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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. ZLIV. No. 1148 



Mjoberg recently left for America to carry- 

 out a lecture tour by which, he hopes to raise 

 sums to cover some of the expenses of his ex- 

 pedition. 



Major-General George W. Goethals will 

 speak in the Great Hall of the College of the 

 City of New York on the evening of January 

 15, on " The Panama Canal." General Goeth- 

 als was formerly a student of the City College. 



Professor Robert A. Millikan, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, will deliver the William 

 Brewster Clark Memorial lectures at Amherst, 

 probably early in January. The subjects of 

 his four lectures will be : " The Nature of Elec- 

 tricity " ; " Brownian Movements and the 

 Kinetic Theory " ; " The Insides of the 

 Atom " ; " The Nature of Radiation." 



Dr. E. W. Scripture recently read to the 

 Pathological Section of the Royal Society of 

 Medicine a communication on registration of 

 speech sounds in the diagnosis of nervous dis- 

 eases. 



Mr. F. W. Lanchester, the new president of 

 the Junior Institution of Engineers, will de- 

 liver his inaugural address to the institution 

 on Monday, December 11, on " Industrial 

 Engineering: Present Position and Post -War 

 Outlook." 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association the late Professor A. 

 Neisser, the distinguished pathologist, be- 

 queathed his property to the city of Breslau. 

 It is valued at nearly $400,000. He stipulated 

 that his villa with its art treasures be main- 

 tained as a museum for contemporaneous art, 

 and further, that the rooms be used in giving 

 high-grade municipal concerts and similar en- 

 tertainments. 



Professor J. Wrightson, president of the 

 College of Agriculture, Downton (1880-1906), 

 honorary professor of agriculture at the Royal 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester, and pro- 

 fessor of agriculture and agricultural chemis- 

 try in the Royal College of Science, South 

 Kensington, from 1882 to 1898, died on No- 

 vember 30. 



The committee which was formed with the 

 object of commemorating the late Sir William 



White's services to the nation in the develop- 

 ment of engineering science, and more partic- 

 ularly of naval architecture, has now com- 

 pleted its task. A sum of over $15,000 was 

 raised by private subscriptions, and this 

 amount has been expended as follows : (1) The 

 provision of a fund for providing a Post Grad- 

 uate Research Scholarship in Naval Architec- 

 ture of over £100 per annum, tenable for two 

 years; (2) the erection of a Memorial Panel; 

 (3) a donation of one hundred guineas to the 

 Westminster Hospital. The Memorial Panel 

 has been erected in the entrance hall of the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers. The Research 

 Scholarship Fund has been made over to the 

 Council of the Institution of Naval Architects, 

 who will administer the fund and award the 

 scholarship. The latter is to be known as the 

 " Sir William White Research Scholarship in 

 Naval Architecture." 



The London Times states that Christmas 

 Island, in the Indian Ocean, 780 sea miles 

 from Singapore, is suffering from the war. Its 

 sole wealth consists in phosphates of lime, and 

 exports decreased from 150,000 tons in 1913 

 to 25,700 in 1915. Formerly Germany and 

 Austria took large quantities of its phosphates ; 

 in 1915 the whole export went to Australia. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



An anonymous gift of $250,000 has been 

 added to the endowment fund of the proposed 

 medical school of the University of Chicago. 

 The total amount of the fund has now reached 

 four million dollars, leaving one million three 

 hundred thousand dollars to be collected. 



Purdue University is erecting a building 

 of brick and Bedford stone for the school of 

 science. In floor area it will be one of the 

 largest structures on the campus. 



The number of students during the summer 

 semester of 1916 in the Austrian universities 

 is reported to be as follows: Vienna, 3,472; 

 Prague (Czech University), 1,891; Cracow, 

 1,281; Lemberg, 1,174; Graz, 647; Prague 

 (German University), 638; Innsbruck, 584. 

 The proportion of medical students was high- 

 est at Vienna and at Graz (both about 30 per 



