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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 

 We record with regret the death of 

 Professor E. J. Marey, the eminent 

 French physiologist; of Dr. Wilhelm 

 Hiss, professor of anatomy at Leipzig; 

 of Mr. Robert McLachlan, the well- 

 known British entomologist; of Dr. 

 George Johnston Allman, professor of 

 mathematics in Queen's College, Gal- 

 way; of Wilhelm von Siemens, the 

 German electrical engineer, and of Pro- 

 fessor William Henry Pettee, professor 

 of mineralogy, economic geology and 

 mining at the Universty of Michigan. 



At the jubilee celebrations of the 

 University of Wisconsin the degree of 

 Doctor of Laws was conferred on a 

 number of delegates, including Henry 

 Prentiss Armsby, director of the Penn- 

 sylvania Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion; Thomas C. C'hamberlin, professor 

 of geology, Unversity of Chicago; Pro- 

 fessor W. G. Farlow, professor of bot- 

 any, Harvard University; Daniel Coit 

 Gilman, president of Carnegie Institu- 

 tion; the Hon. James Wilson, secretary 

 of agriculture; Robert S. Woodward, 

 dean of the faculty of pure science, 

 Columbia University; F. P. Mall, pro- 

 fessor of anatomy, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity; E. L. Mark, professor of an- 

 atomy, Harvard University, and S. L. 

 Penfield, professor of mineralogy, Yale 

 University. 



Professor Charles S. Howe was 

 inaugurated as president of Case School 

 of Applied Science, at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 on May 11. President Ira Remsen, 

 of Johns Hopkins University, spoke on 

 behalf of the universities; President 

 H. S. Pritchett, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, on behalf of the 

 technical schools; John R. Freeman, of 

 the American Society of Mechanical 

 Engineers, on behalf of the technical 



societies; and President Charles Frank- 

 lin Thwing, of Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, on behalf of the colleges of 

 Ohio. President Howe's inaugural 

 address followed. Mr. John D. Rocke- 

 feller has given the Case School $200,- 

 000 to be used for building and equip- 

 ping laboratories for physics and min- 

 ing engineering. 



Columbia University has conferred 

 its doctorate of science on Professor 

 Hugo de Vries, the eminent botanist of 

 the University of Amsterdam, whose 

 work on the origin of species is de- 

 scribed in the present number of the 

 Monthly. — The American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences has awarded the 

 Rumford medal to Professor E. F. 

 Xichols, of Columbia University, for 

 his researches on radiation. — The Chem- 

 ical Society of London has elected as 

 foreign members Professor E. W. 

 Morley, of the Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity; and Professor F. W. Clarke, of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. 



The new medical laboratories of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, erected at 

 a cost of $700,000, were dedicated on 

 June 10. — The New York legislature 

 has appropriated $250,000 for the erec- 

 tion of a building for the College of 

 Agriculture at Cornell University. — 

 The main building of the Rensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., was 

 destroyed by fire on June 9. — The cor- 

 poration of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology voted that the ex- 

 ecutive committee ascertain whether 

 any arrangement can be made with Har- 

 vard University for a combination of 

 effort in technical education such as 

 will substantially preserve the organ- 

 ization, control, traditions and name of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



