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SCIENCE. 



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imaginatioa not simply as a model of the world 

 (for this is to some extent a practical necessity), 

 but as the world itself. As Munsterberg puts it : 

 The greatest danger of the present day in edu- 

 cation is the confusion of boundaries between 

 our logical constructions and the teleological 

 realms. W. S. F. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The National Academy of Sciences will hold 

 its autumn meeting at Brown University on 

 November 13th, 14th and 15th. 



The American Society of Naturalists will 

 meet at Baltimore on December 27th and 28th, 

 and with it the affiliated societies devoted to 

 natural history. Christmas day comes this 

 year on Tuesday, and the balance of the week 

 scarcely gives a suitable time for the meetings 

 of those societies whose sessions last longer 

 than two days. 



It is reported that Sir John Murray, who is 

 now engaged in an expedition to Christmas 

 Island, will later join Professor Haeckel in 

 Java. It will be remembered that the latter is 

 searching for remains of Pithecanthropus erectus. 



The Senate of New York University has re- 

 ceived and confirmed the votes of its judges 

 selecting thirty eminent native-born Americans 

 whose names are to be inscribed in the ' Hall 

 of Fame.' The Americans selected as the most 

 eminent are distributed as follows : Rulers 

 and statesmen, 7 ; authors, 4 ; inventors, 4 ; 

 preachers and theologians, 3 ; judges and law- 

 yers, 3 ; soldiers and sailors, 3 ; men of science, 

 2 ; philanthropists, 2 ; educators, 1 ; painters, 1. 

 The inventors on this list are Fulton, Morse, 

 "Whitney and Howe, and the men of science 

 Audubon and Gray. Franklin is of course also 

 included. Ninety-seven judges voted and the 

 votes cast for men of science were as follows : 

 John James Audubon, 67 ; Asa Gray, 51 ; 

 Joseph Henry, 44 ; Matthew Fontaine Maury, 

 20 ; Benjamin Thompson, 19 ; Benjamin Silli- 

 man, 16 ; Benjamin Peirce, 14 ; Nathaniel 

 Bowditch, 10 ; Alexander B. Bache, 9 ; Spencer 

 Baird, 8 ; Henry Draper, 8 ; Maria Mitchell, 

 7 ; David Rittenhouse, 6. Twenty further 

 names are to be selected in 1902 by the same 

 judges who may vote for those who received at 

 least 10 votes in the present competition. 



The death is aanounced of Dr. R. J. Kup- 

 per, formerly professor of geometry in the 

 German Technical Institute of Prague. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society states that the Steiner prizes of 6,000 

 Marks, which were not awarded, owing to no 

 papers being presented, have been divided into 

 three parts which have been given to Dr. Karl 

 Friedrich Geiser, professor at the polytechnic 

 school at Zurich, for his individual researches 

 in geometry and his services in the publication 

 of Steiner' s lectures ; to David Hilbert, profes- 

 sor in the University of Gottingen, for his 

 important researches on the axioms of geom- 

 etry and for the advancement which analytic 

 geometry has experienced from his work on 

 the theory of invariants, and to Dr. Ferd- 

 inand Liudemann, professor at the University 

 of Munich who has earned special distinction in 

 geometry by his celebrated discussion of the 

 quadrature of the circle, as well as by editing 

 Clebsch's ' Vorlesungen iiber Geometric.' 



The Hufeland Society, of Berlin, offers two 

 prizes of 800 Marks for researches on the fol- 

 lowing subjects: (1) On the influence of salts 

 in drinking water on the constitution of the 

 blood and (2) The influence of thermal and 

 mechanical stimuli on the circulation of the 

 blood. The papers, which may be written in 

 English, must be sent to Professor O. Liebreich, 

 Neustadtische Kirsch Strasse 9, Berlin, prior to 

 March 1, 1901. 



A CIVIL service examination will be held on 

 November 20th for the position of assistant in 

 serum therapeutics, Biochemic Division, Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, Department of Agricul- 

 ture. The salary of the position is $720 per 

 annum, and the examination will be chiefly on 

 serum therapeutics and elementary general 

 chemistry. 



No news has been received from the Wind- 

 ward later than August 10th, at which date, 

 however, it had safely arrived at Godhaven, 

 half way to Cape York. 



It is reported that Mr. Ziegler of New York 

 will defray the expenses of an expedition to the 

 North Polar regions under the direction of Mr. 

 E. P. Baldwin who accompanied Lieutenant 

 Peary as meteorologist in 1893-94. The plan 



