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SCIENCE. 



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to one of the workers of the cancer research 

 laboratories, and styled ' The Mercers' Prize.' 



Ti-iE Royal Scottish Geographical Society 

 celebrated its twenty-first anniversary at 

 Edinburgh on November 27, with the presi- 

 dent, Professor James Geikie, in the chair. 



The Wisconsin Archeological Society has 

 now a total membership of 500. They are 

 securing the custodianship, for school pur- 

 poses, of the last group of mounds remaining 

 in Milwaukee. In the spring there will be 

 held a joint meeting of the Wisconsin Land- 

 marks Committees and of the Wisconsin 

 Archeological Society, under the auspices of 

 the latter. This meeting will be held among 

 the mounds preserved on the campus of Carroll 

 College, Waukosha. They will soon have 

 completed the details of the preservation of 

 the celebrated ' man ' mound at Baraboo. 



A NATIONAL society for the preservation of 

 the American bison was organized on De- 

 cember 8 at the office of Mr. William T. 

 Hornaday, director of the New York Zoolog- 

 ical Park. President Roosevelt has consented 

 to hold ofiice in the society. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Through the will of the late Dr. A. F. 

 Elliott, of California, the University of Cali- 

 fornia will receive $200,000 for the erection of 

 a public hospital. 



Dr. Albert Goldspohn has given $25,000 for 

 the erection of a science hall at the North- 

 western College, Naperville, 111. 



The faculty of the University of Wisconsin 

 at its last meeting discussed the present status 

 of intercollegiate athletics, and decided to ap- 

 point a committee of seven of its members to 

 consider the problem of intercollegiate sports 

 as now conducted and to report to the uni- 

 versity faculty the results of its deliberations. 

 President Van Hise has appointed the follow- 

 ing raembers to this committee : Dean E. A. 

 Birge, of the College of Letters and Science, 

 Dean F. E. Turneaure, of the College of Engi- 

 neering, Professors D. C. Jackson, D. C. 

 Munroe, C. S. Slichter, A. Trov/bridge and 

 E. J. Turner. 



Plans being completed by Professor D. C. 

 Munroe, director of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin summer session, provide for the appoint- 

 ment of a number of non-resident professors 

 to take the place of those members of the 

 faculty who do not desire to give instruction 

 in the summer session. The appointments 

 already made include Professor Albert Perry 

 Brigham, head of the department of geology 

 of Colgate University, who will give courses 

 in the principles of physiography and the 

 physiography of the LTnited States. He will 

 also conduct excursions to points of geologic 

 and physiographic interest about Madison, in- 

 cluding Devil's Lake, the Dells of the Wis- 

 consin River, Blue Mounds, which have been 

 such an important feature of the summer 

 work in geology. 



Professor P. H. Rolfs, at present in charge 

 of the subtropical laboratory of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, at Miami, Florida, 

 has been elected director and horticulturist 

 of the Florida Experiment Station. He was 

 connected with that institution for several 

 years previous to entering the service of the 

 Deparment of Agriculture. 



Theodore de Leo de Laguna, A.B. (Cali- 

 fornia), Ph.D. (Cornell), has been made as- 

 sistant professor of education in the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, to fill the place left vacant 

 by the resignation of Professor Alger. 



Dr. H. R. Moody, of Hobart College, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of chem- 

 istry at the College of the City of New York. 



The following changes have taken place in 

 the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines 

 this year : W. G. Haldane has been advanced 

 from instructor to assistant professor of metal- 

 lurgy; W. F. Allison from instructor in sur- 

 veying to assistant professor of civil engineer- 

 ing; C. E. Smith has been appointed instructor 

 in geology to take the place of J. W. Eggleston, 

 who resigned to accept an instructorship in 

 Harvard University, and A. J. Hoskins, for- 

 merly with the Leyden Coal Company, was 

 appointed assistant professor of mining engi- 

 neering. Lender the new administration the 

 laboratory equipment, especially in ore dress- 

 ing, is rapidly increasing. 



