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and in addition receives $100,000 to establish eight scholarships for students 

 from the county. Yale University has received $100,000 from an anonymous 

 donor for its department of Public Health, and Stanford University is in so 

 flourishing a financial position that it proposes to spend $750,000 on a 

 stadium, seating 60,000 spectators, for the 1923 intercollegiate games. 



In connection with Mr. Rockefeller's generosity to educational causes and 

 to medical education in particular, it is interesting to note that he has given 

 away altogether ;^i23,ooo,ooo. This still leaves him a reasonably wealthy 

 man, inasmuch as he has accumulated altogether in his life-time about 

 ;^375,ooo,ooo ! 



We are very pleased to note that, on November 17 last, Mr. Justice Eve 

 refused an injunction to prevent Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Co. from dis- 

 tributing the sum of ;^i 00,000 among the universities and scientific institutions 

 of the United Kingdom for the furtherance of scientific education and research. 



The Hudson Bay Company has given the University of Manitoba a 

 fellowship of the annual value of $1,500, in commemoration of the 250th 

 anniversary of the foundation of the Company and of its long association with 

 Winnipeg. The fellowship is open to graduates of any Canadian University, 

 and may be used for any branch of research. 



A Ramsay Memorial Fellowship of /300 a year for three years has been 

 founded by subscriptions received from the Swiss Government and Swiss 

 donors as a result of the energetic action of Prof. Ph. A. Guye, of Geneva' 

 The first fellow is now working in Prof. Perkins' laboratory at Oxford. 



The Institute of Physics has now been incorporated and has begun to 

 carry out its work. It will be remembered that the object of the Institute 

 is, on the one hand, to secure the recognition of the professional status of the 

 physicist, and, on the other, to co-ordinate the work of all the societies in- 

 terested in physical science or its applications. This co-ordination has 

 already been secured by the participation of five of these societies, namely : 

 the Physical Society of London, the Optical Society, the Faraday Society, 

 the Royal Microscopical Society, and the Rontgen Society. The Institute 

 thus promises to become a powerful unit in connection with any wider 

 scheme of federation of scientific societies. 



The first list of members includes the names of over 200 Fellows. Sir 

 J. J. Thomson, O.M., the retiring President of the Royal Society, has accepted 

 the invitation of the Board to become the first, and at present the only. 

 Honorary Fellow. It is a tribute to the status already acquired by the 

 newly formed Institute that its diploma is now necessary for applicants 

 for Government and other important positions requiring a knowledge of 

 physics, and, thanks in great part to the Institute, the physicist is now 

 becoming recognised as a member of a specific profession. The first President 

 of the Institute is Sir Richard Glazebrook, K.C.B., F.R.S., who will preside 

 at the first Statutory Meeting of the Institute which will be held. Particulars 

 with regard to the qualifications required for the different grades of member- 

 ship can be obtained on appUcation to the Secretary, lo, Essex Street, 

 London, W.C.2. 



As a result of the balloting in the reorganisation of the International 

 Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, England will be represented by 

 Dr. J. A. Bather (London), Dr. W. E. Hoyle (Cardiff), Dr. K. Jordan (Tring), 

 and Dr. E. J. O. Hartert (Tring). The first three of these retire in 1922 and 

 the last in 1928. 



It is stated that the paid-up membership of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science is 10,000, 600 members having joined since 

 November i, 1919. At the seventy-third meeting of the Association, held 

 at the end of December last in Chicago, 2,412 persons registered their attend- 

 ance, and probably many others attended without registration. The most 

 notable paper presented to the Association was that read by Prof. Michelson 



