ApriL 12, 1912] 
Tue tenth annual meeting of the South 
African Association for the Advancement of 
Science will be held in Port Elizabeth from 
July 1 to 6, under the presidency of Dr. A. 
Theiler. The sections and their presidents 
are as follows: A, astronomy, mathematics, 
physics, meteorology, geodesy, surveying, en- 
gineering, architecture and irrigation, Mr. H. 
J. Holder; B, chemistry, geology, metallurgy, 
mineralogy and geography, Professor B. de St. 
J. van der Riet; C, bacteriology, botany, zool- 
ogy, agriculture, forestry, physiology, hygiene 
and sanitary science, Mr. F. W. FitzSimons; 
D, anthropology, ethnology, education, history, 
mental science, philology, political economy, 
sociology and statistics, Mr. W. A. Way. 
Tue fifth of the Weir Mitchell lectures of 
the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, was 
delivered on March 29 in Mitchell Hall, by 
Dr. William H. Howell, of the Johns Hopkins 
University, on “ The Factors concerned in the 
Coagulation of Blood and their Variations 
under Pathologic Conditions.” 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Tue board of directors of the Knights of 
Columbus announces that $385,000 of a $500,- 
000 endowment fund for the Catholic Univer- 
sity in Washington already is in hand. The 
income from this fund, the remaining $115,- 
000 of which has been subscribed, will be used 
to provide scholarships for fifty students. 
Tue Berlin correspondent of the Journal of 
the American Medical Association writes that 
according to the official estimate of the ex- 
penses of the Prussian universities, for the 
fiscal year 1912, they will amount to $5,016,389 
(20,065,556 Marks). Of this amount $2,202,- 
058 is to be spent for institutes, collections 
and the university religious services. For 
salaries, remuneration and other personal ex- 
penses of the professors, instructors, officers, 
assistants and employees $2,059,466 are al- 
lowed and for lodging allowance $288,687. 
For the expenses of the academic management 
$93,266 are appropriated, for the building ex- 
penses $200,275 and for taxes $9,868. For 
contingent expenses $110,970 are provided, 
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and $51,195 are appropriated for relief and 
stipends. The entire expenses are distributed 
among the individual universities as follows: 
Berlin, $1,184,515; Breslau, $541,311; Halle, 
$546,982; Bonn $485,146; Kiel, $482,741; Got- 
tingen, $463,215; Konigsherg, $411,621; Greifs- 
wald, $366,475; Marburg, $348,326; Miinster, 
$168,158, and Braunsberg, $17,395. The ex- 
penses are to be met by the following in- 
come: from the state fund, $3,626,801; from 
endowments and other funds, $178,928; in- 
terest from capital and the income from real 
estate, $119,619, and from their own earnings, 
$1,081,039. 
PLAns are well under way for the new build- 
ing for the department of clinical medicine at 
the University of Wisconsin. The department 
exists for the purpose of looking after the 
health of the students in the university. 
There is a corps of five doctors and four 
trained nurses who are kept busy ministering 
to sick students or taking precautionary meas- 
ures in the case of those exposed to disease. 
The new building will have ten offices on the 
first floor for the treatment of common ail- 
ments, and in the basement will be a steriliza- 
tion room and special treatment rooms, fitted 
up with X-ray machines, baking machines and 
other special equipment. The value of having 
a department to look after the health of stu- 
dents is shown by the fact that there have been 
no epidemic diseases among the students that 
were not controlled as soon as the first cases 
appeared, since the establishment of the de- 
partment. Previous to its establishment, there 
were a number of bad epidemics among stu- 
dents, the most serious of which was an out- 
break of typhoid fever in 1907 which resulted 
in the death of several students. 
Tue Journal of the American Medical As- 
sociation states that the professors of the 
University of Dijon have unanimously passed 
a resolution calling for a university congress 
to organize the French universities more 
closely and to extend their influence abroad. 
There has been founded under the auspices 
of the France-Amérique committee a league 
to foster French interests in America, which 
