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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LII. No. 1357 



Sir William Abney, distinguished for his 

 contributions to photography and color vision, 

 died on December 2 at the age of seventy- 

 seven years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. G. von 

 Bunge, professor of physiology at the Univer- 

 sity of Basel, aged seventy-six years. 



Dr. Karl Toldt, professor emeritus of anat- 

 omy at the TJniversity of Vienna, author of 

 numerous publications on the development of 

 the gastric and other glands and the embry- 

 ology of the genital organs and on compara- 

 tive anthropology, has died at the age of 

 eighty years. 



The Robert Koch Foundation for Com- 

 bating Tuberculosis has awarded the prize of 

 5,000 Marks for the best work on the subject 

 " The Value of the Various Kinds of Eays 

 (Sun, Roentgen, Radium, Meso thorium) for 

 the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tubercu- 

 losis " to Dr. Gasstd, a former assistant in 

 the Berlin University Institute for the In- 

 vestigation of Cancer. 



A formal resolution thanking Thomas E. 

 Brittingham, of Madison, for the bronze bust 

 of the late President Charles R. Van Hise, 

 which he recently presented to the University 

 of Wisconsin, has been voted by the Regents 

 of the University. The resolution is as 

 follows : 



Besolved: That the Eegents accept with their 

 warmest thanks the "Pietro bust" of President 

 Van Hise as a gift from the Honorable T. E. 

 Brittingham. They recognize in this gift a con- 

 tinuation of that generosity which has already 

 brought to the TJniversity the Lincoln statue and 

 the Muir bust. Like these predecessors, this bust 

 is a permanent possession for the TJniversity, of 

 great historic interest and artistic excellence. It 

 brings with it also those feelings which come with 

 the likeness of a distinguished leader and beloved 

 comrade whose recent loss is a fresh grief both to 

 the regents and to the donor. 



A MEETING of the committee formed to 

 establish a memorial to the late Sir Victor 

 Horsley was held at the house of the Royal 

 Society of Medicine on November 3; an ex- 

 ecutive committee was appointed to take steps 

 to raise a fund, of which the senate of the 



University of London would be trustees, for 

 the endowment of a lectureship or scholarship 

 to perpetuate the memory of Sir Victor 

 Horsley's scientific and public work. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Plans have been completed by the trustees 

 of the Johns Hopkins Hospital for the recon- 

 struction of the hospital group, which will in- 

 volve an investment of approximately $11,500,- 

 000, including $6,750,000 as a permanent 

 ^endowment fund. The first unit will be started 

 ,nest summer by the erection of a new patho- 

 logic building, costing $600,000, to replace the 

 structure destroyed by fire last winter. 



It is planned to establish a technical school 

 at Oberlin College with accommodations for 

 about 700 students. 



, The University of Liverpool has instituted 

 a diploma in medical radiology and electrology. 

 A course of post-graduate work extending over 

 six months is required before a candidate can 

 enter for the examination. Instruction in 

 .physics constitutes part of the course. Mr. C. 

 ,Thurstan Holland has been appointed a uni- 

 versity lecturer in charge of the department 

 of radiology. 



Dr. John Auer, of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research, has accepted the head- 

 ,ship of the newly established department of 

 pharmacology in the St. Louis University 

 School of Medicine. The appointment of other 

 ;members of the staff of this department will 

 ,be announced later. 



, George Reber Wieland, Ph.D., lecturer of 

 paleobotany in Tale University, has been ap- 

 pointed a research assistant in paleobotany 

 ,with the rank of assistant professor. 



, Dr. Samuel W. Pernberger, assistant pro- 

 fessor of psychology at Clark University, has 

 become assistant professor of psychology in the 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



, Dr. C. L. Turner, of Wooster College, has 

 succeeded Dr. T. W. Galloway as professor of 

 zoology at Beloit College. 



