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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 590. 



The third annual meeting of tlie Botanical 

 Symposium will be held from July 2 to 9, 

 at Mountain Lodge, Little Moose Lake, Old 

 Forge, ]Sr. T. Through the courtesy of the 

 members of the Adirondack League Club, the 

 privilege of occupying the Club House for one 

 week is extended to the members of the con- 

 ference. Tickets should be bought to Fulton 

 Chain Station on the Adirondack Division of 

 the N. T. C. & H. E. E. Single fare from 

 New York City $6.46. Board $2.50 to $3.00' 

 a day. Stages will meet the party at Fulton 

 Chain Station. Botanists are requested to 

 notify Mr. Joseph Crawford, secretary, 2824 

 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., if they 

 intend to attend the symposium. 



In an account of the recent jubilee of the 

 Academy of Science at St. Louis, it was 

 stated that this academy was the oldest body 

 of its kind west of the Alleghenies. A corre- 

 spondent reminds us that the California 

 Academy of Sciences was organized on May 

 16, 1853, and celebrated its fiftieth anniversary 

 nearly three years ago. 



Nature states that the government of India 

 has decided, with the approval of the secretary 

 of state, to establish an institute in India as 

 a center for practical instruction of medical 

 oiScers and subordinates in the use and man- 

 agement of Ebntgen ray apparatus, and as a 

 depot for the storage and repair of such appa- 

 ratus. The institute will be located at Dehra 

 Dun, and will be under the superintendence 

 of an officer of the Indian Medical Service. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



We learn from The Evening Post that the 

 report of the royal commission of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto recommends that financial sup- 

 port of $275,000 a year be given by the prov- 

 ince, and an endowment of at least one million 

 acres of land. 



It is said that the failure of the legislature 

 to appropriate $50,000 to the Johns Hopkins 

 University will delay indefinitely its removal 

 to the new suburban site. 



The cornerstone of the engineering build- 

 ing for the University of Tennessee will be 

 laid on April 23. 



The Chemical Laboratory of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University has been remodeled in part, 

 so as to accommodate the growing number of 

 graduate students in the various branches of 

 chemistry. A part of the second story has been 

 divided into six smaller rooms adapted to ad- 

 vanced students carrying on research. These 

 rooms will be occupied by those who are work- 

 ing in physical chemistry. This new arrange- 

 ment will relieve the congestion which had 

 gradually come to exist in the laboratories 

 originally designed for organic chemistry, due 

 to the fact that more and more space had to 

 be provided in them for the work in physical 

 chemistry. The three divisions of chemistry — 

 organic, inorganic and physical — will each 

 have its own separate quarters, but they vdll 

 all be closely related, as in the past. 



The Grand Trunk Eailway is offering two 

 free scholarships, covering four years' tuition 

 in the faculty of applied science of McGill 

 University, subject to competitive examina- 

 tions, to apprentices and other employees of 

 the company under twenty-one years of age, 

 and to minor sons of employees. 



The University of Southern California at 

 Los Angeles, Cal., will elect an assistant in 

 the department of botany for next year at a 

 salary of about $700. The botanical and 

 zoological laboratories, recently completed, 

 have now been furnished throughout, and the 

 new equipment has been received. 



At a recent meeting of the board of trustees 

 of Indiana University, Dr. E. E. Cxunings 

 was promoted to the position of associate pro- 

 fessor of geology, and Dr. J. W. Beede to that 

 of assistant professor of geology. 



Professor E. A. Minchin has resigned the 

 Jodrell chair of zoology of University College 

 in view of his appointment to the new chair 

 of protozoology in the University of London. 

 The council of University College will shortly 

 proceed to fill the vacancy in the Jodrell chair 

 of zoology thus created. 



Dr. C. von Wissehngh, of Amsterdam, has 

 been appointed professor of mathematics at 

 Groningen. 



