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Probate has been granted of the will of Sir 

 Alfred Jones, of whose benefactions to public 

 objects some particulars have already been 

 published. The estate is valued at £674,259. 

 After some legacies to relatives and employees. 

 Sir Alfred left the residue of his estate, which 

 will probably exceed £500,000, for such public 

 purposes and objects in England, or in any 

 British possession on the west coast of Africa 

 as his trustees may think fit. Five suggestions 

 as to the purposes to which the money might 

 be applied are made, the first three of which 

 are: (a) The technical education of natives on 

 the west coast of Africa; (6) the advancement, 

 benefit or support of education or science; (c) 

 original research of all kinds into the cause 

 of diseases on the west coast of Africa. 



The executive committee of the National 

 Education Association announces that the 

 forty-eighth annual convention will be held 

 in Boston, Mass., July 2 to 8, 1910. 



The third International Congress of School 

 Hygiene will be held at Paris, August 2-7, 

 1910. The importance of the subject to which 

 the congress pertains, and the interest mani- 

 fested in the first congress held at Nuremburg 

 in April, 1904, and in the second of the series 

 held at London in August, 1907, justify the 

 belief that the forthcoming congress will be 

 largely attended, and that its deliberations 

 will materially advance the efforts for the 

 improved hygienic condition of schools and 

 the physical well-being of school children. 

 M. Duomergue, the minister of public instruc- 

 tion in France, has accepted the honorary 

 presidency of the congress. The president is 

 Dr. A. Mathieii, president of the French Asso- 

 ciation of School Hygiene, Paris, France. 

 The medical inspector of schools, Paris, Dr. 

 Dufestel, is the general secretary of the execu- 

 tive committee of the congress. 



Funds have been raised by public subscrip- 

 tion for the establishment of an astronomical 

 observatory at Kamuki, Honolulu, to be used 

 in the first instance for observations of Hal- 

 ley's comet. The observatory, however, will 

 be permanent and under control of the College 

 of Hawaii. 



The Harvard Seismographic Station in the 

 geological section of the university museum 

 has been open to inspection by officers 

 of the university and their families. Pro- 

 fessor J. B. Woodworth or a representative 

 has been present to explain the seismograph 

 and to show the records obtained of distant 

 earthquakes. During this week the station has 

 been open to inspection by students in the 

 university and their friends. The Students' 

 Meteorological Observatory (on the roof of the 

 Geological Museum), which is now partially 

 equipped with instruments, has been open for 

 inspection on the same days. Professor E. 

 DeC. Ward or Mr. William G. Eeed, Jr., has 

 been present to explain the use of the instru- 

 ments. The new model of the temperatures 

 of Boston, recently placed in the museum ex- 

 hibition rooms, were shown at the same time. 



The council of the Eoyal College of Sur- 

 geons, in view of the fact that women medical 

 students are to be admitted to the college 

 diplomas in January, adopted a recommenda- 

 tion that the London and Edinburgh schools 

 of medicine for women be added to the list 

 of medical schools recognized by the two royal 

 colleges. 



From February 7 to 12 two seed and soil 

 special trains will be run over the Vandalia 

 line from St. Louis to Terre Haute and thence 

 to Peoria. From Peoria the same party will 

 travel on a train over the Toledo, Peoria and 

 Western Eailroad from Sheridan to Warsaw — 

 from Lidiana state line to the Mississippi. 

 The speakers will be provided by the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station of the University of 

 Elinois and the trains by the railroad com- 

 panies. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the Philadelphia County 

 Medical Society had decided to establish a 

 medical library for the use of its younger 

 members. The library committee was author- 

 ized to contract with the Free Library of 

 Philadelphia for the reservation of alcoves in 

 the different branches throughout the city for 

 medical books and publications. These works 

 are to be selected by a committee composed of 



