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gineering and architecture applied to hygiene, 

 in which the question to be discussed is the pro- 

 tection of water supplies. 4. Personal hygiene, 

 in which the question to be discussed is conta- 

 gious patients from the hospital point of view. 

 5. Industrial and professional hygiene. 6. Mili- 

 tary, naval and colonial hygiene, in which the 

 question to be discussed is the means of ensur- 

 ing the purity of water from the point of view 

 of colonial hygiene. 7. General and interna- 

 tional hygiene (prophylaxis of communicable 

 diseases ; sanitary administration and legisla- 

 tion), in which the questions to be discussed are 

 the prophylaxis of tuberculosis in regard to in- 

 dividuals, families, etc.; the compulsory notifi- 

 cation of communicable diseases, its necessary 

 consequences (isolation, disinfection) and its re- 

 sults in different countries ; the prophylaxis of 

 syphilis ; and the international prophylaxis of 

 yellow fever. 



VNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. John D. Eockefellee, has offered 

 $100,000 to Denisoa University, Granville, O., 

 if the friends of the institution will, within the 

 next year, raise the sum of $150,000. 



Mrs. Simon Reid, of Lake Forest, has ex- 

 pressed her intention of giving to Lake Forest 

 University a chapel and a library. 



The further sum of £25,000 has been offered 

 for the Birmingham University on condition 

 that £225,000 are obtained within a year. The 

 amount already promised is £135,000. 



Professor Louis F. Henderson, professor 

 of botany in the University of Idaho, at Moscow, 

 Idaho, has recently donated to the botanical 

 department of Cornell University a complete 

 set of his duplicates of the phanerogams and 

 ferns of Idaho. Over 900 species were con- 

 tained in the collection, making it one of the 

 most valuable single local collections that the 

 University has received. Professor Henderson 

 is an alumnus of Cornell University, class of 

 '74. 



Professor "W. v. Branco, of Hohenheim, 

 has been called to the chair of geology and 

 paleontology in the University of Berlin, as 

 successor to Professor Dames. 



Charles Edward St. John, Ph.D., has been 

 appointed to the professorship of physics and 

 astronomy in Oberlin College. 



Mr. Joseph Barcroft has been elected Fel- 

 low of King's College, Cambridge. His chief 

 work has been in physiology. 



Alexander Anderson, professor of natural 

 philosophy in Queen's College, Galway, has 

 been appointed President of the institution. 



It is said that the candidates for the chair of 

 physiology at Edinburgh, vacant by the death of 

 Professor Rutherford, include Professor E. A. 

 Schafer, Dr. William Stirling, Dr. D. N. Paton, 

 Dr. E. Waymouth Reid, Dr. E. W. W. Carlier 

 and Dr. G. N. Stewart. 



M. Henri Moissan has published for the 

 Council of the LTniversity of Paris a report on 

 its work during the year 1897-8. The increase 

 in the number of students at periods of six 

 years is shown in the accompanying table : 



1885-86. 1891-92. 1S97-0S. 



Medicine 3.696 4.250 4.494 



Law 3.786 4.111 4.607 



Pbarmaoy 1.767 1..547 1.790 



Letters 928 1.185 1.989 



Sciences 467 6.55 1.370 



Protestant Theology... 35 36 95 



Total 10.679 11.784 14.346 



It will be noticed that the growth in the num- 

 ber of students of science is the greatest, and 

 the increase has been more than maintained 

 during the present year, being 127 as compared 

 with 85 in letters. It should be recollected that 

 there are many important institutions for higher 

 education in Paris — The College de France, 

 The Museum of Natural History, The School of 

 Mines, the Normal College, The Polytechnic 

 Institute, The School of Fine Arts, The Pasteur 

 Institute, etc. — not included in the University. 

 Paris is thus certainly the world's largest 

 educational center, but the provincial universi- 

 ties are less important than the corresponding 

 institutions in other countries. The gifts to 

 the university during the year, about $30,000, 

 appear small in comparison with those to 

 American institutions. There are only 202 

 scholarships, which is also relatively fewer than 

 in America and in Great Britain. 



