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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Christ is the Master of the Schools," 

 or, in President Wilson's phrase, should 

 be " quick to look toward heaven for 

 the confirmation of its hope," will lead 

 to a true graduate school for the train- 

 ing of professional scholars and the 

 advancement of knowledge. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We regret to record the deaths of 

 Professor Robert Parr Whitfield, cura- 

 tor of geology of the American Museum 

 of Natural History; Dr. Borden Parker 

 Bowne, professor of philosophy at Bos- 

 ton University, and of Dr. Eduard 

 Pfliiger, the eminent German physiol- 

 ogist. 



Dr. T. Muir. F.R.S., has been elected 

 president of the South African Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science 

 for the meeting in Cape Town, the date 

 of which is not yet set.— Dr. George W. 

 Hill, of Nyack, N. Y., and Professor E. 

 B. Wilson, of Columbia University, 

 have been elected foreign members of 

 the Brussels Academy of Sciences.— A 

 testimonial dinner to Dr. Charles Fred- 

 erick Chandler was given at the Wal- 

 dorf-Astoria on April 2, to permit his 

 former students and associates to ex- 

 press, before his retirement, their ap- 

 preciation of his forty-six years of 

 service to Columbia University, and his 



lifetime of devotion to the cause of 

 education and science. It was an- 

 nounced that a lectureship in honor of 

 Dr. Chandler would be endowed by his 

 former students and that the chemical 

 museum of the university would be 

 named in his honor. 



The Oceanographical Museum at 

 Monaco, established by the Prince of 

 Monaco, was opened on March 29. The 

 different European governments and 

 the principal scientific societies were 

 represented at the ceremony. — A Brook- 

 lyn Botanic Garden is now being estab- 

 lished by the City of Greater New York 

 in cooperation with the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute of Arts and Sciences. Between 

 twenty-five and thirty acres of land, 

 south of the museum building of the 

 institute in Brooklyn, have been set 

 apart for the purposes of the garden. 

 A laboratory building for purposes of 

 investigation and instruction, together 

 with a range of experimental and pub- 

 lic greenhouses, will be constructed 

 during the coming summer and au- 

 tumn. For this purpose the City of 

 New York has appropriated $100,000 

 and friends of the garden in Brooklyn 

 have subscribed $50,000 as an endow- 

 ment. Dr. C. Stuart Gager, professor 

 of botany in the University of Mis- 

 souri, has been appointed director. 



