Mat 14, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



789 



Organization and on Scientific Psycliology. 

 According to the Mexican Daily Record, in 

 one of his lectures, attended by the minister 

 of public instruction and fine arts, he advo- 

 cated the union of the professional schools in 

 the City of Mexico and the establishment of 

 & university under the auspices of the govern- 

 ment. 



De. L. a. Bauer gave the following course 

 of lectures on terrestrial magnetism at the 

 Johns Hopkins TJniversity, May ■t-T : " The 

 Earth's Magnetism and its Variations " ; 

 " Solar Activity and Magnetic Storms " ; 

 " Magnetic Surveys " ; " Methods and Ke- 

 sults." 



On May 4 Professor Svante Arrhenius be- 

 gan a course of two lectures at the Eoyal In- 

 stitution on " Cosmogonical Questions." 

 These are the TjTidall lectures. The Friday 

 ■evening discourse on May 7 was delivered by 

 Major Ronald Eoss, on " The Campaign 

 against Malaria," on May 14 Professor 

 George E. Hale will lecture on " Solar Vor- 

 tices and Magnetic Fields." 



Lieutenant E. H. Shackleton will de- 

 scribe his Antarctic expedition at a meeting 

 of the Eoyal Geographical Society to be held 

 in the Albert Hall on June 24. 



A TABLET in memory of the late President 

 Thomas M. Drown has been placed on the 

 walls of the chemical laboratory of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology. A similar 

 tablet will be placed in Drown Memorial Hall 

 -of Lehigh University. 



The sixtieth congress appropriated, as has 

 been noted here, five thousand dollars for the 

 erection of a suitable memorial to Major J. 

 W. Powell, to be placed on the brink of the 

 Grand Canyon of the Colorado. For the pur- 

 pose of complying with the will of congress 

 in this behalf, the Secretary of the Interior 

 asked a committee consisting of W. H. 

 Holmes, chairman, H. C. Eizer and C. D. 

 Walcott to assist him in determining the 

 character of the monument and in select- 

 ing the site. At the earnest solicitation of 

 numerous old-time associates of Major 

 Powell, this committee has consented to 

 initiate a movement among his friends for the 



erection of an appropriate monujnent over his 

 grave at Arlington National Cemetery, which 

 remains as yet unmarked. The character of 

 the monument will not be decided upon until 

 the fund has been raised, but the committee 

 will be glad to receive from contributors sug- 

 gestions relating thereto. Subscriptions 

 should be sent to Colonel H. C. Rizer, U. S. 

 Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



The bill to establish a state geological sur- 

 vey in Tennessee has passed both houses of 

 the legislature by a large majority. The bUl 

 provides for a commission composed of the 

 governor, secretary of agriculture, state in- 

 spector of mines and the heads of the three 

 leading educational institutions of the state, 

 the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt Uni- 

 versity and the University of the South 

 (Sewanee). The act carries an appropriation 

 of fifteen thousand dollars for each of the 

 years 1910 and 1911. In view of the unusual 

 expenditures for 1909 the appropriation was 

 not made available until 1910. 



For the second time within three months 

 fire threatened with destruction on May 9 the 

 building in Washington in which the Geo- 

 logical Survey is housed. The blaze was ex- 

 tinguished, not, however, until the chemical 

 laboratory had been destroyed and valuable 

 maps and charts stored in the building had 

 been again damaged by water. It is not known 

 how the fire originated, but it is practically 

 certain that crossed electric wires were the 

 cause of the trouble, as they were of the blaze 

 three months ago. 



The seventh annual meeting of the Nan- 

 tucket Maria Mitchell Association was held 

 in Boston on April 28. In addition to routine 

 business, a committee was appointed to col- 

 lect twenty-five thousand dollars, the income 

 of which shall be used to meet the expenses of 

 an astronomical observer; it is proposed that 

 said fund shall be known as the Memorial Re- 

 search Fellowship of the Nantucket Maria 

 Mitchell Association and shall provide for the 

 appointee several months study in one of the 

 larger universities, the remaining working 

 months of the year to be given to the Memor- 

 ial Observatory on Nantucket, where original 

 research work shall be accomplished together 



