their meet- 

 ing, held on May 8 : "In view of the feeling 

 which appears to have been aroused amongst 

 some of the proprietors of the London Insti- 

 tution with regard to the proposed amalgama- 

 tion with the Society of Arts, and the conse- 

 quent probable difficulties of effecting a 

 harmonious fusion of the two corporations 

 into a single institution, the council of the 

 Society of Arts have decided not to take any 

 further action in the matter, and hereby dis- 

 charge the committee which, at the instance 

 of the board of managers of the London In- 

 stitution, they appointed to consider the 

 scheme for amalgamation." 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on June 21, 1905, to 

 secure eligibles from which to make certifica- 

 tion to fill the following named vacancies in 

 the positions of aid and laboratory apprentice 

 (male) in the Bureau of Standards, Depart- 

 ment of Commerce and Labor, and vacancies 

 as they may occur in any branch of the service 

 requiring similar qualifications: Three aids, 

 at $600 per annum each; one laboratory ap- 

 prentice, at $480 per annum; one laboratory 

 apprentice, at $540 per annum. 



It is announced that President Roosevelt 

 will soon issue a proclamation setting aside 

 about ten million acres of land in Idaho as a 

 forest reserve. 



The following subject has been selected as 

 the subject for the Jacksonian prize of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons for 1906 : ' The 



