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SCIENCE 



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has been at work during the year since the 

 death of Dr. J. G. Hermandez, of Caracas, 

 and recently completed its labors by unveiling 

 an oil portrait in the university, with memo- 

 rial tablet, and also a monument in the ceme- 

 tery, and founding a biennial prize in his 

 name with a ftmd of 15,770 bolivars. The 

 tablet and monument bear the inscription 

 " Homenaje Nacional." The ceremonies in- 

 cluded a large representative gathering and 

 addresses, with music, in the university, and 

 also ceremonies in the cemetery. 



If the recent California referendima the 

 bill prohibiting vivisection was defeated by 

 an overwhelming majority. The other anti- 

 health measures, including anti-vaccination 

 were also defeated. 



Under date of August 13 Captain Roald 

 Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, sent the fol- 

 lowing telegram from East Cape, Siberia: 

 " We sailed from Nome immediately after my 

 wire of August 8, with only three men, as the 

 others claimed wages of £300 sterling monthly. 

 The following day we were held up by pack ice 

 in Behring Sea. All aboard well." 



In the fire which destroyed the Agricultural 

 building of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute 

 on October 17, the department library, which 

 probably contained the best collection of 

 American and foreign journals in the south, 

 was destroyed. The plant collections of 

 Underwood, Earle and Atkinson which were 

 part of the department herbarium were burned 

 as was also the research equipment of the de- 

 partment. Dr. Wright A. Gardner and Mr. G. 

 R. Johnstone lost their entire botanical li- 

 braries. 



The Tale Corporation has made arrange- 

 ments for the establishment of four fellow- 

 ships, to be known as Bishop Museum Fel- 

 lowships, and to be awarded for study and 

 research in anthropology, botany, zoology, 

 geology and geography. The fellows are to be 

 appointed by the corporation of Yale Univer- 

 sity from candidates recommended by the 

 trustees of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. 

 They will receive $1,000 a year. Their re- 

 searches, which are to be in the general field 



of the science of the Pacific, are to be sub- 

 mitted to the Bishop Museum for publication. 

 Applications for fellowships should be made to 

 the dean of the graduate school of Tale Uni- 

 versity, or to the director of the Bishop Mu- 

 seum in Honolulu. 



The will of General Rush 0. Hawkins gives 

 the residue of his estate to Norwich Univer- 

 sity at Northfield, Vt. The will also makes 

 specific public bequests of more than $400,000, 

 including $100,000 to the University of Ver- 

 mont, and $100,000 to Brown University. Of 

 his bequest to Norwich University General 

 Hawkins said he made it because he believed 

 " above all else in a military education, its 

 tendencies being to develop self-respecting, 

 men, who are more likely than others to be 

 faithful in all relations, which should adorn 

 decent society. I am proud of the records made 

 by the Norwich graduates in the field and at 

 sea whenever they have been called upon to 

 serve their country." General Hawkins left 

 $100,000 to the Society for the Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals, of which he had been a 

 director, with the instruction that the income 

 of this bequest be used " to abate the wicked 

 horrors of vivisection and to compel those who 

 practise it to make known to the public the 

 actual methods of their unspeakable calling." 



Through the courtesy of the director of 

 naval communications and the commissioner 

 of lighthouses, the Bureau of Fisheries has 

 made arrangements to have the occurrence of 

 schooling fishes reported by the keepers of 

 Pollock Rip, Nantucket Shoals, and Fire Is- 

 land Lightships. Messages will be sent by 

 radio from each of these vessels at noon daily, 

 reporting any observations which may be 

 made during the preceding 24 hours. The 

 reports will be relayed over the leased wires of 

 the Navy from New Tork or Newport to 

 Boston Navy Tard, whence they will be com- 

 municated by telephone to the Bureau's rep- 

 resentative, F. F. Dimick, who will post them 

 at the Fish Exchange and give them such 

 other publicity as may be desirable. Impor- 

 tant information of interest to Gloucester 

 fishermen will be telegraphed to Henry F. 



