December 15, 1905.] 



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of the Turbine in Marine Work.' Since Dr. 

 Sadler's return the big naval tank in the new 

 engineering building has been filled with water 

 and the long and tedious task of testing has 

 begun. The tank is now being tested for 

 leakage and evaporation and it is thought that 

 the different tests necessary before the tank 

 can be used will occupy nearly the whole year. 



The funeral services of Sir John Scott 

 Burdon-Sanderson, formerly regius professor 

 of medicine, in the University of Oxford, took 

 place at Magdalen College, Oxford, on No- 

 vember 8. Many members of the university 

 and men of science were present. . 



Dr. W. J. McMuRRAY, president of the Ten- 

 nessee State Board of Health, died at Nash- 

 ville, on December 4, aged sixty-three years. 



Mr. J. S. BuRCHAM, A.M. (Stanford, 03), 

 was drowned in Alaska on November 12. He 

 was in the employ of the United States Bureau 

 of Fisheries, and was with the U. S. S. Alba- 

 tross as an expert on salmon and other fishes. 



There will be a civil service examination, 

 on January 3, to fill the position of physical 

 chemist in the Bureau of Weights and Meas- 

 ures, Manila, at a salary of $2,250. The ex- 

 amination consists only of ratings on train- 

 ing, experience and publications. On the same 

 day there will be an examination to fill the 

 position of teacher of agriculture in the 

 Chilocco School, Okla., at a salary of $1,000. 



The trustees of the British Museum have 

 presented the trustees of the Carnegie Museum 

 with a fine series of reproductions of some of 

 the more striking and important paleontolog- 

 ical specimens in their collection, and have 

 also made a gift of all their publications to 

 the museum. This act of courtesy is in rec- 

 ognition of the kindness displayed by Mr. 

 Carnegie in placing in the British Museum a 

 facsimile of the skeleton of the great reptile 

 Diplodocus, which was installed at South 

 Kensington last May. 



The fifth meeting of the California Branch 

 of the AiTierican Follv-Lore Society was held 

 in Berkeley, on December 7. Professor Will- 

 iam Frederic Bade, of the Pacific Theological 

 Seminary, gave a lecture on ' Hebrew Folk- 

 Lore.' 



An organization to be known as the Con- 

 ference of New England Professors of Educa- 

 tion was formed at a meeting held at Harvard 

 University, on December 1. Discussion on 

 ' The aims, scope, means and methods of the 

 work of the department of education in col- 

 leges and universities ' was led by Professor 

 W. B. Jacobs, of Brown University, and Presi- 

 dent Hall, of Clark University. Professor P. 

 H. Hanus, of Harvard, was elected president, 

 and W. B. Jacobs, secretary. The next meet- 

 ing will be held on the Friday following 

 Thanksgiving next year. 



The yacht Galilee, engaged in the magnetic 

 survey of the North Pacific Ocean under the 

 auspices of the Department Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, arrived at San Diego, on December 9, 

 having completed a successful series of mag- 

 netic observations embracing the regions be- 

 tween San Francisco, San Diego, Honolulu, 

 Fanning Island and the magnetic equator. 



For the best essay on ' Moral Training in 

 Public Schools ' a prize of five hundred dollars 

 is offered, and for the second best, three hun- 

 dred dollars. The conditions are: (1) Length 

 of. essay to be not less than 6,000 nor more 

 than 12,000 words; (2) each essay must be 

 submitted typewritten; (3) all essays must be 

 in the hands of the committee not later than 

 June 1, 1906. These prizes are offered by a 

 citizen of California who desires his name 

 withheld. He has appointed Rev. Chas. R. 

 Brown, of Oakland, California ; President 

 David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, 

 and Professor F. B. Dresslar, of the University 

 of California, Berkeley, ' trustees of the fund 

 and sole judges of the merits of the essays sub- 

 mitted.' The two prize essays shall become 

 the property of the trustees, to be by them 

 'published and circulated as widely as possible' 

 from the fund at their disposal ' within the 

 limits of the United States.' Any essay not 

 awarded a prize will be returned to the writer 

 upon request, accompanied by postage. 



The Mercers' Company has made a grant 

 of £250 to the Middlesex Hospital Cancer 

 Charity; £150 is to be allotted to the Cancer 

 Research Fund, of which £50 is to be awarded 



