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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 470. 



before the Scotia left for the southern seas in 

 January last. 



The National Geographic Society has re- 

 cently moved into its new home, the Gardiner 

 Greene Hubbard Memorial Hall. As the 

 building is not entirely completed, the formal 

 opening of the hall will be deferred for the 

 present. The society offers three courses of 

 meetings during the season of 1903-1904 — a 

 regular or scientific series of ten meetings; 

 a popular series of ten illustrated lectures, and 

 an afternoon or lenten series of five popular 

 lectures. 



A SPECIAL Roentgen Congress and Exhibi- 

 tion is to be held at Berlin during the spring 

 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the dis- 

 covery of the X-rays. Professor Roentgen is 

 expected to be present at the congress. Fur- 

 ther information can be obtained from Dr. 

 Immelmann, Liitzowstr. 72, Berlin, W., Ger- 

 many. 



The annual dinner of the Institute of 

 Chemistry of Great Britain took place on 

 December 14. Speeches were made by the 

 president. Dr. Davis Howard, Sir William 

 Huggins and Sir William Ramsay. 



The Canadian papers state that at a meet- 

 ing of the board of directors of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association, held at the office of 

 Mr. E. Stewart, Dominion Superintendent of 

 Forestry, the treasurer reported the receipt 

 of a grant of $300 from the Government of 

 Ontario to assist in the work of the associa- 

 tion, and that the governments of Quebec and 

 British Columbia had also promised assistance. 

 The membership has reached the number of 

 420, and, with the improved financial position 

 in which the association finds itself, it is pro- 

 posed to extend the sphere of its activities. 

 The establishment of a journal devoted spe- 

 cially to forestry interests was discussed, and 

 it was decided to report favorably to the an- 

 nual meeting. The publication will, if started, 

 be managed by the association, and will prob- 

 ably be at first a quarterly, with the expecta- 

 tion of being finally issued as a monthly. It 

 is hoped in this way to call public attention 

 more distinctively to the work of the associa- 



tion, and to the importance of proper forest 

 management. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 At the forty-ninth quarterly convocation of 

 the University of Chicago President Harper 

 announced that Mr. John D. Rockefeller had 

 given to the university $1,500,000 in real es- 

 tate and $350,000 in cash. A donor, whose 

 name was not made public, has given $1,096,- 

 466 for a special purpose not yet designated. 



It is stated that Mrs. Phoebe Hearst will 

 provide a building for fhe Department of 

 Botany of the University of California. 



A GIFT of $1,000 from Edward Mallinckrodt, 

 of St. Louis, has enabled the department of 

 chemistry of Harvard University to refurnish 

 the library of Boylston Hall and to buy several 

 hundred new books. E. Mallinckrodt, Jr., has 

 added to this a sum to be paid annually for 

 the next five years to defray the running ex- 

 penses of the hbrary. The collection of books 

 has also been enlarged by several gifts from 

 Dr. Wolcott Gibbs. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 late Mr. Charles Seale-Hayne, M.P., has under 

 his will provided for the establishment of a 

 College of Science, Art and Agriculture in 

 the neighborhood of Newton Abbot, open to 

 sttidents of the county of Devon. Details will 

 be left to the executors. It is thought that 

 about £150,000 will be handed over for the 

 college. 



Dr. Horace Clark Richards, instructor in 

 physics in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 has been promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship of physics. 



Mr. Henry Balfodr, M.A., of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Oxford, has been elected to fellowship at 

 Exeter College. Mr. Balfour has been for 

 some years curator of the Pitt-Rivers Museum. 

 He is also president of the Anthropological 

 Institute, and president-elect of the Anthropo- 

 logical Section of the British Association for 

 1904. 



Dr. Hermann Grassmann, decent at Halle, 

 has been promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship of mathematics. 



