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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



geology and mining engineering in the 

 University of Wyoming, and of Mr. 

 William Earl Dodge, a merchant, 

 known for his interest in educational 

 and scientific institutions. 



The University of London has con- 

 ferred honorary degrees for the first 

 time, the degrees of Doctor of Laws 

 being given to the Prince of Wales, 

 of Doctor of Music to the Princess of 

 Wales and of Doctor of Science to 

 Lord Kelvin and Lord Lister. It is 

 said that the degree was offered to 

 Mr. Herbert Spencer, but declined by 

 him. — The Honorable Arthur Balfour, 

 the British premier, has accepted the 

 presidency of the British Association 

 for the meeting to be held in Cam- 

 bridge in 1904. — Sir W. Ramsay has 

 been elected president of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry. The society has 

 decided to meet next year in New York 

 City. 



Db. W J McGee has recently re- 

 signed his jjosition in the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology to take charge of 

 the Department of Anthropology and 

 Ethnology of the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition. — Mr. Bailey Willis has 

 accepted the position of leader of the 

 Carnegie Geological Expedition to 

 China, which has as its object the in- 

 vestigation of the Cambrian of that 

 country. 



The Desert Laboratory, being erected 

 by an appropriation from the Carnegie 

 Institution at Tucson, Arizona, is ex- 

 pected to be ready for occupancy on 

 September 1, when Dr. W. A. Cannon, 

 now assistant in the laboratory of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, will be- 

 come resident investigator. 



The sixth International Congress of 

 Psychology, which was to have met in 

 Rome in the autumn of 1904, will be 

 postponed to the spring of 1905 to 



avoid conflict with the sixth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Physiology which 

 meets at Brussels in the autumn of 

 1904. 



Mr. Carnegie's gift of $1,000,000 to 

 the four national engineering societies 

 and the Engineers' Club for a building 

 has been accepted at a meeting of the 

 representatives of the five organiza- 

 tions, and plans have been made for a 

 joint committee consisting of three 

 members from each organization. This 

 committee will prepare plans for a 

 building to be erected on Thirty-ninth 

 Street. Efforts are being made to secure 

 funds for the purchase of the land, and 

 a number of subscriptions have been 

 received by the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers, including $5,000 

 from Dr. Elihu Thomson and the West- 

 inghouse Electrical Company, $2,000 

 from Mr. Frank S. Sprague and $1,000 

 with a contingent $1,500 from Mr. 

 J. G. White. 



Chapters of the university scientific 

 society of the Sigma Xi have recently 

 been established at the Chicago and 

 Michigan Universities. Chapters of 

 this society are now maintained at the 

 following universities: Cornell, V. A. 

 Moore, president; Union, 0. H. Land- 

 retli, president; Kansas, F. H. Snow, 

 president; Rensselaer, W. P. Mason, 

 president; Yale, J. P. Tracy, president; 

 Brown, W. W. Bailey, president; Ne- 

 braska, L. Bruner, president; Minne- 

 sota, J. J. Flather, president; Iowa, 

 T. H. McBride, president; Ohio, W, R. 

 Lazenby, president; Pennsylvania, E. 

 F. Smith, president; Stanford, V. L. 

 Kellogg, president; California, C. L. 

 Cory, president; Columbia, J. F. Kemp, 

 president; Chicago, H. H. Donaldson, 

 president; Michigan, J. P. McMurrich, 

 president. 



