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was held at Harvard College Observatory on 

 N'ovem'ber 8, viras attended by about fifty mem- 

 bers and friends. Mr. Leon Campbell was 

 elected president for the year and Professor 

 Anne Young, of Mount Holyoke, was elected 

 vice-president. The program of the meeting 

 consisted of papers and reports, followed by a 

 banquet at which Rev. Joel Metcalf was the 

 guest of honor. This association is com- 

 posed of amateur astronomers who are anxious 

 to contribute observations of value, and over a 

 hundred thousand observations have been pub- 

 lished. It offers an opportunity for all lovers 

 of astronomy to do work of value; particularly 

 those who have small telescopes stored away 

 and do not know how to put them to use. Any 

 one interested should write to Mr. William 

 T. Olcott, secretary, 62 Church Street, Nor- 

 wich, Conn. 



The University of Illinois has recently 

 added to its collections a historical herbarium 

 of about 3,000 specimens formed early in the 

 last century by Dr. Jonathan Roberts (1805- 

 1878). Dr. Paddock, after holding a professor- 

 ship in the literary department of the college 

 became a professor in Worthington Medical 

 College, at Worthington, Ohio, when Dr. J. L. 

 Riddell, well known as a botanist in his day, 

 moved from that institution to the University 

 of Louisiana. He is said to have been a schol- 

 arly man, and an ardent botanist, who enjoyed 

 particularly the friendship of SuUivant, the 

 banker^bryologist of Columbus. 



A MEETING was held in New York City on 

 December 3 to commemorate the eightieth 

 anniversary of the beginning of Captain John 

 Ericsson's work in this country, and the 

 thirtieth anniversary of the death of Captain 

 Ericsson and of Mr. Cornelius H. De- 

 Lamater, founder of the DeLamater Iron 

 Works, where Captain Ericsson's most im- 

 portant work was executed. The exercises in- 

 eluded addresses by Hon. Lewis ISTixon, com- 

 missioner of public works. Borough of Man- 

 hattan; Rear- Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and 

 Hon. W. A. Ekengren, Sweden's Minister at 

 Washington. Mr. H. F. J. Porter gave an 

 illustrated historical review of the work per- 



formed at the Phoenix Foundry and the De- 

 Lameter Iron Works. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Mr. Charles H. Swift, of Chicago, has 

 given $5,000 to the University of Chicago for 

 its department of geography, for the purpose 

 of sending a member of its stafE to Asia the 

 coming autumn. Assistant Professor Well- 

 ington D. Jones is to make the trip. He will 

 carry on geographic studies either in China 

 or in India, the choice being determined by 

 conditions in Asia when the trip is made. 

 This will be the second trip of Professor 

 Jones to Asia made possible by Mr. Swift's 

 generosity. 



Boston University has concluded an ar- 

 rangement for an exchange of professorships 

 in mathematics for the college year 1920-21 

 with Tsing Hua College, Peking, China. 

 Professor Robert E. Bruce, chairman of the 

 department in Boston University, will ex- 

 change with Professor Albert H. Heinz, of 

 Tsing Hua. Professor Heinz, head of the 

 department of mathematics, is a graduate of 

 the University of Missouri and has been at 

 Tsing Hua nine years. This college is umder 

 the control of the Chinese government and 

 was founded with part of the returned Boxer 

 Indemnity. Professor Bruce will sail from 

 the Pacific coast in April. Professor Heinz 

 will reach this country in time to begin his 

 work at Boston University at the opening of 

 the college in September. 



In recognition of the gift of £34,500 by 

 Sir Ralph Forster, Bt., to the fund for the 

 chemistry building and equipment at Uni- 

 versity College, London, the organic depart- 

 ment of the chemical laboratories will be 

 known by his name. 



At the University of California, Assistant 

 Professor B. M. Woods has been promoted to 

 a full professorship of aerodynamics. 



De. Carroll W. Dodge has succeeded Pro- 

 fessor Harlan H. York, as head of the depart- 

 ment of botany at Brown University and 



