Middletown transcript., 1908-09-19
SCIENTIFIC NOTES

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in Italy are G. B. Grassi, professor OF
comparative anatomy at Rome; A. Carle,
professor of surgery at Turin; P. Foa,
professor of pathologc anatomy at Turin;
6. D. Novara, professor OF surgery at
Genoa, and G. Paladino, professor OF
physiology at Naples.
Sums have now been received amount
ing to total of 1925, 900 for the Koch en-
dowment, to be applied in the crusade
against tuberculosis as DR.. Koch may
direct.
Professor, Salyin-Moore has resigned
the dictatorship of the Liverpool Cancer
Research Committee, and the professor
ship of experimental cytology in the uni
versity.
Mr.. F. G. CIapp, for a number of years
with the United States Geology Survey
in the investigation and reports OF coal
oil, gas and artesian waters, has resigned
in order to take up professional work in
geology and allied branches of engineer
ing.
The president and, vice presidents of
the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng
land, on behalf of The council, addressed
to Mr.. Thomas Bryant, F. r. c. s.,
past-president of the college, on July l6,
a letter congratulating him on attaining
the age of so years and still retaining
perfect health Uf mind and body.
The cornplanter medal for Iroquois
Research administered by the Cayuga
County Historical Society, of Auburn,
New York, has been awarded to DIR.
David Boyle, Of Toronto.
Sir John Banks, an Irish physician.
known for his work on nervous diseases.
died on July 16, at the age o! "a ears.
The fish candles of Alaska are being
sent over the world in quantities as Curl
osities.
Government experts are investigating
seaweed with the object of determining
its economic value.
Asphaltic layers have been found in
Syria, near Kferie, village about 20
miles northest of the port of Latakia,
along the road leading toward AIeppo,
which have been declared by competent
mining engineers to be not only rich in
asphalt, but also practically inexhausti.
Bile.
Prof. Carl Won Noorden, addressing a
number of prominent scientists at vi
emma on the subject of Food and Nour-
ishment," declared that the reason so
many men begin to get fat Immediately
after they have married is because their
wives give them their favorite dishes on
every possible occasion.
Three wireless stations are maintained
by the Swiss Government in the Alpine
regions, located, respectively, on the sum-
mits of Right and st. Gothard and at
Daily, above St. Moritz. The operation
of these stations has been attended with
great success and vindicates the state
ments that the Alps are great "attrac-
ton" to messages dispatched from sta
tions in other and distant parts OF Europe.
For instance, marconigrams from steam
ers in the Atlantic and from stations in
Cornwall and on the Baltic coast have
reached the Righi and st. Gothard Sta
tions. These long-distance messages ar
rive more frequently when the weather
is unsettled or stormy, and chiefly i'll the
early hours of the morning. On one or
two occasions it has happened that while !
two Swiss stations were unable to estab' |
lish wireless communication With each |
other, such messages were picked up |
from abroad.
Startling results have been obtained
by DIR. Francis ]. Allen, an English med
ica officer, in some experiments to ascer-
tain the real character of the germs
found which find lodging places i'll the
mouth-pieces of telephones. The mouth.
pieces of few public call office tele-
phones in London yielded enough bacilli
to kill a guinea pig after three days,
death being due to 'galloping consump-
tion." The necessity of spraying the
mouthpieces of public telephones with
antiseptic fluid is urged as a means of
preventing infection. In New Yolk City
the physical examination of telephone
operators has been taken up by the New
York Stock Exchange, with the object
of safeguarding brokers against tubercu-
losis contamination. Several operators
have been relieved from duty.
The first steel ship built in Nova Scotia
is now under construction at New Glas-
gov, which was once very active wooden
shipbuilding centre. The new vessel is
a schooner, the James Williams. Her
tonnage is about 500 and most of the ma
terial entering into her construction was
produced in Nova Scotia, the remainder
being imported from Great Britain. The
riyets were all made in Dartmouth, n.
S., and the rope for the rigging all came
from the same town. The sails were
made in Yarmouth. The vessel has been
built without Government subsidy of
any sort.