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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1114 



tendent of the Geodetic Survey of Canada, 

 and director of tlie Dominion astronomical 

 observatory, died on April 23, at the age of 

 sixty-tvro years. 



Professor F. Schenck, the director of the 

 physiological institute at Marburg, has died, 

 aged fifty-three years. 



Dr. p. Chappuis-Sarasix, the Swiss physi- 

 cist, has died at Basel at the age of sixty-one 

 years. 



The cornerstone of the laboratory building 

 of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was laid, with 

 brief formalities, on Thursday afternoon, 

 April 22, 1916. Plans and specifications have 

 been approved for a children's garden build- 

 ing to be erected this spring at a cost of 

 $6,550. A large rock garden is also being com- 

 pleted this month, and four additional wings 

 of the plant houses are under construction. 



The authorities of the University of Ala- 

 bama and of the Bryce Insane Hospital, have 

 joined in making the lands of the two insti- 

 tutions, with an area of approximately 1,200 

 acres, into a bird sanctuary, and at the same 

 time members of the faculty of the Univer- 

 sity of Alabama have been instrumental in 

 the formation of a bird club, to be known as 

 the Tuscaloosa Bird Club. 



Mr. Ogden Mills, of 'New York, has agreed 

 to provide a gift of $8,250 this year and 

 $8,250 during the next academic year for the 

 maintenance of the D. 0. Mills Expedition 

 from the Lick Observatory of the University 

 of California to the southern hemisphere, the 

 expedition making its headquarters at Santi- 

 ago, Chile. 



The eighth semi-annual meeting of the 

 American Institute of Chemical Engineers 

 will be held in Cleveland, O., from June 14 

 to 17. 



A NEW scientific association has been formed 

 at the University of Alabama with William 

 F. Prouty, professor of geology, as president. 

 The members of the association are restricted 

 to the scientific men of the faculty. The pur- 

 pose of the association is chiefly to stimulate 

 scientific research, and to provide means for 



the review of highly specialized publications 

 dealing with subjects on the border-line of 

 the different sciences. 



The Chemists' Club of New York announces 

 the establishment of a scholarship fund, the 

 income from which, approximately $500 per 

 year, is to be devoted to assisting financially 

 deserving young men to obtain education in 

 the field of industrial chemistry or chemical 

 engineering. This scholarship has been en- 

 dowed by Dr. Victor G. Bloede, a prominent 

 manufacturing chemist of Baltimore. Its 

 benefits will be open to properly qualified appli- 

 cants without restriction as to residence, and 

 may be effective at any institution in the 

 United States which may be designated or ap- 

 proved by the Chemists' Club. Applicants 

 must, as a minimum qualification, have com- 

 pleted a satisfactory high-school training in- 

 volving substantial work in elementary chem- 

 istry, physics and mathematics and present a 

 certificate showing that they have passed the 

 entrance examination requirements of the col- 

 lege entrance examination board or its equiva- 

 lent. Preference will be given to young men 

 who have supplemented these minimum quali- 

 fications with additional academic work, espe- 

 cially in subjects which will form a suitable 

 ground work for the more advanced study of 

 applied chemistry and chemical engineering. 

 All inquiries should be addressed to the Bloede 

 Scholarship Committee of the Chemists' Club, 

 50 East 41st Street, New York City. Appli- 

 cations for the academic year 1916-17 should 

 be in the hands of the committee on or before 

 June 1, 1916. The scholarship will be awarded 

 and candidates selected and notified on or be- 

 fore July 1, 1916. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The University of California regents have 

 adopted a budget for 1916-17 which contem- 

 plates the expenditure of $2,565,975. The 

 principal change as compared with the budget 

 of the previous year is an outright addition of 

 $70,000 from its general fund to the univer- 

 sity's annual provision for the maintenance of 



