JUNE 28, 1901.] 
Civil Engineers and had received the Telford 
Medal of the London Institute of Civil Engi- 
neers. 
THE death is announced of Mr. William Wal- 
ton, formerly lecturer in mathematics in Cam- 
bridge University and the author of various 
text-books, at the age of seventy-seven years. 
THE first award of the Mackinnon Research 
Studentship will be made by the Royal Society 
soon after the first of July. The value of the 
studentship is £150, and it will this year be 
awarded in one of the biological sciences. 
THE position of aidin the Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, at a salary of $720 per annum, will be 
filled by civil service examination on July 23. 
AN assistant in entomology in the State 
Museum at Albany will be selected by civil 
service examination on or about July 13. The 
salary, after October 1, will be $720 per annum. 
THE New York City Board of Estimate and 
Apportionment has awarded the contract for 
completing the New York Public Library build- 
ing to Norcross Brothers at a cost of $2,865,705. 
A society has been established in Germany 
for the study of medicine and the natural 
sciences, and will hold its first annual meeting 
at the close of the approaching meeting of 
German Men of Science and Physicians. 
THE Royal Meteorological Society has col- 
lected a fund amounting to over £700 as a 
memorial to the late Mr. G. J. Symons. With 
this fund a gold medal will be established to be 
awarded once in two years for distinguished 
work in meteorology, irrespective of nationality. 
TuE Peary Arctic Club will send the steamer 
Erik to the North about the middle of July. 
Mr. Herbert L. Bridgeman will be in charge 
and Dr. F. A. Cook has accepted the post of 
surgeon. 
PLANS are being made for the establishment 
of an institute of colonial medicine in Paris, 
for which about 250,000 franes have been sub- 
scribed. 
Tue Austrian Fishery Association will hold 
an international fishery exhibition at Vienna 
during the latter part of September, 1902, a 
subsidy for this purpose having been granted 
by the Imperial Department of Agriculture. 
SOCLENCE. 
1039 
AN International Exposition of Hygiene 
Maritime Security and Fishery will be held at 
Ostende, Belgium, during August and Septem- 
ber. An international congress will be organ- 
ized in connection with the exposition for the 
discussion of questions of maritime hygiene 
and maritime and colonial security. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Mr. Joun D. ROCKEFELLER has given $250, - 
000 to Cornell University, on condition that an 
equal amount be contributed by others. 
PRESIDENT HENRY Morron; of the Stevens 
Institute of Technology, at Hoboken, N. J., has 
made a further gift of $50,000 for the new 
chemical building of the institute. 
Dr. D. K. PEARSONS has made the following 
conditional gifts : Illinois College, Jacksonville, 
$50,000; Fargo College, Fargo, N. D., $50,000 ; 
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., $50,- 
000; McKendree College, Lebanon Ill., $50,000; 
Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kans., $25,000 ; 
Fairmount College, Wichita, Kans., $25,000 ; 
Drury College, Springfield, Mo., $25,000. 
AT the recent commencement at Smith Col- 
lege, President Seelye announced a conditional 
gift of $100,000, one-half for endowment and 
one-half for the building fund. The condition 
is that an equal sum must be raised within a 
year. 
Mr. J. V. THompson, of Uniontown, Pa., has 
given $100,000 for the endowment of the presi- 
dent’s chair of Washington and Jefferson Col- 
lege. 
THE Experiment Station Record summarizes 
the appropriations made recently by State legis- 
latures, according to which it appears that of 
the exceptionally large appropriations made by 
Missouri—$467,400 for two years—$40,000 is 
provided for a horticultural building and the 
same amount for a dairy and live-stock build- 
ing. Kansas has appropriated over $200,000 
for the biennial period for its agricultural col- 
lege and station, including $70,000 for a new 
physies and chemistry building. Minnesota 
has appropriated $25,000 for a new chemical 
building and the same amount fora new veteri- 
nary building. Washington has appropriated 
$25,000 for a chemical laboratory. New Hamp- 
