SCIENCE. 



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salts lip to SIS'^ :iu(l Professor T. W. Richards 

 spoke on the elimination of thermometric lag 

 and the cooling cori'eetion in accurate 

 calorimetry. 



On the anniversary of the death of Dr. 

 Charles E. Beecher, who held the chair of 

 paleontology at Yale University, his portrait 

 was hung in the registrar's office. 



Professor Alhkrt A. Wriuht, since 1874 

 professor of geology and zoology at Oberlin 

 College, died at Oberlin as the result of a 

 stroke of paralysis on April 2, at the age of 

 fifty-nine years. 



We regret also to record the death of M. 

 Victor Raulin, emeritus professor of geology 

 at Bordeaux, at the age of ninety years, and of 

 M. Julien, professor of geology at Clermont- 

 Ferrand, at the age of sixty-five years. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on May 10 to fill at least three . vacancies in 

 the position of civil engineer student in the 

 Division of Tests, Bureau of Chemistry, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, at not exceeding 

 $50 per month each. 



A New York state civil service examina- 

 tion will be held on April 22 to fill the posi- 

 tion of histological laboratory assistant in the 

 Pathological Institute at a salary of $1,200. 

 The position is open to both men and women. 



A CONSULAR report states that the erection 

 of the institute for cancer investigation, to be 

 in the immediate vicinity of the Academy 

 Hospital at Heidelberg, will be begun as soon 

 as possible, and its completion is expected in 

 the spring of 1906. It will be the first larger 

 institution of its kind in Gemiany, and prob- 

 ably in Europe, where scientific investigation 

 will be combined with treatment of patients. 

 While the lower floor will serve exclusively for 

 making bacteriological, pathological and other 

 researches, and while the entire equipment 

 will reflect the most modern scientific knowl- 

 edge, the second floor will accommodate about 

 forty patients who may expect temporary or 

 permanent relief. The first impetus for this 

 institute was given by an unknown party, who 

 nine months ago donated the sum of 150,000 

 Marks for this pui-pose, on condition that it 

 should bo used pxclusivoly for n hospital at 



Heidelberg devoted to cancer investigation. 

 Other unknown donors have increased the 

 fund to about $G0,000. The government of 

 the Grand Duchy of Baden, in accepting the 

 trust on the part of the Grand Duke, has fur- 

 nished the ground for the building and con- 

 sented to manage the institution, for which 

 pm-pose a considerable appropriation will be 

 made. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The authorities of Stevens Institute of 

 Technology have taken up vigorously the task 

 of raising the additional $100,000 required to 

 render available the $100,000 conditionally 

 donated by Mr. Andrew Carnegie and Presi- 

 dent Alexander C. Humphreys ($50,000 each) 

 at the recent dinner of the Stevens alumni. 

 It is expected that the alumni will heartily 

 cooperate by contributing and by awakening 

 the interest of their friends. 



The chair of social and political ethics at 

 Columbia University, held by Professor Felix 

 Adler, has been endowed. The university has 

 also received $10,000 from Mr. F. L. Stetson 

 towards a building for the Law School. 



Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, professor of anat- 

 omy at the University of Chicago, has been 

 called to the chair of medicine in Johns Hop- 

 kins University, vacant by the removal of 

 Dr. William Osier to Oxford. At the same 

 time Dr. W. S. Thayer, associate professor of 

 medicine, has been advanced to a professor- 

 ship of clinical medicine. 



Dr. B. B. Gallaudet, demonstrator in anat- 

 omy at Columbia University, has been ap- 

 pointed adjunct professor, and Dr. W. P. 

 Montague, tutor in philosophy, has been made 

 instructor. 



Thomas C. Esty, pi-ofessor of mathematics 

 at Rochester University, has received a call 

 to a similar position at Amherst, where he 

 will succeed his father, Professor William C. 

 Esty, who has been an instructor at Amherst 

 for forty-three years. 



Wm. a. Hilton, Ph.D., formerly assistant 

 in liistology and embryology in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed to the chair of 

 biology in Pomona College for the coming 

 year. 



