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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



large as Eome and bids fair to exceed 

 it in the course of the coming decen- 

 nium. The Austria-Hungarian popula- 

 tion has more than doubled, having in- 

 creased from about 120,000 to 267,000. 

 Greatest of all is the Russian increase, 

 from 180,000 in 1890 to 484,000 in 

 1910. A citizen of New York City on 

 being asked whether there was a for- 

 eign quarter in the city replied that 

 there was a foreign three-quarters; and 

 this is not far from correct. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We record with regret the death of 

 Dr. Paul C. Freer, director of the U. S. 

 Government Scientific Bureau in the 

 Philippines, and distinguished for his 

 work in chemistry; of the Eev. George 

 William Knox, professor of philosophy 

 and the history of religion in the Union 

 Theological Seminary, and of Miss 

 Nettie M. Stevens, associate in experi- 

 mental morphology in Bryn Mawr 

 College. 



Dr. John Grikk Hibben, previously 

 Stuart professor of philosophy, has been 

 installed as president of Princeton Uni- 

 versity. — Commemoration day will be 

 observed by the University of Glasgow 

 on June 25, when Professor F. O. 

 Bower, F.R.S., will deliver an oration 

 on ' ' Sir Joseph Hooker. ' ' — The Aero 



Club of Washington has held a field 

 day in commemoration of the anniver- 

 sary of Secretary Laugley's first aero- 

 drome flight on May 6, 1896. — The let- 

 ters of the late Professor William 

 James are being collected for biograph- 

 ical purposes. Those who have such 

 letters are requested to communicate 

 with Mr. Henry James, Jr., 95 Irving 

 Street, Cambridge, Mass. 



At the meeting of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, held in Washing- 

 ton on- April 18, new members were 

 elected as follows: R. W. Wood, pro- 

 fessor of experimental physics at the 

 Johns Hopkins University; Harry 

 Fielding Eeid, professor of geological 

 physics at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity; David White, geologist, U. S. 

 Geological Survey; Roland Thaxter, 

 professor of cryptogamic botany at 

 Harvard University; Chas. B. Daven- 

 port, director of the Station for Ex- 

 perimental Evolution, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, N. Y. ; W. M. Wheeler, pro- 

 fessor of economic entomology at Har- 

 vard University; John J. Abel, pro- 

 fessor of pharmacology at the Johns 

 Hopkins University; S. J. Meltzer, 

 head of the department of physiology 

 and pharmacology of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research. 



