June 26, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. W. D. Matthew, of The American 

 Museum of Natural History has left New 

 York to join the expedition to western Ne- 

 braska under the direction of Mr. Albert 

 Thomson. The main object of the party is 

 to obtain complete skeletons of the three-toed 

 horses of the Miocene epoch. While it is Dr. 

 Matthew's intention to return to the museum 

 about August 1, the other members of the 

 party will remain in the field during the 

 entire season. 



The American Museum of Natural History 

 has sent Mr. Alanson Skinner to James Bay 

 to make archeological and ethnological in- 

 vestigations among the Cree Indians. Dr. E. 

 H. Lowie, of the anthropological department 

 of the museum, who left New York City on 

 May 5, has arrived at Fort Chippewyan on 

 Lake Athabasca. Dr. Lowie plans to remain 

 among the Athabascan Indians during the 

 summer. 



Dr. L. Cockayne has been instructed by the 

 New Zealand government to undertake botan- 

 ical surveys in different parts of the do- 

 minion. He has completed a survey of a 

 kauri forest (Agathis australis) in the north 

 island, and also of the Tongariro National 

 Park, and he is now engaged on a survey of 

 another large forest. His reports will be 

 published by the government as parlia- 

 mentary papers. 



The memorial tablet in honor of Robert 

 Henry Thurston, former director of Sibley 

 College, Cornell TJniversity, who died in 1904, 

 was unveiled on June 16. The tablet, which 

 is a fine piece of work and bears a faithful 

 likeness of the great engineering investigator 

 and teacher, is the work of Herman MacNeil, 

 a New York sculptor, who was formerly a 

 student and instructor at Cornell. Professor 

 R. C. Carpenter, one of Director Thurston's 

 colleagues, presided. Addresses were delivered 

 by President Schurman, Dr. Andrew D. 

 White, Mr. John H. Barr, of Syracuse, and 

 Director Albert W. Smith, of Sibley College. 

 Mr. Henry Dubois presented the memorial on 

 the part of the donors. 



A MONUMENT in honor of Dr. Bernhardt 

 Wartmann, the botanist, has been erected at 

 St. Gallen. 



Dr. Ludwig Mond has established a prize in 

 honor of Professor Stanislao Cannizzaro, to 

 be awarded by the Academy of Sciences at 

 Rome. 



Dr. Ferdinand Lowl, professor of geology 

 at the University of Czernowitz, has died at 

 the age of fifty-two years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEW8 



Mr. Henry Phipps, of Pittsburg and New 

 York, has made a large gift to the Johns 

 Hopkins University for the founding of a 

 Psychiatric Clinic. It provides for the con- 

 struction of a hospital building on the Hop- 

 kins Hospital grounds to accommodate sixty 

 patients, together with apparatus, and labora- 

 tories for the scientific investigation of 

 mental abnormalities by pathological, chem- 

 ical, and psychological methods. Mr. Phipps 

 will provide for the maintenance of a medical 

 and nursing staff, including salaries for a 

 professor of psychiatry and assistants and 

 other expenses for a period of ten years. 

 The total amount of the gift is withheld in 

 accordance with the wishes of Mr. Phipps, 

 but it is understood that it will considerably 

 exceed half a million dollars. 



The corner stone of the Morley Chemical 

 Laboratory was laid on the Adelbert College 

 campus, June 11, when an address was de- 

 livered by the director, Olin Freeman Tower, 

 Ph.D. The laboratory is to cost at least 

 $120,000, and is expected to be ready for use 

 in the fall of 1909. 



Drown Memorial Hall, erected at Lehigh 

 University, for the social purposes of the 

 students, as a memorial to Thomas Messenger 

 Drown, formerly president of the university 

 and eminent as a chemist, was dedicated on 

 June 9. Addresses were made by Dr. 0. B. 

 Dudley and by Dr. Rossiter W. Raymond. 



The comer stone of the new agricultural 

 building of the University of Maine was 

 laid in connection with the commencement 

 exercises last week. President S. E. Fellows 

 presided. Dr. W. H. Jordan, director of the 

 New York Experiment Station, Geneva, made 

 the opening address. Hon. Payson Smith, 

 state superintendent of public schools, spoke 

 briefly, and was followed by Dean W. D. 



