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[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 947 



University Chapter of the Sigma Xi Society 

 this year are Dean David S. White of the 

 College of Veterinary Medicine, president; J. 

 S. Hine, associate professor of biology, vice- 

 president; F. 0. Blake, professor of physics, 

 treasurer, and James E. Withrow, professor of 

 industrial chemistry, secretary. 



Professor A. M. Tozzer, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, during the mid-year period, gave lec- 

 tures before the various societies of the Archeo- 

 logical Institute of America in the following 

 places : St. John, Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, 

 Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Buffalo, Roches- 

 ter, Auburn and Syracuse. 



On February 7, Professor Edward L. Thorn- 

 dike, of Teachers College, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, delivered in the afternoon a lecture on 

 " Social Instincts " before the department of 

 psychology of the John Hopkins University; 

 and, in the evening he addressed the Educa- 

 tional Society of Baltimore on " Retardation 

 and Elimination in High School." 



Professor J. S. Pray, chairman of the de- 

 partment of landscape gardening of Harvard 

 University, gave recently two lectures at the 

 University of Illinois on the subjects " Func- 

 tional City Planning " and " Gardens Old and 

 New." 



Monsieur J. M. F. de Pulligny, ingenieur 

 en chef des ponts et chaussees, et directeur, 

 Mission Francaise d'Ingenieurs aux Etats- 

 Unis, New York City, on February 11, de- 

 livered an illustrated lecture on " The Public 

 Service of Roads in France," before the gradu- 

 ate students in highway engineering at Colum- 

 bia University. 



On February 4 Professor G. H. Parker 

 lectured before the Vassar Brothers' Institute, 

 Poughl?eepsie, N. Y., on " The Evolution of 

 the Nervous System." 



The Alumni Association of the Michigan 

 College of Mines has published its January 

 number of The M. 0. M. Alumnus, which is 

 a memorial to Professor George A. Koenig, 

 head of the department of chemistry, who died 

 in Philadelphia on January 14. The number 

 contains . a full-page engraving from a late 



photograph, a biography and the addresses of 

 the memorial service. 



Professor Julius Franz, director of the 

 astronomical observatory at Breslau, has died 

 at the age of sixty-five years. 



Dr. G. de Laval, the well-known Swedish 

 engineer and inventor, has died at the age of 

 sixty-seven years. 



TiiE Civil Service Commission invites at- 

 tention to the regular spring examinations for 

 scientific assistant, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, to be held April 9 and 10. The entrance 

 salaries are from $1,000 to $1,800. Examina- 

 tions will be given in the following subjects: 

 agronomy, dairying, entomology, farm eco- 

 nomics, farm equipment, forage crops, general 

 farm management, horticulture, library sci- 

 ence, nutrition and calorimetry, plant breed- 

 ing, plant pathology, pomology, seed testing, 

 soil bacteriology, soil chemistry, soil survey- 

 ing. An examination will be held on March 

 10 for senior highway engineer, to fill vacan- 

 cies as they may occur in this position in the 

 office of public roads. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, at salaries ranging from $2,000 to $2,400 

 a year. 



VNIVESSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The sum of $75,000 has been subscribed and 

 given to Vassar College to endow a chair of 

 physical science. 



In a recent issue of Science, mention was 

 made of the bequests of Levi N. Stewart, of 

 Minneapolis, to Dartmouth, Bowdoin and 

 Bates Colleges. In addition Mr. Stewart be- 

 queathed $75,000 to Colby College. 



Mr. Dan R. Hanna, proprietor of the Cleve- 

 land Leader and News, has offered to the West- 

 ern Reserve University ten thousand dollars a 

 year for establishing a School of Journalism. 

 The school will be coordinated with the other 

 professional schools of the university, and will 

 be its ninth department. Adelbert College, the 

 college of arts and sciences for men, is the 

 oldest department. It was founded as Western 



