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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 417. 



Arts this year, his subject being ' Means of 

 Defence in the Struggle for Life among 

 Animals.' 



A MEMORIAL tablet to the late Hamilton Y. 

 Oastner, the chemist, was unveiled on Decem- 

 ber 16 at Columbia University, of which he 

 was an alumnus. 



Miss Louise Brisbin Dunn, tutor in botany 

 in Barnard College, Columbia University, died 

 suddenly of heart disease early in the morn- 

 ing of December 18. She was a graduate of 

 Barnard and since her graduation has been 

 a member of the teaching staff. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Pro- 

 fessor Ladislava Celakovskeho, professor of 

 botany in the Bohemian University at Prague, 

 at sixty-nine years of age; of Dr. George 

 Thorns, professor of agricultural chemistry at 

 the Polytechnic School at Riga, at the age 

 of sixty years; of Dr. Ernst Meynert, asso- 

 ciate professor of anatomy at the University 

 of Halle, at the age of thirty-nine years; and 

 of Dr. M. Wilde, doeent in hygiene at the 

 University at Munich, at the age of thirty- 

 two years. 



The Archeological Institute of America 

 will meet at Princeton on December 31 and 

 January 1 and 2. 



A civil service examination will be held on 

 January 27 for the position of chemical clerk 

 in the food laboratory of the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, Department of Agriculture. The salary 

 is $600, and the position is open to either men 

 or women. 



VNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 At the convocation exercises of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago it was announced that 

 Mr. John D. Rockefeller had given $1,000,000 

 to be added to the endowment, and that other 

 sums amounting to $526,000 had been given 

 to the university. 



The Medical Department of Tulane Uni- 

 versity has been made the residuary legatee 

 of the late A. C. Hutchinson, and it is ex- 

 pected that it will receive from the estate 

 about $1,000,000. 



Mrs. Mary M. Adams, widow of the late 

 Charles Kendall Adams, the president of the 

 University of Wisconsin, has left the Univer- 

 sity a large part of her estate. This will be 

 added to the fellowship fund, created by the 

 will of President Adams. The bequest in- 

 cludes the library of President Adams. 



The University of Rochester has received 

 a gift of $10,000 from Mrs. Esther Baker 

 Steele. 



Senn Hall, of the Rush Medical College, 

 was dedicated on December 17, the principal 

 address being made by Sir William Hingston, 

 professor of surgery in Laval University, 

 Montreal. The building has been erected at 

 a cost of $130,000 towards which Dr. Senn 

 gave $30,000. 



The corner stone of the gymnasium of 

 Stanford University, which the daily papers 

 state will cost $500,000, was laid on December 

 IL 



The erection of the Scott Hall of IsTatural 

 Science of Wesleyan University will be begun 

 in the spring. The biiilding is 120 x 50 ft., 

 with an extension 49 x 28 ft. 



We are requested to call attention again 

 to the dinner to be given to the Association 

 of Amierican Universities in New York City 

 on December 30, tickets for which can be ob- 

 tained by the alumni of the universities rep- 

 resented in the association on application to 

 Professor B. D. Woodward, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York City. President Butler, of 

 Columbia, will preside, and speeches will be 

 made by President Eliot, of Harvard; Presi- 

 dent Hadley, of Yale; Mr. James W. Alex- 

 ander and the Plonorable Wayne MaeVeagh. 



An appeal has been made by New York 

 University to the Court of Appeals from the 

 decision of the Appellate Division which 

 awarded to the Medical College Laboratory 

 of the City of New York the premises which 

 were deeded over to the university in 1897 

 by the Medical College Laboratory of the City 

 of New York under a plan to combine the uni- 

 versity and the laboratory. 



Dr. Oberhummer, professor of geography at 

 Munich, has been called to Vienna. 



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