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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1454 



-Memorial Fund, took place on November 3. 

 -Afterwards, in tbe Jerusalem Chamber, the 

 rreneli ambassador, the Count de Saint- 

 Aulaire, as one of the vice-presidents of the 

 :£und, presented to the pnince 'the Ramsay Me- 

 uniorial Gold Medal, which has been executed 

 ■by the French sculptor, Monsieur Bo!ttee. 



Egbert Wheeler Willson, professor of as- 

 tronomy, emeritus, at Harvard Univereity, died 

 .at his home in Cambridge on November 1, in 

 (the seventieth year of his age. 



Dr. C. W. Waggoner, head of the depart- 

 jment of physics in Wesit Virginia University, 

 lias 'died from the effects of a fall from a 'horse, 

 ■a,t Shreveport, Louisiana. 



Frank Sherman Washburn, chaiTman of 

 the board of direetore of the American Cyana- 

 anid Company, a leader in American engineer- 

 in/g, died at bis home in Eye, N. Y., on October 

 ■9, aged sixty-two years. 



Proeessor C. Michie Smith, government 

 .astronomer of Madi^as, 1891-1911, and director 

 ■of the Ko'daikanal and Madras Observatories, 

 1899-1911, died on September 27. 



J. K. A. Wertheim Salomonson, professor 

 of neurology and radiology in the University 

 of Amsterdam, has died 'at the age of fifty- 

 ■eight years. 



The deaith is announced, 'as the result of an 

 accident while on holiday in the Alps, of Herr 

 Leo Madrnozka, professor of electrical engi- 

 neering at the Technical High School, Munich. 



The speakers who are expected at the Pas- 

 teur celebration of the New York Academy of 

 Medicine are: Professor Russell H. Chitten- 

 den, Dr. Wdlliam H. Welch, Dr. Ei-win Smith, 

 Dr. Simon Flexner, Dr. Herman Biggs and 

 Dr. W. W. Keen. The exhibition of books, 

 photographs, medalions, manusoiipts, etc., re- 

 ferring to the life work of Pasteur, is to be 

 open to the public at the New York Academy 

 of Medicine, 17 West Forty-third Street, New 

 York, for two weeks, commencing Decem'ber 

 27, 1922. The public addresses are to be given 

 at the academy on the evening of January 10, 

 1923. Any one having souvenu's or memora- 

 bilia connected with Pasteur's work is invited 



'to loan t'liem for ithe academy exhibition, and 

 address, for this purp'ose, the librarian of the 

 ■academy, Mr. J. S. Brownne. 



The National Committee for Mental Hy- 

 giene was engaged during August, September 

 and October in making a mental hygiene survey 

 in North Dakota. This is one of several state 

 surveys being conducted by the national com- 

 mittee. Recommendations are made to the 

 governor and legislature for appropriate ac- 

 tion. Those conducting the North Dakota sur- 

 vey were: Dr. Thomas H. Haines, consultant 

 for the National Committee for Mental Hy- 

 giene, director; Dr. Ward G. Reeder, assistant 

 professor of school administration in the Ohio 

 State Univei"sity; C. L. Hultgren, psychologist 

 for the national committee, and Mina A. Ses- 

 sions and Lucille Martin, psychiatric social 

 workers for the committee. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The departments of civil engineering and 

 electrical engineeiing of the South Dakota 

 SItate School of Mines have been transferred to 

 the new buUding erected for them, for which 

 the legislature made appropriation of $130,000 

 for building and $15,000 for furnishing. Addi- 

 tional funds were provided for machinery and 

 apparatus. 



Mr. and Mrs. Leon E. Schwartz have given 

 $20,000 to the School of Medicine of Tulane 

 University for the establishment of 'the David 

 Trautman Schwartz Eesearch Fund. 



The directors of the University of Cincinnati 

 have received a letter from the chairman of the 

 General Education Board, asking that action 

 taken to name a chair in ithe College of Medi- 

 cine after John D. Rockefeller be deferred be- 

 cause of Mr. Rockefeller's objection to such a 

 course. The communication said that "Mr. 

 Rockefeller would prefer to have his name re- 

 corded in the hearts 'and lives of those using 

 the improvemenits which donations from him 

 have made possible rather than having it carved 

 in stone or offleially connected vnth the build- 

 ing." 



