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The memorial will consist of an alabaster slab, 

 to be placed underneath the monument to 

 Sir John Franklin, whose fate was definitely 

 ascertained by Sir Leopold during his cele- 

 brated expedition on board the Fox. The in- 

 scription will be as follows : " Here also is 

 commemorated Admiral Sir Leopold McClin- 

 tock, 1819-1907. Discoverer of the Fate of 

 Franklin in 1859." 



Dr. Edodard Zeller, the eminent historian 

 of philosophy, professor in the University of 

 Berlin, from 1872 until his retirement from 

 active service in 1895, died on March 19, at 

 the age of ninety-four years. 



Sir John Eliot, F.E.S., director general of 

 Indian Observatories and meteorological re- 

 porter to the governor of India from 1886 to 

 1903, eminent for his services to meteorology, 

 has died at the age of fifty-eight years. 



The Prague journals announce the death in 

 that city, on March 11, of Professor Josef 

 Hlavka, a distinguished architect, patron of 

 science and art, and president of the Bohemian 

 Academy of Sciences and Art. The deceased, 

 whose gifts for archeological and other re- 

 search were very large, bequeathed the sum 

 of 5,000,000 crowns, or about five sixths of 

 his whole property, for the purposes of ad- 

 vancing Bohemian research and art, and for 

 aiding talented but needy students of Bo- 

 hemian nationality. The funds are to be ex- 

 pended under the auspices of the academy. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on April 29, 1908, to 

 fill at least three vacancies in the position of 

 magnetic observer (temporary) in the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, and vacancies requiring 

 similar qualifications as they may occur. The 

 salaries will range from $60 to $75 a month, 

 according to the character of the work and the 

 qualifications of the applicant; and in excep- 

 tional cases where the person employed has 

 had repeated experience in magnetic work the 

 salary may reach $100 a month. Appoint- 

 ments to permanent positions are made from 

 the examination for laboratory assistant in 

 the Bureau of Standards. 



The next meeting of the Astronomical and 

 Astrophysical Society of America will be held 



at Put-in-Bay Island, Lake Erie, on August 

 25 and succeeding days. 



The Smithsonian Institution has learned, 

 through the Department of State, that the 

 Second International Archeological Congress 

 will hold its meeting at Cairo, Egypt, at the 

 Latin Easter, in 1909. The congress will b« 

 opened under the presidency of the Khedive. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Kentucky legislature, just adjourned, 

 changed the name of the College of Agricul- 

 ture and the Mechanic Arts to the State Uni- 

 versity and appropriated to it $200,000 in addi- 

 tion to what it has already been receiving; 

 $30,000 of this amount is to be annual. At 

 the same time it appropriated $150,000 each 

 to the two new State Normal Schools. The 

 legislature also changed the name of " Ken- 

 tucky University," a denominational institu- 

 tion, back to Transylvania University. 



Mrs. L. V. Morgan, of Harrison, Ohio, has 

 donated to the State University of Iowa the 

 extensive botanical collections of her husband, 

 the late Professor A. P. Morgaru The dona- 

 tion includes the entire herbarium, together 

 with accompanying books and pamphlets. 

 These collections have been assigned a place 

 in one of the new fire-proof buildings on the 

 Iowa campus. The herbarium represents, 

 better than any other in the country, the rich 

 mycologic flora of the lower Ohio valley, and 

 owing to the eminence of Professor Morgan 

 as a student of mycology must ever remain 

 of extreme historic importance. 



During the present winter semester, there 

 studied in the German medical schools 151 

 women, while in the Swiss medical schools the 

 number was 1,129. 



Dr. Johannes von Kries, professor of phys- 

 iology at Freiburg, has been called to Munich 

 as the successor of the late Professor Karl von 

 Voit. 



Dr. Fritz Einne, professor of geology at the 

 Hanover Technological School, has been 

 called to a chair at Konigsberg. 



