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Sir Herbert Jackson), and Dr. T. Lyman President of the Physical Society of 

 America. 



Col. Howard Bury has been chosen to lead the expedition to Mount Everest, 

 and Mr. Harold Raeburn to take charge of the reconnaissance of the mountain. 



We have noted with great regret the announcement of the death of the 

 following well-known scientific men during the past quarter : Mr. Bertram 

 Blount, chemist ; Dr. W. Ironside Bruce, radiologist ; Prof. R. B. Clifton, 

 F.R.S., Professor of Experimental Philosophy in the University of Oxford 

 1865-1915 ; Frederic Houssay, Professor of Zoology at the Sorbonne and Dean 

 of the Faculty of Science ; Georges Humbert, mathematician ; Prof. Isao 

 lijima.head of the Department of Zoology at the Imperial University of Tokyo ; 

 Prof. L. C. Miall, Professor of Botany in the University of Leeds ; Dr. E. J. 

 Mills, F.R.S., Emeritus Prof essor of Technical Chemistry in the Royal Technical 

 College, Glasgow ; Lord Moulton ; Prof. A. G. Nathorst, late Director of the 

 Palseobotanical Museum of the Swedish Academy ; Prof. W. Odling, F.R.S., 

 President of the Institute of Chemistry, 1885 ; Prof. A. W. Reinold, F.R.S., 

 late Professor of Physics at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich ; R. A. Rolfe, 

 Botanist of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew ; W. T. Sedgwick, Professor 

 of Biology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Franz Steindachner, 

 zoologist, Intendant of the Hofmuseum, Vienna. 



The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey have decided to place a 

 bronze medallion in the Abbey as a memorial of Sir William Ramsay. 



Dr. E. H. Hall, Rumford, Professor of Physics in Columbia University, 

 retires at the end of the session with the title of Professor Emeritus. 



Dr. E. F. Nichols, who for the past year has been Director of the Nela 

 Park Laboratory, Cleveland, U.S.A., succeeds the late Robert S. Maclaurin 

 as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



The Faculties of Law and Medicine and the Polytechnic Institute of Rio 

 de Janeiro have been combined to form the University of Rio de Janeiro, the 

 first university in Brazil. 



We are indebted to Nature (Mar. 24) for part of the following information 

 concerning the meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh from Sept. 7 

 to Sept. 14 this year. The President, Sir Edward Thorpe, will deliver the 

 inaugural address on Wednesday evening, Sept. 7, and the popular evening 

 lectures will be given by Prof. C. E. Inglis (on the Evolution of Cantilever Bridge 

 Construction, involving a comparison of the Forth and Quebec bridges) and 

 by Prof. W. A. Herdman (on Edinburgh and Oceanography). Joint sectional 

 meetings have been arranged for the discussion of the Age of the Earth, 

 Biochemistry, Vocational Training and Tests (Economics, Education, and 

 Psychology), Langmuir's Atomic Theory (Chemistry and Physics), the 

 Relation of Genetics to Agriculture, the Proposed Mid-Scotland Canal, and the 

 Origin of the Scottish People. 



The only legacy or donation to pure science in this country which we have 

 noted during the past three months is the ^^3,000 left to the Royal Society 

 by the late Dr. Muirhead. Sir Ernest Cassel has given ;^225,ooo for founding 

 and endowing a hospital or sanatorium for the treatment of functional nervous 

 disorders, and has purchased an estate at Penshurst, Kent, for the purpose. 



The Edinburgh University appeal for ;^5oo,ooo has been met only to the 

 extent of ;^20o,ooo ; but the Worcester Polytechnic Institute two-million- 

 dollar endowment fund had reached 1.9 million dollars on April 1, and the 

 contributions of private persons and manufacturers in the district have no 

 doubt already supplied the small remainder. Among the legacies and other 

 contributions to Universities and Colleges in the U.S. are $250,000 to Dartmouth 

 College under the will of Sanford H. Steele, to erect, as a memorial to his 

 brother (a graduate of 1857), a building for teaching and research in chemistry ; 

 $150,000 to the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from the late Daniel 

 Baugh, a trustee of the college; $1,000,000 to the School of Medicine and 



