Januaby 12, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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We learn from Nature that a fund is being 

 raised to purchase the very valuable scientific 

 library of the late Professor Silvanus Thomp- 

 son and to present it to the Institution of Elec- 

 trical Engineers as a memorial of his life and 

 work, the library to be accessible to the piiblic 

 on the same conditions as the Eonalds Li- 

 brary. Those who wish to subscribe to this 

 fund or to have further information regarding 

 it are requested to communicate with Mr. W. 

 M. Mordey, 82 Victoria Street, London, S.W. 



A CORRESPONDENT writes : " In the death, on 

 December 2, of Dr. Herbert Armistead Sayre, 

 professor of mathematics and sometime pro- 

 fessor of physics at the University of Alabama, 

 there passed a true gentleman, and thousands 

 of his past students will ever keep within their 

 hearts a warm appreciation of his kindly 

 friendliness and sterling worth." 



The death is announced of Mr. William 

 Ellis, F.E.S., in his eighty-ninth year. Mr. 

 Ellis was formerly superintendent of the Mag- 

 netical and Meteorological Branch of the 

 Eoyal Observatory, Greenwich. He joined 

 the Observatory in 1841, and was attached to 

 the astronomical department until 1874, hav- 

 ing during the preceding eighteen years been 

 in charge of the chronometric and electric 

 branch. 



Dr. Raymond Tripier, former professor of 

 pathologic anatomy at the Lyons School of 

 Medicine, has died at the age of seventy-eight 

 years. 



Word has come to this country of the death 

 on the battlefield at Artois, France, on Sep- 

 tember 15, 1915, of Dr. Bernard Collin, of the 

 staff of the zoological station of the Univer- 

 sity of Montpelier, situated at Cette. Dr. 

 Collin had made a brilliant record by his re- 

 searches on the cytology of the Suctoria and 

 was regarded as one of the most promising of 

 the younger protozoologists of France. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The University of Cincinnati has received 

 by the will of Francis H. Baldwin, of Cincin- 

 nati, a bequest of approximately $675,000 for 

 the unspecified uses of the university. 



Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia 

 has received a gift of $150,000 from Miss Anna 

 J. Magee to endow the Magee professorship for 

 the practise of medicine and clinical surgery, 

 now held by Professor Thomas McCrae. Dur- 

 ing the year, the college has received $100,000 

 from Daniel Baugh to establish the provost 

 professorship of therapeutics, held by Dr. 

 Hobart A. Hare, and an equal sum from 

 friends of the college to endow the Samuel D. 

 Gross professorship of surgery, held by Dr. J. 

 Chalmers Da Costa. It is understood that 

 these gifts are intended to make unnecessary 

 the merging of the Jefferson Medical College 

 with the Medical School of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



The board of trustees of the Emma Willard 

 School, Troy, IST. Y., announces that, continu- 

 ing her benevolence toward this school and the 

 new Eussell Sage College of Practical Arts, 

 Mrs. Eussell Sage has given $250,000 toward 

 the advancement of the work of this latter 

 institution, the only requirement being that 

 the money so given should be used the same 

 way as the original gift of a like amount a 

 year ago to establish the college. 



Friends of the University College of Wales, 

 Aberystwyth, have expressed their intention of 

 contributing £100,000 to the funds of the col- 

 lege, subject to a reservation of their right to 

 make proposals to the council as to either the 

 capital or the income. 



Harold Veatch Bozell, E.E., director of the 

 University of Oldahoma Electrical Engineer- 

 ing School, is temporarily serving on the Shef- 

 field Scientific School faculty of Tale Uni- 

 versity. Dr. Alois Francis Kovarik has been 

 appointed assistant professor of physics in 

 the school. 



Mr. F. E. Griffith, Jr., A.M. of Washing- 

 ton University, who has been research assistant 

 in physiology at Tulane University, has been 

 elected assistant professor of biology at 

 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. 



Dr. H. a. L. Fisher, vice-chancellor of 

 Sheffield University, has been appointed presi- 

 dent of the Board of Education in the new 

 British cabinet. 



