Personal and Scientific News. 261 
At the University of Nebraska plans are being carried 
out for the erection of a Ijuilding to accommodate the de- 
partment of geology and the state museum, both of which 
have far outgrown their present accommodations. Hon. 
■Charles H. MJorrill has olTered to renew his annual donation 
■of $1,000 for the pursuit of geological investigation. 
Mr. R. V. Anderson, a senior in the department of 
geology at Stanford University, left San Francisco in Janu- 
ary for a year's geological study in Japan and China. He 
accompanies his brother, who is collecting in those coiui- 
tries for the Zoological Society of London. 
The Geological Mapping of the region about Mount 
Hamilton, California, will be begun this coming summer by 
advanced students from Stanford University, under the 
direction of professors Branner and Xewsom. 
The Committee on Science and Arts of the Franklin 
Institute, Philadelphia, has recommended to the Board of 
City Trusts that Dr. Persifor Frazer be awarded the John 
Scott legacy premium and medal for his "system of quanti- 
tative colorimetry" for determining the genuineness of ex- 
hibits of handwriting. ( Science. ) 
The C L Herrick Memorial Fund has been estab- 
lished at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, for the pur- 
pose of perpetuating the memory of the late C. L. Herrick. 
The first purpose of the committee having it in charge is to 
secure for Denison University Dr. Herrick's scientific libra- 
ry, and later to create a fund for the maintenance of the 
serials represented in the library, and otherwise to foster the 
interests of science. A friend has promised to duplicate all 
subscriptions made, for this purpose prior to July i, 1905. 
Contributions may be sent to Prof. Frank Carney. Gran- 
ville, Ohio. 
Professor Albert A. Wright, professor of geology and 
zoology in Oberlin College, died of paralysis on .\pril 2nd 
at Oberlin, Ohio. 
Thursday Morning, March 30th, Barney Memorial 
Hall, generally known as Science Hall, of Denison Univer- 
sity at (rranville, Ohio, was burned. This buiUling con- 
tained the departments of chemistry, physics, botany, bi- 
ology and geology and, with the exception of geology, 
nearly all the collections and equipment were lost. In addi- 
tion the scientific library of the late Dr. Clarence L. Her- 
rick and that of the Bulletin of the Science Laboratories 
of Denison University, were burned. The geological de- 
partment had expended over $5,000 during the winter for 
additions to its collections and equipment and most of this 
material was saved. The total loss to the University is 
estimated as about $95,000, part of which is covered by 
insurance. 
