March 21, 1913] 



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It is stated in Nature that an exhibition of 

 works by the late Mr. Thomas Woolner, E.A., 

 has been opened at his studios. The exhibits 

 include a number of objects of interest to men 

 of science, among them being plaster busts of 

 Charles Darwin, Huxley and Richard Quain, 

 bronze medallions of Darwin and Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, a colossal head, in plaster, of Captain 

 Cook, and a bronze medal representing science 

 and research. Any works not disposed of dur- 

 ing the exhibition will be sold in the studio 

 by auction. 



Mr. Wilbur Wright bequeathed $50,000 to 

 each of his brothers, Eauchlin Wright and 

 Loring Wright, and to his sister, Katharine 

 Wright. His other property he left to his 

 brother, Orville Wright, " who has been as- 

 sociated with me in all the hopes and labors 

 both of my childhood and manhood, and who 

 will, I am sure, use the property in very much 

 the same manner as we would use it together, 

 in case we should both survive to old age; and 

 for this reason I make no specific bequest to 

 charity." 



Professor Adam Sedgwick, F.E.S., formerly 

 professor of zoology at the University of 

 Cambridge, and since 1909 in the Imperial 

 College of Science, London, hag died at the 

 age of fifty-seven years. 



Sir William Arrol, the distinguished Brit- 

 ish bridge builder, died on February 20, at the 

 age of seventy-four years. 



Mr. George Matthey, F.E.S. , who, while 

 actively engaged in commercial work, made 

 experiments in scientific metallurgy, died on 

 February 14, aged eight-seven years. 



Dr. M. M. McHaedy, late professor of 

 ophthalmology in King's College, London, in- 

 ventor of the registering perimeter which 

 bears his name, died on February 8, at the age 

 of sixty years. 



Professor W. Tait, in charge of chemistry 

 in the civil engineering college at Sibpur, near 

 Calcutta, died on February 19. 



M. Alfred Maurice Picard, the eminent 

 French engineer, member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, died on March 8, aged sixty- 

 nine years. 



The death is announced of Professor Wil- 

 liam H. Lennon, for forty-two years head of 

 the department of science in the Brockport 

 State Normal School, New York. 



Phi Lambda TJpsilon, the honorary chem- 

 ical society, will hold its biennial convention 

 at Milwaukee, Wis., March 24 and 25, just 

 preceding the meeting of the American Chem- 

 ical Society. The headquarters for the con- 

 vention will be the Hotel Pfister. 



The regents of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin have voted to extend an invitation to the 

 Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations to hold a 

 four-week graduate school in agriculture and 

 home economics at the university, in July, 

 1914. 



The German Association of Engineers is 

 making preparations for the reception of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 

 which will hold its annual meeting this year 

 in Leipzig. The Americans will arrive at 

 Hamburg on June 19. Following the meeting 

 they will make a fortnight's tour of Germany. 



The twenty-second session of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, will begin Tuesday, May 21, 1913. The 

 regular course of intruction will continue six 

 weeks, closing July 8. Investigators and stu- 

 dents working without instruction may make 

 arrangements to continue their work through 

 the summer. The laboratory, which is at Pa- 

 cific Grove, will be under the general super- 

 vision of Professor F. M. McFarland, in- 

 structor in charge. 



A conference on the Conservation of Hu- 

 man Life will be held at Reed College, Port- 

 land, Oregon, on May 9, 10 and 11, 1913. 

 There will be lectures, discussions, exhibits, 

 moving pictures, out-of-door games and meet- 

 ings of societies. All organizations and indi- 

 viduals devoted to human welfare are invited 

 to take part in the conference. Fifteen rooms 

 are available for the exhibits and fifteen rooms 

 for meetings of such organizations. Three as- 

 sembly rooms are equipped, for stereopticon 

 exhibitions. The following topics suggest the 



