SCIENTIFIC ITEMS
WE record with regret the death at
the age of ninety-two of Henri Fabre,
the distinguished French entomologist
and author; of William Henry Hoar
Hudson, late professor of mathematics
at King's College, London; of Dr. Ugo
Schiff, professor of chemistry at Florence;
of Susanna Phelps Gage, known
for her work on comparative anatomy;
of Charles Frederick Holder, the California
naturalist, and of Dr. Austin
Flint, a distinguished physician and
alienist of New York City.
DR. RAY LYMAN WILBUR, professor
of medicine, has been elected president
of Leland Stanford Junior University.
He will on January 1 succeed
Dr John Caspar Branner, who undertook
to accept the presidency for a
limited period on the retirement of Dr.
David Starr Jordan, now chancellor of
the university. Dr. Wilbur graduated
from the academic department of Stanford
University in 1896.
AT the Manchester meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science, Sir Arthur J. Evans,
F.R S., the archeologist, honorary
keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,
was elected president for next
year's meeting, to be held at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The meeting of 1917 will be
held at Bournemouth.
DR. MAX PLANCK, professor of physics
at Berlin, and Professor Hugo von
Seeliger, director of the Munich
Observatory, have been made knights of
the Prussian order pour le mérite. Dr.
Ramón y Cajal, professor of histology
at Madrid, and Dr. C. J. Kapteyn,
professor of astronomy at Gröningen, have
been appointed foreign knights of this
order.
MR. JACOB H. SCHIFF, a member of
the board of trustees of Barnard College
and its first treasurer, has given
$500,000 to the college for a woman's
building. It will include a library and
additional lecture halls as well as a
gymnasium, a lunch room and rooms
for students' organizations.
BY the will of the late Dr. Dudley P.
Allen, formerly professor of surgery in
the Western Reserve University, $200,000
has been set aside as a permanent
endowment fund for the Cleveland Medical
Library.
