June 7, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



919 



Sims WcMDcLhead ; on the Treatment of Infec- 

 tious Diseases regarded from the point of 

 view of hospital administration, by Dr. E. W. 

 Goodall, Medical Superintendent of the 

 Homerton Fever Hospital; and on the De- 

 velopment of Africa, as a problem of compara- 

 tive pathology, by Dr. L. W. Sambon. The 

 lectures are all free. 



The Botanical Department of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania will hold its closing 

 meeting and reception in the Botanical Gar- 

 den on June 8, from five to ten in the evening. 

 At 7 P.M. Provost Charles Custis Harrison, 

 LL.D., honorary president of the society, will 

 make the introductory address, followed by a 

 series of lectures and short talks and an in- 

 spection of flowers and specimens, many of 

 them added to the department since the last 

 annual meeting by gift or in consequence of 

 the travels and researches of members of the 

 faculty and students. 



Nature gives the following account of the 

 program of the meeting of the International 

 Union for Cooperation in Solar Research, 

 which was held recently in Meudon, near 

 Paris : " The meeting will open on May 

 20, when formal business will be transacted 

 in the morning. In the afternoon it is in- 

 tended that all new proposals for Joint work 

 shall be submitted to the meeting, so that 

 members will have an opportunity of privately 

 discussing the desirability of adopting the pro- 

 posals before a final decision is taken towards 

 the end of the week. The mornings of May 

 21 and 22 wiU be spent in receiving the reports 

 of the committees appointed at the Oxford 

 meeting in 1905. It is understood that Pro- 

 fessor Perot is ready to submit his measure- 

 ments of the wave-length of the red cadmium 

 line, and that his results are in such good 

 agreement with those previously obtained by 

 Michelson that the meeting probably will be 

 able to adopt finally a primary standard of 

 wave-length. Other reports deal with the ob- 

 servations of sun-spot spectra and the organ- 

 ization of the systematic application of the 

 spectroheliograph to solar work. A question 

 of interest to which several members of the 

 union have given considerable attention con- 



sists in fixing the best methods of measuring 

 the areas of fiocculi. This matter has been 

 under consideration at some of the American 

 observatories, as well as at the Solar Physics 

 Observatory at South Kensington and at the 

 University Observatory, Oxford. On Tuesday 

 evening Dr. Janssen, the president of the con- 

 gress, will give a banquet to the members at the 

 Hotel d'Orsay, in Paris, and on Wednesday 

 afternoon Professor Julius will demonstrate 

 in the physical laboratories of the Sorbonne 

 some of his experiments on anomalous disper- 

 sion. Arrangements have also been made to 

 visit the Observatory of Paris in the same 

 afternoon. It is hoped that the scientific work 

 of the meeting will be concluded on May 23, 

 and an excursion to the Chateau de Ohantilly 

 has been arranged for Friday. A formal 

 business meeting on May 25 will bring the 

 meeting to a close." 



VmVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Pennsylvania legislature voted at its 

 recent session an appropriation of $500,000 for 

 the University of Pennsylvania. The bill has 

 not yet been signed by the governor. 



Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hemmeter have 

 given an endowment for the chair of physiol- 

 ogy of the University of Maryland. 



An alumnus of Hobart Collie has given 

 $20,000 for a new gymnasium. 



One of the dormitories of Trinity College, 

 Hartford, Conn., was injured by fire on May 

 22. Some damage was also done to the li- 

 brary, the entire loss being estimated at 

 $15,000. 



Saratofp has been chosen as the seat of the 

 new Russian University which is to replace 

 that of Warsaw. 



The University of Montana announces the 

 establishment of fellowships in the depart- 

 ments of chemistry, botany, physics and me- 

 chanical engineering, each with an income of 

 five hundred dollars annually in addition to 

 tuition and laboratory fees. Each fellow will 

 be expected to devote approximately half his 

 time to assistance in the department in which 

 he is chosen. It is desirable that the fellow 



