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verlock, entomologist, and Mr. JoUyman, 

 bacteriologist. 



It is stated in Nature that at a recent gen- 

 eral meeting of the Liverpool Astronomical 

 Society it was resolved to raise a special fund 

 for the purpose of a memorial to the late Mr. 

 E. 0. Johnson, whose long connection with 

 the society, in which he filled the positions of 

 secretary and president, and his services in the 

 interests of astronomical science, suggest that 

 some permanent recognition of his work 

 should be made. 



A MEMORIAL in marble to the late Sir John 

 Evans, the anthropologist, has been placed in 

 the parish church of Abbot's Langley, Herts, 

 where he lived for sixty years. 



According to information received from Tim- 

 buctoo the remains of Alexander Gordon Laing, 

 the African traveler, who was murdered in 1826 

 while exploring the course of the Niger, have 

 been discovered at Saebb, some 50 kilometers 

 north of Timbuctoo. The discovery was made 

 by M. Bonnel de Mezieres, who had been com- 

 missioned by the governor of the French 

 Upper Senegal and Niger Colony to proceed 

 to Taudeni, some 300 miles north of Timbuc- 

 too, in order to examine the salt mines of the 

 district. 



Professor L. P. Kinnicutt, director of the 

 department of chemistry in the Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute, well-known for his im- 

 portant contributions to sanitary chemistry 

 and sewage disposal, died on February 6, aged 

 fifty-six years. 



Dr. Edward Gameliel Janeway, professor 

 of medicine and dean of the University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, one of the 

 leading physicians of the country, died on 

 February 10, aged sixty-nine years. 



Dr. Willibald A. Nagel, professor of physi- 

 ology at Eostock, has died at the age of forty 

 years. 



M. E. A. Leveille, the French entomologist, 

 has died at the age of seventy years. 



Propessoe Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff, 

 formerly professor of physics at Basle, has 

 died at the age of seventy-eight years. 

 . Foreign exchanges announce the deaths -of 

 three astronomers: M. Gustav Leveau, known 



for his work in celestial mechanics and for 

 more than fifty years an ofiicer of the Paris 

 Observatory; M. Eoze, astronomical lecturer 

 at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and Dr. F. 

 W. Hermann Leppig, astronomer in the Leip- 

 zig Observatory. 



The Wabash College Botanical Society will 

 this year send a representative to the Woods 

 Hole Biological Laboratory to occupy a table 

 which they will support. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Dr. and Mrs. Egbert W. Long, of Indian- 

 apolis, have given $200,000 in real estate to 

 the medical department of Indiana State Uni- 

 versity. 



By the will of Mrs. Emily H. Moir, of New 

 York City, Barnard College received $10,000. 

 Harvard University, Princeton University, 

 Lincoln University and Howard University 

 receive shares of the residuary estate. 



Illinois College, at Jacksonville, HI., re- 

 ceived recently $5,000 from Mr. Edward F. 

 Goltra, of St. Louis. This contribution is 

 towards a new endowment of $150,000 which 

 the college is raising. Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

 has contributed one half of the amount; 

 friends and alumni have thus far contributed 

 about $65,000. 



Plans have been proposed to unite the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania with the Pennsylvania 

 State College and to make the relations be- 

 tween the university and the state more inti- 

 mate. 



The sum of £25,000 required for the pur- 

 chase of the site for new chemical laboratories 

 at University College, London, has been com- 

 pleted by a gift of £4,500 from Mr. Ealph 0. 

 Forster. The total sum required for the pur- 

 chase of the site and the erection of the lab- 

 oratories was £70,000. 



Dr. C. H. Neilson, professor of physiolog- 

 ical chemistry in St. Louis University School 

 of Medicine has been made professor of medi- 

 cine and director of the department. The 

 chair in medicine has been put on a salary 

 basis. Dr. Neilson is an A.B. from Ohio Wes- 



