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are made to New York University and the 

 Charity Organization Society of New York 

 for its School of Philanthropy. Bequests of 

 $100,000 are made to the University of Glas- 

 gow, Yale University, Amherst College, Wil- 

 liams College, Dartmouth College, Bowdoin 

 College, Hamilton College, the Protestant Col- 

 lege at Beirut, the Tuskegee Institute and 

 Hampden Institute. Bequests of $50,000 are 

 made to Lafayette College, Oberlin College, 

 Wellesley College, Barnard College (Columbia 

 University), Teachers College (Columbia Uni- 

 versity), Elmira College, Northfield Seminary, 

 Berea College, Mt. Hermon Boys' School and 

 Anatolia College, Turkey. Bequests of $25,- 

 000 are made to Lake Forest University and 

 Center College. A bequest of $20,000 is made 

 to Cooper Union. There are also a number of 

 other bequests to hospitals and charities. 



Mr. Kennedy was a liberal benefactor in his 

 life time and probably stands third among men 

 in the history of the world who have given 

 most largely for public purposes. 



SCIENTIFIO NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor J. H. Van Ambinge, head of the 

 department of mathematics in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, and dean of the college, will retire 

 from active service at the end of the present 

 academic year, when he will have completed 

 fifty years of service for the institution and 

 reached his seventy-fifth birthday. 



The Bakerian lecture before the Eoyal So- 

 ciety will be given on November 18 by Sir J. 

 Larmor, on " The Statistical and Thermody- 

 namical Eelations of Eadiant Energy." 



Professor Joseph P. Iddings is at present 

 traveling along the east coast of Asia. In 

 September he visited the southern part of 

 Manchuria, making a study of certain Cam- 

 brian rocks there. He expects to visit Manila 

 about thanksgiving time, and while there will 

 take occasion to see something of the vol- 

 canoes on the island of Luzon. 



During the past month the newspapers have 

 printed more or less sensational and alarming 

 reports with reference to a geological explora- 

 tion party which made a trip during the sum- 

 mer to the east shore of Hudson Bay under 



the leadership of Dr. C. K. Leith, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. Under these circum- 

 stances it will be gratifying to acquaintances 

 of the members of the party to learn that they 

 have reached the railway north of Cobalt, 

 Ontario, and will be in the United States 

 before this notice is printed. 



The Telford gold medals of the British 

 Institution of Civil Engineers have been 

 awarded to Professor B. Hopkinson and G. E. 

 G. Conway; the Watt gold medals to D. A. 

 Matheson and W. C. Popplewell and the 

 George Stephenson gold medals to E. H. 

 Tabor and A. J. KJnowles. 



A GOLD medal has been presented to Dr. 

 Oswaldo Cruz in recognition of his services 

 in extirpating yellow fever in Eio de Janeiro. 



Dr. Theodor Weber, emeritus professor of 

 medicine at Halle, has celebrated his eightieth 

 birthday. 



Dr. Simon Sohwendener, professor of bot- 

 any at Berlin and director of the University 

 Gardens, will retire from active service at the 

 end of the present semester. 



Dr. August Brauer, director of the zoolog- 

 ical museum of the University of Berlin, has 

 been given the title of honorary professor. 



At Cambridge University Mr. H. H. 

 Thomas has been appointed curator of the 

 Botanical Museum, and Mr. C. L. Boulenger, 

 assistant to the superintendent of the Museum 

 of Zoology. 



Professor Harry Snyder has resigned the 

 chair of agricultural chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, which he has held since 

 1892. 



Sir William Turner has been elected presi- 

 dent, and Professor G. Crystal general secre- 

 tary, of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh. 



Professor L. A. Herdt, head of the depart- 

 ment of electrical engineering at McGill Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed honorary secretary 

 for Canada of the American Institute of Elec- 

 trical Engineers. 



Professor Josephine E. Tilden, of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, is at present in New 

 Zealand, with leave of absence for a year for 

 botanical research. Her courses at the Uni- 



