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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We record with regret the deaths of 

 Dr. Charles Harrington, professor of 

 hygiene in the Harvard Medical School 

 and chairman of the Massachusetts 

 State Board of Health; of the Earl of 

 Rosse, F.R.S., who, like his father, 

 made valuable contributions to astron- 

 omy; of M. E. Mascart, since 1871 

 director of the French Meteorological 

 Office, and of General J. F. Nery Del- 

 gado, for many years director of the 

 Geological Survey of Portugal. 



The Academy of Sciences at Turin 

 has awarded its Riberi prize of the 

 value of $4,000 to Professor Bosio, of 

 Turin, for his discoveries' in relation 

 to the biological reactions to arsenic, 

 tellurium and selenium. — The British 

 Ornithologists' Union will celebrate its 

 fiftieth anniversary in December next, 

 when gold medals will be presented to 

 the four surviving original members: 

 Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., Mr. j 

 P. S. Godman, Mr. W. H. Hudleston, j 

 F.R.S., and Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Professor L. H. Bailey has been 

 given leave of absence from the direct- 



orship of the College of Agriculture of 

 Cornell University to devote his time 

 to the chairmanship of the commission 

 appointed by President Roosevelt to 

 investigate the conditions of rural life. 

 The other members of the commission 

 are: Henry Wallace, of Wallace's 

 Farmer, Des Moines, la.; President 

 Kenyon L. Butterfiejd, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College; Gifford 

 Pinchot, chief of the Forest Service, 

 and Walter H. Page, editor of the 

 World's Work.— Dr. Charles H. Judd, 

 professor of psychology at Yale Uni- 

 versity, has been elected dean of the 

 school of education and head professor 

 of the department of education at the 

 University of Chicago, the appointment 

 to take effect at the close of the present 

 academic year. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has 

 received a legacy of $7,500,000 from 

 Herr Samson, a banker of that city. 

 — M. Henri Becquerel has bequeathed 

 $20,000 to the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences in memory of his grandfather 

 and his father, who were members of 

 the academy. 



