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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



sity, will speak on ' Franklin's Re- 

 searches in Electricity' and Professor 

 E. Rutherford, of McGill University, on 

 ' Modern Theories of Electricity and 

 their Relation to the Franklinian 

 Theory.' Special addresses in com- 

 memoration of Franklin will be made 

 by Dr. Horace Howard Furness, Presi- 

 dent Charles W. Eliot and the Honor- 

 able J. H. Choate, and the Honorable 

 Elihu Root will, in accordance with the 

 act of congress, present the Franklin 

 medal to the Republic of France. 



The Clarke School for the Deaf at 

 Northampton, Mass., will receive an 

 annual income of $1,500 to enlarge the 

 training school facilities from the fund 

 recently received by the Association 

 for Teaching Speech to the Deaf, given 

 to them by Dr. A. Graham Bell. Dr. Bell 

 became heir to about $75,000 from the 

 estate of his father, Dr. Melville Bell, 

 the inventor of the system of visible 

 speech, and he made over this sum to 

 the association. His condition was that 

 it should be used as a permanent me- 

 morial of his father's connection with 

 the subject, the homestead in George- 

 town, D. C, to become the office of the 

 association, for printing, etc., and about 



half the property to have its income 

 devoted to the training of teachers of 

 the oral method. 



Fob the best essay on ' Moral Train- 

 ing in Public Schools ' a prize of five 

 hundred dollars is offered, and for the 

 second best, three hundred dollars. 

 The conditions are : ( 1 ) Length of essay 

 to be not less than 6,000 nor more than 

 12,000 words; (2) each essay must be 

 submitted typewritten; (3) all essays 

 must be in the hands of the committee 

 not later than June 1, 1906. These 

 prizes are offered by a citizen of Cali- 

 fornia who desires his name withheld. 

 He has appointed Rev. Chas. R. Brown, 

 of Oakland, California; President 

 David Starr Jordan, of Stanford Uni- 



1 versity, and Professor F. B. Dresslar, 

 of the University of California, Ber- 



; keley, ' trustees of the fund and sole 

 judges of the merits of the essays sub- 

 mitted." The two prize essays shall 

 become the property of the trustees, 

 to be by them ' published and circu- 

 lated as widely as possible ' from the 

 fund at their disposal ' within the 

 limits of the United States.' Any essay 

 not awarded a prize will be returned 

 to the writer upon request, accom- 

 panied by postage. 



