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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. .524. 



The Biological Society of Washington offers 

 for sale to the highest bidder, prior to January 

 15, 1905, its entire accumulation of exchange 

 publications, consisting of about 1,500 serials 

 or parts of serials, pamphlets and volumes on 

 all branches of natural history. An opening 

 bid of $25 is already in hand. The collection 

 will be sold as a whole, and bids for parts can 

 not be accepted. For information apply to 

 the secretary, Wilfred II. Osgood, Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Da Costa 

 professor of zoology in Columbia University 

 and curator in the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, will deliver a series of lectures 

 in February, at the Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, on ' The Evolution of the Horse.' The 

 lectures will be given under the auspices of 

 Columbia University in cooperation with the 

 museum, on the first three Mondays and the 

 first three Wednesdays of the month. The 

 subjects are : ' The Horse as an Animal Mech- 

 anism,' ' The Horse in Relation of the Idea 

 of Evolution,' 'The Fossil History of the 

 Horse,' especially in North America ; ' The 

 Fossil History of the Horse Continued,' 'Ex- 

 isting Eaces of Horses, Asses and Zebras,' 

 ' Probable Origin of the Domesticated Breeds 

 of Horses.' 



A COLONIAL exposition will be held in 

 Marseilles in 1906, for which preparations are 

 being made with great energy. A site has 

 been selected, and 1,500,000 francs has been 

 voted by the department, city and chamber of 

 commerce. The various French colonies have 

 already appropriated 5,000,000 francs to meet 

 their expenses in this exposition, and further 

 financial aid is expected. 



Professor Boyce, F.E.S., Dr. Arthur Evans 

 and Dr. H. T. Clarke, who comprise the 13th 

 expedition despatched by the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medicine to West Africa for pur- 

 poses of scientific research, sailed from the 

 Mersey, on December 14. Wc learn from the 

 London Times that on the day before they 

 were entertained to a farewell luncheon by 

 Sir Alfred L. Jones, and a numerous company 

 of Liverpool coiiimorcial men were invited to 

 meet them. Sir Alfred Jones in proposing 



' Success to the Expedition,' said the Liverpool 

 School had accomplished invaluable work in 

 the direction of making the West Coast more 

 healthful and habitable to white men and 

 natives alike. Mr. James Boyle (American 

 Consul) pointed out that Liverpool was rapidly 

 forging to the front as a scientific center, and 

 both London and Edinburgh would soon have 

 to look to their laurels. Mr. Walter Long, 

 M.P., said that Liverpool and the nation at 

 large owed an incalculable debt to Professor 

 Boyce. In the history of British colonization 

 and territorial acquisition the most painful 

 page was that in which one read of the death, 

 not of men who had fallen sword in hand 

 figliting under the flag of their country, but 

 of those countless thousands whose lives had 

 been sacrificed, as they now believed quite un- 

 necessarily, to a deadly and unseen enemy, 

 which had wrought such terrible ravages in 

 the past, and which they had every reason to 

 believe could now be vanquished. This was a 

 great work, and must result in conquests as 

 great and lasting as any that science had yet 

 achieved. Professor Boyce, in responding, 

 said that the feasibility of Ross's views on this 

 subject had now been proved up to the hilt. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of the late E. W. Codman of 

 Boston and Nahant, Mass., an estate which it 

 is said, may reach $1,000,000 will be equally 

 divided between Harvard University and the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital. 



It is said that the classes graduating from 

 Princeton University from 1881 to 1902 have 

 each pledged $10,000 for the erection of a new 

 dormitory. 



The board of trustees of the University of 

 North Carolina has authorized the organiza- 

 tion of a School of Applied Science, consisting 

 of the departments of mathematics and engi- 

 neering, physics and electrical engineering, 

 chemistry, geology and mining. Professor 

 (iore is dean. 



Dr. II. Meidinger, professor of applied phys- 

 ics at the technical institute at Karlsruhe, has 

 retired from active service at the age of 

 seventy-three years. 



