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SCIENCE. 



LN. g. Vol. IX. No. 233. 



of the heu's egg during the development of the 

 chick. 



Inquiries as to the schools in which leading 

 men in various professions were educated have 

 been made by The School World, and the results 

 for men of science are abstracted in Nature. 

 Of 250 representative men of science — mostly 

 Fellows of the Royal Society — chosen for the 

 present inquiry, one- fifth received their early 

 education either in private schools or at home 

 under tutors. The schools which claim the 

 greatest number of old pupils in the selected 

 list are Edinburgh High School, Edinburgh 

 Academy and Aberdeen Grammar School. The 

 Scotch schools are followed, as regards the 

 number of old pupils of distinguished eminence 

 in science, by the City of Loudon School and 

 King's College School. Eton, Harrow and 

 Rugby succeed these, and are in turn followed 

 by Liverpool College, Royal Institution School 

 (Liverpool) and St. Paul's. The remarkable 

 point brought out by this comparison, says 

 Nature, is the small part the great public schools 

 have taken in training the leaders in science of 

 the present day. When the men who are now 

 in the foremost rank among philosophers were 

 receiving their early education science was 

 almost, if not quite, omitted from the public 

 school curriculum, with the result that com- 

 paratively few boys from such schools have be- 

 come eminent in the scientific world. The 

 neglect of science in comparison with other 

 subjects is shown by the fact that Eton, Harrow, 

 Rugby, Winchester, Westminster and one or 

 two other public schools, though comparatively 

 poor in their scientific record, are shown to 

 have furnished the greatest number of leading 

 men in Parliament, the church and the law, 

 Eton leading the way as regards numbers in 

 each of these classes. 



The Regents of the University of the State of 

 New York have voted that the Secretary be au- 

 thorized to sell any of the University publications 

 at half price to any university institution or to 

 any teacher or oflBcer of such institution, and to 

 give such publications outright to such deposi- 

 tories as shall be registered as entitled to such 

 consideration because they agree to preserve 

 and catalogue the publications and make them 



available for public use. Pamphlet editions of 

 the reports giving administrative details and in- 

 formation as to the workings of the department 

 may be given away ; but scientific contributions 

 of the museum stafl' and other valuable matter 

 printed as appendices to the reports, and the 

 bound volumes containing such matter, shall not 

 be for free distribution, but shall be sold at a 

 nominal price approximately covering cost of 

 paper, presswork and binding. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



In addition to Professors Picard, Mosso and 

 Ram6n y Cajal, whom we have already an- 

 nounced as lecturers at the decennial celebra- 

 tion of Clark LTniversity, to be held July 5th to 

 8th, we are informed that Dr. Ludwig Boltz- 

 mann, professor of theoretical physics at the 

 University of Vienna, and Dr. August Forel, 

 formerly professor of psychiatry at the Uni- 

 versity of Zurich, will give short courses of 

 lectures. 



Me. B. H. DtTKE has made an additional gift 

 of $50,000 to Trinity College, at Durham, N. C. 



The degree of Bachelor of Science has been 

 given to 170 candidates by the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



It is reported that nine professors at St. 

 Petersburg University have resigned as an ex- 

 pression of sympathy with the grievances of 

 the students. 



The Rev. William H. P. Faunce, D.D., pastor 

 of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, 

 has accepted the presidency of Brown Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. D. J. BiEHKiNGER and Dr. Troger have 

 been promoted to assistant professorships of 

 chemistry in the Institute of Technology at 

 Braunschweig. Dr. Abegg has qualified as 

 docent in physical chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Breslau ; Dr. Schultze in zoology in 

 the University at Jena ; Dr. Kowalevsky in 

 mathematics in the University of Leipzig ; Dr. 

 Feitler in physical and theoretical chemistry in 

 the Institute of Technology at Vienna ; Dr. 

 von Oppolzer in astronomy and astrophj'sics in 

 the German University at Prague, and Dr. 

 Relstab in physics in the Institute of Tech- 

 nology at Braunschweig. 



