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professor of astronomy in the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago; William Albert Noyes, 

 professor of chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois; Thomas Burr Osborne, 

 research chemist in the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station ; 

 Charles Schuchert, professor of pale- 

 ontology in Yale University; Douglas 

 Houghton Campbell, professor of bot- 

 any in Stanford University; Jacques 

 Loeb, professor of physiology in the 

 University of California, who will be- 

 come head of a department in the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, and John Dewey, professor of 

 philosophy in Columbia University. 



Sib William Ramsay will be presi- 

 dent of the British Association for the 

 meeting to be held next year at Ports- 

 mouth.— Dr. John Trowbridge, who 

 retires this year from the active duties 

 of his chair at Harvard University, 

 has been appointed honorary director 

 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. 

 Dr. Abraham Jacobi, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of the diseases of children in the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 of Columbia University, celebrated his 

 eightieth birthday on May 6. On April 

 23, exercises were held at the Mount 

 Sinai Hospital in his honor. A bronze 

 bust was presented to the hospital by 

 the medical and surgical staff, and a 

 new library named in his honor was 

 given by the board of directors. At a 

 dinner given the same evening by the 

 trustees of the German Hospital an- 

 nouncement was made that the new 

 children's ward which Mrs. Anna 

 Woerishoffer has given to the hospital 

 will be known as "The Dr. Abraham 

 Jacobi Division for Children." 



The will of Alexander Agassiz, dated 

 September 17, 1906, was filed at New- 

 port, on April 14. He bequeathed 

 $200,000 to Harvard University, half 

 for the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy and half for its publications. The 

 university also receives scientific appa- 

 ratus and books, and will ultimately 

 receive the further sum of $12,000. 

 Mr. Agassiz further bequeathed $50,- 

 000 to the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences and an equal sum to the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

 $25,000 is left to the Newport School 

 of Manual Training, to which ulti- 

 mately $6,000 will be added. Mr. 

 Agassiz's will further provides that 

 in the case of the death of any one of 

 his three sons without issue his share 

 of the estate shall ultimately go to 

 Harvard University for the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology. 



More than $2,000,000 has been con- 

 tributed to Washington University, St. 

 Louis, for the medical department. 

 The donors are Messrs. William K. 

 Bixby, Adolphus Busch, Edward Mal- 

 linckrodt and Robert S. Brookings. 

 Added to this are the resources of 

 Barnes University, recently absorbed; 

 the Martha Parsons Hospital and the 

 original endowment fund of the univer- 

 sity. New appointments have been 

 announced as follows: Dr. George 

 Dock, of Tulane University; Dr. John 

 How] and, of the University and Belle- 

 vue Hospital Medical College; Dr. 

 Eugene L. Opie. of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research, and 

 Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the University 

 of Wisconsin. Construction of new 

 buildings, to cost more than $1,000,000, 

 will begin at once. 



