JaiNUAry 27, 1905 ] 



SCIENCE. 



illustrate in a very satisfactory manner the 

 mode of ion transference. 



Frederick H. Getman. 

 College of the City of New York. 



THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 

 AND THE GEORGE WASHINGTON 

 MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.'' 



The annual meeting of the George Wash- 

 ington Memorial Association was " held at 

 Kauscher's on Wednesday, December 14. The 

 president, Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, opened the 

 meeting with an address recalling the events 

 of the j'ear, dwelling especially on the agree- 

 ments of the association with the Columbian 

 University, whereby the university changed 

 its name from Columbian to the George Wash- 

 ington University and the association pledged 

 itself to raise the sum of $500,000 to construct 

 the central building of the proposed new uni- 

 versity group in Van Ness Park. This build- 

 ing, the administration building of the luii- 

 versity, was to receive the name of ' The 

 George Washington Memorial Building.' 

 The president laid stress upon the need in 

 Washington of such a building, which should 

 contain an auditorium for meetings of inter- 

 national tribunals and of scientific organiza- 

 tions. 



The executive committees of the university 

 and of the George Washington Memorial Asso- 

 ciation have already designated the architects 

 who were to compete for the memorial build- 

 ing. The park commissioner, the committee 

 for Greater Washington, Mr. McKim, Mr. St. 

 Gaudens, Mr. Olmstead, and Mr. Burnam, 

 with whom is associated Mr. Bernard E. Green, 

 have consented to act as jury of award, and 

 the date of the competition will be fixed as 

 soon as the program, which was being pre- 

 pared by Professor Percy Ash, of the univer- 

 sity, should be finished and submitted to the 



The most vital problem, therefore, which the 

 association had to solve was the raising of 

 funds for the Memorial Building. Fifty 

 thousand dollars were already in the possession 

 of the association, and the association desired 

 to raise fifty thousand more before March, 



* From the Bulletin of the University. 



1905, so that the building could then proceed. 



The president felt justified in saying that 

 the outlook was most encouraging. The 

 enthusiasm of California and of Utah had 

 been rekindled by the recent visits of Dr. Need- 

 liam ; in Ohio and South Dakota interest was 

 reviving, and Virginia, Maryland, Pennsyl- 

 vania and New York were organizing meetings 

 to be held in January and February. Mean- 

 while, literature was being prepared, plans 

 carefully considered and state organizations 

 perfected. All was as yet tentative ; j'^et, in 

 view of the work of the past year, the evident 

 reawakening of interest, and the hearty co- 

 ojieration of the George Washington Univer- 

 sity, the future of the George Washington 

 Memorial Association seemed to be full of 

 promise. The president then called upon Dr. 

 Needham. 



In his address Dr. Needham laid especial 

 emphasis on the national and scientific char- 

 acter of the governing board of the George 

 Washington University, and gave a brief 

 sketch of the organization of the university, 

 which had in view primarily graduate and pro- 

 fessional studies, but grouped about this higher 

 university work, as feeder to it, the organiza- 

 tion provides for a number of independent col- 

 leges for undergraduate students, governed by 

 their own distinctive boards. The first of 

 those, Columbian College, which embraced all 

 the undergraduate work now being done in the 

 university, has now 401 students, this organ- 

 ization combining the essential features of the 

 English idea, of Oxford and of Cambridge, 

 with the American idea of a university. 



Dr. Walcott congratulated the association 

 upon the firm relations established during the 

 past year with the George Washington Univer- 

 sity. Some fear, he continued, had been enter- 

 tained that the Carnegie Institution, estab- 

 lished for scientific research and for graduate 

 work, would materially interfere with the 

 prosperity of the university. This appre- 

 hension, however, had been removed, for, by 

 the election of Dr. Woodward as its president, 

 the Carnegie Institution definitely limited its 

 sphere purely to scientific research. The com- 

 mittee on nominations having presented the 

 names of the officers of 1903-04 for re-election. 



