Febkuary 12, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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Pacific coast tribes, is the result of many 

 years devoted to the subject by the late Pro- 

 fessor and Mrs. T. S. C. Lowe, of Pasadena. 

 The collection comes to the academy as an 

 indefinite loan through the generosity of Hon. 

 Wm. M. Fitzhugh, of San Francisco. Mr. 

 Fitzhugh not only gives the collection, but -will 

 also meet all the expenses of labeling, card 

 cataloguing, providing cases of the best type 

 and installing the collection in the academy's 

 new museum building now under construc- 

 tion in Golden Gate Park. 



By ail amendment to the by-laws recently 

 adopted by the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia, the members can now borrow 

 certain books to be designated by the librarian 

 and the library committee. The library has 

 been esclusively for reference, no one having 

 been allowed to take books from the building, 

 since 1859. 



There has been a decline of more than 

 6,000 applications for patents during 1914 in 

 Great Britain. Whereas in 1913 the number 

 of patents applied for was over 31,000 — ^prac- 

 tically the same as the preceding year — the 

 total of 1914 amounts to barely 25,000. The 

 causes of this falling off are said to be the 

 interference with certain trades consequent 

 upon the war and the cessation of applications 

 from hostile countries. As these causes apply 

 to only the last five months of the year, the 

 decrease during that period amounts to about 

 one half. 



A SERIES of six popular demonstrations in 

 science has been arranged by Syracuse Uni- 

 versity and the Technology Club of Syracuse, 

 as follows : 



January 14 — The production and application of 

 electricity: Dean William P. Graham, of Smith 

 College of Applied Science. 



January 21 — Some of our common birds and how 

 they are helpful or harmful: Dr. Chas. C. Adams, 

 forest zoologist of the New York State College of 

 Forestry. 



January 28 — Bacteria, friends and foes: Pro- 

 fessor H. N. Jones, of the department of bacteriol- 

 ogy, Syracuse University. 



February 4 — Gas engines — their construction and 

 operation: Mr. George Babcock, expert with the 

 Franklin Automobile Co. 



February 11 — How timber decays and how this 

 decay may be prevented: Dean Hugh P. Baker, of 

 the New York State College of Forestry. 



February 18 — ^Illuminating and other gases and 

 how they are produced and used in our industries: 

 Dr. E. N. Pattee and Professor 0. E. Hoover, of 

 the department of chemistry of Syracuse Univer- 

 sity. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mr. George Skelton Tuill, of London and 

 Australia, has given a sum of $20,000 to the 

 University of Aberdeen to found a scholar- 

 ship in chemistry in the memory of the arts 

 class of 1864^68, of which he was a member. 

 The scholarship will be held by a student of 

 the university for the purpose of research 

 within it, or for the study of the practical 

 applications of chemistry elsewhere. Mr. 

 James Campbell, LL.D., chairman of the gov- 

 ernors of the North of Scotland College of 

 Agriculture, has founded four bursaries or 

 scholarships to be held by students of the uni- 

 versity in the college. 



It is stated that there are this year matric- 

 ulated in the University of Berlin 7,037 men 

 and 898 women, as compared with 8,200 men 

 and 859 women last winter. 



Dr. William H. Park has offered his resig- 

 nation as dean of the New York University 

 Medical College because of the ruling of the 

 department of health that its department heads 

 shall not hold adtainistrative positions else- 

 where. Dr. Park is director of laboratories. 

 He will retain his position as professor of bac- 

 teriology and hygiene in the college. 



Professor de la Vallee Poussin, of the 

 University of Louvain, will, as has already 

 been announced, give a course of lectures at 

 Harvard University. The lectures which will 

 be in French are on Lebesque Integrals. The 

 first lecture will be given on February 16 and 

 the course will be given twice (possible three 

 times) a week throughout the remainder of the 

 academic year. There will also be supplemen- 

 tary lectures and explanations in English by 

 Dr. Dunham Jackson. 



