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SCIENCE. 



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The death is also announced at the age of 

 sixty-two years of Professor Eugen Hahn, 

 director of the surgical department of the 

 Berlin Municipal Hospital. 



Sir Andrew Noble has given £150 and Dr. 

 Ludwig Mond £200 to the Eoyal Institution 

 for the fund for the promotion of experimental 

 research at low temperatures. 



A Eeuter's telegram from Kingstown states 

 that the Scotia, which is taking out the Scot- 

 tish Antarctic Expedition, under the com- 

 mand of Lieutenant Bruce, arrived there on 

 November 3, after a favorable passage. The 

 ship is satisfactory in every way. The yachts 

 Gleniffer and Triton were . still in company 

 with the Scotia. 



The Engineers' Club of Philadelphia will 

 celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary by a 

 banquet on December 6. 



We learn from the National Geographic 

 Magazine that on October 17 a number of 

 scientific men and of those interested in geo- 

 graphic science met in Baltimore at the home 

 of Dr. D. C. Gilman and organized the ' Geo- 

 graphical Society of Baltimore.' The aim 

 of the society is the promotion and diffusion 

 of geographical knowledge, more particularly 

 of that which is of commercial importance 

 to Baltimore. Vice-president W J McGee, 

 LL.D., represented the National Geographic 

 Society and extended its congratulations and 

 well wishes to the new organization. Dr. 

 Gilman, who is also one of the board of man- 

 agers of the National Geographic Society, 

 was chosen first president and the following 

 officers and trustees were elected: First vice- 

 president, Mr. Bernard N. Baker; second vice- 

 president, Rev. Dr. John F. Goucher; third 

 vice-president, Gen. Lawrason Biggs. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The University of Pennsylvania has re- 

 ceived $100,000 from Dr. E. W. and Clarence 

 H. Clark for a chair in Assyriology, to which 

 Dr. Hilprecht has been appointed. 



Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Herter, of New York 

 City, have given $25,000 to Johns Hopkins 



University for the foundation of a memorial 

 lectureship in the medical department ' de- 

 signed to promote a more intimate knowledge 

 of the researches of foreign investigators in the 

 realm of medical science.' This end is to be 

 secured by inviting each year some eminent 

 worker in physiology or pathology to deliver 

 one or more lectures at the university on some 

 subject with which he is especially identified. 

 The lecturer will receive an honorarium, the 

 annual income of the endowment fund. The; 

 committee to select the lecturer will consist 

 of Drs. William H. Welch, William Osier 

 and John J. Abel, and it is intended to con- 

 tinue this committee so as to represent pathol- 

 ogy, physiological chemistry and clinical medi- 

 cine. There is no bar to extending the pro- 

 posed lectureship to leaders in medical re- 

 search in America if deemed advisable. Dr. 

 Herter was a graduate student at the univer- 

 sity in 1887-88, pursuing a special course in 

 Dr. Welch's laboratory. 



The University of Tennessee will inaug- 

 urate at the beginning of January a depart- 

 ment of education modeled on the Teachers 

 College, Columbia University. The newly 

 appointed professors include in the science 

 and art of teaching. Professor P. P. Claxton, 

 head professor of the department, formerly 

 professor of pedagogy in the North Carolina 

 Normal and Industrial Institute at Greens- 

 boro, now chief of the bureau of the Southern 

 Education Board, and superintendent of the 

 Summer School of the South; in philosophy 

 and history of education. Professor Wycliffe 

 Rose, formerly professor in the Peabody Nor- 

 mal School, University of Nashville; in edu- 

 cational psychology and ethics. Professor B. 

 B. Breese, a graduate of Harvard University 

 and doctor of philosophy of Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. H. Kobald, first observer in the astro- 

 nomical observatory at Kiel, has been ap- 

 pointed to an associate professorship in the 

 university. 



Mr. W. H. R. Rh'ers, university lecturer 

 in physiological and experimental psychology 

 at Cambridge University, has been elected a 

 fellow of St John's College. 



