December 13, 1907] 



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ists, Professor R. A. Harper, University of 

 Wisconsin, president, will hold no separate 

 meeting, but will unite with the society in a 

 program already announced. 



The next meeting of the Department of 

 Superintendence of the National Educational 

 Association will be held in Washington, D. 

 C, on February 25, 26 and 27, 1908. 



The next meeting of the Pathological So- 

 ciety of Great Britain and Ireland will be 

 held at the Pathological Laboratories of the 

 Royal Army Medical College, London, on 

 January 3, at 2 p.m., and will be resumed on 

 the following day at 10 a.m. The members 

 will dine together on the evening of Janu- 

 ary 3. 



The chief justice, presiding at a meeting of 

 the National Preservation Society, at Cape 

 Tovtm, on November 23, urged the need of 

 stronger measures to preserve rare flora and 

 fauna from extinction. The gnu, or wilde- 

 beest, the gemsbok, the mountain zebra, the 

 eland, and the giraffe were all nearly extinct. 

 He said he remembered when a barrister on 

 circuit seeing great herds where now there 

 were railway stations. He also hoped that if 

 the Table Mountain Railway were sanctioned 

 proper safeguards would be taken against dese- 

 cration. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 meeting of the Second International Confer- 

 ence on the Sleeping Sickness, which was to 

 have assembled at the British foreign ofBce on 

 November 1, has been deferred in deference to 

 the wishes of the German government, which 

 has pointed out the advantage which would be 

 gained if their delegates were in a position to 

 submit to the conference the fruits of the re- 

 cent labors of Professor Koch. Professor 

 Koch has lately been engaged in an exhaustive 

 inquiry into this question on the spot and has 

 now returned to Berlin, where he is at present 

 engaged in the preparation of his report. As 

 this work must necessarily occupy a consider- 

 able time, the conference is unlikely to as- 

 semble before the middle of February. Mean- 

 while, however, meetings of the British dele- 

 gates to the forthcoming conference are being 



held from time to time at the foreign oflice to 

 consider various points connected with the 

 work of the conference. 



From the same source we learn that there 

 has been formed in Liverpool, with Sir Alfred 

 Jones as chairman, an independent sleeping 

 sickness committee. It has for its object the 

 collection of information dealing with sleep- 

 ing sickness, the stimulation of research into 

 the cause, method of transference and cure 

 of the disease, and the publication from time 

 to time of communications with reference to 

 it. The committee comprises, in addition to 

 Sir Alfred Jones, the Lord Mayor of Liver- 

 pool; Professor Moore, director of the bio- 

 chemical department of Liverpool University; 

 Professor Salvin-Moore, director of the cyto- 

 logical department; Professor Annett, director 

 of the comparative pathology department; 

 Professor Sherrington, director of the physi- 

 ological department; Dr. Stephens, Walter 

 Myers lecturer in tropical medicine; and Dr. 

 Anton Breine, director of the Runcorn Re- 

 search Laboratories. The corresponding sec- 

 retaries include Professor Sir Robert Boyce, 

 F.R.S., dean of the Liverpool School of Trop- 

 ical Medicine. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



By the death at Boston of Silliman Bladgen 

 (Yale '69), Tale University will obtain $50,- 

 000. Mr. Bladgen was a nephew of Benjamin 

 D. Silliman (Yale '24), of Brooklyn, who died 

 in 1901. By his will be gave his nephew a 

 life interest in $50,000, which now reverts to 

 the college without restrictions. 



Under the will of Mrs. James Nichol of 

 North Amherst, Oberlin College receives ap- 

 proximately $25,000, which will be used for 

 general endovsrment. For several years the 

 college has had a small fund toward the erec- 

 tion of a men's building to serve as the center 

 of their interests, both religious and secular. 

 Twenty-five thousand dollars more has re- 

 cently been pledged for this purpose. 



The new building containing the labora- 

 tories for zoology, botany, physics and chem- 

 istry in Kentucky University, toward the erec- 

 tion of which Mr. Andrew Carnegie con- 



