96 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 603. 



scribers may eventually purchase a reproduc- 

 tion of the portrait. Contributions may be 

 sent to Dr. G. C. Bourne, Savile House, Ox- 

 ford; Dr. G. H. Fowler, 68 Bedford Gardens, 

 W. ; Professor Karl Pearson, F.R.S., Univer- 

 sity College, W.C. ; Mr. Adam Sedgwick, 

 P.R.S., Trinity College, Cambridge; or to the 

 Weldon Memorial Account, at the Old Bank, 

 Oxford. 



A MONUMENT in memory of Professor 

 Nocard was unveiled recently in the Veteri- 

 nary School of Alfort by M. Ruan, minister of 

 agriculture. 



Senor Manuel Garcia, the well-known 

 teacher of music, and eminent for the inven- 

 tion of the laryngoscope, died in London, on 

 June 30. It will be remembered that the 

 hundredth birthday of Senor Garcia was cele- 

 brated on March 17, 1905. 



The death is announced of M. Eayet, di- 

 rector of the observatory and professor in the 

 University of Bordeaux. 



Dr. Philip Ossiannikow, professor of anat- 

 omy and physiology at the University of St. 

 Petersburg, died on June 11, at the age of 

 seventy-nine years. 



A National Academy of Sciences has been 

 established in Japan. It will contain forty 

 members, of whom fifteen are to be nominated 

 by the government and twenty-five elected. 



There will be an international conference 

 on cancer research in connection with the 

 opening of the Institute for Cancer Research 

 at Heidelberg, on September 24. 



The offer of the New York Zoological So- 

 ciety to the government to provide a herd of 

 buffaloes for the Wichita Forest Reserve, in 

 southwestern Oklahoma, has been accepted. 

 The society will supply a herd of between fif- 

 teen and twenty buffaloes, and the govern- 

 ment will fence in a suitable range on the 

 game reserve. For this purpose an appro- 

 priation of $15,000 was included in the agri- 

 cultural bill. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mr. Clarence H. Mackay and Mrs. John 

 W. Mackay have given $100,000 to the Uni- 



versity of California, to endow the chair of 

 electrical engineering. It will be known as 

 the John W. Mackay, Jr., professorship, in 

 memory of Mr. Mackay's brother, and will be 

 filled by Professor C. L. Cory, head of the de- 

 partment of mechanical and electrical engi- 

 neering. 



The newly-organized School of Forestry of 

 Colorado College will begin work at the open- 

 ing of the college term in September. The 

 courses in engineering, chemistry, physics, 

 geology and biology will be given at the col- 

 lege in Colorado Springs. The instruction 

 in forestry proper will be given partly in 

 Colorado Springs and partly in Manitou Park, 

 a forested area of 13,000 acres, situated in the 

 mountains at a distance of twenty miles from 

 the city. This tract has been recently pre- 

 sented to the college for the use of the School 

 of Forestry, and a number of cottages have 

 been provided for the instructors and students. 



Dr. George E. Fellows, president of the 

 University of Maine, has declined the offer 

 of the presidency of the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



Dr. James Loudon has, on the ground of ill 

 health, resigned the principalship of the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, instructor in zoology 

 at the University of Michigan, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in zoology at the University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



Louis M. Terman, Ph.D. (Clark, 1905), prin- 

 cipal of the San Bernardino High School, 

 California, has been appointed professor of 

 pedagogy at the State Normal College at Los 

 Angeles. 



C. S. Myers, M.A., M.D., has been ap- 

 pointed professor of psychology at King's Col- 

 lege, London, At the same institution H. S. 

 Allen, B.A., B.Sc, has been appointed senior 

 lecturer in physics. 



Professor Albert Narath, of Utrecht, has 

 been appointed professor of surgery in the 

 University of Heidelberg, to succeed Professor 

 Czerny, who has retired to take charge of 

 the new Cancer Institute. 



