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monwealth Fund, N"ew York City; George 

 Eastman and Adolph Lomb, Eochester; E. A. 

 Deeds and Charles E. Kettering, Dayton; 

 Henry Eord, Detroit; Arthur H. Eleming, 

 Pasadena; A. W. Mellon, Pittsburgh; Pierre 

 S. duPont, Wilmington; Raphael Pumpelly, 

 ISTe-wport; Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Huntington, 

 Los Angeles; Corning Glass Works Coming, 

 New York. Fixnds for the erection of the 

 building have been provided by the Carnegie 

 Corporation of Ifew York. 



The American Chemical Society has in- 

 creased the annual dues from ten to fifteen 

 dollars. The finance conxmittee reports that 

 for the present year the society will just about 

 keep inside its budget as a whole, excepting 

 for the matter of printing. In the item of 

 printing, all the journals are necessarily run- 

 ning beyond their budgets due to the increases 

 in costs of paper and printing that have al- 

 ready accrued. If the journals print the 

 same amount of material for the next four 

 months that they have been averaging, and 

 the cost of paper, printing, etc., are the same 

 as it has been for the last eight months, then 

 the Journal of the American Chemical Socieiy 

 will exceed its budget by nearly $10,000; 

 Chemical Ahstracts will exceed its budget by 

 nearly $8,000; and the Journal of Industrial 

 Chemistry will exceed its budget by nearly 

 $3,000. 



The Paris correspondent of the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association writes that 

 the president of France having decreed that 

 the public welfare demands the creation of 

 certain institutes, notably an institute of 

 hygiene, in affiliation with the University of 

 Paris, on grounds accruing from liquidation 

 of the congregation of Jesuits, the minister 

 of public instruction has been authorized to 

 acquire this property by expropriation in the 

 name of the state. 



; The London Times reports that in a discus- 

 sion on the Einstein theory of relativity at 

 Bad Nauheim on September 23 Professor 

 Greibe, of Bonn, declared that the third test 

 had been passed. According to Professor Ein- 

 stein, there should be a " shift " towards the 



red of the lines in the solar spectrum of from 

 0.62 to 0.63. The absorption bands of nitrogen 

 had been selected and compared with a spec- 

 trum of a carbon arc. More than 20 measure- 

 ments of each line had been made. There were 

 differences in the " shift " of individual lines, 

 but when allowance had been made for dis- 

 turbing factors the " shift " was found to be 

 about 0.66 — a close agreement with prediction. 



I For many years Dr. Joseph Lane Hancock, 

 of Chicago, has been recognized as an author- 

 ity on the Tettiginse or Grouse-locusts, and in 

 that time has assembled probably the largest 

 collection of these insects extant, numbering 

 over five thousand specimens. Due to added 

 medical responsibilities, Dr. Hancock has now 

 closed his Orthopterological studies and his 

 collection has been added to the Hebard Col- 

 lection of Orthoptera at the Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences of Philadelphia. In order to 

 continue the work in this group. Dr. Han- 

 cock's correspondents and collectors are invited 

 to communicate with Mr. Morgan Hebard, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Race St., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. Every effort will be made to 

 continue the growth of the collection of Tet- 

 tiginse as well as carrying on the systematic 

 studies. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that last spring a beginning was made at Uni- 

 versity College, London, with the foundation 

 of a school of the history of science. Dr. A. 

 Wolf, reader in logic, then made a first at- 

 tempt at some organized presentation of the 

 history of scientific ideas by arranging for a 

 series of lectures; the course was inaugurated 

 by Dr. Charles Singer last May in a lecture 

 in which Greek science and modern science 

 were compared and contrasted. This autumn 

 much fuller arrangements have been made, 

 and a series of courses of lectures will be 

 given. The field to be covered is wide, rang- 

 ing from Egyptian science to the most im- 

 portant developments of physical science in 

 the nineteenth century, and from biology to 

 mathematics in the eighteenth century. An 

 introductory public lecture wiU be given on 

 Thursday, October 7 by Professor Sir William 



