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Wisconsin, died of heart trouble on Saturday, 

 January 24. He was called to the position 

 at Oshkosh about a year and a half ago. He 

 was an able and accomplished scholar and an 

 educator of great promise. His brilliant 

 mind and scholarly achievements three times 

 secured for him recognition in the way of 

 fellowships from three American universities. 

 For two years after graduating as honor man 

 at Toronto he was fellow in psychology in the 

 University of Wisconsin, which institution 

 bestowed upon him the degree of doctor of 

 philosophy in 1897. Clark University, Wor- 

 cester, Massachusetts, then honored him with 

 a fellowship for a year, and Cornell for the 

 year following. He was born near Toronto, 

 Canada, about thirty-five years ago. In his 

 professional career he had gained a large circle 

 of admiring and steadfast friends. T. L. B. 



The cablegram from Edinburgh which we 

 quoted last week to the effect that Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie would establish with $.5,000,000 an 

 endowment for scientific research in Scotland 

 is said to be without foundation. Under these 

 circumstances we almost hesitate to quote 

 the item in the daily papers this week to the 

 effect that Mr. John D. Rockefeller will give 

 $7,000,000 for the erection and endowment of 

 a research hospital in connection with the 

 Medical Department of the University of 

 Chicago. 



We are sometimes compelled to quote from 

 the daily papers announcements of gifts and 

 endowments without assurance of their cor- 

 rectness, but we refrain from quoting medical 

 discoveries, otherwise it would be necessary 

 to announce cures for blood poisoning, hay 

 fever and pneumonia, and the discovery of the 

 bacillus of hydrophobia. The name given to 

 the alleged bacillus of the latter disease reads 

 as though it might be correct ' Coccus babyllus 

 polymorphus lissac' 



Nature quotes from a German newspaper an 

 item to the effect that Dr. Dohm, of Naples, 

 having appealed with little result to the Ger- 

 man minister of education for financial aid in 

 the extension of his world-famed biological sta- 

 tion, sought an interview with the Kaiser. 

 Remarking sympathetically that he could not 



provide all that Dr. Dohm desired from his 

 private purse, the Kaiser furnished him with 

 a donation form, headed by himself and a con- 

 tribution of £1000 commanding that it should 

 be circulated among the leaders in Berlin 

 society, for return to the Kaiser in person. 

 The result was that within a few days the 

 magnificent sum of £15,000 was subscribed. 



The new lion house of the New York 

 Zoological Park was opened on February 2. 

 It is said to be the finest building for this 

 purpose in existence. The main corridor is 

 192 feet long, some of the cages, which are 

 enclosed by netting instead of iron bars, being 

 as large as 18 x 22 feet. The building includes 

 a studio for artists with a special cage. 



The daily papers state that the University of 

 Chicago has received from Sir William Van 

 Home of Montreal a collection of fossils 

 valued at $30,000. 



A LAEGE collection of sea anemones from the 

 coast of Chili has been examined for the Royal 

 Museum of Berlin by Dr. J. Playfair Mc- 

 Murrich, professor of anatomy in the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. Dr. McMurrich's report 

 will be published in a future nimiber of the 

 Zoologische Jahrhucher. 



English papers state that Sir Ernest Cas- 

 sel has offered to give £40,000 towards the 

 study and investigation of ophthalmia in 

 Egypt. 



The board of directors of the American In- 

 stitute of Electrical Engineers has passed a 

 resolution disapproving of the establishment 

 on the part of N. Y. state of an electrical 

 laboratory and standardization bureau. 



Telephonic communication has been estab- 

 lished between Paris and Rome, which is the 

 longest line in Europe, though it is surpassed 

 in America. The distance from Paris to 

 Rome is 1,593 km. and from Paris to Berlin 

 1,115 km. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 IL\RVARD Untversitt reccives $50,000 by the 

 will of Rebecca C. Ames, the income to be 

 used for the support of poor students. 



