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and have carried civilization to the high- 

 est point it has ever touched. That sys- 

 tem and that civilization are on trial. 

 Grave doubts and perils beset them. 

 Everywhere to-day there is an ominous 

 spirit of unrest. Everywhere is a feeling 

 that all is not well, when health abounds, 

 and none the less dire poverty ranges by 

 its side, when the land is not fully popu- 

 lated and yet the number of unemployed 

 reaches to the millions. I believe we can 

 deal with these doubts and rents success- 

 fully, if we will but set ourselves to the 

 great task as we have to the trials and 

 dangers of the past. But the solution 

 will tax to the utmost all the wisdom and 

 courage and learning that the country can 

 provide. What are our universities, with 

 their liberal education to play in the his- 

 tory that is now making and is still to be 

 written ? They are the crown and glory 

 of our civilization, but they can readily 

 be set aside if they fall out of sympathy 

 -with the vast movements about them. I 

 do not say whether they should seek to 

 resist or to sustain or to guide and con- 

 trol these movements. But if they would 

 not dry up and wither they must at least 

 understand them. 



"A great university must be in touch 

 with the world about it, with its hopes, 

 its passions, its troubles, and its strivings. 

 If it is not it must be content. 



'For aye to be in the shady cloister mewed, 

 Chanting faini hymns to the cold, fruitless 

 moon.' 



" The university which pretends to give 



a liberal education must understand the 



movements about it, see whether the 



great forces are tending, and justify its 



existence by breeding men who by its 



teachings are more able to render the 



service which humanity is ever seeking." 



Professor Fried. Aug. Fliickiger died on Dec. 

 ii, 1894, at Berne. He was the foremost phar- 

 macognosist and scientific pharmacist of his 

 time. An extended account of his life and 

 works will appear in a later issue of The Alumni 

 Journal. 



NEW LITERATURE. 



Bacteriology. 



Mikrophotographischer Atlas der Bakterien- 

 kunde.—C Fraenkel u. R. Pfeiffer. 2 Aufl. 

 11, u. 12. Lfg. Berlin : August Hirschwald. 



Mikrophotographischer Atlas der Bakterien- 

 kinide.— Itzgerott u. Niemann, Leipzig : J. A. 

 Barth. 



Botany. 



Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Bestandtheile von 

 Cnicus benediclus mit hauptsachliche Beruck- 

 sichtigung des darin enthaltenen bitter schmec- 

 kenden Korpers.— Karl Schwander. Inaug.— 

 Diss. Univ. Erglangen. 



An examination of the constituents and par- 

 ticularly the better principle of Cnicus benedic- 

 tus. 



Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Bittersloffes von 

 Citrullus colocynthis.—Rud. Speidel. Inaug,— 

 Dissert. Univ. Erlangeu. 



Weitere Beiircize zur Cheimischen Kenntniss 

 einiger Bestandtheile aus Secale cornutum — 

 Hans Zeeh. Inaug.— Diss. Univ. Erlangen. 



Uebersicht der Leistungen anf dem Gebiete 

 der Botanik in Russland wahrend des Jahres, 

 j8q 2 — Zusammengestellt von A. Famintzin u 

 S. Korshinsky unter Mitwirkung von Anderer. 

 Aus dem Russ. ubers. von F. Th. Koppen. Leip. 

 zig: Voss. A review of the history and events 

 in botanical works in Russia during 1892. 



Atlas der officinellen Pflanzen.—K. Meyer u. 

 K.Schumann. 1892-1894. Leipzig: A. Felix. 

 Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Arznei- 

 buche fiir das Deutsche Reich erwahuten Gew- 

 achse. Zweite verbesserte Auflage von "Dars- 

 tellung und Beschreibung sammtlicher in der 

 Pharmacopoeia Borussica aufgefuhrten offici- 

 nellen Gewiichse von O. C. Berg u. C. F. Sch- 

 midt." 



Chemistry. 



A Text-Book of Organic Chemistry.— A. 

 Bernthsen. Translated by G. M'Gowan. 2d 

 Eng. Ed. Revised and Extended by the Author 

 and Translator, London : Blackie. 



Chemie medicate.— Corps minereaux. Corps 

 organiques. L. Gamier. Paris : Rueff et cic. 



Nozioni di Fisicia. Chimica e Mineralogia 

 ad Uso delle Scuole technichc e delle Prepara- 

 torie alle Normal. — M. Borzone. Torino. 



* Readers desiring any of Llitr works contained in this 

 list can obtain them through B. Westerman & Co., 812 

 Broadway. Gustav E. Stechert, 810 Hroadway, or other 

 foreign booksellers. 



