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SCIENCE 



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The eighth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course was given by Professor George Hunt- 

 ington, of Columbia University, at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine on Saturday 

 evening, February 9, on ' The Genetic Inter- 

 pretation of the Variations in the Genito- 

 urinary Tract.' 



On January 15, Professor W. E. Castle de- 

 livered an address before the American Breed- 

 ers' Association, at Columbus, Ohio, on the 

 subject, ' The Production and Fixation of 

 New Breeds.' 



Professor E. DeC. Ward, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, gave an illustrated lecture on ' Clouds : 

 their Formation, Classification and Value as 

 Weather Prognostics,' before the Contempo- 

 rary Club of St. Louis on February 1; before 

 the Society of Pedagogy of St. Louis on Feb- 

 ruary 2, and before the pupils of the St. Louis 

 Central High School on February 4. He also 

 gave an informal talk before the Science Sec- 

 tion of the Wednesday Club of St. Louis on 

 February 4. 



Dr. Charles E. Garman, professor of phi- 

 losophy at Amherst College, died on February 

 9, at the age of fifty-seven years. 



Dr. p. J. MoBius, the author of books on 

 various pathological, psychological and socio- 

 logical subjects, has died at Leipzig at the 

 age of fifty-three years. 



It is expected that there will be a vacant 

 fellowship, and perhaps two vacant fellow- 

 ships, at the Lick Observatory, University of 

 California, for the academic year beginning 

 July 1, 1907. . If the holder of a fellowship 

 desires to pursue studies leading to the de- 

 gree of doctor of philosophy, he will be ex- 

 pected to reside on Mount Hamilton during 

 eight months of the year and in Berkeley dur- 

 ing four months of the year. If the appointee 

 has already taken his doctor's degree, he will 

 probably reside on Mount Hamilton during 

 the entire year. The stipend connected with 

 each fellowship is $600 per annum. Appli- 

 cants should address The Director, Mount 

 Hamilton, California. 



Professor Charles Lane Poor and others 

 appeared before the legislative committee on 

 February 5 to argue in favor of Assemblyman 



Young's bill to incorpoiate the New York 

 Observatory and Nautical Museum, and to 

 empower the Board of Estimate and Appor- 

 tionment in its discretion to enter into an 

 agreement with the corporation for the erec- 

 tion by the city in one of the public parks of 

 suitable buildings, which the corporation is to 

 equip with instruments and collections of 

 nautical science for public exhibition and 

 research. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The seventy-fifth anniversary of the foun- 

 dation of Lafayette College will be celebrated 

 from June 16 to 19 of the present year. An 

 effort is being made to celebrate the anniver- 

 sary by the collection of an endowment fund 

 of $500,000. Of this fund more than $325,000 

 has been secured, and Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 

 who has given $50,000, has also promised to 

 give the last $50,000 of the full sum of half 

 a million. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $40,000 to 

 Yale University for a swimming pool. 



The trustees of the University of Illinois 

 will ask the legislature for the sum of $1,600,- 

 000, in round numbers, for the running ex- 

 penses of the university during the coming 

 biennium and for $62,000 for increase in the 

 plant. It has also decided to ask for a special 

 appropriation of $1,000,000 for the erection of 

 much needed buildings upon the campus in 

 Urbana. It has, furthermore, decided to ask 

 for $385,000 for the erection or purchase of 

 buildings to house adequately the inedical de- 

 partment in the city of Chicago. 



At Columbia University Dr. Dickinson S. 

 Miller, now lecturer in philosophy, has been 

 made professor of philosophy, and Dr. Gary N. 

 Calkins, now professor of invertebrate zoology, 

 has been made professor of proto-zoology. 



Dr. Donald MacAlister, fellow and di- 

 rector of medical studies of St. Johns College, 

 Cambridge, has' been appointed principal of 

 Glasgow University. 



Dr. Georg Klebs, of Heidelberg, has been 

 called to the chair of botany at Halle, vacant 

 by the death of Professor E. Pfitzer. 



