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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 403. 



Valerio, professor in the University of Laus- 

 anne, Switzerland. The prize of the value of 

 lOL entitled the Lady Macgregor prize, pre- 

 sented by Lady Macgregor for the best article 

 on ' The best Method of the Administration 

 of Quinine as a Preventative of Malaria 

 Fever,' was not awarded. The judges were 

 Surgeon-General Eoe Hooper, president Medi- 

 cal Board, India Office, Colonel Kenneth Mac- 

 Leod and Mr. Patrick Manson, F.E.S. 



Me. Cuyler Reynolds, curator of the Al- 

 bany Institute and Historical and Art Society, 

 and chairman of the committee to collect 

 funds for a meorial to Joseph Henry, has sent 

 the Electrical World the following resolu- 

 tion: 



That this committee favors a memorial where- 

 in the sciences shall be taught, in connection with 

 the Albany Academy where he taught as a mem- 

 ber of the faculty, and within which building he 

 performed the experiment that demonstrated the 

 correctness of his principle of the electric tele- 

 graph, believing that it will be more practical 

 than any other type; and thereby holding in 

 cherished remembrance the views and character 

 of the one who has been long recognized as the 

 leading American scientist, and who donated his 

 discoveries to the advancement of knowledge and 

 tht world's industries. 



Considering the inestimable advantage that the 

 inventions of Joseph Henry have been to the 

 world, inasmuch as the sum of $4,000,000,000 is 

 invested in this country alone in enterprises that 

 his study and free gift made possible, which in- 

 dustries give employment to more than a million 

 persons, and appreciating the honor of his labors 

 in connection with the work of this organization, 

 we take this step with a feeling that even when 

 the efforts shall be crowned with success it will 

 be but a slight token of the sincere esteem of the 

 country. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The University of Montana is erecting a 

 woman's hall, to accommodate about 70 stu- 

 dents, and to cost about $35,000. The build- 

 ing will be ready for use by the first of Janu- 

 ary, 1903. That portion of Science Hall re- 

 cently destroyed by fire has been rebuilt, with 

 additional space for a school of pharmacy, not 

 yet organized. The foundation is laid for a 

 gymnasium to cost $10,000. 



Vassar College receives $10,000 by the will 

 of the late Adolph Sutro, of San Francisco. 



The Wilson endowment fund of $100,000 

 for Washington and Lee University being 

 made up, Mr. Herbert Welsh, of Philadelphia, 

 who was largely instrumental in raising it, 

 recommends that a fund of $500,000 be col- 

 lected to endow a scientific and technical 

 school for the university. 



The four hundredth anniversary of the 

 foundation of the University of Halle, for- 

 merly at Wittemburg, will be celebrated on 

 ]S!"ovember 1, when a new auditorium building 

 will be dedicated. 



A parliamentary eonunittee has made a re- 

 port of the finances of Melbourne University, 

 from which it appears that the university has 

 lost about $120,000 through the frauds of an 

 accountant. As the defalcation was in part 

 due to the carelessness of the government au- 

 ditors, the committee recommends that the 

 lcs% be made good by the government. 



Dr. H. J. Wheeler, director of the Rhode 

 Island Agricultural Experimental Station and 

 professor of geography and geology in the col- 

 lege, has been appointed acting president. 

 President Nichols, of the Kansas Agricul- 

 tural College, at first accepted and then 

 declined the presidency. 



Henry Farnham Perkins, Ph.D. (Johns 

 Hopkins), has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of biology in the University of Ver- 

 mont. 



The following changes have been made in 

 the department of physics of the University 

 of Nebraska : Mr. Chas. M. Heck, A.M. (Co- 

 lumbia, 1901), has been appointed fellow in 

 physics vice Mr. W. B. Cortmel, who has re- 

 signed to accept appointment with U. S. Bu- 

 reau of Standards, Washington. — Mr. John 

 Mills (Chicago, 1901), fellow in physics vice 

 Mr. S. B. Tuckerman, has been appointed in- 

 structor in physics. University of Ohio. — Mr. 

 S. R. Cook, former fellow in physics, has been 

 appointed instructor in physics in the Case 

 School of Science, Cleveland. 



Dr. George T. Patton has been elected pro- 

 fessor of moral philosophy at Princeton Uni- 

 versity. 



