JANUARY 26, 1912] 
Dr. Jean Baptiste Epuarp Borner, the 
algologist, member of the Paris Academy of 
Sciences, has died at the age of eighty-two 
years. 
Tuer death is announced of William Thynne 
Lynn, former assistant at the Royal Observa- 
tory at Greenwich, at the age of seventy-six 
years. 
Dr. Jan. KowaLezyk, astronomer in the ob- 
servatory at Warsaw, has died at the age of 
seventy-eight years. 
M. ARTHUR DE CLAPAREDE, the geographer, 
has died at Geneva, at the age of fifty-nine 
years. 
Tue sixth triennial congress of the Inter- 
national Association for Testing Materials 
will be held in the Engineering Societies 
building, New York, beginning on Septem- 
ber 8, 1912. 
A JOINT meeting of the British Institution 
of Mining and Metallurgy and the Canadian 
Mining Institute will be held at Toronto on 
March 6, and the following days. 
Tue Bulletin of the American Mathematical 
society states that a new journal, entitled the 
Vector has been established at Warsaw. It 
will be devoted to mathematical and physical 
science in general and especially to questions 
of method and pedagogy. 
Nature states that the council of the Lon- 
don School of Tropical Medicine has decided 
to establish a journal in connection with the 
school. Three parts are to appear each year, 
and part I. has just been issued. Sir Patrick 
Manson writes a foreword; original papers 
are contributed by Drs. Bayon, Daniels, Hut- 
ton, Leiper, Minett and Wise; and surveys of 
recent literature on tropical medicine and re- 
views of books complete the matter. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Tue will of the late Mrs. Emily Howe 
Hitcheock provides that the Hitchcock man- 
sion and the estate of forty-five acres, valued 
at $50,000, shall go to Dartmouth College. 
To the college is also left Mr. Hitchcock’s Di 
Cesuela collection of Cyprus antiquities. To 
-the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, con- 
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nected with Dartmouth, is left an endowment 
fund of $20,000, and to the Howe Library of 
Hanover, occupying the ancestral home of 
Mrs. Hitchcock, an endowment of $50,000. 
To the Pine Park Association, a society 
formed to preserve the natural beauties of the 
town, is bequeathed a large tract of woodland 
adjoining the Vale of Tempe. 
Tue Marquise Arconati Visconti has given 
500,000 franes to the faculties of science and 
arts of the University of Paris. 
During commencement week, June 28 to 27, 
inclusive, the University of Michigan will 
celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of its 
founding. 
CircuLars of information concerning the 
Kahn foundation for the foreign travel of 
American teachers have been issued by the 
trustees of the foundation. Two fellows will 
be appointed for one year beginning July 1, 
1912, with a stipend of $3,000 and an addi- 
tional $300 for the purchase of books, souven- 
irs, photographs, ete. The applications for 
appointment should be made on a formal blank 
which may be obtained from the secretary of 
the foundation, Sub-station 84, New York 
City, and should be filed on or before March 
1, 1912. The present holders of the fellow- 
ships are Professor J. H. T. McPherson, of 
the University of Georgia, and Professor 
Francis Daniels, of Wabash College. They 
both sailed from this country during the sum- 
mer and will have completed their year’s 
travel by about August 1, 1912. They are 
both planning to make a complete trip around 
the world. 
THE course on “ Water Analysis and Water 
Supply ” at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute has been expanded so as to allow of a 
preliminary course being given on “ plank- 
ton” where special attention is devoted to 
those growths which produce taste and smell 
in reservoir water. Upon the completion of 
the above water course, each student is re- 
quired to spend two weeks at work on local 
municipal slow sand filter beds and also on 
filters of mechanical type whereby he acquires 
a practical knowledge of the workings of full- 
