June 9, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



903 



Professor Kudolf Hauthal, of the Natural 

 History Museum at La Plata, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Museum at Hildesheim. 



Dr. W. B. Wherry has resigned his position 

 as bacteriologist at the Government Labora- 

 tories, at ]\Ianila, and has returned to his 

 former position with the Push Medical Col- 

 lege at Chicago. 



Professor Omori, the Japanese authority on 

 earthquakes, is going to India to make an ex- 

 amination of the scenes of the late Indian 

 earthqviake, more especially in the Kangra 

 Valley. 



Mr. O. M. Leland, department of civil engi- 

 neering of Cornell University, will have 

 charge of part of the field work connected 

 with the survey about to be made to determine 

 the boundary line between Alaska and British 

 Columbia. 



Dr. Lewis E. Jewell, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, will be one of a party to observe 

 the solar eclipse from North Africa. 



Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, professor of psy- 

 chology at Harvard University, sailed for 

 Germany on June 1. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Division of 

 Entomology, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and permanent secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, sailed on June 3 for Europe. He 

 goes first to Italy and then to Germany, his 

 object being, more particularly, to secure in- 

 formation in regard to the parasites that feed 

 on the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth. 



Professor B. M. Duggar, of the University 

 of Missouri, sailed for Europe on May 20. 

 He will attend the International Congress of 

 Botanists at Vienna, and will spend the com- 

 ing year in work at various botanical labora- 

 tories on the continent. During his absence 

 the department of botany will be in charge 

 of Mr. Howard S. Eeed. Mr. H. L. Shantz, 

 of the University of Nebraska, has been added 

 to the instructing force for the coming year. 



Dr. Ira N. Hollis, professor of engineering 

 at Harvard University, will spend next year 

 in Geneva. 



Dr. A. P. Brigham, professor of geology 

 and natural history at Colgate University, 

 will spend the summer in Europe, sailing on 

 June 14. 



President Taylor, of Vassar College, will 

 spend next year abroad. 



At the meeting of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences, on May 22, M. Maquenne read an 

 obituary notice of the late M. Duclaux. 



There will be a civil service examination, 

 on June 28, for the position of plant pathol- 

 ogist at $1,600 per annum in the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture. 



The board of estimate of New York City 

 has appropriated $850,000 to begin the erec- 

 tion of the New Bellevue Hospital, the cost 

 of which will be $8,500,000. 



The Food Standards Committee of the Asso- 

 ciation of Official Agricultural Chemists has 

 been this week in session at the Great North- 

 ern Hotel, Chicago, to give final consideration 

 to the standards for edible oils and flavoring 

 extracts. The following members were pres- 

 ent : Wm. Frear, of State College, Pa. ; Henry 

 A. Weber, Columbus, Ohio ; Melvill A. Scovell, 

 Lexington, Ky. ; Edward H. Jenkins, New 

 Llaven, Conn. ; and Harvey W. Wiley, of 

 Washington, D. C. Before returning to 

 Washington, Dr. Wiley will deliver the com- 

 mencement address at the Oklahoma Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station at Stillwater, the 

 subject being ' Success.' 



The International Institute of Sociology, 

 established at Paris, of which Professor Gus- 

 tav Schmoller, of Berlin, is the president, has 

 accepted an invitation of the Sociological So- 

 ciety, supported by the University of London, 

 to hold its next congress in London in July, 

 1906. 



The India correspondent of the Lancet 

 writes : " The plague epidemic continues with 

 unabated virulence. For the week ending 

 April 22 54,602 deaths were recorded, as com- 

 pared with 51,786 for the preceding seven 

 days. The death-roll for 1905 promises to 

 exceed all former records. In 1901 the total 

 deaths from plague were returned at 273,679, 

 in 1902 the number rose to 577,427, in 1903 



