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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 411. 



The Association of German Men of Science 

 and Physicians will hold its meeting next 

 year at Kassel. 



A LOCAL section of the American Institute 

 of Electrical Engineers has been established 

 at Pittsburgh, and held its first meeting on 

 November 6. 



Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's gifts for archeology 

 and anthropology at the University of Cali- 

 fornia amounted to $111,000 during the last 

 academic year. Excavations have been made 

 in Egypt by Drs. Reisner, Gunfel and Hunt 

 and in Peru by Dr. Uhle, while Dr. Alfred 

 Emerson has made extensive collections of 

 Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities. Dr. 

 Kroeber and Mr. Goddard have been engaged 

 in work among the Indians in California. 



The public library which Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie has given to the city of Washington 

 will be dedicated on December 16. It is hoped 

 that Mr. Carnegie will be present. 



The cornerstone of the New York Public 

 Library was laid by Mayor Low on November 

 10. The marble fagade of the building, on 

 Pifth Avenue and 42d St., is already partly 

 erected; when completed it will cost over 

 $3,000,000. 



The Electrical World and Engineer states 

 that the German Society of Engineers has 

 undertaken the publication of a polyglot tech- 

 nical dictionary, and solicits the cooperation 

 of engineers throughout the world to render 

 the work of the highest possible value. Dr. 

 Alfred Miiller, 150 Nassau Street, New York, 

 is authorized by the Society to arrange in this 

 coimtry for collaboration in the work, and 

 application may be made to hinr for further 

 information on the subject. Mr. Miiller will 

 supply collaborators with note-books especially 

 arranged for their use. 



The New York Civil Service Commission 

 announces examinations on November 29, to 

 fill the position of bacteriologist in the state 

 hospitals at a salary of $100 a month; and of 

 physician with a salary beginning at $900 a 

 year and increasing to $1,000. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The subscriptions for the completion of the 

 buildings of the University of Durham Col- 

 lege of Science in memory of Lord Armstrong 

 amount to £31,000, and an anonymous donor 

 has promised £10,000 additional if the total 

 should reach £50,000 by the end of the year. 



Professors of Cornell University who reach 

 the age of seventy years will hereafter be re- 

 tired with a pension. Their salary will be 

 continued for one year, and they will there- 

 after receive $1,500 a year for four years 

 which time will doubtless be extended. They 

 will act as special lecturers with such duties 

 as may be assigned to them. Professor I. P> 

 Roberts, of the College of Agriculture, is 

 the only man of science who will be affected 

 by this provision. 



Dr. Joseph Swain, formerly professor of 

 mathematics at Indiana and Stanford Uni- 

 versities, and since 1893 president of Indiana 

 University, will be installed as president of 

 Swarthmore College, on November 15. 



The Boston Evening Transcript states, we 

 do not know how correctly informed, that Pro- 

 fessor Jacques Loeb, of the University of 

 Chicago, will go to the University of Cali- 

 fornia to accept its newly established chair 

 in physiology. 



Professor E. A. Fuertes has resigned the 

 directorship of the College of Civil Engineer- 

 ing, Cornell University, but remains connected 

 with the University as professor of astronomy. 



Dr. WiLLLiM H. Walker has been appointed 

 associate professor of industrial chemistry at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 For the past few years he has been a member 

 of the firm of Little and Walker, consulting 

 chemists, and in this connection he has had 

 a valuable technical experience. 



At Cambridge University Mr. J. S. Gardiner- 

 has been appointed demonstrator in animal 

 morphology in succession to Mr. J. Graham 

 Kerr. 



Me. R. W. H. T. Hudson, B.A., St. John's. 

 College, Cambridge, has been appointed lec- 

 turer in mathematics at University College, 

 Liverpool. 



