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on medicine, magic and religion, on November 

 14 and 16. 



Another course of Chadwick public lectures 

 has been arranged. Professor Stirling gave 

 the first of three lectures on fatigue and its 

 effects on industry and efficiency, at the Royal 

 Society of Arts, Adelphi, on October 27. Dr. 

 Charles Porter began a course of three lec- 

 tures on the health of the future citizen, at the 

 Norwich Museum on November 2; Dr. J. C. 

 Nash, county medical officer and chief school 

 officer, Norfolk, will give a lecture on baby 

 saving for the nation, at the Hampstead Cen- 

 tral Library on November 20; and Mr. Paul 

 Waterhouse will give the first of three lectures 

 on architecture in relation to health and wel- 

 fare, at the Surveyors' Institute, Westminster, 

 on November 30. 



The birthplace of Weierstrass in Osterfelde 

 in Westphalia has recently been marked by a 

 memorial tablet. 



The death is announced of Arthur G-. Smith, 

 head of the department of mathematics and 

 astronomy in the University of Iowa. 



A. B. Alexander, assistant in charge of the 

 Bureau of Statistics of the United States Fish- 

 eries Commission at Washington, has died. 



Dr. Julius H. Eichberg, professor of ma- 

 teria medica in the college of medicine, Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati, died on October 31, 

 1916. 



The death is announced of Dr. Jean-Joseph 

 Picot, formerly professor of clinical medicine 

 at the Bordeaux School of Medicine, at the age 

 of seventy-seven years, and of G. Salomon, pro- 

 fessor of physiological chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin, aged sixty-seven years. 



Maurycy Rudzki, since 1902 director of the 

 Cracow Observatory, has died at the age of 

 fifty-four years. 



At the invitation of Dr. E. C. Pickering, 

 the fourth annual meeting of the American 

 Association of "Variable Star Observers will 

 be held at the Harvard College Observatory, 

 on November 18, 1916. 



It is announced from Sweden, that no Nobel 

 prizes for science or medicine will be awarded 

 for this year, but that the money will be re- 



served for 1917. The money for the prizes for 

 1915 has also been reserved and will be added 

 to the special fund. 



We learn from Nature that Professor A. S. 

 Donner, director of the observatory at Hel- 

 singfors, has presented to the university, of 

 which he was formerly rector, the sum of 

 £8,000, to ensure the continuance, and indeed 

 the completion, of the " Catalogue photo- 

 graphique du Ciel, Zone de Helsingfors," be- 

 gun under his direction in 1890. Hitherto the 

 work has been paid for, partly by the univer- 

 sity, partly by Professor Donner out of his 

 private means. The sum now allotted by him 

 is intended to cover all expenses for twelve 

 years, when, at its present rate of progress, 

 the task should be finished. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Amherst College has received a gift of 

 $100,000 from Mrs. Rufus Pratt Lincoln, of 

 Plainfield, N J., to establish a chair of science. 

 Professor John M. Tyler, professor of biology 

 in the college since 1879, has been elected the 

 first Rufus Tyler Lincoln professor. A m herst 

 College has also received a bequest of $5,000, 

 to be known as the Edward Tuckerman Fund, 

 for work in botany. 



Professor William Esson, late Savillian 

 professor of geometry at Oxford, by his will 

 gives ultimately to Merton College and the 

 University of Oxford his estate, the value of 

 which is about $55,000. 



Dr. John Sharshall Grasty, formerly asso- 

 ciate professor of geology at the University of 

 Virginia, has resigned to take charge of the 

 new department of mining geology recently 

 established at Washington and Lee University. 

 Dr. Albert William Giles has been appointed 

 adjunct professor of geology in the University 

 of Virginia. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society announces appointments of instructors 

 in mathematics as follows : C. H. Clevenger in 

 the school of mines of the University of Min- 

 nesota; C. N. Reynolds in Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity; P. R. Rider in Washington University; 



