Feurvary 3, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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a bill which is sufficiently curious to deserve 

 partial quotation. It begins : " Be it enacted 

 hy the Senate and House of Representatives of 

 the United States of America in Congress as- 

 sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury 

 be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered 

 and directed to pay, out of any money in the 

 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum 

 not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, 

 for the organization and maintenance of an 

 expedition, to be known as physical-phenomena 

 association for the promotion of science ex- 

 pedition, the purpose of which shall be to seek, 

 discover and investigate facts connected with 

 the deep sea, the temperature, pressure, chem- 

 ical properties, fauna, vegetation, character of 

 the deep-sea bottom, volcanic disturbances and 

 any and all phenomena relative to the ocean, 

 for the cause and advancement of physical 

 science generally. To facilitate the purpose 

 of the expedition the Secretary of the Navy 

 is authorized, immediately after the passage 

 of this bill, to equip a ship suitable for said 

 purpose, and to employ a first-class crew for 

 the management of said ship. Immediately 

 after the passage of this bill, or as soon there- 

 after as practicable, the President shall, with 

 the concurrence of the Senate, appoint four 

 chemists, who are learned in the science of 

 chemistry, at a salary of three thousand dol- 

 lars each per year; two geologists, who are 

 learned in the science of geology; two astron- 

 omers, who are learned in the science of as- 

 tronomy; two naturalists, who are learned in 

 the science of natural history; two botanists, 

 who are learned in the science of botany; two 

 zoologists, who are learned in the science of 

 zoology; and ten other scientists, if deemed 

 practicable by the President, who are respect- 

 ively learned in the sciences for which they 

 are chosen, each at a salary of two thousand 

 and five dollars per annum each. The Presi- 

 dent shall also appoint two persons, who are 

 interested in the sciences generally, from each 

 State, upon the recommendation of the Sen- 

 ators from each State, at salaries of three 

 thousand dollars each, all of whom, after they 

 shall have been appointed and confirmed as 

 aforesaid, shall be members of the said expedi- 

 tion." 



i \l\ Eh'SITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The trustees of the Peabody Education 

 Fund met at Washington on January 20 and 

 voted to dissolve their trust. An appropria- 

 tion of $1,000,000 for the George Peabody 

 School for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., was 

 made by a unanimous vote, the state, county 

 and city having together appropriated an 

 equal sum for the school. This appropriation 

 leaves a fund of approximately $1,200,000, 

 which will be distributed later among pther 

 educational institutions, probably at the next 

 annual meeting, which will be held next Oc- 

 tober in New York. The trustees have au- 

 thority to distribute two-thirds of the fund in 

 the south, and the remainder in the north, 

 but it is probable the entire fund remaining 

 will be devoted to southern institutions. 



At the midwinter meeting of the trustees 

 of Syracuse University it was voted to con- 

 struct, with the bequest made to the university 

 by the late John Lyman, which is said to 

 aggregate more than $200,000, a building to 

 be known as the John Lyman Laboratory of 

 Natural History. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has promised Oberlin 

 College a gift of $125,000 for the erection of 

 a library building, conditional on the raising 

 of $100,000 for endowment by the citizens. 



Mr. Adolph Lewisohn, of New York, has 

 given $5,000 for the reconstruction of the 

 chemical laboratories at Dartmouth College. 



The New York Post-Graduate Medical 

 School and Hospital has received an anony- 

 mous gift of $5,000. 



Emperor William has directed the German 

 ambassador to the United States to lay before 

 President Roosevelt in official form the sug- 

 gestion for an exchange of professors between 

 German and American universities, which he 

 made to the American ambassador on New 

 Year's day. The German ambassador, who 

 sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, on 

 January 25, only carries an outline of the 

 project, for which the president's approval and 

 cooperation in making a workable plan will be 

 asked. 



The Baltimore Association for the Pro- 

 motion of the University Education of Women 



