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the university for instruction in Greek, Latin, 

 Hebrew, modern languages, history, philos- 

 ophy, economics, sociological subjects, etc. 



Professor G. Frederick "Wright, president 

 of the Ohio State Archeological and Histor- 

 ical Society, delivered the main address at 

 the laying of the cornerstone of the museum 

 in Columbus, for the erection of which $100,- 

 000 was appropriated by the Ohio legislature. 

 The building, which stands at the entrance of 

 the state university campus, will be two hun- 

 dred feet long, fifty feet wide and three 

 stories high, and is planned to allow large ad- 

 ditions in the future. The chosen purpose of 

 the museum is the housing of the society's 

 unusual collection of relics of the Mound 

 Builders, which is recognized as the finest 

 gathering of such material in existence. Pro- 

 fessor Wright has also secured an appropria- 

 tion of $50,000 from the legislature for the 

 erection in Fremont, Ohio, of a memorial to 

 President Hayes, which will contain the 

 Hayes Library of Americana, which is the 

 famous Clark Library of Cincinnati with the 

 additions made by Mr. Hayes. 



A PDBLic meeting will be held at the Man- 

 sion House, London, on October 23, in sup- 

 port of the memorial to Lord Lister. 



Dr. Leonard W. Williams, instructor in 

 comparative anatomy at the Harvard Medical 

 School, was crushed to death by an elevator 

 in one of the school buildings on September 

 26. Dr. Williams was born at Muskogee, 

 Okla., in 1875, and received his bachelor's de- 

 gree from Hanover College, his master's de- 

 gree from Princeton University and his doc- 

 tor's degree from Brown University, where he 

 was assistant professor of biology; he was the 

 author of important researches on embryology 

 and comparative anatomy. 



The deaths are announced of Dr. Stanley 

 Dunkerley, formerly professor of engineering 

 in the University of Manchester and a mem- 

 ber of the Eoyal Institution of Civil Engi- 

 neers; of Dr. Ernst Becker, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of astronomy at Strasburg, and of Dr. 

 Aurel Torok, professor of anthropology at 

 Budapesth. 



Civil service examinations are announced 

 for two positions in the department of the 

 interior, one for specialist in rural education 

 at an annual salary of $3,000, and one as col- 

 lector and compiler of statistics at a salary 

 of $2,400. 



The Transcontinental Excursion of Inter- 

 national Geographers (Professor W. M. 

 Davis, of Harvard University, director), cele- 

 brating the sixtieth anniversary of the Amer- 

 ican Geographical Society, of New York, will 

 be the guests of the University of Virginia 

 on October 12. A symposium will be held at 

 the university in the afternoon on the status 

 of geographical teaching in European uni- 

 versities, in order to show the serious atten- 

 tion that is there given to the fundamental 

 subject of geography as a study of mature 

 grade, presented by expert professors. Ad- 

 dresses will be made by the following speak- 

 ers: Dr. Joseph Partsch, professor of geog- 

 raphy, University of Leipzig, late president 

 of the Geographical Society of Leipzig; Dr. 

 Eugen Oberhummer, professor of geography 

 at the University of Vienna, president of the 

 Geographical Society of Vienna; Lucien Gal- 

 lois, professor of geography. University of 

 Paris, associate editor of the Annales de 

 GeograpMe; George G. Chisholm, lecturer 

 on geography. University of Edinburgh, sec- 

 retary to the Eoyal Scottish Geographical 

 Society; Emile Chaix, professor of geography. 

 University of Geneva and School of Com- 

 merce. Addresses by American geographers 

 will be made by Professors W. M. Davis, of 

 Harvard University, A. P. Brigham, of Col- 

 gate University, and Mark Jefferson, of the 

 State Normal College, Tpsilanti, Michigan. 



The Eiberi prize of the University of 

 Turin, amounting to $4,000, will be awarded 

 after the close of the year 1916 for the work 

 which is adjudged to have most advanced the 

 science of medicine. 



It is announced that the following sums 

 have been bequeathed by Madame Jonglart 

 for the furtherance of science in France: 

 50,000 francs to the College de France; 95,- 



