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to Europe in company with Dr. Holland, di- 

 rector of the Carnegie Museum, to take up 

 the study of the fossil fishes in the famous 

 Bayet collection, recently acquired by the 

 museum. 



M. Baccelli has been elected a correspond- 

 ing member of the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 in the section of medicine, in the room of the 

 late M. Olier. 



At the recent meeting of the Royal Institute 

 of Public Health its Harben medals of 1901 

 and 1902 were presented to Sir Charles Cam- 

 eron and Professor W. R. Smith. 



The hundredth anniversary of the birth of 

 Ericsson was celebrated on July 31 by the un- 

 veiling of a new statue in his honor erected 

 in the Battery, New York City. Addresses 

 were made by Mayor Low and Col. William 

 C. Church, the author of the life of Ericsson. 

 The statue was remodeled by the sculptor, Mr. 

 Jonathan S. Hartley, from his former work, 

 erected in the Battery in 1893. 



Subscriptions to the amount of about $450 

 have been contributed in Great Britain toward 

 the marble statute of von Pettenkofer, which 

 is to be erected at Munich. 



General Brialmont, the Belgian military 

 engineer, has died at the age of eighty-two 

 years. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will begin its thirty-second 

 meeting at Angers on August 4, under the 

 presidency of M. Emile Levasseur, professor 

 of geography and agriculture at Paris. 



An International Sanitary Conference is to 

 be held at Paris, beginning on October 10. 



The British government has appointed 

 Captain Harry Mackay, a Dundee whaling 

 master, to the command of the Discovery 

 relief expedition. Captain Mackay was 

 master of the relief ship Terra Nova when 

 employed as a Dundee whaler, and master of 

 Mr. Barclay Walker's Arctic yacht EsTcimo, 

 now the steamship America, in the Zeigler- 

 Polar expedition. 



The secretary of the committee of the 

 Bessemer Memorial Fund announces that for 



the purposes of advanced metallurgical train- 

 ing and specialized research work it is pro- 

 posed that London shall be regarded as the 

 center for the metallurgy of copper, silver, 

 gold, etc. ; Sheffield as the center for steel ; 

 and Birmingham as the center for cast and 

 wrought iron and alloys. This decision will 

 not, however, prejudice the claims of other 

 metallurgical centers for participation in the 

 fund. It is also intended that the post-gradu- 

 ate scholarships shall, in part, be international. 



A Laffan telegram from Berlin states that 

 during the months of May and June Pro- 

 fessors Wolf and Dugan, of the Konigstuhl 

 Observatory, near Heidelberg, have by means 

 of long photographic exposure discovered 

 eight little planets, provisionally indicated by 

 1903, L Q to L X. They vary between the 

 11th and 14th magnitude. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mrs. Hettie F. Ballantyne, of Pittsburgh, 

 has given $20,000 to Allegheny College for 

 the endowment of scholarships. 



Syracuse University is to receive one third 

 of the residue of the estate of the late Mrs. 

 Caroline S. Reid. 



Mr. J. Martin White, of Dundee, has given 

 to the University of London a sum of £1,000 

 for the provision of courses of lectures in 

 sociology, including anthropology, social psy- 

 chology, social philosophy and ethics. 



At the University of London Mrs. Bryant, 

 D.Sc, Sir Henry Howse, D.Sc, and Dr. A. D. 

 Waller, F.R.S., have been elected vice-chair- 

 men of the board to promote the extension of 

 university teaching, the committee of the 

 medical members of the senate, and the scien- 

 tiiic apparatus committee respectively. 



Dr. Karl Wilhelm Genthe, for the last two 

 years instructor in natural history in Trinity 

 College, has been promoted to an assistant 

 professorship in that institution. 



Dr. C. B. Waller, assistant professor of 

 mathematics at Clemson College, S. C, has 

 been elected professor of chemistry and biol- 

 ogy at Wofiord College, Spartanburg, S. C. 



