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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



This photograph, taken on the summit of Mount Washington twenty years ago, 

 shows Professor Hugo Kronecker, the distinguished physiologist of the University of 

 Berne, whose recent death is deplored by many students throughout the world, feeling 

 the pulse, at that time intermittent, of Professor Henry Pickering Bowditch, of Har- 

 vard University, long the leader of physiology in the United States. 



ment. — It is announced that the British 

 universities will open as usual in the 

 autumn, though about half the students 

 have enlisted in the army. The Ehodes 

 scholars from the United States and 

 from the British colonies are expected 

 to be in attendance at Oxford. — It is 



said that all German universities will 

 be closed. 



In future the distribution of the 

 Nobel prizes will take place on June 1 

 instead of in December, as hitherto. 

 The next distribution has been fixed for 

 June 1, 1915.- 



