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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII, No. 952 



law, sociology and education. The announce- 

 ment states that the journal undertakes " fiir 

 das Gebiet der Geisteswissenschaften ein 

 ahnliches Programm verwirkliehen, wie ihm 

 fiir die Naturwissenschaften in England die 

 " Nature,' in Amerika die ' Science,' in 

 Deutschland ' Die Naturwissenschaften ' 

 nachstreben." 



We learn from Nature that the will of the 

 late Mr. Eowland Ward, the taxidermist, di- 

 rects that the trustees with respect to his 

 charitable bequests shall expend 500L per 

 annum out of the income of his residuary 

 «state, after the legacies and annuities speci- 

 fied have been paid, for a period of ten years 

 in the purchase of specimens to be presented 

 to the Natural History Museum, South Ken- 

 sington. The residue of his estate is left in 

 «qual shares to such eight of fourteen selected 

 •charitable and other institutions as his widow 

 shall choose. In default of his widow's selec- 

 tion within twelve months of the testator's 

 decease, the whole of the fourteen institutions 

 — which include the Natural History Museum 

 — are to share equally. 



The only public standardizing and testing 

 laboratory for public utilities and industries 

 generally, outside of the one maintained by 

 the Bureau of Standards at Washington, has 

 just been established by the regents of the 

 University of Wisconsin, in cooperation with 

 the Wisconsin Railroad Eate Commission. 

 The purpose of the university's new labora- 

 tory is to render more direct service to public 

 utilities and to industries of the state by 

 supplying them at a reasonable cost with the 

 opportunity to have meters and similar in- 

 struments scientifically tested. Hitherto the 

 smaller public utilities and industries that 

 could not afford to maintain testing labora- 

 tories of their own have been compelled to 

 have their testing done as favors by a few 

 large companies that could maintain testing 

 laboratories. 



The following lectures are being given at 

 the University of Minnesota: 



January 17 — "Eugenics and Race Betterment," 

 Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the department 

 of medicine and surgery, University of Michigan. 



January 28 — ' ' Cancer and its Prevention, ' ' Dr. 

 L. B. Wilson, of the Mayo Hospitals, Rochester, 

 Minnesota. 



February 11 — "Heredity and Environment," 

 Dr. E. L. Tuohy of Duluth. 



February 25 — "The Nature of Disease," Dr. 

 W. T. Councilman, professor of pathologic ana- 

 tomy. Harvard Medical School. 



March 11 — "Public Health a Public Duty," 

 Dr. Mazyck P. Ravenel, professor of bacteriology. 

 University of Wisconsin, and director of the Wis- 

 consin State Hygienic Laboratory. 



April 1 — "The People's Responsibility in 

 Dealing with Public Health Problems, ' ' Dr. H. 

 M. Bracken, executive officer, Minnesota State 

 Board of Health. 



April 15 — "The Need for an Efficient National 

 Health Service in the United States from an 

 Economic Standpoint, ' ' Dr. John B. Murphy, pro- 

 fessor of surgery. Northwestern University Medi- 

 cal School. 



April 29 — "The Profession of Medicine; an 

 Agency in Social Service, ' ' Dr. Richard Olding 

 Beard, professor of physiology, University of 

 Minnesota. 



May 6 — "The Growth of Hygienic Ideals," Dr. 

 Henry B. Favill, professor of medicine. Rush 

 Medical College. 



The United States Bureau of Education 

 has just published a Bibliography of the 

 Teaching of Mathematics, covering the period 

 from 1900 to 1912, by David Eugene Smith 

 and Charles Goldziher. This bulletin gives 

 1,849 titles of books and articles on the teach- 

 ing of mathematics that have appeared since 

 1900. The bulletin will be sent free upon 

 application to the United States Commissioner 

 of Education, Washington, D. C. 



We learn from the London Times that an 

 arrangement has been made for cooperation 

 between the British board of trade and the 

 principal Atlantic steamship lines in carry- 

 ing out during the present year the recom- 

 mendations of the merchant shipping ad- 

 visory committee in their report on life saving 

 at sea with respect to stationing a vessel for 

 ice observation to the north of the steamship 

 routes across the North Atlantic. In accord- 

 ance with the advice of a special conference 

 summoned by the board of trade to consider 

 the best means of giving effect to this recom- 



