234 NEWS [SEPTEMBER 



Dr. Charles Drury Edward Fortnum, who died on March 6, left the bulk of 

 his estate, valued at £41,247, and his collections to the Ashmolean Museum of 

 Oxford. 



Mr. George Averoff, who died at Alexandria on July 27, has bequeathed 

 £20,000 to create an agricultural school in Thessaly, and £50,000 to the Poly- 

 technic schools and Odeon at Athens. Among his other bequests is one of 

 £40,000 for the revival of the Olympic games, to which he devoted a similar 

 sum in 1896. 



Science announces the following gifts and bequests : — The Medical School of 

 Harvard University is said to have received over $100,000 by the will of the late 

 Lucy Ellis of Boston. The California Academy of Sciences has received from 

 Mr. J. W. Hendrie securities to the value of $10,000, which will go to form a 

 publication-fund. By the will of the late Frau M. Jankowska of Warsaw, the 

 Academy of Sciences at Cracow receives 20,000 roubles. O. Holterholf, a 

 banker, has bequeathed about 1,000,000 marks to the University of Bonn. 



The supplementary vote of £65,000 required to bring about the housing of 

 the University of London in the Imperial Institute having been agreed to, and 

 the formal concurrence of the parties concerned having been obtained, the matt 

 problem of structural adaptation is now being considered. 



The University Court of St. Andrews has adopted a scheme for training- 

 candidates with a view to the Indian and Home Civil Services, which have 

 again been brought more within the reach of Scottish students by the recent 

 raising of the age limit. Lecturers in political economy, Sanskrit, ancient 

 history, political philosophy, etc., have been, or will be, appointed. 



We quote from Science the following interesting note : — Twenty-two per 

 cent of the professors in the German universities -are engaged in lecturing or 

 laboratory supervision 2-6 hours a week, and fifty-one per cent from 7-12 

 hours. Of the associate professors sixty per cent are engaged from 2-6 hours 

 per week, and of the privat docents eighty-two per cent. Only four per cent of 

 all privat docents are engaged in lecturing or laboratory supervision more than 

 12 hours a week. This relative leisure may account in part for the great 

 amount of research work done in German universities. 



The summer meeting of University Extension Students at Oxford in August 

 was attended by about 1000 students, including about 180 foreigners; and 

 University Extension work in England is reported to be prospering. 



Science notes that during the past summer session there were 4997 students 

 matriculated at the University of Berlin, 349 more than in 1898, and including 

 655 foreigners. 



It is reported that the number of candidates last July for the Bachelor's degree 

 in Science was, for the first time in the history of the University of London, much 

 greater than the number presenting themselves for examination in Arts. This 

 interesting change is attributed to the increasing demand for science teachers in 

 schools and colleges. 



In a letter to the Times of August 15, Professor Raphael Meldold expresses 

 the views of many interested in the advancement of scientific education when 

 he calls attention to the real danger involved in the inadequate representation 

 of science and of scientific interests among those in authority. " If the 

 direction of the science teaching in secondary schools is at this crisis allowed 

 to fall into wrong hands the progress of the country will be retarded for 

 generations." 



It is announced that at the seventy-first meeting of German naturalists and 

 physicians at Munich (September 17-23) lectures will be given by Dr. Nansen 

 on the results of his expedition, and by Prof. Chun on the German Deep Sea 

 Expedition. Profs. Marchand and Rabl will discuss the relation of pathology 

 to embryology. 



