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ticians, Camille Jordan, member of the Aea- 

 demie des Sciences, professor emeritus at the 

 College de France and the Eeole Polytechnique. 

 He will be particularly remembered for his 

 "Traite des substitutions," which appeared in 

 1870 and is still to-day the great classic in the 

 theory of finite groups for his "Traite d'' Ana- 

 lyse" and especially for his editorship of the 

 Journal de Mathematiques in which he followed 

 Resal in 1884, guiding its destinies until this 

 very last year. He had the intense satisfac- 

 tion of seeing it recently saved from estinic- 

 tion, most probably owing to the strong sup- 

 port that it received from America. 



Professor De. Theodor Liebisch, late pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy at the University of Ber- 

 lin, died at his home in Berlin on February 

 9, after a protracted and painful illness. A 

 correspondent writes : "Liebisch was born on 

 April 29, 1852 and from about 1890 to 1900 

 he was professor of mineralogy at the Univer- 

 sity of Gottingen. During this period there 

 were many Americans studying for the doc- 

 tor's degi-ee with their major in chemistry. 

 Most of these men took mineralogy under Pro- 

 fessor Liebisch as one of their minors, and it 

 is hardly too much to say that he was one of 

 the most highly respected and best loved pro- 

 fessors in the university. He perhaps did more 

 in a personal natui'e for the American students 

 in those days than did any other professor. 

 All Americans respected and admired him for 

 his deep learning, his ability as a teacher, his 

 inspiration for research work and his extremely 

 kind and ever-thoughtful nature. About the 

 year 1900 he was called to the University of 

 Berlin, and served there until about 1920, when 

 he retu-ed from aictive work. He was the 

 author of many books, his most important be- 

 ing' "Grundi-iss der PhysikaJischen KrystaUo- 

 graphie." 



A Georgia Academy of Science was or- 

 ganized on March 25 by a group of twenty- 

 two scientific men, invited to the University of 

 Georgia for that purpose. The delegates came 

 from Emory University, the Georgia School of 

 Technology, Mercer University, Oglethorpe 

 University, the University of Georgia and the 



Georgia Experiment Station. Practically all 

 phases of scientific endeavor were represented. 

 Membership in the academy is to be a recogni- 

 tion of noteworthy service to science or to the 

 scientific development of the state, and the num- 

 ber is limited to fifty. It is the aim of the 

 academy to foster every means of encouraging 

 scientific research, to develop the natural re- 

 sources of the state, and to stimulate in the 

 people a realization of the fact that their pros- 

 perity depends very greatly on the scientific 

 training of a large number of Georgia men. 



The Sigma Xi research fellowships for the 

 coming academic year will be awarded in May. 

 Applications should be made to Professor Ed- 

 ward Ellery, Union College Schenectady, N. Y. 

 The awards are made for work in sciences 

 other than physics and chemistry and to men 

 and women who have already taken their doe- 

 tor's degree. Applications should be accom- 

 panied by reprints of published articles and by 

 reference to two or more persons competent to 

 speak about the ability of the candidate in his 

 or her special line. The minimum award is six- 

 teen hundred dollars. 



Dr. William Crocker, director of the 

 Thompson Institute for Plant Research, ad- 

 dressed the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences on March 25 on "The present outlook 

 for plant research in Europe." 



De. W. J. Humphreys, of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, recently lectured before the West Vir- 

 ginia University Scientific Society on "Fogs 

 and clouds." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



It is announced that the three miUion endow- 

 ment fund for Wesleyan University has been 

 oversubscribed by a hundred thousand dollars. 



Mr. Hamilton B. Tompkins has bequeathed 

 the residue of his estate to Hamilton College, 

 his alma mater, with a stipulation that $100,000 

 be set aside for the increase and support of the 

 college library, this fund to be known as the 

 Hamilton B. Tompkins Library Endowment 

 Fund. Five thousand dollars is left to Wells 

 College. 



