May 26, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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On May 11, Professor F. Keeble delivered 

 the first of two lectures at the Royal Institute 

 on "Plant sensitiveness;" and on May 13, 

 Professor 0. W. Richardson began a course of 

 two lectures on "The disappearing- gap between 

 the X-ray and the ultraviolet spectra." The 

 Friday evening discourse on May 12 was de- 

 livered by Dr. H. H. Dale on "The search for 

 specific remedies." 



Among five busts unveiled in the Hall of 

 Fame for Great Americans at New York Uni- 

 versity on May 20 was one of Maria Mit-chell, 

 the gift of her nephew, William Mitchell Ken- 

 dall, and the work of Emma S. Brigham. 

 President Henry Noble McCraeken, of Vassar 

 College, where Miss Mitchell was professor of 

 astronomy from 1865 to 1888, unveUed the bust. 



Henet Marion Howe, professor-emeritus of 

 metallurgy in Columbia University, died on 

 May 14 at his home in Bedford Hills, N. Y., in 

 the seventy-fifth year of his age. 



Dr. John Sandford Shearer, professor of 

 physics at Cornell University since 1910, died 

 on May 18 at the age of sixty-six yeare. 



George Simonds -Boulger, the well known 

 English writer on botany, died on May 4, at 

 the age of fifty-nine years. 



Sir Alfred Bray Kempe, president of the 

 London Mathematical Society in 1894, for ma,ny 

 years treasurer of the Royal Society, died on 

 April 27, at the age of seventy-three years. 



C. L. A. Laveran, professor at the Pasteur 

 Institute, Paris, died on May 18, at the age of 

 seventy-seven years. Dr. Laveran, then a French 

 army surgeon sei-ving in Algeria, discovered the 

 parasite of malaria in 1880. He received the 

 Nobel prize for medicine in 1907. 



Atherton Kinsley Dunbar, of Cambridge, 

 feUow for research in cryogenic engineering at 

 Harvard, and WiUiam Connell of Cambridge, a 

 carpenter, were instantly kiUed on May 20, by 

 the explosion of a tank of liquid oxygen in the 

 basement of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. 



Sir Charles Paesons, F.R.S., has conveyed 

 tt) the trustees of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science a gift of £10,000 



five per cent, war loan stock, which he has 

 placed unreservedly at the disposal of the coun- 

 cil. The London Times writes : "This generous 

 gift comes at an opportune time, as the finances 

 of the association have, like those of other in- 

 stitutions, suffered depletion duiing the past 

 seven years, and there was a danger that the 

 activities of an association which has rendered 

 notable services to science in the past might 

 suffer restriction. The total grants in aid of 

 research made by the association since its 

 foundation in 1831 exceed £83,000." 



The International Congress of Ophthalmol- 

 ogy met in Washington on April 25 and 26. 

 The congress was greeted by Vice-president 

 Coolidge. During the first session, Dr. William 

 H. Wilmer, of Washington, presided. Repre- 

 sentatives of many foreign countries attended 

 the meetings. The following officers were 

 elected : President, George E. de Schweinitz, 

 Philadelphia, and secretary, Luther C. Peter, 

 Philadelphia. 



The Rockefeller Foundation has ofl'ered to 

 Indian medical graduates, selected by the scien- 

 tific board of the Indian Research Fund, five 

 scholarships of $1,000 each, for the i^urpose 

 of graduate public health work in America. 



The Royal Academy of Belgium has estab- 

 lished a prize of 1,000 francs, which will be 

 awarded biennially, under the name of the Prix 

 0. van Ertborn, for the best work on geology. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Under the will of the late Mr. Henry Mus- 

 grave sums amounting to £57,000 have been 

 bequeathed to Queen's University, Belfast. A 

 Musgrave Research Studentship will be estab- 

 lished. 



A conference of Representatives of the 

 Universities of the United Kingdom was held on 

 May 13 in the Botanical Theater, University 

 College, London. The subjects for discussion 

 were the urgent need for the provision of en- 

 larged opportunities for advanced study and 

 research; the increase of residential accommo- 

 dation for undergraduate and other students; 

 specialization in certain subjects of study by 



