Decembeb 3, 1909] 



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February 19 — Dr. Eugene L. Opic, The Rocke- 

 feller Institute, " Inflammation." 



March 5 — Professor Adolf Jleyer, Johns Hop- 

 kins University, " The Present Status of Aphasia 

 and its relation to Psychopathology." 



March 19 — Professor A. Magnus-Levy, Univer- 

 sity of Berlin, "Pathology and Therapy in Dis- 

 eases of Metabolism." 



The International Committee for the 

 Study of Methods of Control of Bovine 

 Tuberculosis will hold its first meeting at 

 Buffalo on December 13. 



The German National Museum at Munich 

 has asked Dr. Lowell, director of the Lowell 

 Observatory, for records of the observatory's 

 work for their archives and permanent ex- 

 hibition, comprising;: (1) A series of photo- 

 graphs of Mars; (2) photographs of Jupiter; 

 (3) spectra of Mars showing water vapor and 

 comparison spectra; (4) spectra of the other 

 planets; (5) the characteristic star spectra 

 exhibited at Dresden last summer by Mr. 

 Slipher. 



The annual exhibition of apparatus by the 

 Physical Society of London will be held on 

 December 14, when the exhibition will be 

 open from 3 to 6 in the afternoon and from 

 1 to 10 in the evening. 



The chancellor of the University of Kansas 

 is the state sealer of weights and measures, 

 and Chancellor Strong has just caused to be 

 mailed to the county ofiBcers concerned and 

 others interested, copies of a bulletin on 

 Kansas Weights and Measures. This bulletin 

 gives specifications for town, city and county 

 standards, and instructions to sealers and in- 

 spectors, and also the laws of Kansas relating 

 to weights and measures. In the introduction 

 to the bulletin, the chancellor says that 

 " Though not at present fully recognized, the 

 sealer of weights and measures should be one 

 of the most important public officials in his 

 community." 



VSIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Catholic University of Washington 

 wiU receive $120,100 by the will of Mrs. Emily 

 Lusby, of Baltimore. 



The Educational Times states that the com- 

 mittee appointed by the British chancellor of 

 the exchequer to consider the apportionment 

 of the £15,000 additional grants which he pro- 

 poses to give to the University of Wales and 

 its three constituent colleges have recom- 

 mended the following allocation, viz., £1,500 

 per annum to the university for fellowships in 

 arts and sciences; £1,500 a year to the Cardiff 

 Medical School ; £4,000 each to the colleges at 

 Bangor, Aberystvryth, and Cardiil to provide 

 increased salaries to the staffs, further equip- 

 ment for libraries and museums and provision 

 for tutorial assistance ; and £500 each towards 

 establishing a pension scheme. 



The University of Glasgow has received, 

 from Miss Pollock and Mrs. Gilchrist, sisters 

 of the late Dr. Eobert Pollock, notice that 

 they intend, in accordance with their brother's 

 wishes, to bequeath to the university £10,000 

 for the foundation of a lectureship in materia 

 medica for the encouragement of research. 



Dr. William Dey, for many years a mem- 

 ber of the University Court, Aberdeen, and 

 his brothers have given £2,500 to the univer- 

 sity to found a scholarship in education in 

 memory of their father. 



A SYNDICATE has been appointed at Cam- 

 bridge University to consider the question of 

 providing pensions for professors and others 

 in the service of the university. 



Dr. J. S. Shearer has been promoted to a 

 professorship in physics at Cornell University. 

 Mr. Edgar I. Wenger, associate in railway 

 engineering at the University of Illinois, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of electrical 

 engineering at McGill University. 



At the University of North Dakota A. H. 

 Taylor, Ph.D. (Gottenberg) has been ap- 

 pointed head of the department of physics, 

 vice G. W. Stewart, Ph.D., now of the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, and H. E. Simpson, M.A. 

 (Harvard), formerly professor of geology in 

 Colby College, assistant professor of geology. 

 J. E. Rhodes, M.E. (Clemson), has been 

 appointed instructor in mechanical drawing; 

 Alfred A. McAlister, M.E. (Ohio State), in- 

 structor in mining and electrical engineering; 



