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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Observatory of the Carnegie Institution 

 at Mt. Wilson, Cal. — Professor John F. 

 Jameson, head of the department of 

 history at the University of Chicago, 

 has been ottered the post of director of 

 the Bureau of Historical Research in 

 the Carnegie Institution, Washington, 

 D. C. This position is vacant through 

 the return of Professor J. Lawrence 

 Laughlin to the University of Mich- 

 igan. 



Lord Rayleigh is about to retire 

 from the professorship of natural phi- 

 losophy at the Royal Institution, which 

 he has held for eighteen years. He will 

 be made honorary professor. Lord 

 Rayleigh has given twenty-three Friday 

 evening discourses and twenty-one 

 courses of afternoon lectures at the in- 

 stitution. — Sir Patrick Manson has 

 been invited to give the Lane lectures 

 at the Cooper Medical College, Cali- 

 fornia, this year. He will lecture on 

 some aspect of tropical diseases. — Pro- 

 fessor Hugo Miinsterberg, of Harvard 

 University, has declined the offer of a 

 chair of philosophy, tendered to him 

 by the University of Konigsberg. 



Dr. E. F. Nichols, professor of 

 physics at Columbia University, lias 

 been awarded the Ernest Kempton 

 Adams research fellowship, recently es- 

 tablished at Columbia University by 

 Mr. E. D. Adams in memory of his son. 

 Professor Nichols has at present leave 

 of absence and is working at Cambridge 

 University. — Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens, 

 of San Jose, California, associate in ex- 

 perimental morphology at Bryn Mawr 

 College, has been awarded the prize of 

 $1,000 offered every two years by the 



Association for Maintaining the Amer- 

 ican Woman's Table at the Zoological 

 Station at Naples and for Promoting 

 Scientific Research by Women. — The 

 Smithsonian Institution has made a 

 grant of $250 from the Hodgkins Fund 

 to Professor W. P. Bradley, of Wes- 

 leyan University for an experimental 

 study of the flow of air at high pres- 

 sure through a nozzle. — The following 

 appropriations have recently been made 

 from the Rumford Fund of the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences: 

 To Professor Charles B. Thwing, of 

 Syracuse University, $150 in aid of his 

 research on the thermo-electromotive 

 force of metals and alloys; to Dr. 

 Harry W. Morse, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, $500 in aid of his research on 

 fluorescence. 



Dr. C. J. Martin, director of the 

 Lister Institute, London, has been sent 

 to India to investigate the plague. It 

 is understood that with several bac- 

 teriologists he will carry on work at 

 Kasauli. The deaths from the plague 

 in India average more than 30.000 a 

 week in spite of all efforts which have 

 been made to cheek its ravages. 



Plans have been filed for a fifteen- 

 story building to cost $975,000, which 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie is to present to 

 the Associated Societies of Engineers 

 of New York. It is to be erected on 

 the large plot from 25 to 33 West 

 Thirty-ninth Street, and immediately 

 adjoining it in the rear, facing at 32 

 and 34 West Fortieth Street, will be a 

 thirteen-story club-house, which is to 

 cost an additional $375,000, also part 

 nt .Mr. Carnegie's gift. 



