Febbuaby 4, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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Drs. JaxQes M. Anders, M. Howard Fussell, 

 Herman Allen and Edward E. Montgomery. 

 An initial appropriation of $300 was made by 

 the society for the purchase of books and 

 journals. 



The desirability of establishing an interna- 

 tional scale for the comparison of observations 

 in solar radiation has led Mr. C. G. Abbot, 

 director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical 

 Observatory, to construct a standard " pyr- 

 heliometer." This instrument, tested by him 

 both in Washington and at Mount Wilson in 

 California, has been found to yield satisfac- 

 tory results. Accordingly, a limited grant 

 from the Hodgkins Fund of the Smithsonian 

 Institution was made for the construction of 

 four of these silver disk pyrheliometers. 

 These have now been completed and are about 

 to be sent to investigators in widely separated 

 localities for use in obtaining constants. The 

 first will be sent to M. Violle, who is chairman 

 of the committee on solar radiation of the 

 Solar Union, and by him will be placed in the 

 meteorological station established by the 

 French government on the Pic du Midi in the 

 Pyrenees in the south of France. The second 

 will go to M. Chistoni, of the Physical Insti- 

 tution in Naples, and will be sent to the ob- 

 servatory on Mount Vesuvius. 



This government has received through the 

 customary diplomatic channels, an announce- 

 ment of the Official Exhibition of Art to be 

 held at Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, to 

 commemorate the first centenary of the inde- 

 pendence of the country. This exhibition will 

 be opened on May 25, 1910, and will be con- 

 tinued until September 30, or later should the 

 executive committee so decide. Full details 

 with reference to the conditions of participa- 

 tion in the exhibit may be obtained by ad- 

 dressing El Senor Comisario General, Ex- 

 posicion Internacional de Arte del Centenario, 

 Cangallo 827, Buenos Aires, Eepubliea Argen- 

 tina. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDVGATIONAL NEWS 

 Charitable and educational institutions re- 

 ceived $162,000 by the will of Mrs. Frances E. 

 Curtiss, of Chicago. Among the institutions 



benefited are Williams College, Williamstown, 

 Mass., $26,000. 



CoopEE Medical College, San Francisco, 

 has received a bequest of $5,000 by the will 

 of the late Mrs. Myrick. 



Plans are under way for the merger of the 

 Jefferson, Medico-Chirurgical and Polyclinic 

 Medical Colleges of Philadelphia and their 

 connection with some university as its medical 

 department. 



The trustees of Syracuse University have 

 recently voted in favor of the proposition to 

 establish a College of Agriculture and For- 

 estry in that institution. As a preliminary 

 step there will be organized out of facilities 

 already available an agricultural group and 

 a forestry group of studies drawn especially 

 from the departments of botany, chemistry, 

 engineering, geology (including meteorology) 

 and zoology. These courses will be open to 

 election with the next collegiate year. Tem- 

 porarily, the work of organization is to be 

 under the direction of Professor William L. 

 Bray, of the department of botany. 



The total number in attendance last year 

 for the two weeks' courses in agriculture and 

 for the Corn Growers' and Stockmen's Con- 

 ventions at the University of Illinois was 7Y5. 

 That number will be more than surpassed this 

 year. More than 700 have already been regis- 

 tered, of whom 115 are women. The lectures 

 are being given not only by men of the college, 

 but by men of prominence from different parts 

 of the state. 



President Schurman, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, said in a recent address : " I should like 

 most to see at Cornell a score of research 

 professorships with salaries, say $7,500 each, 

 which would call for a capital of some $3,000,- 

 000 or $4,000,000, a really small amount in 

 this age of American multi-millionaires." 



Dr. Louis A. Kleen, appointed last year 

 professor of pharmacology and veterinary 

 medicine, has now been made dean of the 

 veterinary department of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, to fill the vacancy occasioned 

 by the death of Dr. Leonard Pearson. 



