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a bronze statue of Professor Henry in the park 

 in front of the school in one of whose rooms 

 the great discovery was made. Dr. John J. 

 Carty and Eegents Pliny T. Sexton, Charles 

 B. Alexander, Chester S. Lord, Abram I. 

 Elkus, James J. Byrne, Adelbert Moot, 

 William Berri and Albert Vanderveer each 

 pledged $100. 



Professor Ivael Sohwarzschild, director of 

 the Astrophysieal Observatory at Potsdam, has 

 died from illness contracted while on military 

 service. 



The death is announced of Mr. John 

 Griffiths, formerly tutor in mathematics and 

 for many years past senior fellow of Jesus 

 College, Oxford. 



An appeal has been issued by the Chinese 

 Medical Board to the medical profession of 

 Philadelphia to supply fifty physicians and 

 surgeons for immediate service at hospitals in 

 China. It is believed that the furnishing of 

 this unit will be undertaken by the College 

 of Physicians of Philadelphia. 



Invitations from the Kansas City Section 

 of the American Chemical Society and from 

 the University of Kansas to hold the spring 

 meeting of 1917 in Kansas City, Mo., and in 

 Lawrence, Kan., have been accepted. 



A MEETING for the reading of papers will be 

 held by the Ecological Society of America at 

 San Diego, in connection with the meeting of 

 the Pacific Division of the American Associa- 

 tion on August 9, 10 and 11. Two field ex- 

 cursions in the vicinity of San Diego will be 

 held by the society on the succeeding days. 



At the tenth annual meeting of the British 

 Science Guild, held on May 17, the Eight Hon. 

 Andrew Pisher, high commissioner for the 

 commonwealth of Australia, described the es- 

 tablishment of the National Institute of Sci- 

 ence and Industry in Australia. Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral Sir Alfred Keogh, referring to the rela- 

 tion of science to the work of the Eoyal Army 

 Medical Corps, said that in the British army 

 in France there were twenty-two cases of ty- 

 phoid fever and stated that under former con- 

 ditions there would probably have been from 

 eighty to a hundred thousand cases. Dr. E. 



MuUineux Walmsley, principal of Northamp- 

 ton Polytechnic Institute, E.C., spoke of the 

 work of the technical optics committee of the 

 guild. 



On the occasion of his seventieth birthday 

 on March 16, 1916, Professor G. Mittag- 

 Leffler and his wife made a joint last will and 

 testament of peculiar significance in the do- 

 main of science. Extracts from this will have 

 recently been published by Professor Mittag- 

 Leffler in a pamphlet, so that the features of 

 the document are now public property. By 

 the terms of the will there is founded a mathe- 

 matical institute to bear the name of the 

 donors, which institute is to be housed in their 

 villa at Djursholm, Stockholm. The institute 

 is to be fully established at the death of the 

 donors, and is to consist of the villa in ques- 

 tion, the mathematical library of Professor 

 Mittag-Leffler, and a fund for the encourage- 

 ment of pure mathematics, particularly in the 

 four Scandinavian countries, Sweden, Den- 

 mark, Finland and Norway, but more espe- 

 cially in Sweden. The library is to be open to 

 all mathematicians, subject to the approval of 

 the president of the committee of trustees, or 

 the director of the institute. Certain financial 

 assistance is to be given to those who show 

 genuine aptitude for research and discovery in 

 the domain of pure mathematics. There is 

 also provided for the bestowal of medals and 

 of prizes in the form of sets of the Acta 

 Mathematica. The institute thus becomes one 

 of the most noteworthy establishments in the 

 learned world, and will be a perpetual monu- 

 ment to the great interest in mathematics al- 

 ways manifested by Professor Mittag-Leffler. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that the seventeenth annual 

 meeting of the Kitasato Institute Alumni As- 

 sociation was held on April 3 and 4, and at the 

 general meeting held on the afternoon of the 

 second day the discoverer of the cause of in- 

 fectious jaundice. Professor Inada, and his as- 

 sistant. Dr. Ido, were awarded by Professor 

 Kitasato the prize of the late Professor Asak- 

 awa fund. The prize consisted of a gold medal 

 and a sum of money. It is offered for the best 



