figs, guavas, papayas, etc., are far more dangerous. They have, however, little commercial importance. If they are taken on board at all, they must either be consumed or thrown overboard before the ship reaches the United States.
SCIENTIFIC ITEMS
We record with regret the deaths of Dr. Edward Singleton Holden, astronomer and librarian of the United States Naval Academy, formerly director of the Lick Observatory; of Mr. George Westinghouse, the distinguished inventor and engineer; of Dr. Alexander F. Chamberlain, professor of anthropology at Clark University; of Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, an authority on South American archeology, lecturer in Columbia University, and of Dr. John Henry Poynting, professor of physics at Birmingham University.
A portrait of Sir William Ramsay, painted by Mr. Mark Milbanke, has been presented to University College, London, by former colleagues and past students. Professor J. Norman Collie made the address. A replica of the portrait has been presented to Lady Ramsay.
The former students of Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, professor of psychology in Columbia University, at a dinner held in New York on April 8, presented him, in celebration of his completion of twenty-five years as professor of psychology, with a "Festschrift" in the form of reviews of his researches and of the work in psychology to which they have led. On April 6, 7 and 8, there was held at Columbia University a Conference on Individual Psychology by former students of the department of psychology, at which thirty papers were presented.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, announces that it has received from Mr. John D. Rockefeller an additional endowment of $1,000,000 for the purpose of organizing a department for the study of animal diseases. A gift of $50,000 has also been received from Mr. James J. Hill, for the study of hog cholera.
Following the disastrous fire at Wellesley College the General Education Board has promised to give $750,000 to the college on condition that the balance of the $2,000,000 restoration and endowment fund is completed by January 1, 1915.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $100,000 to the New York Zoological Society to provide a pension fund for the Now York Zoological Park and the Aquarium. The scientific staff and the employees will contribute annually 2 per cent, of their salaries, and any sum that may be lacking will 1 e made up by the Zoological Society.
As has already been noted in Science, the American Chemical Society held its spring meeting at Cincinnati, Ohio, during the week of April 6. Each of the sections had a full and important program. At the general session on the first day, after addresses of welcome by the mayor of the city and the president of the University of Cincinnati, and a reply by the president of the society. Professor Theodore W. Richards, the following papers were announced: Arthur L. Day, "The Chemical Problems of an Active Volcano"; L. J. Henderson, "The Chemical Fitness of the World for Life"; W. D. Bancroft, "Flame Reactions"; Irving Langmuir, "Chemical Reactions at Low Pressures."
