December 16, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



85a 



quite unimportant so far as accepting an en- 

 trance option in zoology is concerned, for the 

 very few pupils who study the science in high 

 school and later in college have special inter- 

 ests which make adjustment of their college 

 work easy. 



Outline for the Half-Point Option. — (1) 

 The general natural history specified above. 

 (2) The classification of animals specified 

 above. (3) The general internal structure of 

 one vertebrate and a decapod or annelid. (4) 

 The physiology of these two animals along the 

 lines suggested above, with special application 

 to the functions of the human body, and com- 

 parison with the general functions of plants. 

 (5) The general external embryology of frog 

 as suggested above. 



Committee: C. M. Clapp, 



E. G. CONKLIN, 



C. W. Hargitt, 

 J. S. Kjngsley, 

 M. A. BiGELOW, Chairman. 



THE JOHN BELL SCOTT MEMORIAL OF 

 WESLETAN UNIVERSITY. 



The John Bell Scott Memorial, the physical 

 laboratory of Wesleyan University, was dedi- 

 cated on December 7. The building was pre- 

 sented on behalf of the building committee by 

 Dr. H. C. M. Ingraham and a response was 

 made by President Raymond. The principal 

 address was made by Dr. Edward B. Eosa, 

 formerly professor of physics at Wesleyan 

 University and now physicist of the National 

 Bureau of Standards. The address, which 

 will be published in Science, was on ' The 

 National Bureau of Standards in Relation to 

 Scientific and Technical Laboratories.' 



The John Bell Scott Memorial is a gift to 

 Wesleyan University from the late Charles 

 Scott, of Philadelphia, and his son Charles 

 Scott, who died from disease contracted while 

 serving as chaplain of the U. S. Cruiser St. 

 Paul, during the Spanish-American War. 

 The building is a handsome structure of Har- 

 vard brick and Indiana limestone, the archi- 

 tect being Mr. Charles A. Rich, of New York 

 City, well known in college circles for his 

 exceptional success as the architect of the 

 splendid new group of college buildings at 



Dartmouth. The main part of the building 

 is 102 X 51 feet on the ground plan, and this 

 part consists of basement, three stories and 

 attic. In addition there is an extension of 

 50 X 30 feet in the rear which has basement 

 and two stories. The lecture room is situated 

 on the second floor, running out into the ex- 

 tension, is 44 X 40 X 17 feet in size and seats 

 nearly 200 persons. A smaller lecture room 

 on the third floor has a seating capacity of 

 about forty. There are in the building twenty- 

 two rooms which are more distinctively for 

 laboratory purposes, in addition ti the lecture 

 rooms, offices, photographic dark rooms, store 

 rooms, apparatus rooms, etc. For experiments 

 which require great vertical space, a tower has 

 been provided about 4x6 feet in cross section 

 and with a height of about 54 feet in the clear. 

 The building is abundantly supplied with 

 water and gas connections throughout and is 

 exceptionally well equipped with a system of 

 wiring for distributing to all points alter- 

 nating and direct current from the city mains 

 and also direct current from the storage bat- 

 tery room in the basement. 



THE GERMAN METEOROLOGICAL AND 



MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY IN THE 



SAMOAN ISLANDS. 



Dr. Franz Lincke, of Gottingen, Germany, 

 has been appointed to take charge of the Ger- 

 man Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory 

 at Apia, Samoan Islands, thus relieving Dr. 

 Tetens, who returns to Germany in order to 

 reduce the records obtained during the past 

 two years. This observatory is equipped with 

 the most modern instruments for observations 

 in meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, atmos- 

 pheric electricity and seismology. In view of 

 the important location of this station and the 

 opportunity presented to supplement the data 

 obtained at the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 Magnetic Observatory in the Hawaiian Isl- 

 ands, situated on the opposite side of the 

 magnetic equator from that of the Samoan 

 station, the German government has decided 

 to further continue its observatory. It was 

 the original intention to conduct the work 

 only during the time of the German and 

 British Antarctic expeditions. 



