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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1035 



A COOPERATIVE agreement has been entered 

 into by the University of Illinois and the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, vehereby all of the 

 demonstration work done by the department 

 will be in cooperation with the University of 

 Illinois and under the management of the 

 same organization that administers the Lever 

 bill. Pursuant to this plan of cooperation, 

 Mr. W. F. Handschin, now of the animal 

 husbandry department of the university, has 

 been appointed state leader in charge of the 

 county advisory work, both under the Lever 

 bin and the cooperative relations with the 

 department. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave an illustrated lecture 

 before the Franklin Institute, at Philadelphia, 

 on October 21, his subject being " The Earth, 

 a Great Magnet." 



Professor J. M. Aldrich, of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Entomology, who was for many 

 years a professor of geology in the University 

 of Idaho, gave a lecture at the University of 

 Illinois on October 14 on " Western Salt Lakes 

 and Their Inhabitants." 



Sir J. J. Thomson delivered his presidential 

 address to the Physical Society of London on 

 October 23, the subject being " Ionization." 



In connection with the London County 

 Council's plan of indicating the houses in 

 London which have been the residences of dis- 

 tinguished individuals, a tablet has, as we 

 learn from Nature, recently been erected com- 

 memorating the residence of Benjamin Frank- 

 lin, at 36 Craven Street. 



The scientific library which Professor New- 

 ton H. Winchell gave to the University of 

 Minnesota is estimated to be worth six thou- 

 sand dollars. It is a valuable collection of 

 books and serial publications in geology, 

 archeology and related subjects, collected by 

 Professor Winchell during his long life en- 

 gaged in scientific work. 



A portrait of the late Dr. Eeginald Heber 

 Fitz, by Mr. I. M. Gaugengigl, of Boston, has 

 been presented to the Harvard Medical School 

 by more than one hundred former associates 

 and pupils. At the presentation made at a full 

 meeting of the faculty of the school. President 



Lowell presided and the gift was formally 

 made to the university by Dr. Harold C. 

 Ernst. Dr. Fitz was professor in the Harvard 

 Medical School from 1873 to 1908. 



Bernard Eichardson Green, civil engineer, 

 superintendent of the Congressional Library 

 building and grounds, died on October 22, aged 

 seventy-one years. Mr. Green was born at 

 Maiden, Mass. He was graduated from the 

 Lawrence Scientific School, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, in 1864. For fourteen years subse- 

 quently he was engaged with officers of the 

 United States Corps of Engineers in con- 

 structing permanent seacoast fortifications in 

 Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 

 Since then he had been in charge of the erec- 

 tion of public buildings in Washington, in- 

 cluding the State, War and Navy Buildings, 

 the Washington Monument, Army Medical 

 Museum and Library, United States Soldiers' 

 Home, the Library of Congress, the Washing- 

 ton Public Library and the National Museum 

 Building. 



Dr. Hans Halle, assistant in plant physiol- 

 ogy in the University of Munich, has died as 

 the result of wounds received in the war. 



The death is announced of Dr. Maximilian 

 Eeinganum, professor of physical chemistry, 

 in Freiburg i. Br. 



On account of the situation in Europe and 

 America created by the war, the executive 

 committee for the Second Eugenics Congress 

 has decided that it will be impossible to hold 

 the proposed congress in New York City in 

 September, 1915. The existing organization 

 will be maintained, pending the reestablish- 

 ment of settled conditions, when the committee 

 will determine upon a new date. The execu- 

 tive committee hopes for the continued inter- 

 est of those who have consented to serve as 

 members of the several committees and as 

 officers of the congress. 



Since the European war broke out Holland 

 has increased its appropriation for the Panama- 

 Pacific International Expedition from $100,- 

 000 to $400,000 ; Argentine from $1,300,000 to 

 $1,'700,000. France, which appropriated $400,- 

 000 for her participation, has sent word that 

 there is no change in her plans. Japan is pre- 



