May 15, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Otto Klotz has charge, has been successfully 

 established. 



A Reuter telegram from Cape Town states 

 that Dr. Rubin has left for Chinde, with an 

 expedition numbering 280 persons, for the pur- 

 pose of measuring an arc of meridian into 

 northeastern Rhodesia, from the Zambesi to 

 Lake Tanganyika. The expedition will be 

 away three years, and is expected to yield 

 important data in connection with the deter- 

 mination of the earth's dimensions. 



It is reported from Berlin that Mr. Walker, 

 who is scheduled as the successor of John 

 Eliot as superintendent of the German Indian 

 Meteorological Service, recently spent a week 

 at the aeronautical observatory with a view to 

 establishing experimental stations in India 

 for the observation of monsoon conditions by 

 means of kites and kite balloons. The first 

 station will be in the Himalayas at Simla, 

 seven thousand feet above the level of the sea. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. James H. Richardson, for 

 many years professor of anatomy in the Med- 

 ical Department of Toronto University, has 

 been presented to the university by his former 

 students. 



At the British National Physical Labora- 

 tory, Mr. 0. C. Paterson has been appointed 

 to take charge of the electro-technical and 

 photometric work, and Mr. F. J. Selby has 

 been appointed to prepare certain tide tables 

 for Indian ports and to act as librarian. 



The centennial of the birth of Justus 

 Liebig was celebrated on May 12 at the Chem- 

 ists' Club, New York City. Dr. Ira Remsen, 

 president of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 and Professor William H. Brewer, of Yale 

 University, were expected to make the prin- 

 cipal addresses. 



Mr. Arthur E. Sweetland, the youngest 

 member of the staflE of the Blue Hill Meteoro- 

 logical Observatory, died on May 8. Mr. 

 Sweetland had been connected with the Ob- 

 servatory since 1896, and several of his in- 

 vestigations, notably a study of cloud forms 

 which had long occupied his attention, were 

 published in the Annals of the Harvard Col- 

 lege Observatory. He also aided the director, 

 Mr. Rotch, to obtain the first meteorological 



records high above the Atlantic Ocean, as 

 was described in Science in 1901. 



The daily papers state that Dr. R. N. Hart- 

 man, professor of analytical chemistry at the 

 School of Mines at Golden, Colo., was killed 

 by escaping gas in his laboratory on May 8. 



We regret also to record the death of Pro- 

 fessor Carl Anton Bjerknes, professor of pure 

 mathematics at the University of Christiania, 

 at the age of seventy-eight years, and of Dr. 

 G. C. Dibbits, formerly professor of chem- 

 istry at Utrecht, at the age of sixty-four years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The enlargement of the Silliman Labora- 

 tory of the Mount Hermon School is rapidly 

 approaching completion. This enlargement 

 was made possible through a gift of $13,000 

 from Hon. H. B. Silliman, who erected and 

 equipped the original building in 1892. The 

 laboratory when completed in June will repre- 

 sent the expenditure of nearly $40,000 by Dr. 

 Silliman for scientific purposes. Professor C. 

 E. Dickerson, who is in charge of the labo- 

 ratory, has directed the work of enlargement. 



The late Walter D. Pitkins has bequeathed 

 $10,000 to Yale University, one half to be 

 used for a scholarship and one half for a prize 

 in mathematics. 



The Harvard Club of Chicago has given 

 $5,000 to found a scholarship in memory of 

 Dunlop Smith. 



Mr. Francis L. Stetson, of New York, has 

 given $25,000 to Williams College. Mr. 

 Robert 0. Billings has given the same sum 

 to Wellesley College. 



Dr. George M. Tuttle, professor of 

 gynecology; Dr. George L. Peabody, professor 

 of materia medica and therapeutics, and 

 Dr. Robert F. Weir, professor of surgery, have 

 resigned their chairs in the College of Phy- 

 sicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. 

 Dr. Weir was appointed professor of clinical 

 surgery, and Drs. J. A. Blake and G. E. 

 Brewer were made lecturers in surgery. Dr. 

 Christian A. Herter was elected professor of 

 pharmacology and therapeutics. Dr. Edward 

 B. Cragin succeeds Dr. Tuttle in the depart- 

 ment of gynecology. 



