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anthropological study of the busts and por- 

 traits of Shakespeare and Burns. 



The library of the late Professor Ernest 

 Ziegler, formerly professor of pathology at the 

 University of Freiburg, purchased for the 

 University of Pittsburgh by Mr. Eichard 

 Beatty Mellen was formally presented to the 

 university at a meeting held in the University 

 Club, Pittsburgh, December 5. The addresses 

 of the evening vrere given by Dr. William H. 

 Welch, Baltimore, and Mr. Harrison W. 

 Carver, Pittsburgh. 



Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, distinguished as a 

 man of science, as a man of letters and as a 

 physician, died at his home in Philadelphia, 

 on January 7, at the age of nearly eighty-four 

 years. 



Dr. Seth Carlo Chandler, the distinguished 

 astronomer, at one time assistant to Dr. B. A. 

 Gould, aid in the U. S. Coast Survey and in 

 the Harvard College Observatory, since 1885 

 engaged in private investigation, died on Jan- 

 uary 31, at the age of sixty-seven years. 



Dr. Frederick Carl Busch, for some years 

 professor of physiology at the University of 

 Buffalo, recently engaged in cancer research, 

 died from that disease on January 3, aged 

 forty years. 



Hiram John Messenger, Ph.D. (Cornell), 

 for the last fifteen years the actuary of the 

 Travelers Insurance Company, at one time 

 associate professor of mathematics in New 

 York University, author of publications on so- 

 cial statistics, died at his home in Hartford, 

 Conn., on December 15. 



By the will of the late Mr. Arnold Fried- 

 lander, an English merchant, $25,000 is left 

 for a cancer research fund. 



The Ecuadorean government has approved 

 the contract with a London firm for the sani- 

 tation of Guayaquil. The question of clean- 

 ing up Guayaquil has been under considera- 

 tion for a long time. Bubonic plague and 

 yellow fever have been prevalent there, and 

 the proper sanitation of the port was made 

 the subject of an investigation by Colonel 



William 0. Gorgas, head of the sanitary work 

 in the Panama Canal zone. The installation 

 of a proper sanitary system has been made 

 imperative by the early opening of the Pan- 

 ama Canal. It is understood that the cost of 

 the work will approximate $10,000,000. 



UNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The movement for the establishment of a 

 national university in Washington on the plan 

 indorsed by the National Association of State 

 Universities is taking form, and President 

 James, of the University of Hlinois, has, it is 

 understood, commenced the preparation of a 

 bill soon to be submitted to President Wilson 

 for his approval and afterwards to be intro- 

 duced in both houses of Congress. The bill 

 will carry a preliminary appropriation of 

 $500,000 toward the establishment of a uni- 

 versity to be under the control of a board ap- 

 pointed by the president of the United States. 

 It will propose an advisory board made up of 

 one delegate from each state to frame the 

 policy of the institution. 



The will of the late Seth K. Sweetser, of 

 Brookline, Mass., makes public bequests 

 amounting to $137,000, including $25,000 to 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Announcement is made that the Cleveland 

 City Hospital and the school of medicine of 

 Western Eeserve University are to be affiliated. 

 The agreement which will be entered into by 

 the city and the university will provide that 

 all members of the visiting staff of the City 

 Hospital shall be nominated by the trustees 

 of Western Beserve University upon recom- 

 mendation by the faculty of the school of 

 medicine. The visiting staff will have abso- 

 lute authority over the professional treatment 

 of all patients of the hospital. The director 

 of public welfare will be the administrative 

 head of the hospital. The university will have 

 all teaching and research privileges. 



Twelve colleges, hospitals and charitable 

 institutions of Minnesota, nine of them in 

 Minneapolis, are the recipients of New Tear's 

 gifts aggregating $230,000 from David D. 

 Stewart, of St. Albans, Me., who inherited the 



