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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLVII. No. 1219 



Dr. F. G. Novt, professor of bacteriology 

 and director of the hygienic laboratory, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, addressed the Cincinnati 

 Research Society, in the surgical amphitheatre 

 of the Cincinnati General Hospital, on May 

 1, on "Blood Changes and Anaphylaxis," and 

 on May 2, on " Blood Parasites." 



At the meeting of the Chemical Society at 

 London, on April 18, the first of the Hugo 

 Miiller lectures was delivered by Sir Henry 

 Miers, whose subject was " The Old and the 

 New Mineralogy." 



GiETON College, Cambridge, plans to found 

 a fellowship for the encouragement of re- 

 search in natural science, and especially in 

 botany, as a memorial of Miss Ethel Sargant. 



A BRONZE bust of the late Dr. Daniel Giraud 

 Elliot, mammalogist and ornithologist, is in- 

 stalled on the second floor of the American 

 Museum, in the haU devoted to birds of the 

 world. The bust, which is the work of Mr. 

 Chester Beach, is the gift of Miss Margaret 

 Henderson Elliot, daughter of Dr. Elliot. 



Dr. Ephraim Fletcher Ingals, professor of 

 diseases of the chest, throat and nose in the 

 Rush Medical College, Chicago, and active in 

 medical research and organization, died on 

 April 30, aged seventy years. 



Dr. Armand Thevenin, of the Sorhonne, 

 known for his work, in paleontology, died on 

 March 7, aged forty-eight years. He had been 

 experimenting with poisonous gases and in the 

 course of his work contracted the illness which 

 proved fatal. 



Mr. W. Hague Harrington, one of the best 

 known of the older Canadian entomologists, 

 died on March 13 at Ottawa, Canada, at the age 

 of sixty-six years. Mr. Harrington was born 

 in Novia Scotia, and entered the federal civil 

 service at Ottawa in lirovember, 1870, eventu- 

 ally reaching the rank of superintendent of the 

 Savings Bank Branch. He was one of the 

 founders of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, 

 and at one time was president of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Ontario. In 1894, he was 

 elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Can- 

 ada. For many years his main interest in 

 life wasi entomology, and he brought together 



a large collection of Canadian Coleoptera and 

 Hymenoptera. He was a systematist of rec- 

 ognized standing, and was probably the high- 

 est authority on Hymenoptera in the Dominion 

 of Canada. He was a striking example of 

 that class of men who have done pioneer work 

 in natural history in Canada and the United 

 States, while pursuing this work as a hobby 

 rather than as a vocation. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Kentucky legislature in the session 

 ending on March 15 made a notable change in 

 the laws providing for the support of institu- 

 tions of higher education. In view of the 

 material increase in the state's property as- 

 sessment by the tax commission the legisla- 

 ture passed the reapportionment tax bill and 

 gave the university a rate of 1% cents on each 

 hundred dollars of the assessment. This pro- 

 vision will give the university an increase of 

 $200,000 annually over the income it has had 

 in previous years. Plans are now under way 

 for a material increase in the teaching staff 

 and the undertaking of extensive repairs in 

 the plant of the university. Olmstead Broth- 

 ers, of Brookline, Mass., have been employed 

 to work out plans for campus improvements. 

 Due to war conditions, no new buildings will 

 be constructed at present. President MeVey, 

 formerly of the University of North Dakota, 

 began his service with the University of Ken- 

 tucky last September. 



Announcement is made of the completion 

 of the diamond jubilee fund of $800,000 for 

 the Ohio Wesleyan University. 



A NEW chemistry building is to be erected 

 on the campus of the University of North 

 Dakota. The ground has already been broken 

 and contracts for the construction of the build- 

 ing have been let by the State Board of 

 Regents, at a cost of $62,483. 



At a recent meeting of the council of the 

 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, it 

 was reported that an anonymous donor was 

 prepared to transfer the sum of £10,500 to the 

 college for the purpose of endowing a chair in 

 geography and anthropology. Herbert John 



