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the further question of raising a fund in 

 memory of Lord Rayleigh, to be used for the 

 promotion of research in some branch of sci- 

 ence in which he was specially interested. 



Dr. James Emerson Eeynolds, professor of 

 chemistry at the University of Dublin from 

 1875 to 1903, since engaged in research work 

 in the Davy-Faraday laboratory of the Eoyal 

 institution, died on February 26 at the age of 

 seventy-six years. 



LuciEN PoiNCAKE, author of works on 

 physics and vice-rector of the University of 

 Paris, died on March 9, at the age of fifty- 

 eight years. M. Poincare was a brother of 

 President Poincare, and a cousin of the great 

 mathematical physicist, Henri Poincare. 



Dr. Hugo Eisig, who cooperated with Anton 

 Dohrn in the foundation and conduct of the 

 Naples Zoological Station, died in Switzerland 

 on February 10, aged seventy-three years. 



The American Pharmaceutical Association 

 has available a sum amounting to about $450 

 which will be expended after October 1, for the 

 encouragement of research. This amount 

 either in full or fractions will be awarded in 

 such manner as will in the judgment of the 

 research committee produce the greatest good 

 to American pharmaceutical research. Investi- 

 gators desiring financial aid in their work will 

 communicate before May first with H. V. Arny, 

 chairman, 115 West 68th St., New York, giv- 

 ing their past record and outlining the par- 

 ticular line of work for which the grant is de- 

 sired. The committee will give each applica- 

 tion its careful attention and will make recom- 

 mendations to the American Pharmaceutical 

 Association at its meeting in Washington, May 

 3-8, when the award or awards will be made. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The fund for the University of Montreal 

 (Laval), recently destroyed by fire, has at- 

 tained to more than $3,500,000. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Toronto University needs 

 $4,000,000 for its reorganized medical depart- 

 ment. Dr. George E. Vincent, of the Eocke- 



feller Foundation, has been in Toronto and has 

 been conferring with the special committee of 

 the medical department, presided over by Dr. 

 Alexander Primrose, C.B. It is planned to pay 

 whole-time professors in medicine, surgery, ob- 

 stetrics, pathology, and perhaps one or two 

 others, $10,000 a year. Representatives from 

 Queens, Western at London, and from Winni- 

 peg interviewed Dr. Vincent as to their likeli- 

 hood of participating in the $5,000,000 to be al- 

 lotted to Canada for medical education from 

 the foundation. 



A bequest of £4,000 has been left to the Uni- 

 versity of Manchester by the late Mr. William 

 Kirtley, a nephew of Stephenson, who con- 

 structed the Manchester and Liverpool Rail- 

 way. The fund will be used to establish a 

 William Kirtley scholarship for the promotion 

 of the study of mechanical engineering. 



According to the forthcoming annual report 

 of President Harry Pratt Judson, a building 

 which the University of Chicago stands espe- 

 cially in need of is a research laboratory for the 

 department of chemistry. The present Kent 

 Chemical Laboratory is overcrowded with stu- 

 dents. Such a building is estimated to cost 

 about $350,000 and would be erected directly 

 west of Kent Chemical Laboratory. 



Dr. W. C. Allee, of Lake Forest College, 

 will next year be head of the department of 

 biology at Knox College. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



In a recent number of Science, the director 

 of the United States Geological Survey calls 

 public attention to the deplorable fact that the 

 Survey is rapidly losing many of its capable 

 geologists. He seems to ascribe this rapid de- 

 pletion of the scientific staff entirely to the 

 low salaries offered by the government as com- 

 pared with the high salaries, often with priv- 

 ileges of investment, offered by corporations — 

 particularly oil companies. Geologists who are 

 familiar with the conditions in the Geological 

 Survey during the past twenty years or more 

 are aware, however, that the director has men- 

 tioned only one of the reasons why geologists 

 are rapidly leaving the survey to accept more 



