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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



amount of work, noteworthy for its 

 attractive style as well as for its scien- 

 tific accuracy. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 



We regret to record the death of 

 Professor De Witt Bristol Brace, head 

 of the Department of Physics of the 

 University of Nebraska, and of Baron 

 Ferdinand von Richthofen, professor of 

 geography in the University of Berlin. 



Dr. W J McGee, U. S. Commissioner 

 of the International Archeological and 

 Ethnological Commission, lately chief 

 of the department of anthropology and 

 ethnology of the St. Louis Exposition 

 and ethnologist in charge of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, has been ap- 

 pointed managing director of the St. 

 Louis Public Museum.- — H. Foster 

 Bain, Ph.D. (Chicago), geologist of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey and for- 

 merly assistant state geologist of Iowa, 

 has been appointed state geologist of 

 Illinois. — Dr. Melvill Dewey has re- 

 signed the directorship of the New 

 York State Library and of the Home 

 Education Department. It is expected 

 that a statement may be made later in 

 regard to the causes of Dr. Dewey's 

 resignation and the future of the 

 library school which he has conducted. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller has now 



paid to the General Education Board 

 the $10,000,000 in accordance with the 

 announcement made last June. The 

 income, it will be remembered, will be 

 distributed to promote a comprehensive 

 system of higher education in the 

 United States, and it is assumed, 

 though perhaps not correctly, that the 

 larger part will be given to the de- 

 nominational colleges. The secretary 

 of the board is the Rev. Dr. Wallace 

 Butterick, 54 William Street, New 

 York City. — By the will of the late 

 General Isaac J. Wistar, the Wistar 

 Institute of Anatomy and Biology of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, found- 

 ! ed bv him, will receive the residue of 

 1 his estate, thought to amount to about 

 $400,000. 



Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 

 announce that they will publish in 

 eight volumes the Proceedings of the 

 International Congress of Arts and Sci- 

 ence, held at St. Louis, in September, 

 1904. The volumes, ranging from 500 

 to S00 pages, have the following titles: 

 1. 'Philosophy and Mathematics'; 2. 

 'Politics, Law and Religion'; 3. 'Lan- 

 guage, Literature and Art ' ; 4. ' In- 



1 organic Science ' ; 



Biology and 



Psychology ' ; 6. ' Medicine and Tech- 

 nology'; 7. 'Social Sciences'; 8. 'Edu- 



cation and Religion. 



