SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIV. No. 1146 



It is planned to erect at the University of 

 Vermont a memorial to the late Professor 

 N. S. Merrill, of the department of chemistry. 

 A committee for this purpose has been ap- 

 pointed by the Alumni Association with Pro- 

 fessor E. C. Jacobs as chairman. 



The graduating class of the Long Island 

 College Hospital presented to the college, on 

 December 4, a photographic portrait of the late 

 Dr. Joseph H. Raymond, formerly secretary 

 of the faculty and professor of hygiene. Dr. 

 John D. Rushmore made the address of ac- 

 ceptance. 



Dr. Martin I. Wilbert, assistant in the 

 division of pharmacology of the hygienic labo- 

 ratory, died suddently in Philadelphia on 

 November 25. By virtue of his work in the 

 preparation of " The Digest of Comments on 

 the TJ. S. Pharmacopoeia and National For- 

 mulary " and his services in the American 

 Medical Association and the American Phar- 

 maceutical Association, Dr. Wilbert was 

 among the most influential men in his pro- 

 fession. 



Charles Alfred Pitkin, professor of mathe- 

 matics and physics at Thayer Academy, South 

 Braintree, since its opening in 1877, died on 

 November 5, aged sixty-three years. 



The death is announced, at the age of sixty- 

 eight years, of Dr. C. A. Harrison, for many 

 years engineer in chief of the Northeastern 

 Railway of Great Britain. 



C. S. Hagler, a leading surgeon and bac- 

 teriologist of Basel, Switzerland, connected 

 with the university but prevented by deafness 

 from a full professorship, has died from cancer, 

 at the age of fifty-four years. 



K. B. Pontoppidan, professor of nervous and 

 mental diseases and later of forensic medicine 

 at the University of Copenhagen, has died at 

 the age of sixty-three years. He was one of 

 the pioneers in the modern treatment of the 

 insane, and has been at the head of the Aarhus 

 asylum since 1898. 



The trustees of the Elizabeth Thompson 

 Science Fund announce their readiness to con- 

 sider applications for grants in aid of scientific 

 work. Appropriations are restricted to non- 



commercial enterprises, and are intended solely 

 for the actual expenses of the investigation, 

 not for the support of the investigator nor for 

 the ordinary costs of publication. Grants are 

 made only for those researches, not otherwise 

 provided for, whose object is broadly the ad- 

 vancement of human knowledge; requests for 

 researches of a narrow or merely local interest 

 will not be considered. Usually grants are not 

 made in excess of three hundred dollars. 

 Applications for grants from this fund should 

 be accompanied by a full statement of the na- 

 ture of the investigation, of the conditions 

 under which it is to be prosecuted, and of the 

 manner in which the appropriation asked for 

 is to be expended. The application should be 

 sent to the secretary of the board of trustees, 

 Dr. W. B. Cannon, Harvard Medical School, 

 Boston, Mass., who will furnish further de- 

 tails. 



The University of Washington campus has 

 been selected as the site of the government 

 mining and metallurgical station for the Pa- 

 cific Northwest states. Congress has voted an 

 appropriation of $25,000 a year for the mainte- 

 nance of the station which will serve Washing- 

 ton, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and the coastal 

 regions of Alaska from Ketchikan to Nome. 

 The interior of Alaska will be served by a 

 Fairbanks station. Dorsey A. Lyon, a gradu- 

 ate of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, 

 formerly professor of mining engineering at 

 the University of Washington, a specialist in 

 electro-metallurgy, will be in charge of the 

 station. 



We learn from the Journal of Industrial and 

 Engineering Chemistry that Director Joseph 

 E. Ralph, of the U. S. Bureau of Engraving 

 and Printing, has made public the plan of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry in its establishment of 

 an experimental dye laboratory, for which 

 Congress appropriated $50,000, the location of 

 which will be on the government's property in 

 Virginia just across the Potomac from Wash- 

 ington. Director Ralph has arranged with Dr. 

 Alsberg to give a practical test to all the colors 

 produced by this experimental laboratory. 



Bequests of more than $100,000 each have 

 been left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art 



