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director of the electric tramways of Leghorn. 

 For the Fossati prize, on some physiological 

 point connected with the human encephalusi 

 two competitors entered, and awards of 400 lire 

 have been made to both — namely, Dr. Domenico 

 Mirto, of Palerma, and Dr. Carlo Martinotti, of 

 Turin. For the Brambilla prize, given for the 

 invention or introduction of some new machine 

 or industrial process of real practical value, 

 seven competitors entered. A gold medal and 

 500 lire has been awarded to Fratelli Boltri, of 

 Milan, for their grain desiccators ; a similar 

 award to Premoli and ZanonceDi, of Lodi, for 

 their preparation of Gaertnerised milk. Gold 

 medals and 200 lire have also been given to 

 Rossi, Enrico and Co., of Milan, for their 

 manufacture of varnishes, etc. ; to Piola Alfredo, 

 of Milan, for artists' colors ; and to Pizonni 

 Pietro, of Milan, for the manufacture of baskets. 

 The prizes offered for future competition in- 

 clude prizes of the Institution for 1899 for a list 

 of unusual meteorological events that have been 

 recorded from the earliest times, and for 1900 

 for an essay on collective property in Italy ; 

 two triennial medals for improvements in agri- 

 cultural or industrial processes in Lombardy ; 

 a Cagnola prize and gold medal on the subjects 

 chosen by the Institution, viz., in 1899, for an 

 essay on Hertz's phenomenon, or the effect of 

 active radiation or of products of combustion 

 on the sparking distance in air, and in 1900 for 

 a critical study of toxin and anti-toxin ; a Cag- 

 nola prize and gold medal for 1899 on one of the 

 following subjects chosen by the founder, viz : 

 the cure of ' jaellagra,' the nature of miasma and 

 contagion, the direction of flying balloons, and 

 the methods of preventing forgery of writings ; 

 a Brambilla prize for industrial improvements 

 in Lombardy ; Fossati prizes for 1899 on the 

 macro- or micro-scopical anatomy of the nervous 

 system, for 1900 on the regeneration of pe- 

 ripheric nervous fibres in vertebrates, and for 

 1901 on the anatomy of the encephalus of the 

 higher animals ; a Kramer prize for an essay on 

 the transmission of heat between the steam and 

 walls of the cylinders of steam engines ; a Secco 

 Comneuo prize for 1902 for a description of 

 Italian natural deposits of phosphates ; a Pizza- 

 miglio prize for an essay on the influence of so- 

 cialistic doctrines on private rights ; Ciani prizes 



for popular Italian books, a Tommasoni prize 

 for a history of the life and works of Leonardi 

 da Vinci ; and a triennial Zanetti prize for some 

 improvements or discovery in pharmaceutical 

 chemistry. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At a meeting of the Board of Overseers of 

 Harvard University on March 15th it was voted 

 to concur with the President and Fellows in the 

 election of William Morris Davis, M.E., now 

 holding the chair of physical geography, to be 

 Sturgis Hooper professor of geology ; Robert 

 Tracy Jackson, S.D., was elected assistant pro- 

 fessor of paleontology, and Jay Backus Wood- 

 worth, S.B., instructor in geology. 



De. Simon Flexnee, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has accepted the chair of pathology 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, to succeed 

 Dr. John Guiteras. Dr. Guiteras will spend a 

 year abroad and expects then to devote his 

 services to the University of Havana. 



Me. H. E. Beown and Mr. W. A. Niveling, 

 assistant instructors in chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, have resigned their positions 

 to engage in technical work. 



At Yale University Dr. Jervase Greene has 

 been promoted to an instructorship in philoso- 

 phy and Dr. I. K. Phelps to an instructor- 

 ship in chemistry. Dr. Milton B. Porter 

 has been appointed instructor in mathe- 

 matics. 



Colonel Heineich Haetl has been ap- 

 pointed professor of geodesy in the University 

 of Vienna, and Dr. G. Bodlander, of Gottingen, 

 professor of physical chemistry in the Institute 

 of Technology at Braunschweig. Dr. Gutz- 

 mer, of Halle, has been called to the new as- 

 sistant professorship of mathematics in the 

 University of Jena ; Dr. Aladar Richter to be 

 assistant professor of botany in the University 

 at Klausenburg, and Dr. Bengst Johnsson to be 

 professor of botany in the Academy at Lund. 

 Dr. Tobler and Dr. Streckeisen have qualified 

 as docents in mineralogy and geography in the 

 University at Basle. Dr. Ad. Fick, professor of 

 physiology at the University of Wiirzburg, will 

 retire at the end of the present semester. 



