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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1107 



The Washington Academy of Sciences has 

 arranged a series of evening lectures dealing 

 with various phases of the war. On March 2, 

 Dr. Douglas W. Johnson, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, addressed the academy on " Surface 

 Features of Eiu-ope as a Pactor in the War." 

 The second lecture of the series, entitled 

 " Chemistry in Eelation to the War," will be 

 presented by Dr. L. H. Baekeland on March 23. 

 Through the courtesy of the secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution the large auditorium 

 of the new E"ational Museum has been placed 

 at the disposal of the academy for this series 

 of lectures. 



President Charles E. Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, gives the Sigma Xi 

 address at the University of Minnesota on 

 March 17. 



On February 25, Professor George Grant 

 MacCurdy lectured at Bryn Mawr College on 

 " The Origin and Evolution of Ornament in 

 Art." 



Dr. Vera DANCHAKorF, of the Eockefeller 

 Institute, addressed the seminar in zoology of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, on February 

 29, on the subject of " Experimental Modifica- 

 tion of Hematopoiesis in the Chick Embryo." 

 Dr. Herbert V. ISTeal, professor of zoology 

 at Tufts, is giving a series of lectures on " The 

 Organic Evolution of Life" in Tremont 

 Temple, during March and April. 



Dr. Willis T. Lee, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, will give an illustrated lec- 

 ture on April 7 at Lehigh University on 

 " Camp Life of a Geologist in the Eocky 

 Mountains." 



A COURSE of five lectures, with accompany- 

 ing laboratory demonstrations, was given by 

 Dr. Fred. E. Wright, petrologist. Geophysical 

 Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton, before the Department of Geology of 

 Columbia University from February 28 to 

 March 3. Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, of the 

 United States National Museum, gave before 

 the department on March 8, two lectures on 

 petrographic methods. 



During the coming summer session of the 

 University of California, from June 26 to 



August 5, three graduate seminars will be 

 offered in the department of chemistry : " Ee- 

 cent Theories Concerning the Nature of Free 

 Eadicals, Osonium and Carbonium Salts," 

 Professor M. Gomberg, of the University of 

 Michigan ; " Colloids and Surface Tension," 

 Professor J. H. Hildebrand; " The Calculation 

 of Free Energy," Professor G. N. Lewis. 



Dr. William L. Eodman, this year president 

 of the American Medical Association, pro- 

 fessor of surgery at the Medico-Chirurgieal 

 College of Philadelphia, died on March 8, aged 

 fifty-eight years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



In the will of Eobert E. Ehodes, of Cleve- 

 land, Western Eeserve University, through its 

 medical school and affiliated institutions, is a 

 beneficiary to the amount of about half a mil- 

 lion dollars. There was given to Lakeside 

 Hospital, $250,000; to Charity Hospital, $50,- 

 000; to St. Alexis Hospital, $50,000; to the 

 School of Medicine, $50,000; to the Babies' 

 Dispensary and Hospital, $25,000; to the 

 Tuberculosis Free Dispensary, $25,000, and ta 

 the Maternity Hospital, $25,000. 



The wiU of Marie Antoinette Fisk, of Pasa- 

 dena, Cal., gives $50,000 to Princeton Uni- 

 versity for the construction or improvement 

 of dormitories. 



Fire on March 5 completely destroyed the 

 new engineering building and shop buildings 

 of the Michigan Agricultural College at East 

 Lansing, with a loss of about $240,000. Most 

 of the engineering, shop and physics equip- 

 ment was lost, as were also the records, notes 

 and libraries of the teaching staff. 



Miss Sarah Holborn has bequeathed £1,000 

 to the London School of Medicine for Women. 



We learn from Nature that a friend of the 

 late Dr. Donaldson, master of Magdalen Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, has endowed a bye-fellowship 

 of the annual value of £100, to be called the 

 Donaldson Bye-Fellowship, in memory of the 

 late master; the fellowship is intended for the 



