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is to be used to maintain the "William Andrew 

 Patterson College of the University of Ken- 

 tuck}', the purpose of which shall be to train 

 young men for diplomatic and consular service. 

 President Patterson's library is to be given to 

 the university on condition that it be kept 

 intact and that the books be not allowed to go 

 out of the room in which the library is kept. 

 The will names as literary executors Dr. Wil- 

 liam B. Smith, of New Orleans, and Miss 

 Mabel Pollitt, who are to examine correspond- 

 ence and other writings and prepare and pub- 

 lish a biography. 



A JOINT meeting of the Eastern and Western 

 Divisions of the American Philosophical Asso- 

 ciation will be held in New York City on De- 

 cember 27, 28 and 29, at Union Theological 

 Seminary. At this meeting Professor John 

 Dewey will deliver the Paul Carus Lectures on 

 the attempt to apply a theory of experience to 

 certain metaphysical problems. The afternoon 

 sessions will be largely devoted to the lectures 

 by Professor Dewey, and the morning sessions 

 to the reading and discussion of papers offered 

 by members. Abstracts of papers should be in 

 the hands of Professor G. A. Tawney, Univer- 

 sity of Cincinnati, Ohio, not later than No- 

 vember 10. On Wednesday and Thursday 

 evenings, respectively, the smoker and annual 

 dinner will be held, and at these times also ad- 

 dresses by the presidents will be delivered. 



The writer of "From an Oxford Note- 

 Book" in The Observatory, who is always very 

 much alive, writes in the last number as fol- 

 lows : "Those interested in handy reference 

 works will be grateful to the compilers of 

 Who's Who for producing a supplementary 

 volume Who was Who, covering the period 

 1897-1916. The volume was intended to ap- 

 pear in 1916, but owing to the war its publica- 

 tion was delayed. It has now been produced, 

 and can be put upon the reference-shelves. 

 Since it consists chiefly of extracts from the 

 volumes of the main publication, with dates of 

 death added, its information can generally be 

 trusted; but I notice that it contains a state- 

 ment of the death in 1909' of Professor Turner, 

 of Oxford. Now I much doubt the accuracy 

 of this information. I have certainly not seen 

 the actual face of the learned gentleman for 



many years; but I have heard him lecture, and 

 (unless wireless has entered upon a new phase) 

 I do not think he was very far away. Further 

 investigation is, however, proceeding." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The China Medical Board of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation has given $125,000 each to South- 

 eastern University at Nanking and Nankai 

 College at TientsLu for science buildings and 

 equipment. Southeastern University is a gov- 

 ernment institution, located at Nanking, the old 

 southern capital of China. Nankai College, in 

 the north, is a private institution receiving pro- 

 vincial aid. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation reports that the new Darling Building 

 in the Medical School of Adelaide University, 

 South Australia, was opened recently by Sir 

 George Murray. It is to be devoted to the de- 

 partments of the fundamental sciences in the 

 faculty of medicine, as there has been inade- 

 quate accommodation for the teaching of 

 anatomy, physiology and pathology. The fam- 

 ily of the late Mr. John Darling contributed 

 £15,000 towards the erection of the building. 



Dr. Chaeles Euss Richards, formerly dean 

 and director of the College of Engineering of 

 the University of Illinois, will be inaugurated 

 as president of Lehigh University on Octo- 

 ber 14. 



Dr. Howard B. Lewis, foi-merly associate 

 professor of physiological chemistry at the 

 University of Illinois, has accepted an appoint- 

 ment as professor and head of the department 

 of physiological chemistry in the Medical 

 School of the University of Michigan. 



Dr. Leon A. Hausman, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, has joined the staif of Rutgers College as 

 instructor in zoology and research zoologist. 



John L. Buys, instructor in entomology at 

 Cornell University, has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of entomology at the University 

 of Akron. 



Dr. A. D. Howard, until recently assistant 

 in the Bureau of Fisheries with assignment to 

 certain fresh-water mussel studies at the bio- 



