July 27, 1906.] 



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may be more conveniently studied. But in 

 general there is no good reason why the zoolog- 

 ical collections of the world should not be 

 adapted to the needs of students of natural 

 history who should have advantages analogous 

 to those already enjoyed by workers in botany 

 and in the fine arts. — The N. Y. Evening Post. 



property near Hamburg, which was his birth- 

 place, is left to that city, and his art collec- 

 tions are left to the galleries in London, Berlin 

 and Hamburg. 



THE WILL OF ALFRED BEIT. 



The public bequests made by Alfred Beit, 

 who died on July 16, were made public in 

 London on July 20, and have been cabled to 

 this country. 



The most notable bequest is $6,000,000 to 

 his partners to constitute a fund, the income 

 of which is to be devoted to the construction, 

 equipment or furtherance of any such 

 m.ethods of communication or transportation 

 in Rhodesia, Portuguese Southeast Africa or 

 the German possessions, and any parts of 

 Africa that may be traversed by the Cape-to- 

 Cairo Railway. The trustees are to have 

 absolute discretion, and if two thirds decide 

 that the fund is no longer required for further- 

 ing the work of communication or transporta- 

 tion, they can apply the proceeds to educa- 

 tional, charitable or other public purposes in 

 Rhodesia. 



One million dollars is left to the University 

 of Johannesburg to build and equip buildings 

 on the land previously given by Mr. Beit; 

 one million dollars for educational or charit- 

 able purposes in Rhodesia and other territories 

 within the field of the British South Africa 

 Company; $125,000 to the Rhodes University, 

 Grahamstown, Cape Colony; $100,000 for edu- 

 cational or charitable purposes in the Trans- 

 vaal, and $75,000 for similar purposes in 

 Kimberley and in Cape Colony. 



To the College of Technology, London Uni- 

 versity, the sum of $250,000 and 1,000 shares 

 in the DeBeers Company are bequeathed, and 

 to the research fund of London University 

 $125,000. 



Two hundred thousand dollars is to be dis- 

 tributed equally in London and Hamburg for 

 educational or charitable purposes. To King's 

 Hospital and Guy's Hospital, London, the 

 sum of $100,000 each is given. Mr. Beit's 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Lavoisier medal of the Chemical So- 

 ciety of Paris and the Hofmann medal of the 

 German Chemical Society are to be presented 

 to Dr. W. H. Perkin, on the occasion of the 

 celebration this week of the jubilee of the coal- 

 tar industry. 



The eightieth birthday of Dr. Georg von 

 Neumayer, late director of the Deutsche See- 

 warte, which occurred on June 21, was cele- 

 brated at Neustadt, where he now lives. An 

 address was presented by Dr. S. Giinther, of 

 Munich. It is proposed to establish a founda- 

 tion for the encouragement of research by 

 geographical students, and arrangements may 

 be made for the painting of a portrait of Dr. 

 Neumayer, to be placed in the Historical Mu- 

 seum at Speier. 



Professor Carl Vogel, director of the Astro- 

 physical Observatoi-y at Potsdam, has been 

 elected a correspondent of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences, in succession to the late Dr. S. P. 

 Langley. 



Professor Julius Franz, director of the 

 Breslau Observatory, has been elected an asso- 

 ciate of the Royal Astronomical Society. 



Dr. Emil Fischer, professor of chemistry at 

 Berlin; Dr. Stanislao Canizzaro, professor of 

 chemistry at Rome, and Dr. Daniel Oliver, 

 lately keeper of the herbarium of the Royal 

 Botanical Gardens, Kew, have been elected 

 foreign members of the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales. 



A number of foreign scholars and men of 

 science have been invited to take part in the 

 opening of the main building of the Carnegie 

 Institute, Pittsburg, in April next. Among 

 those who have accepted are Sir William Hug- 

 gins and Sir William Preece. 



Mr. S. F. Emmons, geologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, in charge of the section 

 of metalliferous deposits, will pei-sonally 

 supervise investigations made this summer by 

 members of the survey in various mining re- 



