December 18j 1914] 



SCIENCE 



There have been killed in the war, Peod- 

 waair Prick, director of the Royal School of 

 Forestry at Miinden, and Dr. Heinz Michael- 

 son, assistant in the Institute for Oceano- 

 graphy in Berlin. 



The directors of the Fenger Memorial Fund 

 announce that the sum of $600 has been set 

 aside for medical investigation in 1915. The 

 money v^ill be used to pay all or part of the 

 salary of a worker, the work to be done under 

 direction in an established institution, which 

 will furnish the necessary facilities and sup- 

 plies free of cost. It is desirable that the 

 work undertaken should have a direct clinical 

 bearing. Applications giving full particulars 

 should be sent to L. Hektoen, 629 S. Wood 

 St., Chicago, before January 15, 1915. 



In the will of the late Miss Dessie Greer, 

 an annual member of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, the museum is desig- 

 nated as the ultimate beneficiary of a fund of 

 $90,000. 



By the will of the late WiUiam Endicott, of 

 Boston, a bequest of $25,000 for cancer re- 

 search is made to Harvard University. 



The American Museum of Natural History 

 has received from Messrs. M. Guggenheim 

 and Sons the gift of a small collection of pre- 

 historic objects found in a copper mine at 

 Chuquicamata, Chile. The collection consists 

 for the most part of hafted stone hammers 

 and wooden scrapers. These were the imple- 

 ments used by the Indians in pre-Spanish 

 days in collecting the copper (atacamite) 

 with which they made knives and other im- 

 plements. 



In the New York City building at the Pan- 

 ama-Pacific Exposition, the gardens, libraries 

 and museums of New York will have a booth 

 some twenty-four feet long at the left of the 

 entrance, with interior and exterior wall 

 space for the display of photographs. Each 

 institution of the city has been allotted ap- 

 proximately ninety square feet of surface. 



At a meeting of members of the Lister In- 

 stitute, London, under the presidency of Sir 

 Henry Eoscoe, held on November 18, a pro- 

 posal to authorize the governing body to ef- 

 fect an amalgamation with the Committee 



for Medical Research, established under the 

 National Health Insurance Act, 1911, with 

 clauses provisionally agreed to by the treas- 

 ury was rejected. 



At the recent meeting of the National As- 

 sociation of State Universities, in Washing- 

 ton, there were five municipal universities, 

 institutions directly controlled and supported 

 by cities, represented. President Charles Wil- 

 liam Dabney made the opening address on 

 " The Municipal University." At the close 

 of the meeting President Wheeler, of the Uni- 

 versity of California, addressed representa- 

 tives of urban universities on the importance 

 of their service to American institutions. An 

 association to be called the Association of 

 Urban Universities was then founded and all 

 institutions cooperating with cities and train- 

 ing for public service were invited to become 

 members. The purposes of the association 

 were announced to be the study of the prob- 

 lem of the city in its broadest sense, and the 

 training of men and women to serve the 

 state. Dr. Dabney, of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati, was elected president; Dean Everett 

 W. Lord, of Boston University, vice-president, 

 and Dr. Walter E. Clark, of the College of 

 the City of New York, secretary. 



The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 American Economic Association will be held 

 at Princeton, N. J., from December 28 to 31. 

 The American Statistical Association and 

 the American Sociological Society will hold 

 their annual meetings at the same time and 

 place. Several joint sessions will be held. 

 The first session is to be a joint meeting ad- 

 dressed by the presidents of the three associa- 

 tions — Messrs. John H. Gray, John Koren 

 and Edward A. Ross. The morning session 

 on December 29 is to be on " Speculation on 

 Stock Exchanges and Public Regulation of 

 the Exchanges." Papers wiU. be presented by 

 Messrs. Samuel Untermyer and Henry C. 

 Emery. The afternoon session on December 

 29 will be on "Market Distribution." The 

 morning session on December 30 will be a 

 joint meeting with the American Statistical 

 Association to discuss " The Statistical Work 

 of the United States Government " ; the after- 



