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near Hamburg, which was his birth- 

 place, is left to that city, and his art 

 collections are left to the galleries in 

 London, Berlin and Hamburg. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 



We regret to record the death of 

 Dr. Samuel Lewis Penfield, professor 

 of mineralogy at the Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Yale University, and of Dr. 

 Paul Drude, professor of physics in 

 the University of Berlin. 



Sir David Gill, H. M. astronomer 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, has been 

 elected to succeed Dr. E. Bay Lan- 

 kester, director of the British Museum 

 of Natural History, as president of 

 the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. The associa- 

 tion Avill meet next year at Leicester, 

 beginning on July 31. The meeting 

 the following year will be in Dublin, 

 and in 1009 the association will for the 

 third time visit Canada and meet in 

 Winnipeg. 



A kxighthood has been conferred 

 on Dr. W. H. Perkin, F.B.S., the jubilee 

 of whose discovery of the aniline dye 

 mauve has recently been celebrated. — 

 Professor Seubert, hitherto the German 

 member of the international committee 

 ■on atomic weights, has resigned, and 



Professor Ostwald has been appointed 

 his successor. The committee now 

 consists of F. W. Clarke, United States, 

 chairman; T. E. Thorpe, Great Britain; 

 H. Moissan, France, and W. Ostwald, 

 Germany. — Mrs. W. P. Fleming, cura- 

 tor of astronomical photographs in the 

 Harvard College Observatory, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society. Mrs. 

 Fleming has also been appointed hon- 

 orary fellow in the department of as- 

 tronomy in YYellesley College. 



The General Education Board, en- 

 dowed by Mr. John D. Rockefeller with 

 .$10,000,000, has made appropriations 

 to nine institutions on condition that 

 three times the sum be appropriated 

 from other sources. The appropria- 

 tions, which amount to $312,500, are 

 as follows : Coe College, Cedar Rapids, 

 Ja., $50,000; Washburn College, Topeka, 

 Kan., $25,000; Tulane University, New 

 Orleans, $75,000; Wofford College, 

 Spartanburg, S. C, $25,000; Furman 

 University, Greenville, S. G, $25,000; 

 Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. 

 C, $37,500; Howard College, Birming- 

 ham, Ala., $25,000; Southwestern Uni- 

 versity, Jackson, Tenn., $25,000, and 

 Mississippi College. Clinton, Miss., 

 $25,000. 



