Febbuaet 22, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



319 



late eminent ophthalmologist, Herman Cohn, 

 of Breslau. The income from each endow- 

 ment is to be awarded as a prize for research 

 in ophthalmology. 



The Wisconsin Archeological Society has 

 secured an option on and will purchase the 

 remarkable man mound near Baraboa and 

 thus make it accessible to the public. The 

 money necessary to its purchase will be raised 

 by popular subscription. 



At a meeting held on January 29 at the 

 residence of M. Beernaert, Minister of State, 

 it was decided to organize a new Belgian 

 South Polar expedition. It is also announced 

 that a new British expedition to the South 

 Polar regions will leave England next October 

 under the command of E. H. Schackleton, 

 who was third lieutenant on the Discovery 

 expedition. 



We learn from Nature that an Association 

 for the Promotion of Flight is in course of 

 formation. The association will aim at as- 

 sisting inventors and investigators to carry 

 out experiments in artificial flight. In order 

 to secure that no funds shall be subscribed by 

 speculators with any hope of return, it is pro- 

 posed that, in the case of its ultimate success 

 in its object, the valuable assets, such as a 

 facility for constructing practicable flight 

 machines, should be handed, free of cost, to 

 the nation. A provisional committee has been 

 appointed, which includes the Hon. C. A. Par- 

 sons, E.E.S., Sir William Crookes, F.E.S., 

 Major B. E. S. Baden-Powell and others. 



The Prussian government has authorized 

 the organization of a lottery for the benefit 

 of Gen. Count 2feppelin's further experiments 

 in airship building. 



The Kothamsted Experimental Station in 

 Hertfordshire has received a gift of £2,000 

 from the Permanent Nitrate Committee. 



Eeuter's Agency is informed that Major 

 Powell Cotton has sent home a complete skele- 

 ton of an okapi, the skull of which is said to 

 be probably one of the most remarkable speci- 

 mens ever brought to this country. In addi- 

 tion, there is a beautifully marked and perfect 

 skin in a better condition than that now in 

 the national collection. Major Powell Cotton 



has also sent to England the skin of a yoxmg 

 okapi. All are now at the British Museum. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The appellate division of the Supreme 

 Court has decided that the will of the late 

 Wallace Andrews of New York City, be- 

 queathing more than $1,500,000 for a school 

 for girls at Willoughby, Ohio, is valid. The 

 money was to go to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion in case the bequest for the school was 

 invalid. 



Mr. a. McChaeles has bequeathed $10,000 

 to the University of Toronto, to establish 

 prizes for scientific discoveries. 



Sir Cowasjee Jehanghie Eeadymoney has 

 offered to the Bombay government the sum 

 of $80,000 for the erection of a university 

 examination hall in Bombay, thus following 

 the example of his father in giving to the 

 city the Elphinstone College buildings and the 

 Senate-hall of the university. 



Me. W. F. Stanley, of the firm of optical 

 and scientific instrument makers, has built 

 and endowed a new trade technical school at 

 South Norwood HiU, for 400 boys, at a cost 

 of some $250,000. 



The late Dr. John Wight has left £3,000 

 to Aberdeen University to found four or more 

 medical bursaries. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that Dr. Schorstein, whose early death de- 

 prived the London Hospital of one of the 

 ablest members of its medical staff, has be- 

 queathed £500 to that hospital. He has also 

 bequeathed £500 to the regius professor of 

 medicine at Oxford, and the residue of his 

 estate to the university chest at Oxford, sub- 

 ject to trusts to pay the income to his mother 

 and sister for their lives, with ultimate re- 

 mainder for such purposes as the Hebdomadal 

 Council may decide. He expressed the hope 

 that the bequest would be used for something 

 in connection with the medical school at Ox- 

 ford. The Oxford medical school will prob- 

 ably eventually benefit by a capital sum of 

 between seven and eight thousand pounds. 



Medical journals note the beginning of a 

 movement to establish a university in Frank- 



