650 
work in Chicago. They have decided to de- 
velop the medical work already begun at the 
site of the university in Urbana-Champaign. 
To carry on this enterprise a special build- 
ing is absolutely necessary, since there is no 
available space to house such work in the 
buildings now upon the campus, or in those 
authorized to be erected by the present legis- 
lature. 
The trustees of the University of Illinois, 
therefore, have asked the general assembly to 
appropriate at its special session the sum of 
$250,000 for the development of its work in 
public health and medicine at Urbana-Cham- 
paign. The greater part of this money will 
be used for the erection, furnishing and equip- 
ment of a medical building. It is proposed to 
organize those fundamental courses in medi- 
cine and public health which should be re- 
quired by all schools of medicine, and which 
every physician, no matter what method of 
practise he may adopt, must be presumed to 
know, such as physiology, bacteriology, histol- 
ogy, anatomy, pathology and sanitation. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
At the meeting of the National Academy 
of Sciences, held in Washington on April 18, 
new members were elected as follows: R. W. 
Wood, professor of experimental physics at 
the Johns Hopkins University; Harry Field- 
ing Reid, professor of geological physics at 
the Johns Hopkins University; David White, 
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey; Roland 
Thaxter, professor of cryptogamic botany at 
Harvard University; Chas. B. Davenport, di- 
rector of the Station for Experimental Evo- 
lution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; W. M. 
Wheeler, professor of economic entomology 
at Harvard University; John J. Abel, pro- 
fessor of pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins 
University; S. J. Meltzer, head of the depart- 
ment of physiology and pharmacology of the 
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. 
THE committee on policy of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science 
held meetings at Washington on April 16 and 
17. There were present Mr. Minot, chairman 
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of the committee; Mr. Pickering, president of 
the association; Mr. Woodward, treasurer; 
Mr. Howard, permanent secretary, and Messrs. 
Cattell, Humphreys and Noyes. Various 
questions were considered, more especially 
the division of the association into sections, 
the relation of the sections to the affiliated 
societies and the program for the Cleveland 
meeting. 
Amonc the many victims of the terrible dis- 
aster to the Titanic on April 15, were the fol- 
lowing members of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science: Mr. Edgar 
J. Meyer, the well-known mining engineer of 
New York, who joined the association at the 
second Baltimore meeting in 1908. Colonel 
John Jacob Astor who, as is well-known, was 
greatly interested in mechanical and engineer- 
ing problems, and who joined at the third 
New York meeting in 1906. Mr. Frank D. 
Millet, the well-known artist of Washington, 
New York and London, who joined at the 
same meeting as did Colonel Astor. Mr. 
Millet’s interest in science was great and was 
intensified by his long association with the 
scientific men in the Cosmos Club of Wash- 
ington. Dr. Howard, the permanent secre- 
tary of the association relates the following 
anecdote of Mr. Millet: At the time of the 
meeting of the International Congress of 
Zoology at Washington in 1907, following the 
Boston meeting, Dr. Howard was dining one 
night at the Cosmos Club with Geza Horvath, 
of the Natural History Museum of Budapest, 
and G. Severin, of the Natural History Mu- 
seum of Brussels. As Millet entered the 
room, he was called over since his knowledge 
of foreign languages was great and he was 
much interested in the foreign visitors. He 
was introduced and at once saluted Horvath 
in excellent Hungarian; then turning to 
Severin, instead of speaking to him in French 
as one naturally would do to a visitor from 
Brussels, addressed him in Flemish, having, 
with his artistic eye, noted his apparent des- 
cent. Both foreigners were greatly charmed 
and became at once interested in the man and 
have always sent greetings to him in their 
later letters to Dr. Howard. 
