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intellectual and moral philosophy, emeritus. 

 They retired last year on the Carnegie Foun- 

 dation fund. Frank Asbury Sherman, pro- 

 fessor of mathematics, will retire at the end 

 of the academic year, when he will have 

 reached the age of sixty-nine years. 



Proi'essor Bernstein, director of the physi- 

 ological laboratory at Halle, will retire from 

 active service at the beginning of the winter 

 semester on account of advanced age. 



Dr. Eollin T. Chamberlin, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, sailed for South America on 

 March 20, to engage in geological work on 

 some of the metamorphic rocks of southeast- 

 ern Brazil and on certain portions of the 

 Andes. 



Dr. Simon B. Wolbach, assistant professor 

 of bacteriology at the Harvard Medical 

 School, and Dr. J. L. Todd, of McGill Univer- 

 sity, have departed for West Africa to study 

 the sleeping sickness and allied diseases. 



Dr. a. S. Peaese will leave the University 

 of Michigan on April 1, to fill a position as 

 assistant professor in the department of zo- 

 ology of the University of the Philippines in 

 Manila. 



Dr. Osten Bergstrand, for some time ob- 

 server at the Upsala Observatory, Sweden, 

 has been appointed professor of astronomy in 

 the Upsala University and director of the ob- 

 servatory. 



Dr. Svante Arrhenius, director of the 

 Nobel Institute, Stockholm, lectured before 

 the Washington Academy of Sciences and 

 the Philosophical Society of Washington on 

 March 25 on " The Siderial Cultus." 



Dean Allen J. Smith, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, closed a series of popular health 

 lectures, given under the auspices of the med- 

 ical faculty, March lY. His talk was on 

 " Flies and Other Insects as Carriers of Dis- 

 ease." 



On the evening of March 17, Professor C. 

 J. Keyset, of Columbia University, delivered 

 a lecture before the Philosophical Club of 

 Princeton University on " The Nature and 

 Philosophic Significance of the Mathematical 

 Doctrine of Invariance." 



Mr. James E. Steers, of the class of 1853, 

 has made a further gift of $2,200 to the Wol- 

 cott Gibbs Library of Chemistry of the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York. The money is 

 to be expended in the completion of certain 

 journals and for cataloguing. 



A portrait of David Eittenhouse, painted 

 in 1772 by Eembrandt Peale, has been given 

 to the University of Pennsylvania by Mrs. 

 William Lawber. David Eittenhouse was 

 professor of astronomy and viee-provost of the 

 university from 1779 to 1782, and from 1782 

 until the time of his death in 1796, a trustee. 



Felix Plateau, who recently retired from 

 active duties of the chair of zoology in the 

 University of Genth, known especially for his 

 studies on the behavior of insects, died on 

 March 4. 



In the New York senate on March 21 a bill 

 was introduced to incorporate " The Car- 

 negie Corporation of New York." The in- 

 corporators named in the bill are Andrew 

 Carnegie, Senator Elihu Eoot, president of 

 the Carnegie Endowment for International 

 Peace; Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of 

 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching; William H. Frew, presi- 

 dent of the board of trustees of the Carnegie 

 Institute of Pittsburgh; Eobert S. Wood- 

 ward, president of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington; Charles L. Taylor, president of 

 the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission ; Eobert 

 A. Franks, president of the Home Trust Com- 

 pany, and James Bertram, Mr. Carnegie's 

 secretary. Under the language of the bill the 

 incorporators are authorized " to receive and 

 maintain a fund and apply the income to pro- 

 mote the advancement and diffusion of knowl- 

 edge among the people of the United States, 

 by aiding technical schools, institutions of 

 higher learning, libraries, scientific research, 

 hero funds, useful publications, and by such 

 other agencies and means as shall from time 

 to time be found appropriate." 



The Austrian Academy of Sciences held on 

 March 9 a sitting to celebrate the fiftieth an- 

 niversary of the appointment of the Arch- 

 duke Eainer to be its curator. The archduke 

 gave 100,000 kronen to the academy as an en- 



