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morial night. The following were announced 

 as speakers: Drs. George W. Crile, Cleveland; 

 C. A. L. Eeed, Cincinnati; Frank Billings, 

 L. L. MeArthur, E. Wyllys Andrews, D. A. 

 K. Steele, A. D. Bevan, W. E. Quine, A. J. 

 Ochsner, Jacob Frank and W. A. Evans. 



A bronze bust of Dr. Nicholas Senn has 

 been presented to the Wisconsin Historical 

 Museum, Madison, by Dr. Emanuel J. Senn, 

 of Chicago. Dr. Senn began his practise as a 

 country practitioner near Fond du Lac in 

 1869. 



Dr. Levi Leonard Conant, head of the de- 

 partment of mathematics at the Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute, was killed by an auto- 

 mobile truck on October 11. Professor 

 Conant was born in 1857. He was known 

 for his work on primitive number concepts, 

 the history of mathematical notation and the 

 theory of functions and of graphs. 



Don Jose Echegarat, professor of mathe- 

 matical physics in the University of Madrid, 

 and distinguished also as a poet and dramatic 

 author, died on September 15, aged eighty- 

 three years. 



Dr. V. von Czerny, professor of surgery at 

 the University of Heidelberg since 1877 and 

 chief of the cancer research hospital there, has 

 died, aged seventy-four years. 



The death is also announced of A. Magnan, 

 one of the leading alienists of France. 



Mr. R. J. L. Guppy, known for his work on 

 the geology of Trinidad and other West 

 Indian Islands, his died at the age of eighty 

 years. 



The death in Munich, on June 22, of Mr. 

 Gustav Mann, is announced in Nature. Mr. 

 Mann, who was in his eighty-first year, was 

 known for his botanical work in Africa and 

 India. 



Mr. E. G. Kensit, a member of the Botan- 

 ical Department of the South African Col- 

 lege, has been killed in the war. 



The Aulc for October contains obituary 

 notices of several ornithologists, John Alex- 



ander Harvie-Brown, D.D., died at his resi- 

 dence, Dunipace House, Stirlingshire, Scot- 

 land, July 26, 1916. He was born at 

 Dunipace, August 27, 1844, and spent his life 

 there, being a landed proprietor who devoted 

 himself to natural history. He was best 

 known for his work in connection with the 

 " Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland," of which he 

 was chief editor and author of many of the 

 volumes. He was also the founder, owner 

 and joint editor of the " Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History," as well as a supporter of its 

 successor, " The Scottish Naturalist." Col. 

 Herbert Hastings Harrington, the British 

 ornithologist, noted for his work on the " Birds 

 of Burma " (1909) and for numerous papers 

 on Indian birds, was killed in the campaign in 

 Mesopotamia on March 8, 1916. He was born 

 on January 16, 1868, at Lucknow. Lieuten- 

 ant-Colonel Boyd Robert Horsbrugh, well 

 known as the author of " The Game Birds and 

 Water-Fowl of South Africa " and of numer- 

 ous articles in The Avicultural Magazine 

 died at his home in Surrey, England, on July 

 11, having been invalided home from France 

 in 1915. Colonel Horsbrugh was born at 

 Poona on July 27, 1871. John Claire Wood, 

 known in Michigan as an oologist and Orni- 

 thologist, died June 16, 1916, at his home in 

 Detroit, aged forty-five years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Pledges have been received for the full 

 amount of the Vassar College million dollar 

 endowment fund. $200,000 had been pledged 

 by the General Education Board of the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation on condition that the bal- 

 ance be raised. The fund will be used for the 

 endowment and equipment of the college. 



The merger of the medical department of the 

 University of Pennsylvania and the Jefferson 

 Medical College has been postponed for a year, 

 and it is thought that the union may be aban- 

 doned. 



The new chemistry building of the Throop 

 College of Technology which with its equip- 

 ment will cost nearly $100,000 is approaching 



