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SCIENCE 



[N., S. Vol. XLV. No. 1162 



Thursday, March 29. "The Period of Philo- 

 sophical Speculation. Theories of Evolution and 

 Arithmetic. ' ' 



Saturday, March 31. "The Shift to Experi- 

 mental Methods. Aristotle, the Naturalist, the As- 

 tronomer and the Physicist. ' ' 



Monday, April 2. "The Great Lights of An- 

 cient Science: Archimedes and Hipparchus. " 



The third Guthrie lecture of the Physical 

 Society, London, was given on March 23, by 

 Professor P. Langevin, on " Molecular Orien- 

 tation." 



Jonathan Eisser, professor of zoology at 

 Washburn College and previously assistant 

 professor at Beloit College, died on March 23, 

 aged forty-eight years. 



David H. Browne, a metallurgical engineer 

 living at Montclair, N. J., known for his work 

 in copper smelting, died on March 30, at the 

 age of fifty-three years. 



De. E. p. Eamsay, curator for many years 

 of the Australian Museum, Sydney, author of 

 works on ornithology, has died at the age of 

 seventy-four years. 



The death is announced, in his ninety- 

 second year, of James Forrest, honorary secre- 

 tary, and for many years the secretary, of the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers. 



General J. A. L. Bassot, the distinguished 

 French geodesist, has died at the age of 

 seventy-six years. 



Among New York State civil service exami- 

 nations to be held on May 5, are examinations 

 for the position of assistant bacteriologist in 

 the State Department of Health, with salaries 

 of $900 to $1,800. 



The annual meetings of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Pathologists and Bacteriologists 

 and of the American Association of Immunol- 

 ogists is being held in !N"ew York City on 

 April 6 and 7, under the presidency of Dr. 

 Richard "Weil. The sessions will be held at 

 the New York Academy of Medicine and at 

 the Rockefeller Institute. 



The Peabody Museum of Yale University, 

 which for forty years has housed the Marsh 

 collection of fossils, the Gibbs mineralogical 

 collection, for which citizens of the city and 



Yale paid $20,000 almost a hundred years ago 

 that it might not go to the city of Hartford, 

 and other collections of more recent date, 

 closed its doors to the public last week. "With 

 the razing of this old natural history museum 

 will pass out of existence the building that 

 has been the college home of many distin- 

 guished members of the Yale faculty, includ- 

 ing James Dwight Dana, Othniel Charles 

 Marsh, Addison E. Verrill, Sidney I. Smitli 

 and George Jarvis Brush. Visitors will have 

 no opportunity to see the university's collec- 

 tions in natural history until the new museum 

 on the Sage-Pearson plot is finished. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



At the Charter Day exercises of the Univer- 

 sity of California on March 23, President 

 Benj. Ide "Wheeler announced that the gifts of 

 the previous twelve months amounted to ap- 

 proximately half a million dollars, among the 

 principal items being the $70,000 given by Pro- 

 fessor and Mrs. George Holmen Howison to 

 endow a fellowship in philosophy, scholarships 

 in English, etc. ; $200,000 provided by the late 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt to endow in- 

 struction in the school of jurisprudence; $43,- 

 493 given by various friends of the univer- 

 sity to furnish and equip the new University 

 Hospital in San Francisco, a 215-bed teaching 

 hospital, itseK built through gifts of $586,000 

 from a number of different benefactors, and 

 $80,000 expended during the year by the gift 

 of Miss Ellen B. Scripps, for a new thousand- 

 foot concrete pier, a new library and museum 

 building, etc., for the Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Research at La Jolla. 



Mr. Chaeles W. Bingham (Yale, '68), of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, has given $10,000 to Yale 

 University for the endowment of scholarships 

 to be awarded to graduates of the high schools 

 of Cleveland and its vicinity entering the col- 

 lege or the scientific school. 



All Souls College, Oxford, has given the 

 university fifteen hundred pounds in aid of the 

 general fund and the like sum for the Bodleian 

 Library. 



