July 19, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



95 



We learn from Nature that the council of 

 the Koyal Society of Edinburgh has awarded 

 the Keith prize for the biennial period 1903-5 

 to Dr. Thomas H. Bryce for his two papers 

 on "■ The Histology of the Blood of the Larva 

 of Lepidosiren paradoxa" published in the 

 Transactions of the society; and the Mak- 

 dougall-Brisbane prize for the biennial period 

 190-4-6 to Dr. Jacob E. Halm for his two 

 papers on " Spectroscopic Observations of the 

 Eotation of the Sun " and " Some Further 

 Eesults obtained with the Spectroheliometer," 

 and for other astronomical and mathematical 

 papers published in the Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings of the society. 



Dr. James Merrill Safford, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of geology in Vanderbilt University 

 and for many years state geologist of Ten- 

 nessee, died at Dallas on July 3, at the age 

 of eighty-five years. 



Sir William Perkin, F.E.S., the eminent 

 British chemist, died in London on June 14, 

 at the age of sixty-nine years. 



Sir William C. Gairdner, F.E.S., formerly 

 professor of medicine in the University of 

 Glasgow, died on June 28, at the age of eighty- 

 two years. 



Civil service examinations are announced 

 as follows : On August 5, to fill two or three 

 vacancies in the position of aid in arboricul- 

 ture in the Bureau of Plant Industry, at sala- 

 ries ranging from $600 to $1,000; on August 

 14 and 15 for the position of computer in the 

 Supervising Architect's Office, at a salary of 

 $1,000 to $1,600, and on August 14 and 15 for 

 scientific assistant in animal pathology in the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, at a salary of 

 $840. 



A TELEGRAM has been received at the Har- 

 vard College Observatory from Professor 

 Pereival Lowell, director of the Lowell Ob- 

 servatory, stating that " South, American 

 Lowell Expedition cables double canals seen, 

 oases photographed." 



The trustees of the Geologists' Association 

 have transferred to the University of London 

 the library of the association now at Uni- 



versity College on condition that it form part 

 of the library of University College. 



The fifth meeting of the Association of 

 Economic Biologists has been held at the Im- 

 perial Institute, South Kensington, London, 

 under the presidency of Mr. A. E. Shipley, 

 F.E.S. 



V^UTERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The late M. Commercy has left $800,000 to 

 the University of Paris for scholarships for 

 scientific research. 



Mr. ANDREW Carnegie has given $25,000 to 

 Eoanoke College, which has collected $35,000 

 on which this gift was conditional. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 at the Massachusetts College a department of 

 agricultural education has been established, 

 its duties to include both instruction and re- 

 search. This is an entirely new departure at 

 the college and is believed to be the first at- 

 tempt in this country to organize this kind of 

 work on so broad a foundation. Normal 

 courses will be offered to prospective teachers, 

 and studies will be made of problems con- 

 fronting agricultural teaching in colleges and 

 schools of various grades, and of agricultural 

 extension with a view to introducing agricul- 

 ture into the elementary schools, establishing 

 agricultural high schools, and correlating and 

 unifying the agricultural instruction given in 

 the state. The work will be in close coopera- 

 tion with existing educational agencies, espe- 

 cially the state industrial commission. W. E. 

 Hart, of the Nebraska State Normal School, 

 who has had long experience in teaching and 

 is the aiithor of a number of monographs and 

 other articles on educational topics, has been 

 selected as the head of the department and will 

 begin his duties with the next college year. 



Dr. Alex. Hill and Sir Thomas Ealeigh, 

 commissioners of the treasury, have made to 

 the Liverpool Corporation a report dealing in 

 detail with the several departments of the 

 university in view of the renewal of the grant 

 of £10,000 to the university by the coi-poration. 

 The commissioners praise the work that is 

 being done at the university, and the finance 



