January 24, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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Courtis has tested the mathematical ability of 

 several thousand school children in New York 

 and Boston, and described the results of his 

 tests. 



Dr, E. Euggles Gates, lecturer in biology, 

 St. Thomas Hospital, London, is giving- a 

 course of lectures on heredity and mutations 

 at the Imperial College of Science and Tech- 

 nology. 



The fourth centenary of the birth of 

 Andreas Vesalius, the pioneer of modern anat- 

 omy, will be celebrated this year with appro- 

 priate ceremonies at Brvissels. 



Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, of Los Angeles, chief 

 of the aeronautic corps of the U. S. Army 

 during the civil war, died on January 16, in 

 his eighty-first year.. Mr. Lowe made inven- 

 tions in various fields, including balloons and 

 instruments for atmospheric investigation, 

 and artificial ice, metallurgical and water-gas 

 apparatus. He built the Mount Lowe railway 

 and established the Mt. Lowe Observatory in 

 the Sierra Madre Mountains. 



Professor George Augustus Koenig, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the Michigan College of 

 Mines since 1892, and previously professor of 

 mineralogy and metallurgy in the University 

 of Pennsylvaiiia, died on January 14, aged 

 sixty-eight years. 



M. Louis Paul Cailletet, the distinguished 

 French chemist, known especially for his work 

 on iron and acetylene and on liquefaction of 

 gases, has died in his eighty-first year. 



The death is also announced of M. Leon 

 Teisserenc de Bort, the French meteorologist, 

 known especially for his work with captive 

 balloons. 



Dr. Otto Schoetensack, professor of an- 

 thropology at the University of Heidelberg, 

 died on December 23 in his sixty-third year. 



Dr. Tujiro Motora, professor of psychology 

 in the University of Tokyo, died on Decem- 

 ber 12. Dr. Motora took the doctor's degree 

 in psychology about twenty-five years ago at 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Frederik Hjalmar Johansen, who accom- 

 panied Dr. Nansen in sledge journey across 

 the North Polar ice, and Captain Amundsen 



on his recent Antarctic expedition, has died at 

 tlie age of forty-six years. 



We regret also to announce the death of 

 Dr. E. Tavel. professor of surgery at Bern, 

 and Dr. G. Tilling, professor of surgery at St. 

 Petersburg. 



VNIVEESIT¥ AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Eev. John Henry Ellis, of Collingham- 

 gardens, South Kensington, has left, subject 

 to his wife's life interest, the residue of his 

 property, which will amount to not less than 

 £90,000, to Cambridge University, " to be en- 

 joyed and applied both as to capital and in- 

 come by them for the general purposes of the 

 viniversity, in such manner as they may think 

 fit." 



Ax anonymous graduate has given Harvard 

 University $80,000 for a building for the de- 

 partment of music, and other graduates and 

 friends have subscribed as an endowment fund 

 for its maintenance more than $50,000. It 

 will be used for the courses in the theory and 

 history of music, the only branches of that 

 subject which are taught at Harvard. It will 

 have a hall of suitable size for chamber con- 

 certs, in which will probably be installed a 

 pipe organ. The building will also be the 

 headquarters for the musical organizations of 

 the university. 



Yankton College has received from Mr. 

 James J. Hill an offer of $50,000 for increas- 

 ing the endowment, conditioned on the rais- 

 ing of $200,000 in addition, within two years. 



Bates College dedicated on January 14 its 

 new science building, Carnegie Hall. Presi- 

 dent George C. Chase gave a brief historical 

 address, outlining the growth of the scientific 

 departments at Bates in recent years, and tell- 

 ing of the efforts necessary to raise the $100,- 

 000 in order to claim Mr. Carnegie's gift of 

 $50,000. Professor William T. Sedgwick, of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 gave the formal address, taking as his theme, 

 " The Interpretation of Nature." 



At the winter meeting of the board of trus- 

 tees, Cornell University, held in New York 

 on January IS, the election of a dean of the 

 faevilty of arts and sciences was referred to 



