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director of the Hygienic Laboratory, 

 Washington, D. C, to succeed Dr. M. 

 J. Rosenau, who retires from the Pub- 

 lic Health Service to accept a pro- 

 fessorship of preventive medicine and 

 hygiene at Harvard University. 



Dr. Ira Remsen, president of the 

 National Academy of Sciences, has con- 

 sented, at the request of Dr. H. F. 

 Osborn, president of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and Mr. 

 Archer Huntington, president of the 

 American Geographical Society, to ap- 

 point a scientific commission to ex- 

 amine the records of Lieutenant Peary 

 and Dr. Cook, in case they are ready 

 to present them to such a commission. 

 Lieutenant Peary has accepted the sug- 

 gestion. 



Professor Georg Lunge, the emi- 

 nent chemist of Zurich, was presented 

 on September 19 with a gold medal 

 bearing his portrait and the sum of 

 40,000 francs to celebrate his seven- 

 tieth birthday and the jubilee of his 

 doctorate. Chemists were present from 

 many countries and addresses were de- 

 livered by a number of delegates. Pro- 

 fessor Lunge in his reply announced 

 his intention of giving the money to 

 the Polytechnic Institute for the aid 

 of students of chemistry. — On the occa- 

 sion of the recent Leipzig celebration 

 Dr. Wilhelm Wundt, the eminent psy- 



chologist, who made the principal ad- 

 dress, was given the title of excellency. 

 He was also made an honorary citizen 

 of the city of Leipzig. 



At the meeting of the Chemists' 

 Club, New York, held on October 8, it 

 was announced that a Chemists' Build- 

 ing Company had been organized, for 

 the purpose of acquiring a plot of 

 ground and erecting thereon a large 

 scientific building, the lower floors of 

 which are to be rented to the Chem- 

 ists' Club on a long lease, to contain 

 scientific meeting rooms, a library and 

 a museum, as well as the ordinary 

 facilities required by a social organiza- 

 tion, including sleeping apartments for 

 its members. The upper floors of the 

 building are to be leased for scientific 

 offices and laboratories. 



Yale University has received from 

 Mr. William D. Sloane and Mr. Henry 

 T. Sloane the sum of $475,000 to build, 

 equip and endow a physical laboratory. 

 — The University of Pennsylvania pro- 

 poses to erect during the coming year 

 a building for its graduate school, cost- 

 ing $250,000.— The Pratt Institute of 

 Brooklyn has received the sum of $1,- 

 750,000 from Mr. Charles M. Pratt, 

 son of the founder and now its presi- 

 dent, and from his five brothers and 

 his sister, Mrs. E. B. Dane. 



