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This great power can be set to work im- 

 mediately in the interests of science and 

 art and education, supplementing, rein- 

 forcing our defective and weak system of 

 education. Every day its coming is de- 

 layed represents so much pure loss to the 

 causes in which you are interested; to the 

 welfare of this nation, and to civilization 

 in general by all that it might contribute 

 if it were now at work. 



This institution, this national univer- 

 sity, would be one of the most important 

 elements in making this nation of ours in 

 reality what it is in our dreams and hopes 

 and fond anticipations, the leader of the 

 world in art, in science and education, and 

 in civilization. 



Edmund J. James 



TjNivERSirY OF Illinois 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Anton Fritsch, director of the zoolog- 

 ical and paleontological division of the Mu- 

 seum at Prague, has celebrated liis eightieth 

 birthday. 



Sir William Eamsay has been elected a for- 

 eign associate of the Paris Academy of Medi- 

 cine. 



Dr. a. Engler, professor of botany in the 

 University of Berlin, has been elected a cor- 

 responding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



George Amos Dorset, associate professor 

 of anthropology in the University of Chicago, 

 who has recently returned from a three years' 

 tour of the world and investigations in his 

 special field of research, was given a banquet 

 in Chicago on July 30 by the directors of the 

 Chicago Geographical Society, of which Dr. 

 Dorsey was at one time president. 



Dr. John K. Small, bead curator of the 

 museums and herbarium of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, was given the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor of science at the one hundred 

 and twenty-fifth anniversary of Franklin Col- 

 lege, Lancaster, Pa., on June 13. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, president of the Linnean 

 Society of London, has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Academy of Sciences at Copen- 

 hagen. 



Sir Patrick Manson has retired from the 

 position of medical adviser to the Colonial 

 Ofiice, and has been appointed a Knight 

 Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and 

 St. George in recognition of his eminent serv- 

 ices in connection with the investigation of 

 the cause and cure of tropical disease. 



The Moson gold medal for research in 

 clinical medicine has been awarded by the 

 Royal College of Physicians, London, to Sir 

 David Ferrier, F.R.S., and the Murehison 

 memorial scholarship, founded in memory of 

 Dr. Charles Murehison, has been awarded to 

 Dr. W. Eees Thomas. 



Dr. Joseph H. White, of the United States 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, 

 has been asked to become a member of the 

 Boston board of health to act as an expert in 

 the health department. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Im- 

 perial Cancer Research Fund in London Dr. 

 William H. Woglom, of Brooklyn, was ap- 

 pointed first assistant in New York, a position 

 maintained under the Crocker Fund for the 

 Investigation of Cancer. Dr. Woglom was 

 sent to London by the directorate of the 

 Crocker Fund to pursue a course of studies 

 under Dr. Bashf ord, director of the Cancer Re- 

 search Fund. 



Dr. Edgar W. Olive, professor of botany 

 in the State College of South Dakota, has 

 been appointed curator in the Brooklyn Bo- 

 tanic Garden. 



Mr. Herbert E. Ives has resigned his posi- 

 tion in the Physical Laboratory of the Na- 

 tional Electric Lamp Association in Cleve- 

 land to accept the position of physicist of the 

 United Gas Improvement Company of Phila- 

 delphia, where bis work will consist of consul- 

 tation and research in connection with the 

 measurement and utilization of heat and 

 light. 



Mr. E. H. Tennyson d'Eyncourt has been' 

 appointed director of naval construction to 



