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sent to the secretary, Professor Mario Tevi 

 Delia Yida, via Palermo 58, Eoma. 



The Faraday Society and the Physical So- 

 ciety of London have arranged to hold a gen- 

 eral discussion next Octoher on colloidal phys- 

 ics and chemistry. 



The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry was held at New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne on July 13-16. The gold 

 medal of the society was presented to M. Paul 

 Kestner, president of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry of France. Sir William J. Pope was 

 elected president for the ensuing year and an 

 invitation to hold the next annual general 

 meeting at Montreal was accepted. 



The Scientific American is offering $5,000 

 for the test essay of 3,000 words explaining the 

 Einstein theory. All essays must be in Eng- 

 lish and written as simply, lucidly and non- 

 technically as possible. They must be type- 

 written and must reach the office of the Scien- 

 tific American, 233 Broadway, 'New York, by 

 Novemiber 1, 1920. The right is reserved to 

 divide the prize between two contestants if in 

 the opinion of the judges the best two essays 

 are of equal merit. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation records the appropriation by the Swe- 

 dish government of 5,000 crowns to aid the 

 Swedish Medical Association in publishing 

 three journals, the semimonthly, quarterly 

 and transactions. Three journals devoted to 

 hygiene are given from 1,000 to 1,500 crowns, 

 and four specialist journals from 500 to 1,200. 

 To aid in starting the new Ada Oto-Laryn- 

 gologica, 4,000 crowns are appropriated. Each 

 of the journals specified is to donate a number 

 of copies to the university libraries. 



It is reported from Paris that the mosquito 

 plague was so serious there last year that the 

 Pasteur Institute has been devoting special 

 attention to the destruction of the larvae. An 

 old plan was to pour oil on the waters where 

 mosquitoes breed, but this also killed any fish 

 there might be in the waters, besides making 

 it unfit for drinking. M. Roubaud, of the 

 Pasteur Institute, has now discovered a method 



of destroying the larvae by sprinkling powdered 

 formaline on the surface of the water. It is 

 said that this does not injure fish or make water 

 impossible to drink, and is more rapid and ef- 

 fective than oil. 



The gift of a collection of fossils and shells 

 which makes the University of Illinois collec- 

 tion of fauna and fiora representing the coal 

 period the largest extant was announced at the 

 recent meeting of the trustees of the univer- 

 sity. The collection was made by J. C. Carr. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The family of the late Sir John Darling, of 

 Adelaide, South Australia, have contributed 

 the sum of £15,000 towards the cost of erecting 

 a new building for the medical school of the 

 University of Adelaide. This building will be 

 designed to accommodate the departments of 

 physiology, biochemistry and histology and 

 the medical library. The building will be 

 erected and equipped at a cost of £25,000. 



Mr. Walter Morrison, of Balliol College, 

 Oxford, has just paid to Bodley's librarian the 

 sum of £50,000 for the capital account of the 

 library. Mr. Morrison had previously given 

 £10,000 to each of three university funds— one 

 for the readership in Egyptology, another for 

 the promotion of the study of agriculture, and 

 a third towards the establishment of a pro- 

 fessors' pension fund. 



Preliminary plans have been made for an 

 International University, which will hold its 

 first session in Bruxelles from September 5 to 

 20. The courses cover practically the whole 

 field of higher education, but will lay si)ecial 

 weight on questions of current interest. They 

 will be given in the building of International 

 Associations, and there will at the same time 

 be held a number of congresses and meetings. 

 The names of those who will give the courses 

 are not announced in the preliminary program, 

 issued in July. 



Dr. E. I. Wold, for the past five years con- 

 nected with the engineering department and 



