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[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 953 



Dr. E. G. Kavenstein, who did much to 

 improve cartographical methods in Great 

 Britain, has died at the age of seventy-nine 

 years. 



Dr. F. Howitz, formerly professor of gyne- 

 cology in the University of Copenhagen, has 

 died at the age of eighty-four years. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 G. Vassale, vs'ho held the chair of general 

 pathology at the University of Modena, and 

 of Professor Albanese, who held the chair of 

 pharmacology at Rome. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces examinations towards the end of the 

 month for assistant chemist in the office of 

 public roads at salaries ranging from $1,800 

 to $2,200; for examiner of surveys in the 

 Forest Service, at salaries of from $1,200 to 

 $1,500, and of preparator of fossils in the 

 Geological Survey, at a salary of $900. 



By the recent British insurance act it is 

 provided that one penny per insured person, 

 payable out of the moneys provided by parlia- 

 ment, may be retained by the insurance com- 

 missioners to be applied for the purposes of 

 research, and the total sum thus available 

 will at present amount to about £57,000 per 

 annum. While the main concern of this part 

 of the act is to combat tuberculosis, the com- 

 missioners have been advised that the money 

 may properly be applied to research in con- 

 nection with any disease which may affect 

 insured persons. 



By the will of Carll H. De Silver, of 

 Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences receives $50,000. 



The twentieth semi-annual meeting of the 

 Association of Teachers of Mathematics in 

 the Middle States and Maryland was held at 

 the University of Pittsburgh on March 22. 



The fifth annual meeting of the Illinois 

 Water Supply Association was held at the 

 University of Illinois on March 11 and 12. 

 The membership of the association is made up 

 of waterworks engineers, superintendents, 

 chemists, and others interested in obtaining 

 and conserving an abundant supply of pure 

 water. The papers read at this meeting cov- 



ered a wide range of subjects, including the 

 study of deep well drillings in Illinois, sterili- 

 zation of water by ultra-violet light, filter 

 plants, practical methods of obtaining effi- 

 ciency in waterworks pumping plants, bac- 

 terial examination of water supplies, condi- 

 tions in small filter plants, appraisal of water- 

 works properties, fire streams and municipal 

 laboratories. About one hundred and twenty- 

 five members attended the meeting. The 

 officers elected for the next year are : Presi- 

 dent, C. H. Cobb, superintendent, Kankakee 

 Waterworks; First Vice-president, H. M. 

 Ely, superintendent and manager, Danville 

 Water Company; Second Vice-president, W. 

 J. Spaulding, commissioner of Public Prop- 

 erty, Springfield; State Vice-president, V. E. 

 MacDonald, superintendent, Lincoln Water 

 and Light Company, and secretary and treas- 

 urer. Professor Edward Bartow, director. 

 State Water Survey. 



A ROOM in the Geological Museum of Har- 

 vard University has been fitted with cases for 

 twelve relief maps and models which have 

 been recently acquired. One of these is a 

 copy of the model of the Mt. Sentis, on the 

 borders of the Swiss cantons St. Gall and 

 Appenzell. This model was done by Mr. G. 

 C. Curtis, '96, and took first prize at the 

 World's Exposition in Paris in 1900. There 

 is also a relief map of southern New Eng- 

 land done by Mr. Edwin E. Howell. 



A TOTAL working income of approximately 

 $35,000,000 was received by 87 state universi- 

 ties and other state-aided institutions of 

 higher education during the past year, as 

 shown by a bulletin just issued by the United 

 States Bureau of Education. Of this amount 

 the United States government contributed 

 about $5,000,000 and the states $18,000,000. 

 The year's income passed the two million 

 mark in the case of three state universities. 

 The University of Illinois had an income 

 during 1911-12 of $2,363,711; the University 

 of Minnesota, $2,682,499; and the University 

 of Wisconsin, $2,122,297. Cornell University, 

 which is technically a private institution but 

 receives state and federal aid, reported total 



