liOVEMBER 14, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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Omaha on October 16, the two principal 

 speakers were Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Henry B. 

 Ward, of the University of Illinois. 



Sir Eickman John Godlee, president of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons, England, had the 

 honorary degree of doctor of laws conferred on 

 him at a special convocation of the University 

 of Toronto, November 5. At the Academy of 

 Medicine on the evening of the 4th, Sir Eick- 

 man delivered an address on foreign bodies in 

 the air passages. 



Dr. Ludwig Eadlkofer, professor of botany 

 at Munich, has been permitted to retire from 

 the active duties of his chair. 



The special board for biology and geology 

 of Cambridge University has approved a grant 

 of £30 from the Balfour Fund to Mr. George 

 Matthai, B.A., research student of Emmanuel 

 College, in aid of his research on the compar- 

 ative morphology of the madreporaria. 



The address by Professor G. A. Miller en- 

 titled " Some Thoughts on Modern Mathe- 

 matical Eesearch," which appeared in Science, 

 June 7, 1912, has been reprinted in the Oc- 

 tober, 1913, number of The Journal of the 

 Indian Mathematical Society, Madras, India. 

 It has also been reprinted in the " Annual 

 Eeport of the Smithsonian Institution of 

 Washington " for 1912. 



VmVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Complete plans for the new home of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology have 

 been made public. There are to be nine con- 

 tiguous buildings, each devoted to a separate 

 department. Construction has already been 

 started on the Cambridge side of the Charles 

 Eiver, east of Harvard Bridge. The principal 

 buildings are expected to be ready for occu- 

 pancy in two years. Of the $10,000,000 neces- 

 sary, $7,300,000 has already been pledged. 



The Chamber of Commerce of New York 

 City announces a gift from a donor whose 

 name is withheld of $500,000 for a building for 

 a college of commerce. Gifts have also been 

 received of $50,000 from four other subscrib- 

 ers. The Chamber of Commerce proposes to 



provide a building and to install a commercial 

 and civic museum on condition that the City 

 of New York provides the running expenses. 



The University of California announces 

 that the income of the $120,000 given by Mrs. 

 Jane K. Sather to endow the Sather professor- 

 ship in classical literature is to be used for a 

 visiting Sather professor. Annually some dis- 

 tinguished scholar, from Europe or from 

 America, will be called to Berkeley to spend a 

 half year or a year teaching in the University 

 of California. The first incumbent is to be 

 Professor John L. Myres, of Oxford University, 

 who win come from his present work of exca- 

 vation in the island of Cyprus. Besides liberally 

 endowing the Sather professorship in classical 

 literature, Mrs. Jane K. Sather, of Oakland, 

 gave a like amount to endow the Sather pro- 

 fessorship of history, now held by Professor 

 H. Morse Stephens; endowed the three Sather 

 book funds, to purchase works in classics, his- 

 tory and law; built the Sather Gate, in mem- 

 ory of her husband, at a cost of $37,000, and 

 gave $200,000 for the three-hundred-foot white 

 granite Sather campanile, now being built on 

 the campus, and $25,000 for the Sather bells, a 

 set of chimes which are to be placed in the 

 open belvedere of the campanile, 250 feet above 

 the level of the campus. 



The University of Florida will use two new 

 buildings for the first time at the coming ses- 

 sion: the Language Hall, costing $45,000, will 

 house departments of law, languages, English 

 history, mathematics and administrative offices ; 

 the George Peabody Hall, for the teachers col- 

 lege and normal school, costing $40,000, the 

 gift of the General Education Board, wiU 

 house the general library, departments of edu- 

 cation and philosophy, normal school and prac- 

 tise high schools. 



The president of the Ohio State University 

 and a group of members of the legislature 

 have visited the universities of Wisconsin, 

 Michigan and Illinois to obtain information 

 for the development of the Ohio State Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. Hollis Godfrey, an engineer of Phila- 

 delphia, the author of contributions to chem- 



