uation, to be presented to the University as a class memorial endowment. It is planned that each subscriber shall pay $2.85 per annum, collections being made through the Alumni Secretary. Payments so made, accumulating through compound interest, will meet the $100 note by an actual cash gift of $57.

Regent William H. Crocker has given $1000 for a scientific expedition to the jungles of India and Java by Professor Charles A. Kofoid. There Professor Kofoid will investigate protozoa of parasites found in the digestive tract of the higher mammals, a field of research of much importance in medicine and of fundamental scientific interest as regards problems of the evolution of some of the smaller forms of life.

A friend of the University has offered a gift of $200 a month for five years from January 1, 1916, as a fund for palaeontological research, this being in continuation of a like annual gift which in recent years has made possible the great activity of the University in original research as to the history of past geological ages on the Pacific coast.

A friend of the University of California Medical School has given funds to maintain an Instructorship in Neurology in the Medical School until June 30, 1916, at the rate of $1800 per annum.

The General Gas Light Company of San Francisco, through the courtesy of Mr. C. B. Babcock, manager of the company and vicepresident of the Pacific Coast Gas Association, has given to the Department of Electrical Engineering a new type of indoor gas arc lamp.

The Golden-Anderson Valve Specialty Company, through Mr. F. W. Hatch, has given to the Department of Mechanical Engineering the collection of blue-print drawings of valve specialties which were exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

John Rutledge Chapter of the G. A. R. has offered to maintain a scholarship for descendants of veterans.

Regent Phoebe A. Hearst has given a collection of twenty sets of samples of ores from the Cerro de Pasco Mine in Peru. The collection will be installed in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building.

Mrs. Hearst has added to the Museum of Anthropology four valuable Indian baskets.

The Imperial Japanese Commission to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, in behalf of the Japanese Government, presented to the University at the close of the Exposition a large number of valuable objects from the Japanese exhibit. The Japanese Commissioners very generously offered to the University also

the building at the Exposition occupied as office quarters by the Commission, an interesting and admirable example of the building arts of Japan. Unfortunately, however, it was found impracticable, on account of the size and character of the structure, to remove it to the University.

Mr. and Mrs. Max Levy of Stockton have founded at the Stockton High School the Jerome C. Levy Scholarship, in memory of their departed son. The award will be made yearly to a member of the graduating class of the Stockton High School who wishes to enter the University of California. The choice will be made by the faculty of the High School on the basis of character, scholarship, and need.

The Massachusetts Commission for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through Mr. Charles L. Whitcomb has presented to the School of Education a collection of reports of the State of Massachusetts on Vocational Education.

The Oriental Institute has given to the University a piece of land at Sacramento and Cedar streets, Berkeley, with a frontage of 143 feet on the east side of Sacramento street and of 111.5 feet on the north side of Cedar street, valued at approximately $5,000. The income from this property or from the investment of the proceeds of its sale is to be devoted to aiding students in the University who are of Oriental race.

The Pacific Coast Gas Association has transmitted through its President, Regent John A Britton, a check for $5000 in accordance with its generous provision of support, at the rate of $2700 per annum, for instruction in the University in gas engineering. The Association consists of the chief gas-producing companies of the Pacific Coast.

Dr. Herman Partsch of Perkeley has given $100 toward the loan fund of the Class of '81.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company (through Mr. H. T. Wilkins, its special agent) has presented to the University a fine model of the Union Station at Washington, D. C.

W. J. Pettingell of the Santa Barabara Nursery Company at Goleta, California, has given 150 evergreen shrubs of nearly sixty ornamental varieties to be planted at the University Farm at Davis and in the gardens of the Faculty Club on the Berkeley campus.

The Philippine Commission for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition has given to the Department of Botany a collection of 209 sheets of botanical specimens.

The San Francisco Girls' Union has given $5000 as an endowment for the San Francisco Girls' Union Scholarship, the income

to be applied toward the support at the University of California of some worthy and needy woman student, these scholars to be appointed annually by the faculty or by some committee thereof to whom such duty has been delegated by the President of the University.

Perry M. Scott, '08, who died recently, left in care of Dr. Carrie Goss Haskell of Burlingame a number of books, and these books Dr. Haskell has now placed in the University of California Library.

Ignatius Steinhart of San Francisco has given $250 toward the fund for the protozoological researches to be undertaken by Professor Charles A. Kofoid in India and Java.

The Swedish Commission for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition has presented several pieces of electrical apparatus from the Swedish Exhibit at the Exposition, including a starting-box, a direct-current motor, and an alternating-current motor.

The Thordarson Electric and Manufacturing Company, through the courtesy of Mr. A. S. Lindstrom, its Pacific coast representative, has given a replica of the section of the million-volt transformer used in connection with the high voltage research conducted at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by engineers representing the Smithsonian Institution and the Research Corporation of New York City, regarding the problem of dispersing fog by electricity.

The United States Bureau of Fisheries has given to the Department of Zoology thirteen specimens of sharks, of four different species, from the California coast.

The United States Geological Survey through Mr. R. W. Stone has given four maps of San Francisco and its vicinity which formed a part of the exhibit made at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by the Department of the Interior.

The United States Department of the Interior has given to the University a set of maps of public lands of the United States, exhibited by the Government at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

The United States, through the courtesy of the United States Government Exhibit Board at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, has deposited in the Museum of Anthropology of the University the model of the Lincoln Memorial now in process of erection in Washington.

SOME FACULTY MATTERS

Director W. W. Campbell of the Lick Observatory presided at the recent annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as its President. He was one of the twenty-one distinguished citizens selected by the United States as its official delegates to the second Pan-American Congress at Washington from December 27 to January 8. Among other members of the faculty who have served this year as vice-presidents and heads of sections of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are Professors A. O. Leuschner, Mathematics and Astronomy; Frederick Slate, Physics; W. A. Setchell, Botany; George M. Stratton, Anthropology and Psychology; and F. P. Gay, Physiology and Experimental Medicine.

Dr. Frederick Parker Gay, Professor of Pathology, has been selected by the Academic Senate as the Annual Faculty Research lecturer for 1916. His three predecessors are Dr. W. W. Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory; Dr. J. C. Merriam, Professor of Palaeontology, and Professor A. O. Leuschner, Director of the Students' Observatory. Dr. Gay's appointment is in recognition of his valuable researches in immunology, which have resulted in such achievements as his new method for treating typhoid fever with an immune serum, refinements in the methods of immunization against typhoid, a skin-reaction test for immunity against typhoid, worked out in collaboration with Professor J. N. Force, new methods for the serum treatment of pneumonia, etc.

Charles Mills Gayley, Professor of the English Language and Literature, has been invited to speak at the Shakespearean Tercentenary to be held on April 26 under the joint auspices of the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

Rufus M. Grant, Instructor in Carpentry in the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts and a pioneer member of its faculty, died on January 29. He had been in charge of the Department of Carpentry since the establishment of the Wilmerding School and had served as superintendent of construction during the erection of its first building.

Memorial services in honor of Professor Hilgard were held in the main assembly room of Agriculture Hall on January 30, President Wheeler presiding and speaking in behalf of the faculty and the memorial address being delivered by Edward J. Wickson, Professor of Horticulture, Emeritus.

Professor Hilgard received word a few days before his death that he had been chosen as one of the two hundred and fifty Life

Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Lincoln Hutchinson, now absent on leave as Associate Professor of Commerce (on the Flood Foundation), in order to do service of the greatest value to the United States as commericial attaché for Brazil, has been asked to serve on a commission appointed by Commissioner of Education P. P. Claxton, to report on the problem of provision in American universities and colleges for the training of young men for foreign service.

Andrew C. Lawson, Professor of Mineralogy and Geology and Acting Dean of the College of Mining, has recently visited Philadelphia for service to the government as a member of the National Assaying Commission.

Professor D. T. Mason of the Division of Forestry attended a conference in Washington in January of officers of the United States Forest Service, for discussion of what the government can do to improve the present situation as regards stumpage supplies, operating profits, etc., and problems of lumber transportation, use of low-grade materials, the saving of waste, substitutes for lumber, etc.

The notable Hitchcock lectures delivered at the University of California in February, 1915, by Henry Fairfield Osborn, Research Professor of Zoology in Columbia University and President of the American Museum of Natural History, have now been published as a book, Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art (with Illustrations by Upper Palaeolithic Artists).

George Herbert Palmer, for the past forty-five years a member of the Harvard faculty, is spending the present half-year at the University of California as Lecturer in Philosophy on the Mills Foundation, addressing large audiences on "Problems of Duty," and conducting also a seminar in ethics open to graduate students.

Henry Morse Stephens, Sather Professor of History, as President of the American Historical Association delivered a notable President's Address on "Nationality and History" at Washington, D. C., on December 28, 1915. It has since been published in the American Historical Review for January, 1916.

Harold R. Wilson has been appointed Boy Scout Commissioner for Berkeley. As Instructor in Physical Education he will continue to have charge of the Sports Division of the department, that is, of the students who substitute participation in some twenty different outdoor sports for indoor gymnasium work. He is now conducting a Tuesday-evening class for the special training of those who show special aptitude for leadership and wish special