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SCIENCE 



[X. S. Vol. XXXII. No. 810 



Dr. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach, a physi- 

 cian of Boston, formerly demonstrator in 

 anatomy and lecturer in surgery in the Har- 

 vard Medical School, died on June 28, at the 

 age of sixty-seven years. 



There has been established at Chicago the 

 Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute for 

 the Scientific Investigation of the Causes of 

 Disease, by the will of the Chicago merchant 

 whose name it bears, i The endowment is 

 $1,000,000, which it is said may be consider- 

 ably increased. 



CojSfGRESS has passed the bill appropriating 

 $50,000 to establish a biological laboratory for 

 the study of diseases of fish, especially those 

 related to cancer. The station is to be estab- 

 lished under the U. S. Fish Commission. 



Through the generosity of Mr. Anson W. 

 Hard, the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory has secured an extensive series of old and 

 valuable serapes and other blankets made by 

 the Saltillo and other Indian tribes of Mexico 

 and several of the tribes of the southwest. 



The fourth International Congress of Phi- 

 losophy will be held at Bologna at Easter, 

 1911. 



The Harvard Summer School of field geol- 

 ogy, endowed by Mr. Robert W. Sayles, will 

 be held in Montana for five weeks in July and 

 August under the direction of Professors J. B. 

 Woodworth and J. W. Eggleston (recently ap- 

 pointed at the School of Mines, Eolla, Mo.). 

 The Boston members of the school, about 

 eighteen in number, started on July 5 ■ in a 

 special car for Bozeman. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 By the will of the late Edward Whitney the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, re- 

 -ceives $2.5,000 for work in geophysics. 



At a recent meeting of the trustees of the 

 University of Hlinois the annual biidget for 

 1910-11, $1,229,-368, was voted. This does not 

 include the sums appropriated by the state 

 legislature for the permanent improvement of 

 the plant. The trustees accepted a gift from 

 the Chicago Northwestern Railway Company, 



of the Locomotive Testing plant at Fortieth 

 Street shops. This plant will be removed to 

 the university in Urbana. 



The electrical laboratory presented to Ox- 

 ford University by the Drapers' Company, and 

 erected on the north side of the University 

 Museum at a cost of £23,000, was formally 

 opened on June 21. 



At the University of Pennsylvania hereafter 

 the chairman of each department of instruc- 

 tion will be elected annually by the depart- 

 ment. Eor the year 1910-11, Professor G. E.. 

 Fisher has been elected chairman of the de- 

 partment of mathematics in the graduate 

 school, and Professor I. J. Schwatt, chairman 

 of the mathematics department in the college. 

 Appointments to the faculty were made 

 by the regents of the University of Wisconsin 

 at the commencement meeting as follows:. 

 A professorship of manual arts in the course 

 for the training of teachers was established,, 

 and Professor F. D. Crawshaw, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, was elected to the new 

 chair. Dr. J. A. E. Eyster, of the University 

 of Virginia, was made professor of physiology 

 to succeed Dr. Joseph Erlanger, who resigned' 

 to accept the position of the head of the de- 

 partment of physiology in the medical school 

 of Washington University. F. B. Hadley, of 

 Ohio State University, was appointed assistant 

 professor of veterinary science. Edward J.. 

 Ward, now supervisor of social centers and 

 playgrounds in the city of Rochester, N. T., 

 was appointed acting secretary of the welfare 

 department of the imiversity extension divi- 

 sion. The following new instructors were 

 appointed: E. E. Moots, mathematics; E. M. 

 Gilbert, botany; 0. Butler, horticulture; S. E. 

 Johnson, mechanics; Dr. Robert Van Valzah, 

 medicine; W. C. Rowse, steam and gas engi- 

 neering. The new assistants elected were: 

 G. A. Russell and Frieda Bachman, botany; 

 Vanette MacDonald, herbarium; Paul H. 

 Dyke. R. R. Chamberlin, T. M. Dahm, R. L. 

 Wegel, T. J. Littelton, Phillip Rosenberg. R.. 

 G. Sherwood, A. L. Tarrell, E. B. Young, R. 

 T. Birge, O. J. Zabel, Harriet B. Merrill, 

 zoology; R. A. Baker, O. L. Barnebey, G. Diet- 

 richson, W. S. Hubbard, Eldin V. Lynn, E. S. 



