Mat 3, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



719 



May 1 1 — ' Jamaica : Its Flora, Scenery and 

 Eecent Disaster,' by Dr. M. A. Howe. 



May 18 — ' Water Lilies and other Aquatic 

 Plants; their Relation to Horticulture,' by Mr. G. 

 V. Nash. 



May 25 — ' The Influence of Vegetation in the 

 Formation of Recent and Ancient Swamps,' by 

 Dr. Arthur Hollick. 



June 1 — ' Some Little-known Edible Fruits of 

 the United States,' by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 



In order to provide a method for viewing tlie 

 collections of the garden under guidance, an 

 aid will leave the front door of the museum 

 building every week day afternoon at three 

 o'clock, to escort all who may wish to accom- 

 pany him. The routes will be as follows : 

 Monday, Hemlock Forest and Herbaceous 

 Garden; Tuesday, Pinetiun; Wednesday, 

 Frutieetum and North Meadows; Thursday, 

 deciduous arboretum, nurseries, propagating 

 houses; Friday, public conservatories; Satur- 

 day, museums. 



Nature states that the Port Erin Biological 

 Station has never been more fully used by 

 workers in marine biology than during the 

 present Easter vacation. From the last week 

 in March onwards throughout April, sys- 

 tematic collecting at sea and investigations in 

 the laboratory have been actively pursued by 

 as many biologists as can be comfortably ac- 

 conunodated. During the first half of April 

 ten to twelve investigators occupied seats in 

 the laboratory, and about the middle of the 

 month a dozen senior students came in addi- 

 tion. The researchers include Professor B. 

 Moore (biochemistry). Dr. H. Eoaf (physiol- 

 ogy of Crustacea), Mr. J. Pearson (cancer), 

 Mr. E. D. Laurie (biometrics), Mr. W. J. 

 Dakin (Pecten), Professor Herdman, Mr. 

 Wollaston and Mr. Gunn, all from Liverpool 

 University; Professor Hickson, Mr. Chaffers 

 and Mr. Whitnall, from the Victoria Univer- 

 sity of Manchester; Mr. Unwin, from the Uni- 

 versity of Leeds; and Mr. Chadwick, the resi- 

 dent naturalist. Plankton collections, both 

 surface and deep, are being taken periodically, 

 at stated localities, over a limited area for 

 statistical purposes, from the steam yacht 

 Ladyhird, and the usual sea-fish hatching and 

 distribution of larval plaice is in progress. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the medico-historical collections of the 

 'Empress-Frederick House for Higher Med- 

 ical Study' were recently opened. Professor 

 Schjerning, Director-general of the Army 

 Medical Department, was present, and the 

 Prussian Ministry of Education, and the Im- 

 perial Board of Health sent delegates. Pro- 

 fessor E. Hollander, to whose skill in collect- 

 ing and special knowledge of medical history, 

 the collection owes the greater part of its ob- 

 jects, made the opening speech. He pointed 

 out the value of a historical collection for 

 teaching purposes. It gives students the best 

 insight into medicine and therapeutics of past 

 ages, showing in what manner medical aid was 

 carried out, and what were the notions enter- 

 tained by doctors and laity as to the nature of 

 disease. The collection was then inspected; 

 it contains originals and copies of ancient 

 apparatus, oil paintings, water colors, engra- 

 vings, etc., state and municipal rescripts, 

 coins, medals and many miscellaneous objects 

 of interest. A special division of the collec- 

 tion has been set apart for sending on loan to 

 other university towns. 



UmVEBSITY AND EDTJOATIUNAL NEWS 



Mr. John D. Eockefellee has given to the 

 University of Chicago land fronting the south 

 side of Midway. Plaisance, extending from 

 Madison Avenue to Cottage Grove Avenue. 

 This property is said to have been acquired 

 by Mr. Eockefeller at a cost of $1,500,000 

 and to be now of considerably greater value. 



WiLLUMS College will receive $192,000 by 

 the death of E. W. Currier. 



It is announced that a new physical labora- 

 tory will be erected at Princeton University 

 through gifts whose source is not announced. 



By the recent death of Mrs. Eliza Orne 

 Eopes at Salem, Mass., public bequests to 

 various institutions, amounting to $1,500,000, 

 made in trust by Mary Putnam Eopes, who 

 died in 1903, were released. Of these Harvard 

 will receive a bequest to endow the Nathaniel 

 Eopes professorship of political economy. If, 

 after the endowment of the professorship, any 

 surplus remains it will go to the Peabody 

 Museum of Archeology and Ethnology. 



