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SCIENCE 



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The lectures are given on Monday and Tues- 

 day afternoons at four o'clock. 



Professor Karl Bezold, of the University 

 of Heidelberg, is lecturing on ancient oriental 

 art at Chicago, Princeton and other univer- 

 sities. 



Professor J. F. Kemp, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, lectured on the Catskill Aqueduct of 

 New York and the application of geology to 

 great engineering enterprises, at the Penn- 

 sylvania State College on February 25. After 

 the lecture a banquet vras tendered Dr. Kemp 

 by the Eesearch Club, consisting of the local 

 members of the Sigma Si. 



The forty-fourth annual presidential ad- 

 dress was given on February 13 by Albert 

 McCalla, Ph.D., before the State Microscop- 

 ical Society of Illinois at Chicago, the subject 

 being " Microscopic Eesearch as an aid to 

 Industrial Arts and Allied Sciences." 



0?f February 25 Professor H. H. Turner 

 began a course of three lectures at the Royal 

 Institution on " The Movements of the 

 Stars"; and on Thursday, March 6, Mr. W. 

 B. Hardy delivered the first of two lectures on 

 " Surface Energy." The Friday evening dis- 

 course on Februar,y 28 was delivered by the 

 Hon. E. J. Strutt on " Active Nitrogen," and 

 on March 7 by Mr. C. T. E. Wilson on " The 

 Photography of the Paths of Particles ejected 

 from Atoms." 



Dr. Philip Hanson Hiss, professor of bac- 

 teriology in the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Columbia University, the author of 

 important researches on immunity and infec- 

 tious diseases, died on February 27, aged 

 forty-four years. 



Charles W. Hooker, Ph.D., entomologist 

 of the Federal Experiment Station and plant 

 inspector of the Port of Mayaguez, Porto 

 Eico, died on February 12, at the age of 

 thirty, following an attack of appendicitis. 

 Dr. Hooker, who was a graduate of Amherst 

 College in the class of 1906, received his doc- 

 tor's degree in entomology at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College in 1909. 



Sir William White, F.R.S., the distin- 

 guished naval architect, for many years chief 



constructor of the British navy, president of 

 the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science for the next annual meeting, died 

 on February 28, aged sixty-eight years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



By the will of John Fritz, the iron master, 

 his residuary estate amounting to about $150,- 

 000 is given to Lehigh University primarily 

 as an endowment fund for the maintenance of 

 the Fritz Engineering and Testing Labora- 

 tory. It is also announced that Mr. Charles 

 L. Taylor, of Pittsburgh, has given Lehigh 

 University a gift for a large gymnasium and a 

 stadium. 



By the will of the late Mr. C. C. Weld, of 

 Newport, E. I., the Boston Lying-in Hospital 

 receives $125,000, and the Boston Dispensary 

 $100,000, while the residuary estate, valued at 

 nearly $4,000,000, is in case the daughter of 

 the decedent dies without issue, to be divided 

 between the Massachusetts General Hospital 

 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy. 



Plans for the new electrical laboratory of 

 Harvard University, which is to be built be- 

 tween the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and 

 the Peirce Hall, are nearing completion, and 

 it is expected that actual work of construction 

 will begin early in the spring. The building 

 will cost about $60,000 and is an anonymous 

 gift to the university. 



Applications for the Kahn Foundation for 

 the Foreign Travel of American Teachers 

 should be handed to the secretary of the foun- 

 dation. Sub-station 84, New York City. The 

 next fellows will be selected by the trustees 

 early in May and will begin their travels on 

 July 1, 1913. The reports of the first ap- 

 pointees. Professor Francis Daniels, of Wa- 

 bash College, and Professor J. H. T. Mc- 

 Pherson, of the University of Georgia, are 

 now in the printer's hands. Two fellows are at 

 present abroad: Professor Ivan M. Linforth, 

 of the University of California, is about to 

 leave Germany for the Orient; and Professor 

 William E. Kellicott, of Goucher College, is at 

 present in the British Isles and will shortly 



