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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



given as a frontispiece to the number. 

 Here again the advance of science and 

 the growth in the scope of the associa- 

 tion are shown, as pathology and bac- 

 teriology are for the first time recog- 

 nized in the highest honor that his 

 colleagues can confer on a man of 

 science. They are fortunate in know- 

 ing that there is a student of pathol- 

 ogy in the country who is preeminent 

 in his science, and as the same time a 

 leader in all good causes concerned 

 with his profession. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We regret to record the deaths of 

 Dr. William Rainey Harper, president 

 of the University of Chicago, of Dr. 

 Richard Hodgson, secretary of the 

 American branch of the American So- 

 ciety for Psychical Research, and of 

 Professor Charles Jasper Joly, F.R.S., 

 astronomer royal of Ireland. 



The committee appointed to carry 

 the proposal of a memorial to Rudolf 

 Virchow into effect has now a sum of 

 $20,000 at its disposal. Of this amount 

 $9,000 has been contributed by sub- 

 scribers and $11,000 by the city of 

 Berlin. — A memorial to Professor Al- 

 bert von Kollicker will be erected in 

 Wurzburg by the German Anatomical 

 Society, of which he was an honorary 

 president. — A memorial medal in honor 

 of Andree has been made by Londberg, 

 the Swedish engraver. The artist rep- 

 resents Andree's balloon rising from 

 the ice. The explorer is looking anx- 

 iously toward the north. A group of 

 young men are applauding, while an 

 old man looks toward the horizon 

 doubtfully. Below is the date, July 11, 

 1897. On the obverse appears the pro- 

 file of Andre\ 



A department of botanical research 

 to include the Desert Laboratory and 

 other botanical projects, was estab- 



lished by the action of the trustees of 

 the Carnegie Institution at a recent 



meeting. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal has 



resigned as assistant director of the 

 New York Botanical Garden to accept 

 the post of director of the newly organ- 

 ized department. — Major D. Prain, 

 hitherto director of the Botanical Gar- 

 den at Calcutta, has been appointed to 

 the directorship of Kew Gardens, va- 

 cant by the retirement of Sir William 

 Thiselton-Dyer— Mr. F. W. Dyson, 

 F.R.S., chief assistant at Greenwich 

 Observatory, has been appointed as- 

 tronomer royal for Scotland, in the 

 room of the late Professor Copeland. 



The will of the late Charles T. 

 Yerkes, who owed his large fortune to 

 the direct application of recent ad- 

 vances in science, makes provision for 

 three important institutions, which are 

 to bear his name. The Yerkes Observa- 

 tory, to which he has already contrib- 

 uted liberally, receives $100,000, the 

 Yerkes galleries and the Yerkes hos- 

 pital are to be established in New York 

 City, on the death of his widow, or 

 sooner should she wish. The hospital 

 will also be established in case of the 

 death of one of the two children. After 

 certain bequests to Mrs. Yerkes, to his 

 son and daughter and to others have 

 been made, a trust fund is established, 

 most of which will ultimately go to 

 the support of the hospital. It is said 

 that the value of the house on Fifth 

 Avenue to be used for the galleries is 

 $1,000,000, and that the value of the 

 collections is $4,000,000. $750,000 are 

 provided as an endowment fund for the 

 galleries, which will be under the con- 

 trol of the Metropolitan Museum of 

 Art. The hospital, which is to be sit- 

 uated in the borough of the Bronx, will 

 receive, it is estimated by the daily 

 papers, from $5,000,000 to $16,000,000. 



