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occurred of the presidents of Columbia and 

 Harvard Universities. In case Columbia Uni- 

 versity does not fulfil the conditions the be- 

 quest will go to Harvard University. Mr. 

 Pulitzer has also bequeathed $500,000 to the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art and $500,000 to 

 the Philharmonic Society. The income from 

 the New York World and the St. Louis Post- 

 Dispatch is to be divided in tenths, six tenths 

 to be paid to his youngest son, who is now 

 fifteen years of age, two tenths to his second 

 son and one tenth to his oldest son, one tenth 

 to be held for the benefit of the editors and 

 managers of the newspapers. The income of 

 the youngest son is, however, restricted to 

 $40,000 a year between the age of twenty-one 

 and twenty-five and $60,000 a year between 

 the age of twenty-five and thirty. The income 

 of the second son is restricted to $60,000 a 

 year. These incomes are to be doubled in ease 

 of the marriage of the sons. The balance, 

 which may be very large, as the estimated 

 value of the journals is twelve million dollars, 

 is to be paid to Columbia University, the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Phil- 

 harmonic Society, subject to certain condi- 

 tions which are not stated. Mr. Pulitzer also 

 bequeathed $250,000 to Columbia University 

 for scholarships for young men educated in 

 the public schools of the city of New York. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The following awards have been made by 

 the president and council of the Royal So- 

 ciety: a Eoyal medal to Professor George 

 Chrystal, Edinburgh, whose death has mean- 

 while occurred, for his researches in mathe- 

 matics and physics, especially his recent work 

 on seiches and free oscillations in the Scottish 

 lakes; a Eoyal medal to Dr. W. M. Bayliss, 

 F.E.S., for his researches in physiology; the 

 Copley medal to Sir George H. Darwin, 

 K.C.B., F.E.S., for his scientific researches, 

 especially in the domain of astronomical evo- 

 lution ; the Davy medal to Professor Henry E. 

 Armstrong, P.E.S., for his contributions to 

 chemical science; the Hughes medal to Mr. 

 C. T. E. Wilson, E.E.S., for his investigations 



on the formation of cloud and their applica- 

 tion to the study of electrical ions. 



It is now reported from Stockholm that 

 Professor W. Wien, professor of physics in 

 the University of Wiirzburg, is to receive the 

 Nobel prize for physics. 



Sir William H. White, former chief con- 

 structor of the British Navy, has received the 

 John Fritz medal for notable achievement in 

 naval architecture. 



In honor of Professor Wilhelm Waldeyer, 

 the eminent anatomist, who recently cele- 

 brated his seventy-fifth birthday, a tablet has 

 been placed on the house in which he lived 

 while a student at Gottingen. 



Mr. William Hobson, professor of mathe- 

 matics at the University of Cambridge, has 

 been elected a member of the Halle Academy 

 of Sciences. 



The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 

 at its annual meeting on October 31 presented 

 the Bolitho gold medal to Mr. Clement Eeid, 

 F.R.S., in recognition of his work on the 

 geological resurvey of the county. 



President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford 

 University, has returned to California from a 

 visit to Japan made in the interest of the 

 World Peace Foundation, of which he is head 

 director. President Jordan expects to spend 

 a part of the winter in Boston. He is on 

 leave of absence from Stanford during this 

 semester ; in his absence Dr. John C. Branner, 

 professor of geology, is acting president of the 

 university. 



The Australian government is about to 

 undertake measures for the settlement of the 

 Northern Territory, and during the present 

 year has sent several parties to make prelim- 

 inary investigations in that region. The lead- 

 ership of one party was entrusted to Professor 

 Baldwin Spencer. They went to Port Darwin, 

 and from there across to Melville Island ; then 

 they returned to Port Darwin and traveled 

 south about two hundred miles, after which 

 they crossed the continent to the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria. 



