Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
Conveyed to Hospital in Auto.
'.Science Notes.

The fourteenth international congress
| on alcoholism will convene in Milan,
Italy, in September. President Wilson
will appoint the delegates to represent
the United States and Congress will de-
| fray the expenses of the national rep
| resentatives.
DR.. Walter Whitehead, one of the lead
Ing surgeons of England, is dead at
| his home in Manchester
| The Canadian Pacific railroad is to
bore a sixteen-miIe tunnel through the
Rockies at Kicking Horse Pass, to cost
$l4GOO.GOO.
| The Royal College of Surgeons has
conferred the honorary fellowship of
| the college on the following surgeons of
this country: DR.. G. w. Grille of Cleve-
land. DR.. H. Gushing of Harvard. DR..
| J. w. Mayo of Rochester Mimi, and Dr.
]. B. Murphy of Chicago.
Maj. f. H. Hills, F. R. s.. president
Of the Royal Astronomical Society. has
tor of science by the University of Dur
ham.
Dean Charles F. Emerson of Dart
mouth College, who has been connected
| with the college for forty-five years,
has been made dean emeritus.
Sir Hickman Goodee. president Of the
Royal College of Surgeons. has accepted
the invitation to confer the fellowships
| of the American College of Surgeons at
| the first convocation of the institution,
| which is to be held in Chicago. Novem-
Der Ii. At this time, it Is stated, more
| than LOO surgeons of the United States
| and Canada will attend.
DR.. Louis Dufestel. medical inspector
of the Paris schools. and DR. Felix
Martel, inspector general of public in
situations for the government of France,
delegates to the fourth international con-
gress of school hygiene. to be opened
In Buffalo tomorrow, have arrived in
New York.
According to the latest astronomical
| reports there has been very little to
record by way of disturbances on. the
surface of the sun during the summer
thus far, although the disc has been tele-
scopically examined every day. About
the first of August there were traces
OF tiny dark spots but these were not
sufficiently evident to have their positions
measured. For some months the disc
OF the sun has presented a complete
blank.
Middleburg College, Vermont has re-
ceived $4,000 as the residuary legatee
Of the late Henry NJ. Barnum. gradu-
ate of the college Of the class of 1858
DR.. Otis w. Caldwell, associate pro-
fessor Of botany in the school of educa-
ton at the University of Chicago has
| been appointed dean Of University Col
| lege at that institution to succeed Walter
II. Payne, who is now the university
examiner.
The Baly medal has been awarded by
the Royal College Of Physicians to DIR.
J. S. Holdone. F. r. S.. reader in physi-
y, y1sry
DR.. A. D. Melvin, chief Of the bureau
| OF animal industry of the United States
Department of Agriculture. is now in
conference with the Argentine minister of
| agriculture in regard to the meat indus
| try of South America.
| Prof. Stormer and DR. Birkeland are
now in northern Norway making pho
| tographs of the aurora. The photographs
are taken simultaneously from two sta
| lions two and one-half miles apart con-
nected by telephone in order to furnish
means OF computing the distance and al
titude Of the aurora.
| The German Imperial Observatory at
Tsingtau. capital OF the German colony
leading scientific institutions of the FAR
east Originally founded for nautical
purposes 1t now carries on regular WORK
in terrestrial magnetism. sesmology. as
tronomy. tidal observations and ADJUST
ment of compasses, chronometers. etc.
The Cape Cod canal Is due to be opened
| in June, 1915 When completed TINS win
| be the first link in chain OF HIIanu
waterways intended to ultimately eAtehu
from Boston, Mass. to Beaufort, n. y.
Dr. Piacenza, an Italian explorer, hds
succeeded in reaching the summit VI
Mount Numzkum. a peak 22.UO Ieel uou.
and a half niles high IN the Hnaya
mountains of India English ana amer
can climbers have heretofore Iaiieo 70
scale this peak.
/ Leading Italian scientific institutions
aided by the King Of Italy. propose 10
erect a monument to the memory ol III
Giovanni Schiaparelli. the distlns ulsneo
astronomer. Schiaparelli became ...u
for his discovery of the so-caiieu
nails of Mars.
| A solar physics observatory IS g 20
erected at Nelson. New Zeaiaho. S.an
has been termed the climate paraoIse OF
New Zealand, the annual average or al
rect sunshine is $500 hours WIN q ian
register annual of 37.SS incnes ior tue
past thirty years
| The British Association TOT .ne Aa
vancement of Science, aided by the Royal
society has an expedition In the south
| Do ,ao oceop studying the remarkable