December 8, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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The new student ward in the Madison Gen- 

 eral Hospital will be ready for patients within 

 a short time and will provide the University 

 of Wisconsin with much needed facilities for 

 caring for sick students. The new ward con- 

 sists of two adjoining rooms and a heated sun 

 porch, which are located on the first floor of 

 the recently constructed addition to the hos- 

 pital. Nine students can be accommodated in 

 the ward at one time. The student ward in 

 the city hospital is the result of many years' 

 agitation, both on the part of citizens and 

 students. Seven hundred dollars was raised 

 for the ward by students of the university and 

 Thomas E. Brittingham, of Madison, a regent 

 of the university, gave $5,000 to the hospital 

 on condition that a ward for university stu- 

 dents be maintained. 



The government of the Federated Malay 

 States has, as we learn from the London 

 Times, offered to make a collection of the 

 fauna of that region for presentation to the 

 Zoological Society of London, and the council 

 of the society has cabled an acceptance of the 

 offer. Mr. Herbert C. Eobinson, the director 

 of the States' Museums at Kuala Lampur, has 

 been entrusted with the formation of the col- 

 lection, and already a number of animals have 

 been obtained. The Zoological Society has 

 agreed to send out a keeper to arrive in Selan- 

 gor about the middle of March, 1912, to assist 

 in preparing the animals for shipment and to 

 return with them to England. The collection 

 will leave Port Swettenham about the middle 

 or the end of April, so as to avoid the rough 

 monsoon in the Lidian Ocean and to arrive in 

 London in early summer. The collection will 

 be exhibited throughout the season of 1912 as 

 that of 'the Federated Malay States. The more 

 permanent of the enclosures for the king's 

 African collection have been retained, and the 

 Malay animals will be placed in them. 



The first volume of the " Annual Tables of 

 Constants and Numerical Data, Chemical, 

 Physical and Technological," compiled and 

 published by an International Commission ap- 

 pointed by the seventh International Congress 

 of Applied Chemistry (see Science, August 4, 



1911), is now open to subscription. Subscrip- 

 tion blanks, the terms of subscription and 

 descriptive leaflets may be obtained from any 

 one of the three American commissioners: 

 Dr. G. E". Lewis, the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Boston, Mass.; Professor G. E. 

 Hull, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., 

 and Professor J. Stieglitz, the University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, HI. 



With the issue for January-March, 1912, 

 The American Journal of Religious Psychol- 

 ogy and Education will become the Journal of 

 Religious Psychology, including its Anthro- 

 pological and Sociological Aspects, having as 

 editors President G. Stanley Hall and Pro- 

 fessor Alexander E. Chamberlain. The jour- 

 nal will continue to be published at Clark 

 University under the auspices of the library. 



A Minnesota geographical society was re- 

 cently organized at the University of Minne- 

 sota. Professor Edward M. Lehnerts, of the 

 department of geology and geography, was 

 chosen president and Professor F. C. Miller, 

 of the St. Paul Central High School, was 

 chosen secretary-treasurer. Professor Sarde- 

 son, of the university, spoke on the oppor- 

 tunities for geographical excursions in and 

 around the Twin Cities. The following were 

 appointed a committee to plan for excursions 

 for the late fall and next spring; Professor 

 Sardeson; Warren Upham, librarian of the 

 state historical society; Professor D. Lange, 

 of St. Paul; Eugene Van Cleff, of the Duluth 

 Normal School; Charles C. Colby, of the 

 AVinona Normal, and Jack Haynes, of the 

 Northern Pacific Eailway. 



At the first meeting of the year of the Bio- 

 logical Club at the Oregon Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Professor Victor L. Gardner gave an ad- 

 dress on " Fundamental Factors of Plant 

 Nutrition with Special Reference to the Blue- 

 berry." A second address on " The Eelation 

 of Plant Pathology to the Other Biological 

 Sciences " was given by H. L. Eees, of the 

 crop pest staff, and H. S. Jackson, professor 

 of botany and plant pathology, spoke on the 

 new additions to the plant pathological li- 

 brary. 



