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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



by Professor Tarr in the last issue of 

 the Monthly. 



Dr. E. Ray Lankester, director of 

 the British Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, has been elected president of the 

 British Association for the meeting to 

 be held this year at York. — Dr. Henry 

 H. Donaldson, since 1892 professor of 

 neurology at the University of Chicago, 

 has been elected professor of neurology 

 at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, 

 Philadelphia.— Dr. K. E. Guthe, asso- 

 ciate physicist at the National Bureau 

 of Standards, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of physics and head of the de- 

 partment of physics at the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa. 



The late Stephen Salisbury, of Wor- 

 cester, Mass., has bequeathed the resi- 

 due of his estate to the Worcester Art 

 Museum, which, it is said, will receive 

 more than $3,000,000. Many other 

 public bequests have been made by the 

 will, including, in addition to $200,000 

 to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 

 some $250,000 to the American Anti- 

 quarian Society and $5,000 and a site 

 for a building for the Worcester Nat- 

 ural History Society. 



having completed a successful series of 

 magnetic observations embracing the 

 regions between San Francisco, San 

 Diego, Honolulu, Fanning Island and 

 the magnetic equator.— Dr. Sven Hedin 

 has proceeded to Persia, where he pro- 

 poses to explore thoroughly, from a 

 scientific point of view, the salt deserts 

 of Dasht-i-Kavir and Dasht-i-Lut in the 

 eastern part of the country. He hopes 

 afterwards to proceed through Afghan- 

 istan to India, and there organize an 

 expedition for the exploration of Cen- 

 tral Tibet.— Professor C. S. Sargent, 

 of Harvard University, has sailed for 

 Chili and the mountains of South 

 America to obtain specimens for the 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



The endowment fund for increase 

 of salaries, at Harvard University 

 amounts to nearly $2,300,000. The 

 scale of salaries is to be as follows: 



The yacht Galilee, engaged in the 

 magnetic survey of the North Pacific 

 Ocean under the auspices of the De- 

 partment Terrestrial Magnetism of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 arrived at San Diego some time ago, 



Instructors: 



Upon appointment $1,200 



Yearly increase 100 



Maximum 1,500 



Assistant Professors: 



In the first five-year term. . . . 2,500 



In the second five-year term . . 3,000 



Associate Professors: 



Upon appointment 3,500 



Maximum 4,500 



Professors : 



Upon appointment 4,000 



Maximum 5.500 



