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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 573. 



The anniversary meeting of the Royal So- 

 ciety was held on November 30, with Sir Will- 

 iam Huggins in the chair. After the report 

 of the council had been presented and the 

 president had delivered an address. Lord Ray- 

 leigh was elected president of the society, and 

 presided at the dinner in the evening. In 

 answer to the toast of ' The Medallists,' Pro- 

 fssor Mendelieif, Professor Righi, Professor 

 Poynting and Professor Sherrington replied. 



The International Congress of Prehistoric 

 Anthropology and Archeology will hold its 

 thirteenth meeting at Monaco, under the 

 patronage of Prince Albert the First, from 

 April 16 to 21, 1906. Detailed information as 

 to the congress may be obtained on application 

 to the general secretary. Dr. Verneau, 61, Rvie 

 d© Buffon, Paris. 



The new building of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute at the foot of East 56th St., New York 

 City, will be ready for occupancy in January. 



Nature, quoting from the Chemiher-Zeit- 

 ung, states that the German state grant for 

 the support of scientific, technical and sim- 

 ilar undertakings is to be increased by 115,000 

 Marks. The sum" of 179,500 Marks is to be 

 spent upon increasing the accommodation for 

 the permanent exhibition devoted to the in- 

 terests of the working classes; 120,000 Marks 

 to be a first instalment for investigation of 

 sleeping sickness; 30,000 Marks to be devoted 

 to the development of the Starkstrom labora- 

 tory of the Reichsanstalt ; 43,850 Marks to 

 be contributed to the kite station on Lake 

 Constance for experimental investigations of 

 the higher air strata. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that Professor Debove recently presented to 

 the Academic de Medecine, Paris, the report 

 for 1904 of the Scientific Information Bureau. 

 During the year 8,000 persons applied for 

 information as to courses of instruction, labo- 

 ratories, hospitals, libraries and archives. 

 Pifty-five per cent, of the applicants were 

 foreigners, the countries represented being 

 Great Britain, the United States, Russia, 

 Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, South America, 

 Germany, Japan and China. Sometimes 

 there were from seventy to eighty applicants 

 in one day. The staff of the bureau consists 



of four persons, and answers to questions can 

 be given in five languages. The members of 

 the bureau are paid by the Municipal Council 

 and the Council of the University. It may 

 be mentioned that the information supplied 

 is by no means confined to matters relating 

 to medicine; replies are given to inquiries as 

 to the French language and literature, the 

 fine arts, industrial physics and chemistry, etc. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mrs. LIelen C. Coburn has by her will made 

 public bequests mounting to $450,000. $10,- 

 000 are given to Radcliffe College, $40,000 to 

 Phillips-Andover Academy, $75,000 to the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital, and consider- 

 able sums to institutions for the education of 

 negroes. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give 

 $100,000 to equip the electrical engineering 

 laboratory of Union College, provided the col- 

 lege raises $100,000 to endow it. 



Yale University has received from two 

 anonymous donors a gift of $75,000, which, 

 subject to certain anixuities, will be used to 

 found a lectureship on ' The interrelation of 

 religion, science and philosophy.' 



Oberlin College receives $10,000 by the 

 will of the late Miss Annie Walworth, Cleve- 

 land. 



Mr. John William Taylor, of Kensington, 

 has bequeathed $100,000 to Owen's College, 

 Manchester, now a part of Victoria University. 



Professor Crum Brown has given to the 

 University of Edinburgh a collection of over 

 2,000 specimens of chemical substances. 



The Japanese minister of education having 

 caused the resignation of one of the professors 

 of the University of Tokyo, owing to his atti- 

 tude on public questions, the professors of 

 the university have signed a protest, which has 

 led to the resignation of the minister of edu- 

 cation and the assumption of his portfolio by 

 the premier. It is said that the position of 

 the cabinet has been greatly weakened by this 

 action of the minister of education. 



Professor C. H. Judd, of Yale University, 

 has been appointed director of the summer 

 school. 



