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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 582. 



Henry Appleton, of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, and. first vice-president of the Massa- 

 chusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture; 

 W. H. Gowker, member of the first ' moth ' 

 commission; Professor C. H. Fernald, state 

 entomologist and member of the faculty of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College; E. P. 

 Hitchings, of Maine; H. J. Wheeler, of Rhode 

 Island; E. Dwight Sanderson, of New Hamp- 

 shire — all state entomologists — explained the 

 serious conditions, the spread of the pest and 

 the state efforts made to exterminate the 

 moths. Dr. L. O. Howard, of the Agricul- 

 tural Department, was present at the hearing. 

 He confirmed the statement that Massachu- 

 setts has the best available methods for ex- 

 terminating the moths in the parasites already 

 placed in the infected sections as a result of 

 his trip abroad. While yet a matter of ex- 

 periment here, they have been effective in 

 European countries. 



The Peabody Museum, Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has recently acquired a fine collection of 

 Indian relics from the northern coast of 

 America, southern Alaska, British Columbia 

 and northern California. They are the gift 

 of Mr. L. H. Farlow. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



President Thomas, of Bryn Mawr College, 

 has announced a gift of $80,000 from John D. 

 Eockefeller, to enable the college to meet the 

 expenses incurred by the trustees over and 

 above the gift of $250,000, in 1902, for the new 

 library. Mr. Eockefeller has contributed in 

 all $455,000 to the fund that secured the 

 library, the new dormitory and the heating 

 and lighting plant. The total of this fund, 

 including Mr. Eockefeller's gifts, is $738,- 

 529.18. 



McGiLL University receives $50,000 from 

 the estate of the late Edwin H. King, former 

 general manager of the Bank of Montreal. 

 His widow recently died. 



An equipment of microscopes for the depart- 

 ment of physiology. College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Columbia University, has been pre- 

 sented to this institution by Dr. David L. 



Haight, a graduate of the medical school in 

 1864. 



The Eockefeller Hall of Physics, at Cornell 

 University, will be dedicated at the beginning 

 of July, during the Ithaca meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. 



By the will of Mr. E. C. Brereton, Cam- 

 bridge University receives about £12,000 for 

 the promotion of classical studies. 



The electors to the Allen scholarship, of 

 Cambridge University, are prepared to re- 

 ceive applications from candidates. A candi- 

 date must be a graduate of the university, 

 whose age did not exceed 28 years on January 

 8, last. The scholarship is of the value of 

 £250, tenable for one year only, the holder 

 not being capable of reelection. This year 

 the scholarship is open to candidates who pro- 

 pose to undertake research which comes within 

 the department of any of the following special 

 boards of study — namely, medicine, mathe- 

 matics, physics and chemistry, biology and 

 geology or moral sciences. 



We learn from the New York Evening Post 

 that in the College of Engineering of the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati, Melvin Price has been 

 made professor of mechanical engineering. 

 Professor Price is a graduate of Purdue, took 

 advanced work in Columbia, and was recently 

 head of the department of mechanical engi- 

 neering in the University of Nebraska. E. L. 

 Shepard, from the University of Missouri, has 

 been appointed instructor in civil engineering. 



I. C. Pettit is appointed instructor in elec- 

 trical engineering, at Cornell University, in 

 place of E. J. McNitt, resigned. 



At Sheffield University, Mr. Louis Cobbett, 

 E.E.C.S., has been appointed professor of 

 pathology, and Mr. L. T. O'Shea, B.Sc. 

 (Lond.), professor of applied chemistry. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Nothnagel's vacant chair, 

 at Vienna, has been offered to Quincke of Kiel 

 and to Striimpell, but each declined the honor. 

 Minkowski of Griefswald and von Noorden of 

 Franlvfurt-on-the-Main were then proposed by 

 the Vienna faculty of medicine, and late ad- 

 vices state that von Noorden has accepted. 



