448 



POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



and of hydraulic machinery, and of Mr. 

 William Pole, an eminent engineer and 

 man of science, best known, perhaps, to 

 the general public as the author of the 

 'Evolution of Whist.'— Mr. John D. 

 Eockefeller has made a further gift of 

 one and a half million dollars to the 

 University of Chicago. — Among the pub- 

 lic bequests made by the late Henry Vil- 

 lard are $50,000 each to Harvard and 

 Columbia Universities. — The Huxley 

 Memorial Committee announces that the 

 sum of about $17,000 has been sub- 

 scribed for the statue now in the 

 Natural History Museum, London, and 

 for the Huxley gold medal to be 

 awarded by the Royal College of Sci- 

 ence. — The collection of minerals and 

 meteorites made by Mr. Clarence S. Be- 

 ment, of Philadelphia, has been acquired 

 by the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York. — The Duke of the 

 Abruzzi proposes to start from Buenos 

 Ayres in 1902 on a voyage to explore the 

 South Polar Seas. A ship is to be built 



in Italy for the purpose. — Drs. Sambon 

 and Low have returned to England, 

 after the summer spent in the mosquito- 

 proof hut in the Roman Campagna. 

 They are in excellent health, though it 

 is said that the past summer was excep- 

 tionally malarious. For example, fif- 

 teen or sixteen police agents were sent 

 to Ostia, and though they only re- 

 mained a night in the place, they all de- 

 veloped fever. — The daily papers report 

 that the Finlay theory of the propaga- 

 tion of yellow fever by mosquitoes has 

 been further confirmed by the commis- 

 sion now studying the subject in Cuba. 

 Cable despatches state that a monkey 

 which had been bitten by an infected 

 mosquito developed on the fourth day 

 well-marked symptoms; that of six non- 

 immunes bitten by mosquitoes which 

 had previously bitten yellow fever pa- 

 tients five developed yellow fever, 

 while subjects who slept in infected 

 clothing and bedding, but were guard- 

 ed from mosquitoes, were untouched. — • 



