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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 946 



The Norman W. Harris lectures of North- 

 western University will this year be given by 

 Dr. J. S. Ames, professor of physics in Johns 

 Hopkins University. The series, comprising 

 six lectures on the subject " The Constitution 

 of Matter," is as follows: 



February 24 — "General Properties of Matter; 

 Mass. ' ' 



February 25 — "Corpuscles and Atoms; Elec- 

 trical Mass. ' ' 



February 26 — "Radioactivity; Gravitation." 



February 27 — "Radiation; Formation of Mole- 

 cules ; Elasticity. ' ' 



February 2S — "Properties of Metals; Thermi- 

 onics. ' ' 



March 1 — "Models of Atoms; Conclusion." 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that on January 25 the 

 American Society for Physicians' Study 

 Travels, with national headquarters in Phila- 

 delphia and proposed branches throughout the 

 United States, was formally organized at a 

 meeting of prominent medical men at Phila- 

 delphia. Dr. James M. Anders was elected 

 president and Dr. Albert Bernheim was chosen 

 as secretary. The society proposes to send 

 travel parties t« foreign countries to report 

 on the methods of leading medical men and 

 scientists in Europe and South America. All 

 physicians and scientific men qualified to be- 

 come afiiliated with the American Medical 

 Association will be eligible for membership, 

 and also associate and honorary members will 

 be elected among the prominent medical and 

 non-medical men of this and foreign countries. 



On February 3 the city of Providence passed 

 a resolution accepting as a gift from the 

 Audubon Society of Ehode Island the Manly- 

 Hardy collection of North American birds and 

 also as a gift from Mr. Horace F. Carpenter 

 his collection of shells and minerals with a 

 library descriptive of the same. The condi- 

 tions of the gifts are that they shall be prop- 

 erly cared for and exhibited at the Park 

 Museum within three years from date of ac- 

 ceptance. This means that the city will erect 

 an addition to the museum almost as large as 

 the present structure, equipped to exhibit the 



collections. The Manly-Hardy collection of 

 North American birds, which has just been 

 purchased by the Audubon Society of Rhode 

 Island through subscriptions of its members 

 and friends, is one of the most valuable pri- 

 vate collections in existence and represents 

 thirty-three consecutive years of work on the 

 part of Mr. Hardy and his daughter, Mrs. 

 Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. The collection is 

 remarkable for its many specimens in breed- 

 ing plumage, for some extinct and for numer- 

 ous rare species. The Carpenter collection 

 of shells and minerals represents about fiity 

 years' work by Mr. Horace F. Carpenter, of 

 Providence, and contains over three thousand 

 species of shells, about five hundred different 

 kinds of minerals and a library valued at over 

 $2,000. 



UNIFEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Ohio-Miami Medical College of the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati, has received $125,000 

 from a donor whose name is being withheld. 

 An efFort is being made to raise an endowment 

 fund of $1,000,000. 



During the past year three wills, involving 

 property valued at $125,000, have been pro- 

 bated in favor of Knox College. About half 

 of this amount becomes available immediately 

 for the endowment of a professorship in one 

 of the departments of science, while the re- 

 mainder is held in trust during the lifetime of 

 the widow of one of the testators. 



Mr. Eugene Meyer and his wife, of New 

 York, have given Cornell University $10,- 

 000 to endow a fellowship in memory of their 

 son, Edgar J. Meyer, who graduated from 

 Sibley College in the class of 1905 and whose 

 life was lost by the sinking of the Titanic. 

 The purpose of the fellowship is to encourage 

 research in mechanical and electrical engi- 

 neering. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons of Chicago again passes under 

 the control of the University of Illinois. This 

 time it is a gift to the state institution partly 



