Januakt 5, 1917] 



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department, Eoyal Observatory, Greenwich, 

 died on December 11, in his eighty-ninth year. 



The death is announced, in his eighty-sixth 

 year, of Dr. Eichard Worris, formerly pro- 

 fessor of physiology in Queen's College, 

 Birmingham. 



Reports have reached this country of the 

 death of Professor Max Liihe, of Konigsberg, 

 Prussia, in a field hospital in Russia, on May 

 3, 1916, at the age of forty-six years. Dr. 

 Liihe's work in protozoology and parasitology 

 is well known. 



The trustees of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research have passed the fol- 

 lowing vote : 



Resolved: That in reeognition of the decreased 

 purchasing power of fixed salaries caused by the 

 increased cost of living, an additional and special 

 compensation, equal to fifteen per cent, of the cur- 

 rent annual salary, be paid to each regular officer 

 and employee of the institute, said sum to be paid 

 on January 5, 1917; it being understood that this 

 is not an increase of salary and does not create 

 any precedent for the future. In the case of em- 

 ployees who have served less than one year the 

 payment will be fifteen per cent, of the amount 

 actually received up to December 31, 1916. 



It is to be hoped that this resolution will be 

 brought to the attention of trustees of all edu- 

 cational and scientific institutions. 



Plans are under way at the headquarters 

 of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 

 neers for the one hundred and fourteenth 

 meeting of the institute to be held in New 

 York from February 19 to 22 inclusive. It is 

 expected that this meeting will bring out dis- 

 cussions of an important character regarding 

 the development of mining methods in recent 

 times and some of the immediate problems. 

 About 500 mining engineers from many differ- 

 ent parts of the world will be in attendance. 

 Since the western meeting of the institute in 

 September, its membership has increased by 

 more than 200 members. In the past three 

 years the enrollment has risen from 4,284 to 

 5,922. This increase is regarded as an impor- 

 tant commentary on the development of min- 

 ing in this country, the membership of the 

 institute being limited to those engaged in 

 mining, and metallurgical engineering, geol- 



ogy or chemistry. The officers of the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Mining Engineers are L. D. 

 Ricketts, president; Sidney J. Jennings, first 

 vice-president; George C. Stone, treasurer, 

 and Bradley Stoughton, secretary. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 Italian minister of war recently invited med- 

 ical women to offer themselves for military 

 service. Graduates of more than five years' 

 standing are to have the rank of sublieu- 

 tenant; those of more than fifteen years' stand- 

 ing that of captain. Signora Filomena Corvini 

 is the first woman who has received a com- 

 mission. She has been appointed to the 9th 

 Army Corps for service at the front. 



The late Dr. Magnan, a former president of 

 the Paris Academy of Medicine, has left to 

 that body a sum of £1,000 to found a triennial 

 prize to be awarded to the author of the best 

 work on a psychiatrical subject. 



In her will Mrs. Mary Palmer Draper, who 

 died on December 8, 1914, left gifts exceed- 

 ing $450,000 to the New York Public Library 

 and a legacy of $150,000 to the Harvard Col- 

 lege Observatory, where she had already estab- 

 lished the Draper Memorial. The report made 

 by Appraiser Berwin reveals that the net estate 

 amounted to $1,630,220 and is insufficient to 

 pay the specific bequests in full. Accordingly 

 they have been abated proportionately. The 

 gifts to the New York Public Library as enu- 

 merated were: Books, portraits, engraved 

 gems, etchings and engravings, $25,548 in 

 value; cash bequests of $250,000, abated to 

 $238,836, and a remainder interest in the trust 

 fund for Rosin B. Palmer, $64,796 in value. 

 The bequests severally were to found the John 

 S. Billings Memorial Fund for the purchase of 

 books and the Anna Palmer Draper Fund as 

 a memorial to the decedent's father. The be- 

 quest to Harvard is abated to $143,301. Under 

 the terms of the will this is to be expended in 

 preserving and using the photographic plates 

 of the Draper Memorial. Mrs. Draper gave 

 her husband's plates and scientific apparatus 

 previously loaned to the observatory. The 

 Polyclinic Hospital, which was to receive $50,- 

 000, will get $47,767. The Children's Aid Soci- 

 ety, the New York Association for Improving 



