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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



which command the admiration as well 

 as the fear of the world, are after all 

 the fruitage of the ideas which the 

 teachers of science in our colleges and 

 technological schools have been pound- 

 ing into the often unwilling brains of 

 their students during the last quarter 

 of a century. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 



Db. Richmond Mayo-Smith, pro- 

 fessor of political economy and social 

 science at Columbia University died as 

 the result of a fall on November 11. — A 

 memorial meeting in honor of the late 

 Henry Augustus Rowland was held at 

 the Johns Hopkins University, on Oc- 

 tober 16. The principal address was 

 made by Dr. T. C. Mendenhall. 



The Rumford medals of the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Arts and Sciences have 

 been presented to Professors Carl Barus 

 and Elihu Thomson. — Professor Geo. 

 J. Brush, emeritus professor of min- 

 eralogy and formerly director of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 

 versity, received a loving cup from his 

 former students, on the occasion of the 

 recent bicentennial exercises. 



The second annual Huxley lecture of 

 the Anthropological Institute was de- 

 livered by Dr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., 



on October 29, his subject being 'Tlie 

 Possible Improvement of the Human 

 Breed under the Existing Conditions of 

 Law and Sentiment.' 



Professor Hcgo Munsterberg, of 

 Harvard University, began, on Novem- 

 ber 11, a series of eight Lowell lectures 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, on 'The Results of Experi- 

 mental Psychology.' 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given an 

 additional million dollars towards the 

 endowment of the Carnegie Institute, 

 Pittsburg, and a second million dollars 

 for the Polytechnic Institute to be 

 established in that city. — Mr. T. Jeffer- 

 son Coolidge, late Minister to France, 

 has given a fund of $50,000 to the Jef- 

 ferson Physical Laboratory of Harvard 

 University for physical research. — ^Mr. 

 John D. Rockefeller has promised to 

 contribute $200,000 toward the endow- 

 ment fund for Barnard College, Colum- 

 bia University, provided that an equal 

 sum is given by others before January 

 1, 1902. — The preliminary plans have 

 been accepted for a new building for the 

 Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington. These plans contemplate a 

 marble structure, something over 300 

 feet long, with wings at either end ex- 

 tending to the rear to accommodate the 

 various laboratories of the department. 



