Mat 12, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



723 



Dr. Cameron Piggotty, professor of chem- 

 istry in the University of South, died on 

 April 30, aged fifty-five years. 



Mr. Henry Scherren, an English v^riter on 

 zoological suhjects, died on April 25. 



The death is announced of M. Henri Berge, 

 professor of chemistry at the University of 

 Brussels. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on June 7, to fill one 

 or more vacancies in the position of botanical 

 translator, at $1,400 or $1,500 per annum, in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The forty-fourth annual meeting of the 

 Canadian Medical Association will be held at 

 Montreal in the first week of June, immedi- 

 ately after the official opening of the new med- 

 ical buildings of McGill University. 



Nature states that an important discovery 

 in regard to the existence of man in early 

 Pleistocene or Pliocene strata has been made 

 by the Marquis of Cerralbo in Spain. In the 

 alluvial deposits of the River Jalon, which is 

 an affluent of the Guadalquiver, he has dis- 

 covered very abundant remains of undoubted 

 Elephas meridionalis in contact with well- 

 characterized implements of human workman- 

 ship of the proto-Chellean type. Photographs 

 of the specimens and of the cuttings in which 

 they occur have been received from the mar- 

 quis in Paris, and Professor Marcelin Boule 

 left Paris in Easter week in order to examine 

 the site and the specimens. It is possible that 

 E. meridionalis may have survived in the 

 south of Europe from Pliocene into early 

 Pleistocene times, but the association of imple- 

 ments of human workmanship with this early 

 species of elephant is altogether new. 



Officers of a number of the leading col- 

 leges and universities charged with the busi- 

 ness administration, met at Yale University 

 on April 2Y. The following subjects were 

 proposed for discussion: 



Methods of increasing graduate financial in- 

 terest in university endowment. 



The problem of the investment of trust funds — 



whether to apply each investment to a specific 

 fund, or to invest the funds collectively. 



Dormitories — their construction, management 

 and the income to be expected from them. 



What constitutes adequate fire, liability and 

 casualty insurance? 



Budget and appropriation systems. 



The requirement of bonds from students for the 

 payment of college bills. 



Infirmary administration and sanitary inspec- 

 tion. 



Pensions for employees and the general question 

 of ' ' welfare work ' ' for employees. 



The problem of the dining hall. 



The establishment of central stations for heat, 

 light and power. 



Consideration of the Carnegie report on "Aca- 

 demic and Industrial Eflfieiency. ' ' 



Cooperative purehasmg by universities. 



Should students who can afford it pay the full 

 cost of tuition voluntarily? — about 40 per cent, 

 of the cost of education now being paid by the 

 student. 



' ' Functional ' ' administration versus ' ' depart- 

 mental ' ' administration. 



' ' Centralized administrative responsibility ' ' ver- 

 sus ' ' committee government. ' ' 



The eighth annual session of the Puget 

 Sound Marine Station at Friday Harbor, in 

 the state of Washington, will begin on Mon- 

 day, June 26, and continue for six weeks, 

 closing on August 5. The laboratory will be 

 under the general charge of Professor Trevor 

 Kincaid, of the University of "Washington, as- 

 sisted by a council representing the several 

 institutions participating in the organization. 

 The instructors with the courses they oifer will 

 be as follows : Ecology, Trevor Kincaid, Uni- 

 versity of Washington; Comparative Emhry- 

 ology, W. J. Baumgartner, University of Kan- 

 sas; Plankton, John F. Bovard, University of 

 Oregon; General Zoology, H. B. Duncanson, 

 State Normal School, Peru, Nebraska; Algw, 

 Geo. B. Rigg, University of Washington; 

 Phanerogamic Botany, A. E. Sweetser, Uni- 

 versity of Oregon. The work of the station 

 entered upon a new phase during the session 

 of 1910, when a substantially constructed three 

 story laboratory was put into commission, 

 provided with running salt and fresh water, 

 electric light, aquarium tanks, etc. An addi- 



