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The University of Glasgow will confer its 

 doctorate of laws on Dr. Alexander Crum 

 Brown, professor of chemistry at Edinburgh. 



Professor W. H. Burr, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed consulting engi- 

 neer of the New York City aqueduct com- 

 mission with a salary of $6,000. 



Professor W. T. Sedgwick, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has gone to 

 Europe on leave for six months. His Euro- 

 pean address is in care of Messrs. Baring 

 Bros., Limited, 8 Bishopsgate St., London, 

 E. C. 



Dr. W. J. Holland, the director of the 

 Carnegie Museum, sailed for England on 

 March 18. He repairs to London to install 

 the reproduction of the great skeleton of Dip- 

 lodocus which he has made from the original 

 in the Carnegie Museum. It will be placed 

 in the gallery of reptiles at the British Mu- 

 seum. Mr. Carnegie will formally present the 

 restoration, which has been made at his ex- 

 pense, to the trustees of the British Museum 

 some time in May. The total length of the 

 vertebral column, including the skull, is 

 eighty-four feet, exceeding the dinosaur Bron- 

 tosaurus in the American Museum of Natural 

 History by nearly twenty feet. Dr. Holland 

 is accompanied by Mr. A. S. Coggeshall, the 

 chief preparator in the section of paleontology 

 in the Carnegie Museum. 



Professor E. A. Minchin, Jodrell professor 

 of zoology in University College, London, has 

 undertaken to conduct further investigations, 

 under the auspices of the Royal Society's com- 

 mittee, into the causation of sleeping sickness 

 in the Uganda Protectorate. 



Under the auspices of the department of 

 economics of Harvard University Professor 

 W. F. Willcox, of Cornell University, who 

 acted as expert in charge of methods and re- 

 sults in the United States census of 1900, will 

 give three public lectures during the last week 

 of the month on some phases of the census 

 investigations. The subjects will be : ' The 

 Population of the United States,' ' Some 

 Statistical Aspects of the Negro Problem' 

 and ' The Birth Rate and Death Rate of the 

 United States.' The exact hours and place 

 will be announced later. 



Professor Da\id Eugene Smith, of Teach- 

 ers College, Columbia University, has recently 

 purchased the libraiy of Professor Ferinando 

 Jacoli, of Venice, and has added it to his own 

 collection for the use of his students. The 

 library is particularly rich in the history -and 

 teaching of mathematics, containing many 

 rare editions. Professor Smith has at the 

 same time made available for study his rare 

 collection of portraits and manuscripts of 

 celebrated mathematicians, the largest that 

 has been brought together. 



The Board of Estimate of New York City 

 has appropriated $5,000 to estimate the epi- 

 demic of cerebro-spinal meningitis. A com- 

 mission has been named for this purpose as 

 follows : Dr. William M. Polk, chairman, dean 

 of Cornell Medical College; Dr. Walter B. 

 James, professor in the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons; Dr. William P. Northrup, pro- 

 fessor in Bellevue Hospital and at New York 

 University; Dr. Simon Flexner, head of the 

 ■Rockefeller Institute; Dr. Joshua M. Van 

 Cott, pathologist at the Long Island College; 

 Dr. E. K. Dunham, pathologist of Carnegie 

 Laboratory, and Dr. William K. Draper, visit- 

 ing physician at Bellevue and Minturn Hos- 

 pitals. 



The first Herbert Spencer lecture, estab- 

 lished by Pandit Shyamaji Krishnavarma, 

 M.A., of Balliol College, was given at Oxford, 

 on March 9, by Mr. Frederic Harrison, M.A., 

 honorary fellow of Wadham College. 



We regTct to record the deaths of Dr. Hjal- 

 mar Stolpe, the ethnologist of Stockholm; of 

 Dr. Ludwig von Tetmajer, professor of me- 

 chanics in the Technical Institute of Dresden, 

 and of M. Emile Fernet, a French physicist, 

 for many years editor of the Comptes Rendus 

 of the Academy of Sciences. 



The position of assistant in the clinical 

 laboratory of the New York State Patholog- 

 ical Institute will be filled by civil service 

 examination on April 8. The salary is $1,500. 



The second section of the museum building, 

 near the Prospect Park Plaza, Brooklyn, has 

 been completed and provided with cases and 

 furniture at an expense to the city of New 

 York of upwards of $600,000. It is expected 



