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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Leipzig, will offer at Harvard Univer- 

 sity during the first half of the ap- 

 proaching academic year are: 'The 

 Philosophy of Natural Science,' three 

 lectures a week, and ' The Fundamental 

 Conceptions of Chemistry ' and ' Catal- 

 ysis,' each one hour a week. 



At the annual anniversary meeting 

 of the Royal Geographical Society, on 

 May 22, Sir Clements Markham re- 

 signed the presidency of the society 

 which he has held during the past 

 twelve years. Sir George Goldie, 

 founder of Nigeria, was elected to the 

 presidency, Sir Clements Markham and 

 Colonel D. A. Johnston were elected 

 vice-presidents. — Columbia University 

 has conferred its doctorate of science 

 on President R. S. Woodward, of the 

 Carnegie Institution. — Cambridge Uni- 

 versity has conferred the honorary de- 

 gree of Sc.D. upon Commander R. F. 

 Scott and Sir Francis E. Younghus- 

 band, K.C.I.E., LL.D. 



The proposed affiliation of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology with 

 Harvard University was approved at 

 a meeting of the corporation of the 

 institute, on June 9. Thirty-two of 

 the forty-seven members of the corpora- 

 tion were present, and by a vote of 20 

 to 12 it was agreed to accept the terms 

 of the agreement recently drawn up by 

 the committee of the two institutions. 



It will be remembered that on May 5 

 the faculty of the institute adopted 

 by a vote of 56 to 7 the report of the 

 committee adverse to the affiliation. — 

 At the annual meeting of the National 

 Academy of Design it was voted to 

 accept the offer of Columbia University 

 to form an affiliation. It is planned 

 to collect $500,000 for a building, 

 which will be erected on a site fur- 

 nished by Columbia University. — The 

 cornerstone of the library building of 

 Leland Stanford Junior University was 

 laid on May 15. The building will 

 cost $800,000. At the ceremonies an 

 address to the students by Mrs. Stan- 

 ford was read. In it she makes the 

 amount realized from the sale of her 

 jewels, which are estimated to be 

 worth $500,000, an endowment fund for 

 the library. 



It is proposed to affix a marble tablet 

 to the Villa Medici, which is French 

 property, to remind passers by and 

 posterity that Galileo was kept prisoner 

 there from June 24 to July 6. 1633. 

 Italy has already erected a small monu- 

 ment to Galileo at the very door of the 

 villa, with the following inscription: 

 "' The neighboring palace, which be- 

 longed to the Medici, was the prison 

 of Galileo Galilei, guilty of having 

 seen the earth revolving round the 



sun. 



