Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-12
SCIENCE NOTES.

| c. E. Housden, member of the Brit
I ish Astronomic Association, by a
course of fanciful, though interesting,
reasoning, seeks to show the possi-
bility that the planet Venus is habit
able.
Progress on the 1O0-inch tele-
scope which is now being erected
at the Mount Wilson Observatory in
California is very satisfactory to the
scientists promoting this great work.
Parabolizing of the 100-inch mirror
! in the optical shop al Pasadena is now
So per cent complete. 1t is not likely
that the telescope can be ready for use
| before the spring of 1917.
Prof. Otto Baschin of Berlin has re-
ceived from the Royal Prussian Acad-
envy of Sciences the silver Leibnitz
| medal in recognition of his services
to geography.
Mr. E. D. Merrill. who has been
spending some months in Was lington.
d. c.. will return to Manila in Deem
Der to resume his duties as botanist at
the bureau of science and professor of
botany in the University of the Philip
pines.
Sir Allen Williams Young, the cele-
brated arctic explorer. died in London
some days ago, aged eighty-five years.
The annual sessions of the Fed era ton
of American Societies for Experimental
Biology, formed by the Physiological
Society, the Biochemical Society and the
Pharmaceutical Society for Expert
mental Pathology. will be held at the
Harvard Medical School in Boston, De-
cember ~. IS and %.
The Adelphi College in Brooklyn, y.
Y, has just been the recipient of an
astronomical outfit, consisting of a
telescope, a six-inch prism spectro-
scope, small transit circle instrument
and other necessary apparatus; The
telescope was made by Alvan Clark in
1877, ten years before his death. The
name of the donor, who has recently
died, is at present withheld.
At the request of President Wilson
the National Academy of Sciences has
appointed the following to investigate
and report on the control of the Pan
anna slides: President C. r. Van Hise.
University of Wisconsin. chairman:
Gen. H. L. Abbott. Cambridge. Mass:
DR.. George F. Becker. United States
geological survey: Prof ]. c. Brawner.
Stanford University: Prof. Harry Field
ing Reid. Johns Hopkins: DR.. Whitman
Cross. United States geological survey:
DIR. Arthur L. Day. Carnegie Institu-
ton; Dr. ]. L. Hayford. Northwestern
University: DR.. R. S. Woodward, Car
negie Institution: c. Carpenter. Ithaca.
N. Y: Arthur p. Davis. United States
reclamation service, and John r. Free
man, Providence, R. /.
The Milky Way. which belts the dome
of the heavens, Is now termed THE
Gulf Stream of thesSky."
At a recent meeting of the executive
committee of the American Museum of
Natural History, New York. the new
position of research associate was Gre
ated on the scientific staff of the in
stitution. DR.. Aostman was appointed
associate in vertebrate pale
anthology and NJ. c. D. Crawford re-
search associate in textiles.
The Cornell University Medical COL
lege has recently reorganized it's sur
gical service at Bellevue Hospital
Among recent additions to the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History is q
model showing the increased efficiency
Of the present hospital service at PAN
anna over the French period. This
model shows hospital in the French
period in care of a sister of mercy.
The United States bureau Of naviga-
ton has in the hands of the public
printer its annual edition Of the
radio stations in the United States, con-
tanning a list of 5.073 stations. The
between the number OF
stations in 1914 and 1915 are interest
ing to note. In 1914 there were 1S9
and commercial stations as
compared to ga in 1915: 895 govern
ment and commercial ship stations as
to S95, there being no in
crease in this class; 81 special land
stations as compared to lis. and 2.79e
general and restricted stations as com.
pared to 1886, Or an increase Of t040.