November 10, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin. 

 We learn from Nature that the king of Italy 

 presided at the inauguration ceremony, which 

 was attended by nearly all the more eminent 

 Italian chemists and physicists, as well as by 

 a number of representatives of foreign acad- 

 emies, including M. Haller, of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences; M. Moureu, of the Chemical 

 Society of France; Professor Nernst, of the 

 Chemical Society of Berlin, and M. Guye, of 

 the Geneva Society. The date selected was 

 the centenary of the publication of Avogadro's 

 celebrated memoir. 



George William Jones, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Cornell University from 187Y to 

 190Y, when he became professor emeritus, died 

 on October 29, aged seventy-four years. 



M. Louis Grandeau, formerly general in- 

 spector of the French Agricultural Station, 

 has died at the age of seventy-seven years. 



Professor Paul B. Eichter, of the Royal 

 Gymnasium at Quedlinburg, Saxony, who de- 

 voted much of his time to the study of the 

 Cretaceous fossil plants of that kingdom, 

 died on October 9, at the age of 5Y. 



Dr. Julius von Michel, professor of oph- 

 thalmology and director of the eye clinic of 

 the University of Berlin, has died at the age 

 of sixty-seven. 



UNIVESSITr AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Announcement is made that the action 

 brought by the children of the late Mrs. 

 George Crocker to recover the residence at 

 No. 1 East Sixty-fourth street and its con- 

 tents, which form a part of the legacy given 

 by the late George Crocker to Columbia Uni- 

 versity for the study of cancer, has been dis- 

 continued with the consent of the plaintiils 

 upon the payment to them by Columbia Uni- 

 versity of $60,000, the equivalent of interest at 

 three per cent, for two years on the amount 

 the plaintiffs claimed. 



Subscriptions for $150,000 to meet the con- 

 ditional pledge of $50,000 from the General 

 Education Board have been received by Mid- 

 dlebury College. One half of the fund will 

 be reserved for general endowment, while 

 $50,000 will be expended for a gymnasium. 



Mount Holyoke College has received a be- 

 quest of $5,000 from S. Newton Cutter, of 

 Somerville, Mass., the income of which will be 

 used for the purchase of books for the library. 



Mr. E. B. Burlingame, of Providence, has 

 presented to Brown University his botanical 

 herbarium of some 3,000 specimens. 



Beginning with the session of 1911-12, the 

 University of Missouri will require two years 

 of college work for admission to all profes- 

 sional schools, except the College of Agricul- 

 ture. 



A NEW system of granting honors for uni- 

 versity work has been started at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin. Hereafter, special recog- 

 nition will be granted at the end of the sec- 

 ond year and at graduation. Honors at the 

 end of the sophomore year will be granted for 

 unusual excellence of work carried on in at 

 least two different departments. Graduation 

 honors will be of two kinds. First, honors 

 will be awarded for an exceptionally original 

 and scholarly thesis, without any considera- 

 tion of the writer's previous record. Second, 

 honors will be granted for a general high 

 average of the required work done throughout 

 the entire course, supplemented by indepen- 

 dent work done in at least two subjects. 



At the annual meeting of the Association 

 of American Universities, held at the Reynolds 

 Club of the University of Chicago on October 

 26 and 27, twenty-one of the leading universi- 

 ties of the country were represented. The 

 principal question before the association was 

 the unification of the requirements for grad- 

 uate work in major studies. A m ong those 

 who took a prominent part in the discussion 

 were Presidents Strong, of Kansas; Lowell, of 

 Harvard; Wheeler, of California; Vincent, of 

 Minnesota; Hill, of Missouri; Alderman, of 

 Virginia, and Judson, of Chicago. 



Tale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Virginia, 

 Illinois and Minnesota have joined in an ar- 

 rangement for an exchange of professors with 

 Japan. Under the terms of this agreement 

 Japan will be represented for four weeks at 

 each of the above named institutions, the 

 coming year by Dr. Ignazo Nitobe, of Tokio, 



