September 19, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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Frederick G. Clapp, of the Associated Geo- 

 logical Engineers, has returned from the gas 

 fields of Hungary, and has gone to New 

 Brunswick in company with Mr. Myron L. 

 Fuller and Mr. Lloyd B. Smith of the same 

 bureau. 



Mr. D. a. Bannerman has returned from a 

 zoological mission to the eastern islands of 

 the Canary group, undertaken with the object 

 of procuring birds for the Natural History 

 Museum, London. 



Sir William Oslee will distribute the 

 prizes and deliver an address at St. George's 

 Hospital on October 1. 



The lectures at the Harvey Society in the 

 Academy of Medicine, New York City, will 

 be inaugurated on October 4 by a demonstra- 

 tive lecture by Dr. A. D. Waller, of London, 

 entitled " A Short Account of the Origin and 

 Scope of Electrocardiography." Subsequent 

 lecturers are Professor Adolph Schmidt, 

 Halle; Dr. Charles V. Chapin, Providence, 

 R. I.; Dr. Eufus Cole, Rockefeller Institute; 

 Professor G. H. Parker, Harvard; Dr. Victor 

 C. Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Professor 

 Sven Hedin, IJpsala, Sweden, and Professor 

 J. J. R. Macleod, Western Reserve Univer- 

 sity. 



A LECTURE will be delivered on October 1 at 

 the University of Birmingham by Professor 

 Arthur Keith, F.R.S., on "The Present 

 Problems Relating to the Antiquity of Man." 



A TABLET has been unveiled at Primiero, 

 Southern Tyrol, on the house in which Alois 

 Negrelli was born, to commemorate his work 

 as surveyor of the Suez Canal. 



Mr. Edward Lyman Morris, since 1907 

 curator of natural science in the Museum of 

 the Brooklyn Institute and since 1898 special 

 plant expert of the U. S. National Museum 

 and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 died on September 14, aged forty-three years. 



Professor Moses Craig, formerly professor 

 of botany at the Oregon Agricultural CoUege 

 and botanist of the station, later in charge of 

 the herbarium of the Shaw Botanical Garden, 

 St. Louis, died on August 31. He was grad- 

 uated from the Ohio State University in 



1889 and received a master's degree from 

 Cornell University in 1890. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 future of the educational museums, founded 

 and equipped by the late Sir Jonathan Hutch- 

 inson, at Haslemere, Selby (Yorks), and 22, 

 Chenies-Street, London, is causing some con- 

 cern. In his will Sir Jonathan leaves the 

 museums to his trustees to dispose of as they 

 may think best. In his lifetime he spent on 

 the museums and their equipment at least 

 £30,000. At Haslemere there is a strong feel- 

 ing that everything should be done to retain 

 the museum for the town, and it is understood 

 that the family are willing to hand it over to 

 a responsible committee or body of trustees so 

 that the museum may be placed on a perma- 

 nent and public basis. The annual cost of 

 maintenance on present lines is about £400, 

 and an appeal will shortly be issued with the 

 hope of securing this sum for five years at 

 least, it being thought that by that time those 

 who are interested in the matter will have had 

 an opportunity of deciding what are the best 

 steps to be taken for the permanent control 

 and maintenance of the museum. 



VNIVESSIIY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 By the will of Miss Katherine Allen, of 

 Worcester, the Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute received a bequest amounting to about 

 $100,000. 



Mrs. Russell Sage has given $34,000 to 

 Syracuse University, of which $30,000 is for 

 the Joseph Sloeum Agricultural College. 



Mrs. Ella Strong Denison, widow of the 

 late Dr. Charles Denison, proposes to give a 

 medical building to the University of Colo- 

 rado. The wings will be used for laboratories, 

 and the central tower will have a lecture 

 room and a library. The west wing is now 

 being built. It will be called the Henry S. 

 Denison Laboratory in memory of Mrs. Deni- 

 son's son, who was a member of the Univer- 

 sity of Colorado faculty. 



From the list of doctorates conferred by 

 American universities, published in Science 



