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Society of tbe Pacific in the Cabot Observa- 

 tory, March 27, on " Globular Star Clusters." 



Professor D. W. Johnson, of Columbia 

 University, lectured on the "Physiography of 

 Western Europe as a Factor in the War " be- 

 fore the Eochester Academy of Science on the 

 evening of March 29; before a general convo- 

 cation of the Case School of Applied Science 

 in Cleveland on March 30; before a similar 

 convocation of the students of Denison Uni- 

 versity at Granville on March 31; and before 

 the annual meeting of the high school teachers 

 of the state of Michigan at Ann Arbor on 

 April 1. 



The foUow^ing lectures have been delivered 

 under the auspices of the Syracuse University 

 Chapter of Sigma Xi, during the second sem- 

 ester. On February 5, John A. Matthews, 

 Ph.D., D.Sc, addressed a joint meeting of the 

 Sigma Xi and the Archeological Society of 

 Syracuse, on the subject of " Iron in Anti- 

 quity and To-day " and on March 5 Professor 

 H. S. White, of Vassar College, addressed the 

 chapter, students and public, taking as his 

 subject " Mathematics in Nineteenth Century 

 Science." 



Dr. a. a. W. Hubrecht, professor of em- 

 bryology at the University of Utrecht, died on 

 March 21, in his sixty-fourth year. 



VNIVEMSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Princeton University has received from 

 Mrs. William Church Osborn $125,000 to estab- 

 lish the Dodge professorship of medieval his- 

 tory, and $100,000 from an anonymous giver to 

 endovsr a professorship of economics. 



The Schools of Mines, Engineering and 

 Chemistry of Columbia University have re- 

 ceived an anonymous gift of $30,000, to be 

 applied to the reconstruction and new equip- 

 ment of the laboratories of quantitative, 

 organic and engineering chemistry in Have- 

 meyer Hall. A gift of $20,000 is announced 

 from Mrs. Samuel W. Bridgham, daughter of 

 the later William C. Schermerhorn, who was 

 a trustee of Columbia University from 1860 

 to 1903. An anonymous gift of $4,000 has 

 been made for surgical research in the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons. 



Mr. George W. Brackenridge has given to 

 the University of Texas his yacht Navidad, 

 valued at $100,000, to be assigned to the bio- 

 logical department of the institution. A pre- 

 , liminary survey of the Texas coast is to be 

 made in the Navidad, starting from Port 

 Lavaca. 



The trustees of Emory University, Atlanta, 

 which is being developed under the auspices 

 of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, have 

 agreed to take over the Atlanta Medical Col- 

 lege as its medical department. For this de- 

 partment it is proposed that $250,000 be set 

 aside as an endowment. The trustees have 

 also agreed to erect a new teaching hospital 

 near the medical school, to cost from $300,000 

 to $350,000. 



The University of South Dakota has just 

 completed the erection of a fire-proof chemistry 

 building at a cost of $100,000. Dr. Alfred N. 

 Cook is head of the department. 



The new buildings of the Washington Uni- 

 versity Medical School will be dedicated with 

 suitable ceremonies on April 29 and 30. 

 Among those who will deliver addresses are 

 Dr. Eugene L. Opie, dean of the medical 

 school; Dr. William H. Welch, of Johns 

 Hopkins University; President A. L. Lowell, 

 of Harvard University; Dr. William C. 

 Gorgas, surgeon general. United States army; 

 Dr. William T. Porter, Dr. E. J. Perry, Dr. 

 George Dock, Dr. Abraham Flexner and Presi- 

 dent Henry S. Pritchett, of the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 



Dr. George Harrison Shull, botanical in- 

 vestigator at the Carnegie Station for Experi- 

 mental Evolution, has been appointed professor 

 of botany and genetics at Princeton Univer- 

 sity. Steps will be taken immediately to 

 develop gardens, greenhouses and laboratories 

 for his work at Princeton. 



Dr. Eaymond G. Osburn, assistant professor 

 of zoology in Barnard College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has resigned to accept the professor- 

 ship of biology in the Connecticut College for 

 Women. 



Dr. B. F. McGrath has resigned as a mem- 

 ber of the staff of the Mayo Clinic, Eochester, 

 Minn., and has accepted the position of di- 



