OCTOBEE 27, 1911] 



iSCIENGE 



557 



Michigan State Agricultural College .... 11.6 + 



Michigan College of Mines 8.8 + 



University of Minnesota 26.1 + 



Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical 



College 16.6 + 



University of Mississippi ' 12.6 + 



University of Missouri 8.4 + 



Montana College of Agriculture and 



Mechanic Arts 8.3 + 



Montana State School of Mines 6.7 + 



University of Montana 6.4 + 



University of Nebraska 11.3 + 



University of Nevada 8.3 + 



New Hampshire College of Agriculture 



and Mechanic Arts 6.8 + 



Eutgers College (N. J.) 9.3 + 



New Mexico College of Agriculture and 



Mechanic Arts 8.2 + 



University of New Mexico 8.1 + 



New Mexico School of Mines 6.5 



Cornell University (N. Y.) 6.6 + 



University of North Carolina 8.2 + 



North Carolina College of Agriculture and 



Mechanic Arts 10.4 + 



North Dakota Agricultural College 11.5 + 



State University and School of Mines 



(N. Dak.) 9.2 + 



Ohio University 19 



Ohio State University 12.8 + 



Miami University (Ohio) 10 + 



University of Oklahoma 10.9 + 



Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical 



College 11.8 + 



Oregon State Agricultural College 11.9 + 



University of Oregon 8.6 + 



Pennsylvania State College 9.5 + 



Ehode Island State College 6.6 + 



South Carolina Military Academy 17.9 + 



Clemson Agricultural College (S. C.) .... 13.5 + 



University of South Carolina 10.5 + 



South Dakota Agricultural College 8.6 + 



South Dakota State School of Mines .... 3 + 



University of South Dakota 9.6 + 



University of Tennessee 6.5 + 



University of Texas 18 + 



Agricultural and Mechanical College of 



Texas 16.1 + 



Agricultural College of Utah 12.1 + 



University of Utah 12.1 + 



University of Vermont and Agricultural 



College 5.5 + 



Virginia Polytechnic Institute 7.9 + 



University of Virginia 10.5 + 



"From 1909 report. 



Virginia Military Institute 16.3 + 



College of William and Mary (Va.) 12 + 



State College of Washington 13.9 + 



University of Washington 18.5 + 



West Virginia University 6.5 + 



University of Wisconsin 7.9 + 



University of Wyoming 5.6 + 



C. H. Handschin 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 It is reported from Stockholm, we liope 

 correctly, that the Nobel prize for physics will 

 be awarded this year to Mr. Thomas A. Edison. 

 Professor E. W. "Wood, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has been elected a correspond- 

 ing member of the Gottingen Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Professor R. DeC. Ward, of Harvard 

 University, and Mr. C. G. Abbot, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, have been elected 

 corresponding members of the German Meteor- 

 ological Society. 



Dr. Emil Fischer, of Berlin, has been 

 awarded the Berzelius medal of the Swedish 

 Medical Society. 



Professor Martin Kirchner, the bacteriolo- 

 gist, has been appointed head of the medical 

 department in the Prussian ministry, a posi- 

 tion that has hitherto been held by a jurist. 



Sir Almroth "Wright has been commis- 

 sioned by the mining groups of the Rand to 

 investigate and report on the question of im- 

 munization against pneumonia, a disease 

 which is said to be the cause of the largest 

 mortality among the native laborers on the 

 goldfields. 



Dr. "William H. Brown, research assistant 

 in plant physiology at the Michigan Experi- 

 ment Station, and instructor in plant physi- 

 ology at the college, has been appointed plant 

 physiologist in the Philippine Bureau of Sci- 

 ence, Manila. 



Dr. Tabe, formerly of Yokohama, is spend- 

 ing several months in the paleontological labo- 

 ratory of Columbia University studying Amer- 

 ican Paleozoic faunas and also continuing his 

 research on Scaphites. 



