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SCIENCE. 



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A JOINT meeting of the Philadelphia County 

 Medical Society, and the Pennsylvania Society 

 for the Prevention of Tuberculosis will be held 

 at the New Century Club on Wednesday, Jan- 

 uary 10th. Prominent speakers, both medical 

 and lay, will take part in the discussion. 

 Among the speakers are Dr. Otis, of Boston, 

 Dr. Osier, of Baltimore, and Judge Ashman, of 

 Philadelphia. 



The post of assistant physician in the govern- 

 ment Hospital for the Insane with a salary of 

 $1200 will be filled by Civil Service examina- 

 tion on February 6th and 7th. 



The Gottingen Academy of Sciences offers 

 a prize of 1000 Marks for a mathematical pa- 

 per to be submitted before the first of February 

 1901. The details can be obtained by address- 

 ing the Secretary. 



The world at large, and even many of those 

 who are interested in the history of mechanical 

 engineering, says the Scientific American, do 

 not know that the body of the great engi- 

 neer, Robert Fulton, lies in Trinity church- 

 yard in New York City, being interred in 

 the Livingston family vault. There is no 

 mark or inscription to indicate its resting place. 

 In view of the epoch making character of the 

 work of Pulton, and of his eminence as an engi- 

 neer, and of his indomitable perseverance in the 

 development of steam navigation in the face of 

 the greatest obstacles, it has been deemed de- 

 sirable that his tomb should be marked by a 

 suitable monument. The Council of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Mechanical Engineers had the 

 matter brought to its attention at the Wash- 

 ington meeting last May. The idea was warmly 

 welcomed, and a committee was appointed to 

 investigate the proper method of accomplishing 

 the suitable marking of the grave. The com- 

 mittee has found its efforts heartily met both 

 by the Trinity corporation and by members of 

 the Fulton family. The Society has been as- 

 sured that a suitable place will be provided in 

 Trinity churchyard for such a monument as 

 may be erected, and that the remains of Fulton 

 will be removed to such a place when the monu- 

 ment is ready. The Society possesses a num- 

 ber of memorials of Robert Fulton, including 

 furniture, his portrait by his own hand, draw- 



ings, autograph letters, and other personal 

 relics. Indeed, it may be said that the Society 

 is Fulton's literary heir. In view of this fact, 

 the action of the Society is most dignified and 

 fitting. A subscription is now being raised by 

 it, and there is little question but that sufficient 

 funds will be obtaiued to erect a most admir- 

 able memorial to mark the place where lies the 

 body of one of the earliest and greatest of 

 American engineers. 



It is poetic justice that Fulton should continue 

 to rest in the spot where he was interred. At 

 the front of the quaint old burying ground run 

 the cable cars, at the rear the electric cars and 

 the elevated road, and at the foot of Rector 

 Street, the other boundary, two of the fastest 

 vessels on the bay make their landings. Al- 

 most across the street is one of the tallest build- 

 ings which has ever been erected, and Wall 

 Street commences directly in front of the bury- 

 ing ground. What more fitting spot could be 

 obtained for the resting place of one whose ac- 

 tivities contributed in so large a degree to the 

 progress which is so much in evidence im- 

 mediately around the historic old church? 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The University of Pennsylvania has received 

 a gift of $250,000 from the estate of the late H. 

 H. Houston, formerly a trustee and a generous 

 benefactor of the University. Fifty thousand 

 dollars is to be used for the dormitory system ; 

 the remaining $200,000 for such purposes as the 

 trustees may desire. 



Plans have been filed for a new building for 

 the Horace Mann School, the model school of 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. The 

 estimated cost is $350,000; the building will 

 occupy the block on Broadway between 120th 

 and 121st Street, adjoining the College. 



O. H. Ingham, of La Crosse, Wis., has given 

 $15,000 toward the building of a new school of 

 science for Ripon (Wis.) College. 



The new laboratories for bacteriology and 

 pathological research at Mason University Col- 

 lege, Birmingham, were opened on Wednesday, 

 December 6th. Dr. E. Rickards gave £1,000 

 toward the equipment. 



