Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-06
SCIENCE NOTES.

| DIR. A. L Skoog of the University q
Kansas, who has been doing clinical
work at the La Petrie Hospital, in Paris.
has been made temporary head Of that
| institution, when the entire native staff
was obliged to assume military duty.
The Sir Gilbert medal of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons of England has been
awarded to Surgeon G. F. syms. R. N.
The New Zealand meeting OF the Brit
ish Scientific Association has been aban-
doned. Many eminent scientists OF
| America were on their way to that
| country.
Sir Adolph Routhier has been elected
president of the Royal Society Of Canada
in succession 10 Prof. Frank D. Adams.
The International Seismoiogical Con-
gress which was to have been held in
Petrograd est. PetersbuTg), has been post
poned.
DR.. Alexis CorreI of the Rockefeller In
stitute for Medical Research has been
made director of the Military Hospital.
Lyon, throughout the war.
The Paris Academy of Sciences has
awarded its La Cazi prize of $1,000 to
DIR. Gley, professor at the College de
France, for his works on physiology
1t is announced that the British Uni
versity will open as usual in the au-
tumn. The Rhodes scholars from the
United States and from the British col
onies are expected to be in attendance at
Oxford.
George Peabody College for Teachers
has now an endowment of s3,2o0,Ooo, of
which $2.o00.OO0 is to be used as per-
manent endowment. Part of the remain
ing 81, zoe, 600 Is being spent on new build
ings
In view of the Napier tercentenary
catalogue of astronomical. mathematical
and other tables, of 800 volumes. dating
from the middle of the fifteenth century
to the present time, has been published by
Wesley & Son Of London
The bureau of standards. Department
of Commerce, has published a circular
containing suggestions as to location and
equipment of gas-testing laboratories,
description of some of the accepted forms
of apparatus, directions for the making
of the various tests and recommends
tons as to the Interpretation OF expert
mental results
The meeting of the nineteenth Interna-
tionai Congress of AmeHcanists, which
was to have convened in Washington. in
October. and now postponed on account
OF the European war, will probably meet
In Joint session with the Pan-American
Scientific Congress in Washington in the
summer of 1915. which would give the
foreign members the chance to visit the
California exposition
Dorr Skeels of the United States forest
service has been elected dean Of the
new school of forestry that has been es-
stablished at the University of Mon
tana-
Astronomer F. E. Seagrave has just
completed a new astronomical observa-
tory. located In the village of North, sit
uated ten miles, west of Providence. r.
l. 1t is equipped with all the modern
Instruments for scientific work. 1t is
far away from the smoke. dust, haze and
electric lights of a big city, which gives
1t considerable advantage over most of
the New England stations.
AS authorized by the New York legis-
lature, Gov. Glynn has named the MEM
bers Of the commission to study scien-
tifically the causes Of bovine tubercu-
losis.
The Lick Observatory announces the
discovery. through Mr. Nicholson, of the
ninth satellite of Jupiter. The new body
is fainter than the eighth satellite which
is of the seventeenth magnitude and only
about forty mills in diameter, so that it
can only be observed with very large In
struments.
The Delevan comet. the most interest
ing celestial wanderer of the heavens
during the summer, though partly hid
den In the suns rays since April, is be-
coming more conspicuous as it comes into
our system. 1t will become visible in the
morning sky. from now on until its
perihelion passage. about the 25th of
October.