FEBRUARY 15, 1901.] 
boundary between that country and Mexico. 
His services to Guatemala were so important 
that he was given an imposing public funeral 
at the expense of the government, the cere- 
monies taking place at the National School of 
Engineers and being attended by President 
Cabrera and his cabinet. : 
PROFESSOR MAxX VON PETTENKOFER, of the 
University of Munich, the eminent authority on 
hygiene and bacteriology, has committed suicide 
at Munich. He was eighty-three years of age. 
Mr. R. D. LAcoE, well known among geolo- 
gists and paleontologists for his great aid in the 
advancement of the sciences of paleobotany and 
pale-entomology, died at his home in West Pitt- 
ston, Pa., on the fifth of February. 
PROFESSOR JOHN PoTTER MARSHALL, until 
his retirement in 1899, professor of geology 
and mineralogy in Tufts College, died at his 
home at Tufts College on February 4th in his 
seventy-seventh year. He graduated from 
Yale College in 1844 and was one of the 
founders of Tufts College, where at first he had 
charge of all the scientific work, including 
mathematics, and where he held a professor- 
ship continuously for forty-five years. 
PROFESSOR EDWARD ELBRIDGE SALISBURY, 
for sixty years professor of Arabic and Sanscrit 
at Yale University, died at New Haven on Feb- 
ruary oth. 
Dr. WALTER MYERS, a member of the expe- 
dition of the Liverpool School of Tropical 
Medicine to Brazil, has died from yellow fever 
while engaged ia investigating the disease. Dr. 
Myers was a graduate of the University of Cam- 
bridge and was only twenty-nine years of age. 
THE death is announced in his seventieth 
year of Dr. Bernhardt Danckelmann, for the 
last 35 years director of the Prussian Royal 
Academy of Forestry at Eberswalde. He was 
one of the first to advocate the training of 
foresters in special colleges, and was the author 
of important works on forestry. 
THE London Times announces the death, 
at Bois de Colombes at the age of 74, of 
M. Gramme, the eminent Belgian electrician. 
Brought up as a carpenter, he attended scien- 
tific lectures at Liége, where he showed a talent 
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for machinery, and then went to Paris to a 
manufactory of light house electriclamps. He 
next worked under Ruhmkorff and Disderi. In 
1867 and 1872 he patented electric batteries and 
the dynamo. For the latter he received 20,000 f. 
from the French Government and the Volta 
prize of 20,000 f. from the Academy of Sciences, 
THE will of the late Charles F. Emerson 
gives $100,000 to the town of Castine, Maine, 
for a library. 
WE learn from the Electrical World that the 
private electro-chemical laboratory of Mr. C. 
P. Steinmetz has been destroyed by fire, which 
probably had its origin in a coal stove. A con- 
siderable part of the apparatus was saved, but 
a number of interesting investigations being 
carried out in the laboratory are indefinitely 
delayed. — 
THE National Academy of Sciences has made 
a grant of $500 to the University of California 
from the Draper fund for the promotion of 
scientific research, the money to be used in the 
construction of a first-class one-prism spectro- 
graph for the Lick Observatory. 
LorD RANFURLY, Governor of New Zealand, 
has secured a fine collection of birds for the 
British Museum, including the Merganser Aus- 
tralis, which is almost extinct, and specimens of 
two species new to science. 
THE collection of birds and mammals formed 
by the late Geo. A. Boardman, of Calais, Me., 
will be removed to Fredericton, N. B., and will 
occupy a conspicuous place in one of the Gov- 
ernment buildings. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
MeEssrs. WILLIAM KEYSER, William Wyman 
and Francis W. Jenks have offered to give the 
Johns Hopkins University a new site, on 
condition that $1,000,000 be collected for the 
University. The proposed site issome hundred 
and seventy acres in extent, and is valued at 
$750,000. It is in the northern part of the city 
of Baltimore and is well adapted for the pur- 
poses of the University. 
Ir will be remembered that at the recent 
election an amendment to the constitution of the 
State of California was adopted, permitting the 
