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through his devotion to medical research; and 

 £105 to Mr. James Sully in recognition of 

 his services to psychology. 



Mr. William E. Dodge, chairman of the 

 committee appointed by Mayor Low to raise 

 an endowment fund for Cooper Union as a 

 memorial to Abram S. Hewitt, sent to the 

 mayor a check for $211,310, which has been 

 transferred to the treasurer of Cooper Union. 

 Twenty-one persons contributed to the fund, 

 including Andrew Carnegie, $55,000; John D. 

 Rockefeller, $50,000; J. Pierpont Morgan and 

 William E. Dodge, $25,000 each; George F. 

 Baker, Jacob H. Schiff and Henry Phipps, 

 $10,000 each. 



The Lord Mayor of Belfast is chairman of 

 a committee that will present to Queen's Col- 

 lege, Belfast, a portrait of Dr. J. W. Byers, 

 professor of the diseases of women and chil- 

 dren. 



The Misses Gladstone have presented to the 

 Royal Institution the portrait of the late John 

 Hall Gladstone, formerly professor of chem- 

 istry in the Institution. 



Dr. F. Bauer, docent in the Munich Insti- 

 tute of Technology, has been killed by an Al- 

 pine accident at the age of thirty-three years. 



Dr. p. H. Keller, honorary professor of 

 physics at the University of Rome, has died 

 at the age of seventy-seven years. 



Sir George Stokes bequeathed his scien- 

 tific apparatus to the University of Cambridge. 

 It has been distributed among the Chemical, 

 Physical and Mincralogical Departments. 



The library" of the late Professor Schade, 

 formerly director of the surgical clinic of the 

 University of Bonn, has been presented to the 

 clinic by his widow. 



Mrs. Mary E. Ryle has given $130,000 

 toward the construction of a new library 

 building at Paterson, N. J. 



The Royal Academy of Belgium offers ne.xt 

 year its Charles Lagrange prize of the value of 

 1,200 francs for a paper adding to our mathe- 

 matical knowledge of the earth. It also offers 

 the Thcophilc Gluge prize of the value of 

 1.000 francs for the best work on physiologj'. 

 The following year it offers its De Selys Long- 



eliaiups prize of the value of 2,500 francs for 

 the best original work on the fauna of Bel- 

 gium. These prizes are open to foreigners. 



The bill which passed the Michigan legisla- 

 ture, and was supported by the Michigan 

 Academy of Science, providing for a biological 

 survey of the state under the supervision of 

 the state geologist, unfortunately failed to 

 receive the approval of the governor. The 

 state geologist was called east just at the close 

 of the legislature by the death of his brother, 

 Mr. L. P. Lane, of the Statistical Department 

 of the Boston Public Library. 



The Sanitary Institute of Great Britain 

 held its twenty-first congress at Bradford dur- 

 ing the second week of July under the presi- 

 dency of Lord Stamford. 



The Association of German Engineers met 

 at Munich at the end of June. 



The sixth International Congress of Psy- 

 chology, which was to have met in Rome in 

 the autumn of 1904, will be postponed to the 

 spring of 1905 to avoid conflict with the sixth 

 International Congress of Physiology which 

 meets at Brussels in the autumn of 1904. 



At a meeting held recently in Manchester it 

 was unanimously resolved that it is desirable 

 to hold an international exhibition in that 

 city in 1905. 



A Stockholm correspondent writes, on 

 July 5, to the London Times, that the Nor- 

 wegian steamer Frithiof, chartered by this ex- 

 pedition, will arrive from Tromso in a few 

 days for outfitting. It is expected that the 

 ship will be ready to start about the middle 

 of August. Lieutenant Blom, of the Swedish 

 navy, who two years ago accompanied the 

 trigonometrical survey expedition to Green- 

 land, has been appointed second in command. 

 The young Swedish zoologist. Baron Klinc- 

 kowstrom, will also accompany the Frithiof. 

 Three expeditions are thus now hurrying to 

 the rescue of de Nordenskiold and his com- 

 panions. The Swedish, on board the Frithiof; 

 the Argentine, in the Uruguay; and the 

 French, in the Francais. 



The official report of Professor Drygalski 

 on the German Antarctic expedition was 



