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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



The Physical Laboratory of Wesleyan University. 



ond floor is exclusively for work in 

 physics; the third floor contains further 

 laboratories for the two departments 

 and drawing rooms. The engineering 

 faculty contains seven professors, with 

 ten other instructors, and provides Avell- 

 equipped courses in civil engineering, 

 mining engineering and chemistry. 



The John Bell Scott Memorial, the 

 physical laboratory of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, was dedicated on December 7, 

 the principal address being made by 

 Dr. Edward B. Rosa, formerly professor 

 of physics at Wesleyan University and 

 now physicist of the National Bureau 

 of Standards. The building is a gift 

 from the late Charles Scott, of Phila- 

 delphia, and his son, Charles Scott, who 

 died from disease contracted while 

 serving as chaplain of the U. S. Cruiser 

 St. Paul, during the Spanish-American 

 War. The main part of the building 

 is 102x51 feet on the ground plan, and 

 consists of a basement, three stories 

 and an attic. In addition there is ah 

 extension of 50x30 feet in the rear 

 which has basement and two stories. 



ALBERT BENJAMIN PRESCOTT. 

 In the death of Albert Benjamin 

 Prescott, America has lost one of its 

 most honored men of science. Perhaps 

 the chief distinction that can be con- 

 ferred on an American scientific work- 

 er by his colleagues is election to the 

 presidency of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science — the 

 number of surviving past presidents is 

 reduced to eighteen by the death of 

 Prescott. Born in 1832, his whole life 

 was associated with the University of 

 Michigan, in the extraordinary develop- 

 ment of which his own work was an im- 

 portant factor. He received there the 

 doctorate of medicine in 1864 and was 

 appointed assistant professor of chem- 

 istry in 1865. In 1870 he was promoted 

 to a professorship of organic and ap- 

 plied chemistry and was in the same 

 year made director of the School of 

 Pharmacy. 



These positions he has since retained 

 as well as the directorship of the Chem- 

 ical Laboratory, which he assumed in 

 1884. He served as president of the 



