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SCIENCE. 



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logical, chemical or physical sciences. The 

 theses must he submitted before the end of the 

 year 1902. Further information may be ob- 

 tained from the secretary pro tern., Miss Florence 

 M. Gushing, 8 Walnut St., Boston, Mass. 



The Rontgen Society of the United States 

 meets at the Grand Central Palace, N. Y., on 

 December 13th and 14th. A full program is an- 

 nounced, but it does not contain the names that 

 should be represented in a society of this char- 

 acter. 



An International Engineering Congress will 

 be held at Glasgow in connection with the In- 

 ternational Exhibition of 1901. The arrange- 

 ments are being made by the Council of the 

 Scottish Institution of EDgineers and Shipbuild- 

 ers, and Lord Kelvin will preside. 



The New York State paleontologist Dr. John 

 M. Clarke spent several weeks of the last season 

 in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec 

 making collections from rocks which have for 

 the most part been regarded by the Canadian 

 geologists as of the same geologic age as the 

 Helderbergian of New York. Careful studies 

 and extensive collections were made at Arisaig, 

 N. S., Dalhousie, N. B., and on the Gaspe penin- 

 sula, thus putting the museum in possession of 

 a series of fossils of much importance for cor- 

 relation and study which are not duplicated 

 in this country outside of the National Museum 

 at Washington. The accessions to the paleonto- 

 logic collections during the past season, includ- 

 ing all that has been acquired in the work 

 above specified, have been not less than 10,000 

 specimens. The museum has also recently come 

 into possession by purchase of the important 

 collection of Cambrian fossils made by the late 

 Silas W. Ford, of Troy, a very keen observer 

 and careful student of the Cambrian rocks. 

 This collection, though small, contains all the 

 types of species described and illustrated by Mr. 

 Ford, and much of the material is derived from 

 localities at which it seems now impracticable 

 to obtain others. 



The following are the arrangements for the 

 lectures at the Royal College of Physicians of 

 London for 1901 : ' The Milroy Lectures on Pub- 

 lic Health ' will be given by Dr. J. F. Sykes, 

 Medical Oflacer of Health for St. Pancras, on 



February 28th, March 5th and 7th ; the ' Goul- 

 stonian Lectures,' by Dr. Henry Head, F.R.S., 

 on March 12th, 14th, and 19th ; the ' Lumleian 

 Lectures ' by Dr. Frank Payne, on March 21st, 

 26th, and 28th, and the ' Croonian Lectures ' 

 by Professor Halliburton, F.R.S. , in June. 



In the Registrar-General's quarterly report 

 the population of the United Kingdom is esti- 

 mated at nearly 41,000,000. The births for the 

 last quarter exceed the deaths by 123,952. 

 105,402 persons were during the same time 

 officially recorded as having emigrated. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of the late Rudolph S. Walton, of 

 Philadelphia, the bulk of his estate of $240,000 

 will go to Bethany College upon the death of 

 his wife. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the Faculty of Medicine of Paris has de- 

 cided that provision should be made for the 

 teaching of tropical medicine. A chair of para- 

 sitology and another of bacteriology will be es 

 tablished. An appeal is to be made to the pub- 

 lic for funds to carry the scheme into effect. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees 

 of Clark University, Worcester, Mass. , the fol- 

 lowing promotions were made : Dr. Edmund C. 

 Sanford, to be professor of experimental and 

 comparative psychology ; Dr. Arthur G. Web- 

 ster, to be professor of physics ; Dr. William H. 

 Burnham, to be assistant professor of pedagogy ; 

 Dr. Alexander F. Chamberlain, to be acting as- 

 sistant professor of anthropology. The Trustees 

 also voted, at the same meeting, to open all the 

 privileges of the University to men and women 

 upon equal terms. 



De. Gustav Bauer, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the University at Munich, has retired 

 at the age of eighty years. 



Dr. C. E. Guye has been appointed professor 

 of physics in the University of Geneva. Pro- 

 fessor Weiss has been made full professor of 

 mathematics and analytical mechanics at the 

 German Polytechnic Institute at Prague. 



Dr. Brillouin has been nominated to suc- 

 ceed the late Professor Bertrand as professor of 

 general and mathematical physics at the Col- 

 lege de France. 



