January 14, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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to turn out full-fledged mummies and sar- 

 cophagi. The scientific societies in England 

 point out, with some degree of justice, that while 

 this form of prison labor may have commercial 

 advantages it practically renders the British 

 government a party to fraud. 



Per Dusen, the Swedish engineer and bry- 

 ologist, has returned from Tierpa del Fuego and 

 Patagonia, where he has been engaged in scien- 

 tific research since September, 1895. 



At a meeting of the Eoyal Colonial Institute, 

 London, on November 21st, Mr. W. Saville- 

 Kent, late Commissioner of Fisheries to the 

 Government of Queensland, Tasmania and 

 Western Australia, made an address on the nat- 

 ural history of Australia. Lord Loch, who 

 presided, referred, at the close of the lecture, to 

 the question of Antarctic exploration. He said 

 there was a movement on foot at the present 

 moment, which was receiving very strong sup- 

 port, for iitting out an expedition, and he 

 trusted that the Council of the Institute would 

 give that movement, when it came in a very 

 short time prominently before the public, every 

 support. This matter of exploring the Antarc- 

 tic regions had long occupied the attention of 

 the several colonies in Australia. During the 

 time he was Governor of Victoria there was a 

 strong feeling in favor of assisting any such 

 movement. If the Imperial Government would 

 have assisted in fitting out an Antarctic expe- 

 dition these colonies, and he believed others, 

 would have willingly joined. Whether circum- 

 stances that had since occurred in Australia 

 would enable them now to join in any move- 

 ment that might be brought forward by the Im- 

 perial Government he did not know, but he be- 

 lieved there would be a strong expression of 

 opinion in Australia in favor of the southern 

 colonies joining in any organized expedition, 

 whether assisted by the government at home or 

 promoted by private enterprise entirely, to carry 

 out Antarctic exploration. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 President Harper announced at the recent 

 Quarterly Convocation of the University of 

 Chicago that Mr. Eockfeller had given $200,- 



000 to maintain the University in its present 

 condition during the year beginning July 1st. 

 It is announced that the Rush Medical School 

 of Chicago, with 77 instructors and 699 students, 

 will probably affiliate with the University of 

 Chicago. 



The east wing of Ottawa University (Cath- 

 olic) was destroyed by fire on January 5th. 

 The loss on the building is $50,000 ; on contents 

 $30,000. The loss is covered by insurance. 



The Educational Council of the Nebraska 

 State Teachers' Association has adopted the re- 

 port of a committee of which Professor Bessey 

 is chairman, recommending that only those in- 

 stitutions be recognized as colleges that require 

 as a minimum for admission the equivalent of a 

 good high-school course of at least three years 

 above the eighth grade of the public schools, 

 and that give a full four-year course of colle- 

 giate work of creditable grade for graduation. 



A CHEQUE for £1,000 from Mr. Alexander 

 Peckover, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of 

 Cambridgeshire, has been received by the Vice- 

 Chancellor of Cambridge University for the fund 

 for rebuilding the School of Medicine and Sur- 

 gery atttached to the University. 



The establishment of a new technological 

 institute in the north of Prussia is being dis- 

 cussed in the German papers, and is favored by 

 several political leaders, including Dr. von 

 Gossler, lately Minister for Education and the 

 Fine Arts. Danzig, Thorn and Posen are men- 

 tioned as suitable places. Hamburg is also 

 agitating the question, though that city seems 

 to want a university. 



Mr. Francis Ramaley, instructor of phar- 

 maceutical botany in the University of Minne- 

 sota, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of botany in the University of Colorado, Boul- 

 der, Col. 



Professor Kelly has resigned from the 

 chair of hygiene in King's College, London. 



Db. Abelous has been appointed professor of 

 physiology at the University of Toulouse, and 

 Dr. F. Stanley Kipping, F.R.S., professor of 

 chemistry at University College, Nottingham, 

 England. Dr. Hollerman has qualified as 

 docent in botany in the University of Berlin, 



