Apkil 17, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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and the board is to be composed of the 

 governor (ex officio), the president of the 

 university, the president of the Virginia 

 Polytechnic Institute, and two citizens. An 

 annual appropriation of ten thousand dollars 

 is provided. 



By the conjoint action of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and of the trustees of the 

 Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund a table has 

 been secured permanently for the use of Amer- 

 ican investigators desiring to work at the In- 

 ternational Scientific Station on Monte Eosa. 

 This station offers facilities for work in 

 physics, meteorology and physiology, but any 

 appropriate research may be carried on there. 

 The right of appointment to the American 

 table vests in the trustees of the Thompson 

 Fund. Applications for appointment should 

 be addressed to the secretary, Dr. Charles S. 

 Minot, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 

 Massachusetts. 



A MOVEMENT is Under way to secure the use 

 of the new congressional office building or a 

 part of the eapitol to house the International 

 Congress on Tuberculosis that is to be held in 

 Washington next September. A great exhibi- 

 tion illustrative of what is being done, the 

 world around, in the fight against the disease, 

 will be held in connection with the congress, 

 and the two will continue from September 21 

 to October 12. 



The International Congress of Navigation, 

 which is to be held in St. Petersburg in June, 

 is organized by the International Association 

 of Congresses of Navigation, which has its 

 permanent commission in Brussels, composed 

 of delegates from the various states that have 

 joined the association. The chief aim of the 

 congress will be the consideration of questions 

 connected with river and canal navigation 

 and the industrial and commercial use of 

 waterways and seaports. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has re- 

 ceived a legacy of £400 from M. Sabatier to 

 found a biennial prize to be knovsTi as the 

 Sabatier prize. 



Advices from Sydney state that the zoo- 

 logical gardens there are at present particu- 



larly interesting to visitors by reason of the 

 inclusion of over 100 rare birds and animals 

 destined for the London Zoological Society's 

 show at the Franco-British Exhibition this 

 summer. These specimens will be shipped for 

 England by a steamship scheduled to sail from 

 Sydney on April 11 and due in London on 

 June 7. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Princeton University has received $250,000 

 from Mrs. Russell Sage for a freshman dormi- 

 tory. The university has also received $130,- 

 000 from other sources, including over $50,- 

 000 from the General Education Board. 



Columbia University has received $100,000 

 from the children of the late Rev. Orlando 

 Harriman, who graduated from Columbia in 

 1835, to be used for the endovnnent of a chair 

 in English. Other gifts to the university, 

 amounting to $40,000 are also announced. 



The medical schools of Indiana University 

 and of Purdue University will be united and 

 conducted under the charge of Indiana Uni- 

 versity. A complete medical course of four 

 years will be conducted at Indianapolis, while 

 the first two years will also be given at 

 Bloomington. It will be remembered that 

 Purdue University, which is primarily a 

 school of engineering, was instrumental in 

 consolidating various proprietory medical 

 schools at Indianapolis, where Indiana Uni- 

 versity also conducted a medical school. 

 There had been some conflict between the two 

 schools, and it is fortunate that Indiana will 

 now have a strong medical school under the 

 auspices of its state university. 



Mr. George S. Davis, associate superin- 

 tendent of schools in New York City, has been 

 chosen president of the New York Normal 

 College. The salary of this position is $8,250 

 with an annuity of $5,000. 



The Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, of Brook- 

 lyn, has declined to become president of 

 Wesleyan University. 



Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, dean of the School 

 of Mines and professor of mining and geology 

 in the Pennsylvania State College, was elected 



