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Smithsonian Institution. It gives 85 per cent. 
of the interest on the estate to relatives for life. 
On their death the entire property, increased by 
15 per cent. of the income to be laid by each 
year, is held in trust for twenty years, and then 
reverts to the Smithsonian Institution. One- 
half of the annual income is then to be added 
to the principal each year, and the other half is 
to be used for the advancement of the physical 
sciences by prizes, lectures or original research. 
It is estimated that the fund now is worth 
$200,000, and that it will be available in about 
fifty years. 
A BILL has been introduced in the House of 
Representatives directing the general govern. 
ment, through the Secretary of the Interior, to 
secure title to the cliff dwellers’ region of New 
Mexico for park and scientific purposes, and 
one in the Senate appropriating $5,000,000 for 
the purchase of land in the Appalachian Moun- 
tains for a national forest reserve. 
THE Washington Academy of Sciences is en- 
deavoring to secure a permanent home for the 
Academy and the nine local societies which are 
affiliated with it. A lot has been purchased on 
15th Street, between L and M Streets, north- 
west. It is hoped that funds enough can be 
secured to warrant the erection of a building 
containing a large hall for various public meet- 
ings and small rooms for the different purposes 
of the various societies. 
Dr. H. R. Mixx will, as we learn from Nature, 
join Mr. Sowerby-Wallace in carrying on the 
British Rainfall Organization, in continuation 
of the work of the late Mr. G. J. Symons. 
WE regret to learn that the Philadelphia Med- 
ical Journal will no longer be edited by Dr. 
George M. Gould. The Journal has been 
edited by Dr. Gould since its establishment and 
has been made by him one of the half-dozen 
valuable medical journals of the United States. 
In commenting on the election of Professor 
W. W. Campbell to the directorship of the Lick 
Observatory, the Astrophysical Journal says: 
““The wisdom of this choice will be apparent to 
every one familiar with the circumstances of the 
case. The task which falls to the successor of 
Professor Keeler is no easy one, a fact which 
the Observatory Committee fully appreciated. 
SCIENCE. 
(N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 316. 
They accordingly deferred action until the 
opinions of many eminent astronomers in this 
country and abroad could be secured. ‘The re- 
plies, almost without exception, named Pro- 
fessor Campbell as first choice. It is evident 
that his remarkable success as an investigator, 
his tireless energy and his ability to direct the 
works of others are widely known and appre- 
ciated. It is a pleasure to extend congratula- 
tions to the President and Regents of the Uni- 
versity of California for the wise manner in 
which the appointment was made; to the Lick 
Observatory for its bright prospects under such 
leadership, and to Professor. Campbell himself - 
for the wider opportunity in the prosecution of 
his researches which he will now enjoy.’’ 
Dr. W. WALDEYER, professor of anatomy 
at Berlin, has been elected a member of the Mos- 
cow Natural History Society. 
Ir is understood that Lord Kelvin will give 
an address on the textile industries at the an- 
nual dinner of the governors of Yorkshire Col- 
lege, on February 1st. 
A MARBLE bust of Friedrich Gustay Gauss 
is to be made and placed in the lecture room 
for geodesy and mathematics at the University 
of Berlin. 
THE death is announced on December 30th 
of Mr. William Pole, F.R.S., formerly professor 
of civil engineering in University College, Lon- 
don, an eminent writer on engineering subjects 
and an active member of a number of Govern: 
ment commissions of inquiry. He was a man 
of wide interests, being a gifted musician and 
student of music and the author of the well- 
known ‘ Evolution of Whist.’ 
WE also regret to learn of the death of Mr, 
Philip Crawley, fellow of the Zoological and 
Linnean Societies of London, and the possessor 
of collections of birds’ eggs and butterflies, 
said to be among the finest in the world ; of Mr. 
F. R. Bedford, a young English zoologist, known 
for his studies on the echinoderms, and of Sen- 
hor Cordeiro, Secretary of the Portuguese Geo- 
graphical Society. 
THE Chicago Medical Society has adopted a 
resolution protesting against the duty of 20 per 
cent. on pathological specimens. 
