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Dr. Felice Ferrero will lecture at New 

 York University on February 19 on " Galileo 

 and the Struggle between the Old Science and 

 the New." 



An illustrated lecture was given on Jan- 

 uary 12, 1915, by Mr. "William Bowie, in- 

 spector of Geodetic Work, U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, "Washington, D. C, before 

 the Engineering Club of Northwestern TJni- 

 versity, Evanston, 111. The subject of the 

 lecture was " Primary Triangulation and Pre- 

 cise Levelling." 



Mr. J. C. Thorpe, formerly professor in the 

 engineering faculty of the University of Illi- 

 nois, gave recently there a series of four il- 

 lustrated lectures on the automobile. 



Dr. Jagadis Chunder Bose, of Presidency 

 College, Calcutta, gave a popular lecture on 

 " Plant Autographs and their Eevelations " 

 at the University of "Wisconsin on Friday, 

 January 22, 1915, under the joint auspices of 

 the Society of the Sigma Xi and the Science 

 Club of the University of "Wisconsin. A 

 smoker at the University Club in honor of 

 Dr. Bose followed the lecture. 



The monument on Mount Mitchell, erected 

 twenty-six years ago in memory of Professor 

 Elisha Mitchell, for whom the mountain was 

 named, has been destroyed by dynamite. It 

 is not known who committed the act. Pro- 

 fessor Mitchell, a member of the faculty of 

 the University of North Carolina, established 

 the height of the peak as 6,711 feet. He 

 eventually lost his life while exploring the 

 mountain. 



A memorial meeting in honor of Albert 

 Smith Bickmore was held in the American 

 Museum of Natural History on January 29, 

 when the program included addresses by 

 President Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mr. Joseph 

 H. Choate, Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, Dr. 

 John M. Clarke and Mr. L. P. Gratacap. 

 Professor Bickmore was in large measure re- 

 sponsible for the founding of the American 

 Museum and was a leader in its educational 

 work. 



At the recent annual public session of the 

 Aeademie de medecine, Paris, the famUy of 



Pasteur presented to the academy a portrait 

 bust of Pasteur by Paul Dubois. 



Dr. Cyrus Fogg Brackett, professor emeri- 

 tus of physics in Princeton University, died 

 on January 29, in his eighty-second year. 



Dr. Benjamin Sharp, formerly correspond- 

 ing secretary of the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences and professor of invertebrate 

 zoology there and in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, died on January 24, at Morehead, 

 N. C, aged fifty-six years. 



Dr. Julius "Weeren, formerly professor of 

 metallurgy in the Berlin Technical School, 

 has died at the age of eighty-three years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Eudolf 

 Fischer, director of the Coburg Museum of 

 Natural History, and of Dr. Lothar von 

 Frankl-Hochwart, professor of pathology of 

 the nervous system at the University of 

 Vienna. 



Among those reported killed in the war are: 

 Dr. Max Brandt, assistant in the Botanical 

 Museum at Berlin-Dahlem ; Dr. "Wilhelm 

 Schneider, assistant in the Agricultural Insti- 

 tute at Giessen; Dr. "Werner Hirschfeldt, as- 

 sistant in the Industrial Museum at Stuttgart, 

 and Dr. Karl Pfarr, professor of mathematics 

 and physics in the Vienna Industrial Academy. 



In answer to the manifesto of the German 

 intellectuals, which is considered as unifying 

 German culture and German militarism. La 

 Societe Nationale d' Acclimatisation de France 

 has decided to remove from its list of members 

 all Germans and Austrians. 



The board of trustees of the University of 

 Illinois has given the sum of five hundred 

 dollars to the fund inaugurated for the pur- 

 pose of erecting a laboratory at Bothamsted 

 in commemoration of the centenary of the 

 birth of Lawes in 1814 and of Gilbert in 181Y. 



The will of Alexander A. McKay, of Chi- 

 cago, bequeaths $100,000 to the Art Institute 

 for the maintenance and enlargement of the 

 Munger collection of paintings, $100,000 to the 

 Home for Destitute Crippled Children and 

 $100,000 to the Mary Thomson Hospital for 

 women and children. 



