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whose name is remembered by Prevost's the- 

 ory of exchanges. Professor C. E. Guye 

 presided at the ceremony, and most of the 

 learned societies with which Prevost was asso- 

 ciated sent delegates, or addresses of congrat- 

 ulation. M. G. Lippmann represented the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences, and delivered an 

 oration. The Royal Society and the Eoyal So- 

 ciety of Edinburgh were represented by Dr. 

 W. H. Young, F.R.S., and Mr. Mitchell, re- 

 spectively, who presented addresses in Eng- 

 lish. The Berlin Eoyal Academy of Sciences 

 sent a letter of congratulation signed by Pro- 

 fessor Planck. 



Chaeles Green Eockwood, professor emeri- 

 tus of mathematics at Princeton University 

 since 1905, died on July 2 at Caldwell, N. J., 

 aged seventy-one years. 



At a meeting of the Eoyal Astronomical So- 

 ciety in London on June 13, Professor E. C. 

 Pickering described the work being accom- 

 plished at Harvard College Observatory; Pro- 

 fessor H. N. Eussell, of Princeton University, 

 spoke of his work in correlating the actual in- 

 trinsic brightness of the stars with their 

 spectra, and Mr. S. S. Hough, astronomer at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, gave details of the 

 work being done at the Cape Observatory. 



The twentieth summer meeting and seventh 

 colloquium of the American Mathematical So- 

 ciety will be held at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, Madison, Wis., during the week beginning 

 Monday, September 8, 1913. The first two 

 days will be devoted to the regular sessions for 

 the presentation of papers. The colloquium 

 will open on Wednesday morning and wiU 

 close Saturday morning. Courses of lectures 

 will be given by Professor L. E. Dickson, of 

 the University of Chicago, on " Certain as- 

 pects of a general theory of invariants, with 

 special consideration of modular invariants 

 and modular geometry " ; and by Professor W. 

 E. Osgood, of Harvard University, on " Topics 

 in the Theory of Analytic Functions of Sev- 

 eral Complex Variables." 



Arthur James, London, has given the in- 

 come of $100,000 to the Middlesex Hospital, 

 London, in memory of his brother, William 



James, for the investigation of the causes of, 

 and the search for a cure for, cancer. 



Notice of the contest of the will of the late 

 Henry E. Eutherford, who left a legacy of 

 $200,000 to the Eockefeller Institute for re- 

 search in cancer, has been filed. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie has contributed $20,- 

 000 toward the installation of the Institute of 

 Chemistry of the University of Paris. 



The London Times states that in accord- 

 ance with the policy of circumscribing the vast 

 areas of afiiliation of colleges to existing In- 

 dian Universities, definite steps are being 

 taken to establish a university at or near Patna 

 for the recently created Province of Behar 

 and Orissa. The Lieutenant-governor in 

 Council has appointed a committee, with Mr. 

 E. Nathan, I.C.S., as president, to frame a 

 scheme for the purpose. As in the case of the 

 similar scheme for a university at Dacca for 

 the eastern portions of Bengal and for Assam, 

 the report will be published and circulated for 

 opinion before action is taken on the recom- 

 mendations. 



Dr. Eeid Hunt, chief of the division of 

 pharmacology, U. S. Public Marine Service 

 since 1904, has accepted the position of pro- 

 fessor of pharmacology at Harvard Medical 

 School to succeed Dr. Pfaff. 



Dr. J. B. Whitehead, formerly professor of 

 applied electricity in Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity and fellow of the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers, has been appointed head 

 of the department of electrical engineering in 

 the new School of Technology of the univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. Wilfred Hamilton Manwaeing, form- 

 erly assistant in pathology and bacteriology in 

 the Rockefeller Institute, has been appointed 

 professor of bacteriology and immunity at Le- 

 land Stanford Junior University, San Fran^ 

 cisco, Cal. 



The following changes have been made in 

 the department of chemistry at Miami Univer- 

 sity: EajTnond M. Hughes, professor of chem- 



