Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-19
SCIENCE NOTES.


DIR. J. F. Moran of Washington has
been chosen president Of the Obstetrical
and genealogical Society of the District
Of Columbia.
The autumn meeting of the National
Academy of Sciences will be held at the
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
November - and 10.
Sir David Bruce will leave England
November 1 for the purpose of conclud-
ing his sleeping sickness investigations in
Central Africa.
DR.. E. B. Phelps of the Massachusetts
institute of Technology, known for his
work in sanitary engineering. has ac-
cepted a position in the United States
public health service.
The Russian government has decloed
to establish a physical observatory at
VladivOstock, and experimental stations
cooperating with the authorities of
meteorological stations in China and
Japan.
James Birch Rorer, mycologist and
oatholOgist to the board of agriculture OIL
Trinidad, West Indies, is on visit to
the United States. His headquarters Is
at the bureau of plant industry, Agrl-
cultural Department.
Under the auspices of the president
general of France, and the Bey of Tunls
q reserve is to be established In Tunisia,
in which the fast disappearing FAUNA OF
the country may find immunity from de-
struction For this purpose some 1000
acres Of wild mountainous country with
an adjoining marsh of 5000 acres have
been secured
xyni 10 he
discovered wonder in the heavens, 1t Is
thought, may be identical with West
phars comet now due, and for which as
tronomers have been sweeping the
become visible in the northern sky next
month Ito the naked eye). At Its last
appearance in 1852 1t was conspicuous
object to the naked eye
Plans have been completed for publish
ing the complete works of the late Henri
Poincare. The work will be under the
direction of the French minister of pub
lie instruction, and the Academy of
Sciences of Paris.
Dr. Lewis M. Perman, associate pro-
fessor of education, Stanford University.
has been elected member OF the per-
manent international committee on
school hygiene, and has also been made
vice president Of the council of thirty of
the American School Hygiene Associa-
ton.
DR.. Joseph A. Blake has resigned from
the chair of surgery at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
University.
The fifth National Conservation Con-
gress will meet in Washington, November
Is, 10 and 20
A German inventor of a new diving ap-
<,,r fo11 ho ole iYT10 VviI q i'm
to reach a depth of 600 feet, proposes to
20 down in San Francisco bay in quest of
the two million dollars in gold which
was lost in the steamer Rio de Janerio in
1901.
The small and cratic planet Eros.
which was discovered some twelve years
ago, is fast becoming the most valuable
asset to astronomers in solar paradox
measurements and in mating the dis
lance of the sun. 1t is the most OBJ
served of all the planets, Mars not ex-
copied.
Early Man in South America" by
Ales Hrdlicka,, In collaboration with w.
H. Holmes, Bailey Willis of the geologi-
cal survey, Fred E. Wright and Clarence
N. Fenner, Smithsonian Institution, bu-
reau of American ethnology, is perhaps
one of the most popular scientific publ
cations issued in recent years.
''The Life and Letters of Alexander
Agassiz," edited by his son, is soon to
be published.
According to the latest consensus of
astronomical opinion the number OF stars
that can be seen usually. that is. down
to the seventeenth magnitude, is forty
million, or a thousand to the square de-
gree. This is about the same as the
number of inhabitants of Great Britain.
Mai R. w. Shufeldt of the Medical
Corps Of the Army retired. a resident of
Washington, has been elected an honor
airy member of the Royal Auatralasian
Ornithologists' Union of Melbourne. Aus
tralia, and chosen as one of the two dele
gates from that society to attend the con-
gress Of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, which meets in
Melbourne in June. 1914. Ogilvie Grant
of the British Museum was selected as
the delegate from Great Britain to serve
with DR.. Shufeldt.
In the event Of receiving the financial
support Of some patron or institution. it
is quite possible that DR.. Shufeldt will
make this voyage, and being skillful
field naturalist and ethnologist, and the
author of many scientific works. the re-
suits of the trip will doubtless prove to
be of great scientific value. Several in
situations have filed requests for the pur-
chase OF material collected. especially of
Australian birds and mammals, of which
there are comparatively few. examples in
American museums.