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1894 and and only 2.53 in 1895. The decrease 

 of the death-rate from diphtheria was almost 

 uniform in every district of the Empire; the 

 prevalence of the disease was, however, about 

 the same as it had been for the last twenty 

 years, and the Lancet holds that is unquestion- 

 able that the serum treatment has had the ef- 

 fect of producing a remarkable improvement. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. Heney Staffoed Little, of Trenton, 

 N. J., has given $100,000 to Princeton Univer- 

 sity to complete the quadrangle in the campus 

 by the erection of a new dormitory. 



Miss Gould has given $20,000 to the endow- 

 ment fund of Rutgers College. 



Rush Medical College, Chicago, has been 

 freed of its debt of $71,000, and will now be 

 aflSliated with the University of Chicago, add- 

 ing a faculty of seventy-seven members and 

 seven hundred students. 



The Trustees of Cornell University have voted 

 $45,000 for an addition to Morse Hall Chemical 

 Laboratory of the University. The first floor 

 of the new building will be devoted chiefly to 

 inorganic chemistry, while the second floor will 

 be for physical chemistry. 



Chaies of physiology and and anthropology 

 and anatomy will be established in the Univer- 

 sity of St. Andrew's, Scotland. 



De. Kael Chun, professor of zoology at 

 Breslau, has been called to Leipzig as successor 

 to the late Professor Leuckart. 



De. G. Born has been appointed full pro- 

 fessor of anatomy in the University of Breslau; 

 Dr. A. L. Bolk, professor of anatomy in 

 the University of Amsterdam; Dr. P. Malerla, 

 professor of physiological chemistry in the 

 University at Naples ; Dr. Gottloeb, professor of 

 pharmacology in the University at Heidelberg, 

 and Dr. Warburg, professor of botany in the 

 University of Berlin. 



The following appointments for fellowships in 

 the sciences have been made by the Board of 

 Trustees in the University of Chicago : H. N. 

 Stuart, Philosophy ; M. L. Ashley, Philos»- 

 ophy ; H. C. Biddle, Chemistry ; A. W. 



Dunn, Anthropology ; H. G. Gale, Phys- 

 ics ; H. E. Goldberg, Chemistry ; W. Mc- 

 Cracken, Chemistry ; M. D. Slimmer, Chemis- 

 try ; Helen B. Thompson, Philosophy ; C. E. 

 Siebenthal, Geology ; H.H. Newmann, Zoology; 

 H. E. Davis, Zoology ; W. N. Logan, Geology ; 

 H. Lloyd, Mathematics ; Amy Hewes, Soci- 

 ology ; K. G. Kimble, Sociology ; R. S. Lillie, 

 Zoology ; C. E. Rood, Astronomy ; M. F. Guyer, 

 Zoology ; D. N. Lehmer, Mathematics ; C. Ell- 

 wood, Sociology ; J. W. Finch, Geology ; L 

 Hardesty, Neurology . H. H. Bawden, Phi- 

 losophy ; Caroline L. Ransom, Archseology ; F. 

 L. Stevens, Botany; Elizabeth R. Laird, Physics; 

 R. George, Geology ; J. H. McDonald, Mathe- 

 matics ; "W. R. Smith, Botany ; Emily R. Greg- 

 ory, Zoology ; R. H. Hough, Physics ; D. T. 

 Wilson, Astronomy ; S. F. Acree, Chemistry ; 

 F. Reichmann, Physics ; F. E. Bolton, Peda- 

 gogy ; E. H. Comstock, Mathematics ; G. A. 

 Sikes, Sociology. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 

 ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING. 



To THE Editor of Science : It is a well 

 known fact that many promising students, who 

 have shown exceptional aptitude for original 

 investigation during their university career, 

 and, perhaps, have made important contribu- 

 tions to science in their published works, are 

 never again heard from after obtaining college 

 positions. In too many cases this is due to the 

 fact that they are required to devote all their 

 energies to the work of instruction, sometimes 

 not in one subject only, but in several widely 

 separated departments of study. The spirit of 

 research, which may have been strong and 

 vigorous when stimulated by the wholesome 

 atmosphere of university life, rapidly fades 

 away in such environment, and with it disap- 

 pears all desire to make further contributions 

 to knowledge. 



As what has been said applies with special 

 force to students of astronomy, it was felt by 

 certain members of the Astronomical Confer- 

 ence, held at the Yerkes Observatory in October 

 last, that a general expression of opinion on 

 this important subject was desirable. It was 

 seen, on the one hand, that the severe demands 



