January 31, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 

 The National Society for the Study of Edu- 

 cation, of which President Nicholas Murray 

 Butler of Columbia University is president, 

 will meet in conjunction with the Department 

 of Superintendence on February 2Y and 28. 



The ninety-sixth annual meeting of the 

 Medical Society of the State of New York 

 was held at Albany on January 28, 29 and 

 30, 1902, under the presidency of Dr. Henry 

 L. Eisner of Syracuse. 



The conference of science teachers, which 

 has been arranged in recent years by the 

 Technical Education Board of the London 

 County Council, was held on January 9 and 

 10, with about 400 teachers in attendance. 



The twenty-third annual meeting of the 

 German Balneological Congress will be held 

 this year at Stuttgart from March 7 to 11, 

 under the presidency of Professor Oscar Lieb- 

 reich. " 



The eleventh Congress of Russian Natural- 

 ists and Physicians was opened at St. Peters- 

 burg on January 2. We learn from Nature 

 that the number of people taking part in the 

 Congress was very large, more than 3,250 mem- 

 bers' tickets having been taken on the day of 

 opening. The Minister of Public Instruction 

 has given a sum of 500L to defray the expenses 

 of the Congress, and both the municipality of 

 St. Petersburg and the university have con- 

 tributed large sums for the same purpose. At 

 the first general meeting of the Congress, the 

 president (Professor Menschutkin) spoke 

 about the foundation of a Russian Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, which would 

 hold regular congresses every year. This pro- 

 posal was accepted by a congress held eleven 

 years ago ; but the Ministry of Public Instruc- 

 tion was hostile to the idea, and only now the 

 new Minister, General Vannovsky, has agreed 

 not to oppose it. At the same general meeting 

 Professor S. M. Lukianoff delivered an ad- 

 dress on the limits of cytological research un- 

 der normal and pathological conditions, in 

 which he endeavored to establish the limits of 

 psycho-physiology; and Professor N. A. Umoff 

 delivered a brilliant address on a physico- 

 mechanical model of living matter. 



Plans are being made for the establishment 

 of a national institute of hygiene in Spain. 

 The State has offered a site for the building, 

 and it is hoped that sufficient funds will be 

 raised by public subscription. 



The British Medical Journal states that an 

 institiite for the application of the light treat- 

 ment has been established in Vienna. At a 

 recent meeting of the Medical Society of that 

 city Professor Lang announced that, in con- 

 junction with a number of medical practition- 

 ers and philanthropists, he had founded an 

 institute on the model of that of Professor 

 Finsen at Copenhagen. The institute would 

 be to a certain extent under the control of 

 the municipality. Among the founders is the 

 Emperor, who has contributed 10^000 crowns. 



Me. Charles T. Ham has presented $5,000 

 to the Rochester Academy of Medicine, to be 

 used to further medical research. 



Professor J. B. Smith, New Jersey state 

 entomologist, expects to ask the legislature 

 next week to appropriate $10,000 for the in- 

 vestigation and extermination of the New 

 Jersey mosquito. 



We called attention recently to the Woman's 

 Table at the Naples Zoological Station, main- 

 tained by a number of women's colleges and 

 individuals. Those desiring further informa- 

 tion in regard to the conditions under which 

 the table may be occupied should address the 

 secretary. Miss Cornelia M. Clapp, Mt. Holy- 

 oke College, South Hadley, Mass. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mk. Andrew Carnegie and the descendants 

 of Peter Cooper have respectively given $300,- 

 000 to Cooper Union, New York City, doub- 

 ling the gifts made by them to the Union three 

 years ago. The total income will now be about 

 $90,000, which will not enable the trustees to 

 greatly enlarge the work of the Union, but 

 there will no longer be a deficit, and the 

 efficiency of the work will be increased. It is 

 said that the entire building will now be used 

 for the work of the Cooper Union, that the 

 salaries of the teachers will be somewhat in- 

 creased, and that the work in physics and elec- 

 trical engineering will be enlarged. 



