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SCIENCE. 



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Ratibon and Professor von Leydon. Five di- 

 visions of the subject have been agreed on : 

 (1) Propagation, (2) Etiology, (3) Prophylaxis, 

 (4) Therapeutics, (5) Sanatoria. Each of these 

 questions will be introduced by a short and 

 concise address, so as to leave ample time for 

 free discussion and debate. Membership of the 

 Congress is not to be confined to any particular 

 class ; any person interested in that terrible 

 scourge of all nations, tuberculosis, can become 

 a member by simply taking a ticket at the ofiice 

 of the Central Committee for Lung Sanatoria. 

 As in the case of the Leprosj'' Conference a 

 couple of years ago, foreign governments will 

 be oflScially informed of the proposed Congress 

 and requested to send delegates. 



The Berlin correspondent of the London 

 Times states that the official organ of the Prus- 

 sian Ministry of the Interior gives some accovint 

 of the work accomplished since its constitution , 

 three years ago by the German Central Com- 

 mittee for the establishment of sanatoria for 

 consumptives under the protection of the Ger- 

 man Empress and the presidency of the Imperial 

 Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe. The great ob- 

 ject of the Central Committee was to promote 

 the establishment of a sufficient number of 

 sanatoria throughout the German Empire. 

 Their efiforts have been most successful, owing 

 to the cooperation of wide circles of the public, 

 and more particularly owing to the measures 

 taken by the Imperial German Working People's 

 Insurance Office in providing hospitals and con- 

 valescent homes for those of the insured who 

 are attacked by illness and prevented from 

 earning their living. A large number of sana- 

 toria which are already receiving patients have 

 demonstrated that Germans who suffer from 

 tuberculous diseases do not require to go abroad 

 in search of health, but can secure the best 

 medical treatment in the immediate neighbor- 

 hood of the place where they have to live and 

 work. There will presently be some 50 sana- 

 toria in Germany for persons in straightened 

 circumstances. The Central Committee has co- 

 operated in various degrees in the development 

 of these institutions by placing at their disposal 

 Information and, where it was requisite, by 

 making grants for their support. It has thus 

 been found possible, while consulting in every 



case the special nature of local necessities, to 

 establish the institution of sanatoria for con- 

 sumptives in Germany on a sound and perma- 

 nent basis. A meeting of the Central Committee, 

 at which Her Majesty, the Empress, will be 

 present, will be held on January 9th. President 

 Gabel, of the Imperial Insurance Office, will 

 make a report on the new rules to be adopted, 

 the object of which is to extend the sphere of 

 the Committee's operations on the lines which 

 they have hitherto followed. 



VNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At the twenty-seventh convocation of the 

 University of Chicago, on January 4th, Presi- 

 dent Harper announced two gifts of land, one 

 by Mr. N. A. Ryerson, valued at $34,000, and 

 one by Marshall Field, valued at $135,000. A 

 gymnasium will be erected on the latter site. 

 The enrollment of the University is 1,621, an 

 increase of 450 over last year. 



Me. H. O. Armour has given $20,000 to 

 Whitworth College, a Presbyterian institution 

 at Sumner, Wash. The sum of $75,000 has 

 been collected for Arcadia University, a Baptist 

 institution at Wolfeville, N. S., $15,000 having 

 been given by Mr. John D. Rockefeller. 



The alumni of Harvard College, by a vote of 

 2,782 to 1,481, have reversed their previous 

 vote extending the franchise in voting for over- 

 seers of the University to the graduates of all 

 the schools. President Eliot and most members 

 of the faculty who are alumni voted with the 

 minority. 



The annual catalogue of Harvard University 

 records 411 officers and 4,660 students, an in- 

 crease of 7 officers and 84 students over last 

 year. These figures include the summer school, 

 but not Radcliffe College, the enrollment of 

 which is 411 students. There are 1,851 students 

 in the College and 560 in the medical school. 



The new catalogue of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, about to be issued, will show that 

 there are 258 officers and 2,790 students, of 

 whom 1,337 are in the departments of medicine 

 and dentistry. There are in the School of Arts 

 365, in the Towne Scientific School 284 and in 

 the Department of Philosophy 158 students. 



