NOTEMBEB 29, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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a member of the scientific party whicli was 

 sent out by the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences in 1905, and spent more than a year in 

 and about the islands. His talk was illus- 

 trated with original photographs. 



At a meeting of the Philadelphia Botanical 

 Club at the Academy of Natural Sciences, on 

 November 21, the following resolutions were 

 unanimously adopted : 



Whereas : The Philadelphia Botanical Club has 

 learned of the sad death of the distinguished 

 botanist, Lucien M. Underwood, professor of bot- 

 any in Columbia University, be it 



Resolved, That by his death botanical science 

 has suffered an irreparable loss, his personal char- 

 acter, his professional standing and his scientific 

 attainments, particularly in his special line of 

 work on the ferns and allied plants, having won 

 for him the sincere admiration and regard not 

 only of his associates, but of his fellow workers 

 in the field of science. 



Resolved, That the Philadelphia Botanical Club 

 records its appreciation of his labors and its deep 

 sense of the loss which American botanical science 

 has sustained. 



Professor Storm Bull, head of the depart- 

 ment of mechanical engineering and for 

 twenty-eight years a member of the faculty 

 of the college of engineering at the University 

 of Wisconsin, died at his home on November 

 18. He was born at Bergen, Norway, in 1856, 

 and was eminent for his work in steam engi- 

 neering. 



Charles S. Magowan, professor of muni- 

 cipal and sanitary engineering in the College 

 of Applied Science in the State University of 

 Iowa, died on November 14, after an illness of 

 some months duration. Professor Magowan 

 had been a member of the faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa for twenty-one years. 



Announcement is made that Mr. John J). 

 Rockefeller has given securities of the value 

 of $2,600,000 to form the endowment of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Experimental Re- 

 search, New York City. It is understood that 

 Mr. Rockefeller had previously given $1,200,- 

 000 for buildings and current expenses. 



Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a Philadelphia den- 

 tist, long resident in Paris, who died some 

 ten years ago, left nearly his entire estate to 



found in Philadelphia the Dr. Thomas W. 

 Evans Museum and Institute Society. There 

 has been continuous litigation which it is 

 said is now ended, and the museum and in- 

 stitute will receive about $1,100,000. It ap- 

 pears that the lawyers in the course of the 

 litigation have received about three times this 

 amount, in addition to interest on the estate. 



Miss Helen Culver, of Chicago, well-known 

 as a friend and benefactor of the sciences, has 

 endowed the Geographic Society of Chicago 

 with the Helen Culver Gold Medal to be 

 awarded for eminent service to geographic 

 sciences. The first award was made to the 

 distinguished Norwegian scientist and ex- 

 plorer, Captain Roald Amundsen, on the oc- 

 casion of his address before the society on No- 

 vember 13, 190Y. 



The will of the late Edmund von Mojsi- 

 sovics the Austrian geologist bequeathes to 

 Vienna Academy of Sciences, of which he was 

 a member, the sum of one million crowns. 



The twenty-fifth annual congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union will convene 

 in Philadelphia, on December 9, at 8 p.m. 

 The evening session will be devoted to the 

 election of officers and the transaction of other 

 routine business. The meetings, open to the 

 public and devoted to the reading and dis- 

 cussion of scientific papers, will be held in 

 the lecture hall of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, 19th and Race Streets (Logan 

 Square), commencing on Tuesday, December 

 10, and continuing for three days. Informa- 

 tion regarding the congress can be had by 

 addressing the secretary, Mr. John H. Sage, 

 Portland, Conn. 



The annual meeting of the New Torli State 

 Science Teachers' Association will, as has 

 been announced, be held on December 27 and 

 28 at Ithaca, N. Y. The scientific equipment 

 of Cornell University will be at the disposal 

 of those attending the meeting and an inter- 

 esting program may be expected. All who 

 expect to attend are urged to send suggestions 

 as to things they would like to see, program, 

 etc., to the chairman of the local committee, 

 Mr. J. S. Shearer, Ithaca, N. Y. The asso- 

 ciation will be guests of the university at 



