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and Sir William Matthews, past president of 

 the British Institution of Civil Engineers. 



The death is reported of Senator Ciamician, 

 professor of chemistry at Bologna. 



Correcting a recent note in Science, the 

 schedule of meetings of the American Astro- 

 nomical Society is as follows : September, 

 1922, Terkes Observatory, December, 1922, 

 Cambridge and Boston; September, 1923, Mt. 

 Wilson Observatory; December, 1923, Vassar 

 College. 



Nine British and American scientists, mem- 

 bers of the expedition to the Andes Mountains 

 to make a study of the physiological changes 

 which enable people to live permanently at 

 high altitudes, returned on February 1. The 

 expedition was under the leadership of Joseph 

 Uarcroft of Cambridge University. Its mem- 

 bership included Dr. Alfred C. Redfield, as- 

 sistant professor of physiology at the Harvard 

 Medical School; Dr. C. A. L. Binger of the 

 Rockefeller Institute, New York; Dr. George 

 Harrop of the Presbyterian Hospital, New 

 York; Dr. A. V. Bock of the Massachusetts 

 Greneral Hospital; Dr. Henry S. Forbes, of 

 Harvard University; Dr. J. G. Meakins, of 

 Edinburgh University, and Dr. J. H. Doggart 

 of King's College, Cambridge. Professor 

 Bareroft is now giving in Boston a course of 

 Lowell lectures on the work of the expedition. 



At the convention of the New York City 

 Federation of Women's Clubs, held in New 

 York City on February 3, a resolution was 

 introduced by Mrs. Belle de Rivera endorsing 

 a bill now before the legislature prohibiting 

 the use of dogs for vivisection. There were 

 about two thousand members in attendance 

 and, according to the daily press, the motion 

 was "overwhelmingly defeated." 



The late George R. White, president of the 

 Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation, has 

 bequeathed to the city of Boston a fund of 

 more than $5,000,000, the income of which is 

 to be used for creating works of public utility 

 and beauty. Two of the three objects speci- 

 fied by Mr. White are a zoological garden and 

 an aquarium. Other bequests in Mr. Wliite's 

 will are $100,000 each to the Children's Hospi- 



tal, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Massa- 

 chusetts General Hospital. The Massachusetts 

 Hospital also is given a similar sum for the 

 special purpose of treatment of diseases of the 

 skin. Previous to his death Mr. White had 

 given $1,000,000 for a new building and en- 

 dowment for the Massachusetts College of 

 Pharmacy. 



It is announced from Montreal that instead 

 of converting the $100,000 prize he has offered 

 for a cancer cure into a fund for cancer 

 research work, as he had been urged, Lord 

 Atholstan has given a second $100,000 for 

 research. 



The fortieth course of popular medical lec- 

 tures will be given under the auspices of the 

 Stanford Medical School on alternate Friday 

 evenings, as follows : January 13, The Basis 

 of Modern Medicine: Dr. William Ophiils. 

 January 27, The Attitude of the Public Toward 

 the Blind: Miss Katherine Foley. February 

 10, The Treatemeut of Deformities Following 

 Infantile Paralysis : Dr. Arthur L. Fisher. 

 February 24, The Control of Botulism: Dr. E. 

 C. Dickson. March 10, The Truth About Vivi- 

 section: Mr. Ernest H. Baynes. March 24, 

 Present Day Methods of X-Ray Diagnosis: 

 Dr. W. Edward Chamberlain. 



The city of Paris has authorized the ex- 

 penditure of 2,500,000 francs ($183,750 at 

 present rate of exchange) for the purchase 

 of radium to be used in the public hospitals 

 for the cure of cancer. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Appropriations of $18,210,353 for colleges 

 and universities, $12,029,513 for medical 

 schools, and $646,000 for negro education were 

 made during the last fiscal year by the General 

 Education Board, founded by John D. Rocke- 

 feller, according to the report for 1920-21. 

 The total appropriations of the board from 

 its foundation in 1902 to June 30, 1921, have 

 amounted to $89,017,872. Of the gift of 

 $50,000,000 made by Mr. Rockefeller in 1919 

 for teachers' salaries, appropriations were 



