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animals being used. Already numbers of pa- 

 tients, mostly the subjects of phthisis, are in 

 regular attendance. 



UmVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Trustees of Trinity College have de- 

 cided to erect a Natural Science Hall at a cost 

 of $40,000. 



The bi-centennial celebration of Yale Uni- 

 versity will begin on Sunday, October 20, 1901, 

 and will continue for four days. On Wednes- 

 day a commemorative address will be made 

 and honorary degrees will be conferred. 



The fund which since 1880 has been collect- 

 ing for a retirement fund for professors of Har- 

 vard University has now reached $340,000, and 

 the plan will be put into effect at the beginning 

 of the nest academic year. Professors who 

 have served for twenty years and who are over 

 sixty years old will be allowed one-third salary, 

 with an increase for longer terms of service, 

 which, however, is not to exceed two-thirds of 

 the salary. 



The following table shows the enrollment of 

 the University of Michigan, February 9, 1899: 



Literary department 1,271 



Engineering department 247 



Medical department 421 



Law department 745 



Dental department 237 



Homoeopathic department 61 



Pharmaceutical department 78 



Total 3,060 



A MEETING was held in London on January 

 31st for the purpose of forming the Cambridge 

 University Association, the chief object of 

 which is to improve the financial condition of 

 the University. The Duke of Devonshire, 

 Chancellor of the University, presided and 

 made an address. Other addresses were made 

 by Dr. Hill, the Vice-Chancellor ; Professor 

 Jebb, Master of Trinity ; Sir Eichard Webster, 

 Professor AUbutt, Professor Ewing, Lord 

 Kothschild and the Bishop of London. It was 

 stated that the sum of about §2,500,000 was 

 needed. Toward this sum the Duke of Devon- 

 shire and Lord Rothschild each subscribed 

 £10,000. It was also stated that the Drapers' 



Company would subscribe £800 a year for ten 

 years in support of a professorship of agri- 

 culture. Since the meeting Sir Walter Gilby 

 has subscribed £200 for ten years for a reader- 

 ship of agriculture, and in addition to smaller 

 subscriptions £3,000 toward the general fund 

 has been given by Mr. Benjamin L. Cohen. 



Dr. J. C. Branner, professor of geology in 

 Leland Stanford Jr. University, has been ap- 

 pointed Vice-President of the University. 



The chairs of pathology vacant at Cambridge, 

 by the death of Professor Kanthack, and at 

 Glasgow, by the death of Professor Coats, will 

 be filled during March. In accordance with 

 the English custom, applications for these chairs 

 should be presented to the University author- 

 ities. 



M. RiEFFEL-ScHlRMER, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Lyons, has been appointed lecturer in 

 the LTniversity of Paris for the present year, in 

 the place of M. Gallois, who has been given 

 leave of absence. 



The John Lucas Walker Studentship, of the 

 annual value of £200, for the furtherance of 

 original research in pathology, has been con- 

 ferred upon Mr. Edward Sydney St. Barbe 

 Sladen, M.A., M.D., B.C., of Gonville and 

 Caius College. The studentship is tenable for 

 three years. 



Dr. Holder, professor of mathematics of the 

 University at Konigsberg, has been called to 

 Leipzig, and will be succeeded at Konigsberg 

 by Dr. Schonflies, of Gottingen. Dr. Alois 

 Lode has been made associate professor of 

 hygiene at Innsbruck, and Dr. Helferich, of 

 Greifswald, has been called to Kiel as successor 

 to Professor v. Esmarch, who has retired. Dr. 

 Otto Wiener, of Giessen, has been appointed to 

 a full professorship of physics in the University 

 at Leipzig, and Dr. Hans Held has been pro- 

 moted to an assistant professorship of anatomy 

 in the same University. Dr. Walter Konig has 

 been appointed professor of theoretical physics 

 in the University at Heidelberg, and Dr. Jakob 

 Friih, professor of geography in the Polytechnic 

 Institute at Zurich. Dr. Pelikan has been pro- 

 moted to an assistant professorship of mineral- 

 ogy in the German University at Prague. 



