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teachers will be oflfered duriDg the first term of 

 the summer quarter (July 1 to August 10, 

 1899) at the University of Chicago by Professor 

 T. C. Chamberlin. This will embrace a discus- 

 sion of the chief problems of geology involviug 

 basal principles and fundamental modes of in- 

 terpretation. While old views will not ignored, 

 a special feature of the course will be a rela- 

 tively new series of working hypotheses based 

 upon the accretion theorj' of the earth's origin. 

 These hypotheses will be carried out to their 

 practical applications in the unsolved problems 

 of geology and be made the basis of new modes 

 of interpretation of geological history. The 

 course will embrace an exposition of the stages 

 of expansional, restrictional and provincial life 

 evolution in the earth's history and the con- 

 ditions controlling them. The functions of 

 base-levels, sea-shelves, epicontinental seas, and 

 continental stages of quiescence and readjust- 

 ment in the control of life evolution, will be set 

 forth. Parallel with the above there will be 

 given a course in glacial geology involviug a 

 discussion of principles, the phenomena and 

 modes of interpretation. These courses will be 

 offered for the coming summer only, in response 

 to an expressed desire for them. The usual 

 courses in general geology and physiology, and 

 in field and laboratory work, will be given by 

 Professor Salisbury, aided by Messrs. Goode, 

 Atwood, Calhoun and Finch. 



The Rhode Island College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts, with the cooperation of Hon. 

 Thomas B. Stockwell, State Commissioner of 

 Public Schools, and Dr. Horace S. Tarbell, 

 Superintendent of Schools in Providence, pro- 

 poses to open a summer school for nature 

 study at Kingston, R. I., from July 5 to 19, 

 1899, provided forty applicants are enrolled 

 before June 1st. A general summer school is 

 not contemplated, and the work offered by the 

 various departments constitutes a single course 

 dealing solely with local phenomena in their 

 adaptability to the teaching of nature study. 

 The distinctive feature will be the study of 

 living nature. On the excursions attention 

 will be directed to special facts and illustrations 

 in botany, zoology, geography and mineralogy, 

 and to the manner in which chemical, physical 

 and biological laws are utilized by practical 



application to horticulture and agriculture. 

 The evenings will be devoted to general lectures 

 bearing upon nature and upon methods of 

 teaching nature study. Among those who have 

 consented to aid by conducting excursions, 

 conferences and lectures are Professors H. C. 

 Bumpus, E. G. Couklin, H. W. Conn, C. B. 

 Davenport and W. M. Wheeler. 



The Women's Medical College of New York 

 will be closed at the end of the year, when the 

 thirty-first annual coinmencement will be cele- 

 brated. When the College was established there 

 was no opportunity for women to secure a med- 

 ical education, but Johns Hopkins and Cornell 

 having admitted women to their medical 

 schools it has been decided that a special med- 

 ical school for women is unnecessary. The in- 

 firmary for women and children will be con- 

 tinued, and the buildings of the College will be 

 used for graduate work. 



The medical faculty of the University of 

 Pennsylvania has made nominations as follows: 

 Dr. James Tyson, professor of clinical medicine, 

 to the chair of medicine, vacant by the death 

 of the late Dr. Pepper ; Dr. John H. Musser 

 and Dr. Alfred Stangel, to be professors of clin- 

 ical medicine ; Dr. Judson Daland, Dr. M. 

 Howard Fussell, Dr. John K. Mitchell and 

 Dr. Frederick A. Packard to be assistant pro- 

 fessors of medicine, and Dr. G. Davis to be as- 

 sistant professor of applied anatomy. 



Dr. C. E. Beechee, professor of historical 

 geology in Yale University, has been appointed 

 to succeed the late Professor O. C. Marsh as 

 Curator of the Geological Collections of the Pea- 

 body Museum. Professor Beecher has been made 

 a member of the Executive Council of the 

 Museum. 



At the University of Kansas the following 

 appointments have been recently made : W. R. 

 Crane, of Janesville, Wis., to be assistant pro- 

 fessor of mining engineering ; Thomas M. 

 Gardner, of Mitchell, Ind., to be assistant pro- 

 fessor of mechanical drawing ; Dr. Ida Hyde, 

 of Cambridge, Mass., to be assistant professor 

 of zoology; Hamilton P. Cady, of Ithaca, N". 

 Y., to be assistant professor of chemistry, and 

 Charles L. Searcy, of the College of Montana, 

 to be assistant professor of civil engineering. 



