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receipt, and who will be responsible for safe 

 keeping and ultimate return. 



On August 13, 1906, Professor M. J. de 

 Goeje, of the University of Leyden, will cele- 

 brate his seventieth birthday. In view of the 

 valuable services that Professor de Goeje has 

 rendered to Oriental science, and which have 

 secured for him his present position as the 

 leading Arabic scholar of the day, a central 

 committee has been organized in Holland with 

 representatives in other countries to arrange 

 for a celebration that will be worthy of the 

 occasion. The central committee, after care- 

 ful deliberation, has decided that the worthiest 

 tribute to Professor de Goeje would be the 

 establishment of a de Goeje memorial fund, 

 the interest of which should be used for fur- 

 thering Oriental researches through stipends 

 to worthy students of Oriental lore, through 

 subventions to scientific publications and 

 through grants for travels and explorations. 

 In order to carry out this plan, a fund of 

 $5,000 is to be raised. Of this sum $2,000 

 have already been secured in Holland. Eng- 

 lish scholars and others interested in the sub- 

 ject have up to the present forwarded to the 

 central committee about $1,500 and from 

 Germany about $1,000 have been contributed. 

 A committee has been formed in the United 

 States, which wishes to collect one thousand 

 dollars as a contribution to the memorial. 

 Subscriptions should be sent to the secretary. 

 Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr., University of 

 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Professor George A. Wentwoeth, who was 

 professor of mathematics at Phillips Exeter 

 Academy from 1859 to 1892 and was the 

 author of well-known text-books on mathe- 

 matics, died, on May 24, of heart failure, 

 aged seventy-one. 



Professor Buchenau, known for his work 

 in botany, died in Bremen on April 23, at the 

 age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. E. M. Carlinski, emeritus professor of 

 astronomy and director of the observatory at 

 Cracow, died on March 21, at the age of 

 seventy-five years. 



The senate passed, on May 24, the bill ad- 

 mitting free of duty .alcohol denaturized for 



industrial purposes. The provision will take 

 effect on January 1, 190Y. 



The Cornell chapter of Sigma Xi is pre- 

 paring to celebrate the twentieth anniversary 

 of the foundation of the society. A public 

 address is to be given on the evening of July 

 2, to which all members of The American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 and of affiliated societies who are in attend- 

 ance at the Ithaca meeting will be invited. 

 After the address there will be a dinner at 

 which all visiting members of Sigma Xi will 

 be the guests of the parent chapter. 



The International Astronomical Society 

 will hold its twenty-first meeting at Jena 

 from September 12 to 15. 



UNIVERaiTY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The new buildings of the Harvard Medical 

 School will be dedicated on the afternoon of 

 September 25 and the morning of September 

 26. 



Yale University has received an anonymous 

 gift of $5,000 to the forestry school, the in- 

 come of which is to be used for the publica- 

 tion of works on forestry by graduates and 

 members of the faculty. 



Professor Ernest W. Brown, M.A., D.Sc. 

 (Cambridge), of Haverford College, has ac- 

 cepted the chair of applied mathematics at 

 Yale University, but will remain at Haverford 

 during the coming academic year. 



Dr. John W. Baird, instructor in psychol- 

 ogy at the Johns Hopkins University, has 

 accepted a similar position in the University 

 of Ulinois. 



Professor Bird T. Baldwin, Ph.D. (Har- 

 vard, 1905), of the West Chester State Normal 

 School, during the coming year will have 

 charge of psychology and educational psy- 

 chology at Swarthmore College, where a new 

 training school for teachers is being organ- 

 ized. 



Dr. J. T. Porter, instructor in physics in 

 Williams College, has been appointed adjunct 

 professor of physics in Randolph-Macon Col- 

 lege. 



