July 7, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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will be open to approved schools of all denomina- 

 tions, although they can not be employed for giv- 

 ing specifically theological instruction. 



In distributing the funds the board will aim 

 especially to favor those institutions which are 

 well located and which have a local constituency 

 sufficiently strong and able to insure permanence 

 and power. jSTo attempt will be made to resusci- 

 tate moribund schools or to assist institutions 

 which are so located that they can not promise 

 to be permanently useful. 



Within these limits there are no restrictions as 

 to the use of the income. It may be used for en- 

 dowment, for buildings, for current expenses, for 

 debts, for apparatus, or for any other purpose 

 which may be found most serviceable. 



It is known that Mr. Rockefeller has had this 

 gift in contemplation for a long time, and Mr. 

 Gates has been studying the subject in his behalf 

 for many months. If the fund proves to be as use- 

 ful as is now anticipated Mr. Rockefeller will un- 

 doubtedly make large additions to it in future 

 years. 



The present members of the board are as 

 follows: Robert C. Ogden, chairman; George 

 Foster Peabody, treasurer; Wallace Butterick, 

 secretary and executive officer for the states 

 south of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, and 

 Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas; Starr J. 

 Murphy, secretary and executive officer for 

 the states of the north and west; Frederick 

 T. Gates, Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K. Jesup, 

 Walter H. Page, Albert -Shaw, John D. Rocke- 

 feller, Jr., Hugh H. Hanna, William R. Har- 

 per and E. Benjamin Andrews. There are 

 four vacancies in the board which are expected 

 to be filled later. 



HONORARY DEGREES AT HARVARD 

 UNIVERSITY. 



At the recent commencement Harvard 

 University conferred seven honorary degrees. 

 Those given to men of science, with the re- 

 marks made by President Eliot, were as fol- 

 lows: 



Honorary Master of Arts. — Frederick Pike 

 Stearns — chief engineer of the Metropolitan 

 Water and Sewerage Board, with special 

 charge of the waterworks, immense works in 

 earth, masonry and metal, ten years in con- 

 struction, planned and executed with good 



judgment, boldness and long foresight, and 

 with demonstrated success as regards the ade- 

 quacy, purity and reasonable cost of the 

 supply. 



Honorary Doctor of Science. — James Homer 

 Wright — pathologist, both teacher and investi- 

 gator, strong contributor to the advance of 

 that biological science which holds out to 

 mankind good promise of deliverance from 

 mysterious evils long endured. 



Doctors of Laws. — Henry Marion Howe — 

 a Boston Latin School boy. Harvard bachelor 

 of arts and Institute of Technology bachelor 

 of science, an author on copper, iron and steel, 

 distinguished for scientific imagination and a 

 good English style, professor of metallurgy in 

 Columbia University, consulting metallurgist 

 honored by the profession in England, 

 France, Germany, Russia and his native land. 

 Reginald Heber Fitz — for thirty-five years a 

 teacher of pathological anatomy and of the 

 theory and practise of physic, skilful and 

 acute diagnostician, much trusted consulted 

 physician, sagacious contributor to the prog- 

 ress of medicine. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Yale University has conferred its doctorate 

 of science on Professor George E. Hale, di- 

 rector of the Solar Observatory of the Car- 

 negie Institution, and on Dr. T. W. Richards, 

 professor of chemistry at Harvard University, 

 and its degree of doctor of laws on Dr. Abra- 

 ham Jacobi, emeritus professor of the diseases 

 of children at Columbia University. 



Dartmouth University has conferred its 

 doctorate of laws on Dr. C. L. Dana, a grad- 

 uate of the class of '72, professor of nervous 

 diseases in the Cornell Medical School. 



Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann, the eminent mathe- 

 matical physicist of Leipzig, arrived at Berke- 

 ley on June 26, where he will lecture before 

 the summer school of the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Professor Paul Ehrlich, of Frankfort-on- 

 Maine, and Professor Ramon y Cajal, of 

 Madrid, have been elected foreign associates 

 of the Paris Academy of Medicine. 



