July 2, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. Santugo Eoth, of the La Plata Mu- 

 seum, Argentina, has accepted membership 

 on the International Correlation Committee 

 of the National Academy of Sciences. The 

 object of this committee is to obtain data for 

 a better correlation of the geological succes- 

 sion in different parts of the world, a matter 

 in which there is at present wide diversity of 

 opinion. Dr. Eoth will contribute especially 

 upon the Mesozoic and Cenozoic formations of 

 the Argentine Republic. 



At the commencement exercises of the med- 

 ical department of the University of North 

 Carolina, Dr. William H. Welch, of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, delivered the address. 

 Dr. Welch has now sailed for Europe. 



A STATUE in honor of Theodor Swann, the 

 physiologist, has been erected at Neusz where 

 he was born. 



Professok Carl N. I. Borgen, for thirty- 

 four years director of the Imperial Observa- 

 tory at Wilhelmshaven, has died at the age of 

 sixty-six. 



Dr. Maria Aristides Brezina, formerly 

 director of the mineralogical department of 

 the Imperial Vienna Museum, died in Vienna 

 on May 25, after a long illness, in the sixty- 

 second year of his age. Dr. Brezina was one 

 of the most brilliant and thorough of the 

 European mineralogists. He devoted the 

 latter part of his life to the study of meteor- 

 ites and he created a vast amount of im- 

 portant literature on the subject, incidentally 

 making the meteoric collection in the Imper- 

 ial Museum in Vienna the most complete in 

 existence. The mineralogical collections 

 prospered under his direction; indeed, the 

 Viennese collections were for many years the 

 leading ones in Europe. Dr. Brezina leaves a 

 wife, two daughters and a sister. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The mechanical and electrical engineering 

 laboratories of the Eensselaer Polytechnic 

 Institute, erected at a cost of about $400,000 

 from the fund given by Mrs. Eussell Sage, were 

 dedicated on June 15, at the eighty-fifth com- 

 mencement of the institution. Addresses 

 were made by Jesse M. Smith, president of 



the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers and by Louis B. Stillwell, president- 

 elect of the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers. 



For the purpose of maintaining at Cornell 

 University a number of students who are to 

 pursue research work in engineering, Mr. L. 

 L. Nunn, of Telluride, Colorado, is building 

 on the campus and will endow a clubhouse in 

 which the investigators that he sends there 

 are to live. 



A FELLOWSHIP in chemistry of the annual 

 value of $500 has been endowed by Dr. Mil- 

 ton L. Hershey, of Montreal, in the School of 

 Mining, Kingston, Ontario. It is open to 

 graduates of all universities and technical 

 colleges. 



Mr. Charles Marten Powell, formerly 

 scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 

 has given £250 a year to the college in order 

 to enable it to augment the stipend of White's 

 professor of moral philosophy, in accordance 

 with the statutes of the last commission. 



EJNG Edward will lay the foundation 

 stone of the first new building of the Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology for the de- 

 partments of mining, metallurgy and geology 

 (Eoyal School of Mines), and in extension of 

 the engineering department (City and Guilds 

 College), on July 8. The buildings are to be 

 erected on the land in Prince Consort-road, 

 South Kensington, lying to the east of the 

 Eoyal College of Music and to the north of 

 the City and Guilds College. 



At Harvard University Edward Murray 

 East, of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of experimental plant morphology, 

 O. K. 0. Folin becomes Hamilton Kuhn pro- 

 fessor of biological chemistry, E. E. South- 

 ard, Bullard professor of neuropathology and 

 Myles Standish, Williams professor of oph- 

 thalmology. 



Among the promotions to full professorships 

 at the University of Wisconsin are Dr. Eich- 

 ard Eischer, analytical chemistry, and Dr. H. 

 C. Taylor, agricultural economics. The fol- 

 lowing were promoted from assistant profes- 



