JUNB 28, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



635 



John Harper Long, professor of chemistry 

 at the Northwestern University Medical 

 School for thirty-seven years died at his home 

 in Evanston, 111., on June 14, aged sixty-two 

 years. Dr. Long, distinguished for his work 

 in physiological chemistry, was vice-president 

 of the American Assocation for the Advance- 

 ment of Science in 1901 and president of the 

 American Chemical Society in 1903. 



Fr.aak N. Meyer, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, has died in China. Mr. Meyer 

 had travelled as an agricultural explorer 

 through China, Siberia and Turkestan for 

 nearly ten years and had introduced here many 

 species and varieties of plants. He discovered 

 the home of the chestnut bark disease. 



Major Eugene Wilson Caldwell, of the 

 Medical Reserve of the army, an X-ray ex- 

 pert who recently perfected a device for stereo- 

 scopic fluoroscopy, died last week as the result 

 of an operation to remove a cancerous for- 

 mation on one of his arms, caused by burns 

 received some months ago in making X-ray 

 experiments. 



A CABLE from London to the daily papers 

 states that the American Army, at the sug- 

 gestion of the French, is adopting the metric 

 system for all war purposes, e. g., for artillery, 

 machine-guns, maps, etc. The convenience of 

 such an arrangement is obvious as all " parts " 

 become thereby interchangeable. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Gifts to Yale University in the past year 

 and credited as endowment made a total of 

 $1,279,764, the alumni were informed by Presi- 

 dent Arthur T. Hadley at the commencement 

 luncheon. From time to time gifts have been 

 announced, but the new items included $100,- 

 000 as the Earl Williams Fund from Mrs. 

 James Harvey Williams for the benefit of the 

 University Press, and $400,000 from William 

 L. Harkness, '81, as a building fund. The 

 Williams Fund is a memorial to Earl Wil- 

 liams, 1910, 301st Field Artillery, who died in 

 May. For the present the income will be used 

 in war relief. The Harkness building after 



the war will be placed on Dwight Hall site, 

 and will contain lecture and classrooms. 



Under a compromise agreement Columbia 

 University will receive half the estate of the 

 late Robert B. Van Cortlandt. The value of 

 the estate is said to be about $1,000,000. 



A GIFT of Liberty Bonds and checks totalling 

 $100,000 to Harvard University from 206 

 members of the class of 1893 is announced. 



Eighteen fellowships and thirty-three schol- 

 arships have been established for students in 

 chemistry at colleges and universities through- 

 out the country by the du Pont Company. 

 The total value of these awards will be $25,000, 

 the fellowships carrj-ing $750 and the scholar- 

 ships $350 each for the coming scholastic year. 

 The fellowships are distributed among seven- 

 teen colleges and universities and the scholar- 

 ships go to thirty-one institutions of learning 

 scattered through the country, every section 

 from the Atlantic to tlie Pacific, and from the 

 Canadian border to Texas being included. 

 Tlie fellowships are for postgraduate work and 

 will be established in the institutions which 

 have the most advanced courses in chemistry. 

 The scholarships go to members of the senior 

 classes in institutions which pay particular at- 

 tention to chemical instruction. The recipi- 

 ents of these awards, which are to be known 

 as " du Pont fellowships " and " du Pont 

 scholarships," are to be selected by the institu- 

 tions themselves, the only condition made by 

 the du Pont Company being that they shall go 

 to students who have devoted the major part 

 of their time to chemistry. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that a donation of $2,000,000 has 

 been promised to the University of Toronto 

 for research work. Professor A. B. Macallum, 

 chairman of the scientific and industrial re- 

 search council of Canada, urges that research 

 science faculties should at once be established 

 at McGill and Toronto universities. 



Dr. Lauder W. Jones, head of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry in the University of Cin- 

 cinnati, has resigned to become head of the 

 dei)artment of chemistry in the University of 



