June 24, 1898.] 



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The University of Pennsylvania Press has 

 published a ' Syllabus of Lectures on the Ver- 

 tebrata,' by the late Professor B. D. Cope. It 

 is stated in the preface that the book is a cor- 

 rected and extended edition of ' The Syllabus 

 of Lectures on Geology and Paleontology,' 

 Part III.: ' Paleontology of the Vertebra,' pub- 

 lished in 1891, and was originally designed for 

 use in the extension lectures of the University. 

 The book includes an introduction of thirty- 

 five pages on the ' Life and Works of Cope,' by 

 Professor Osborn, and a portrait of Cope as 

 frontispiece. A limited number of copies of 

 this work is ofiered for sale, in cloth for $1.25, 

 or with a paper cover for $1.00. 



The first of the four volumes of Huxley's 

 Scientific Memoirs has been issued. The work, 

 which Professor Michael Foster and Professor 

 Kay Lankester are editing, is being published by 

 The Macmillan Company as a contribution to 

 the Huxley memorial. A portrait of Huxley, 

 taken in 1857, serves as a frontispiece of the 

 volume, which contains 600 pages. 



Messes. G. P. Putnam's Sons have just is- 

 sued, as the first volume of their ' Science 

 Series,' 'The Study of Man,' by Professor A. 

 C. Haddon. They have arranged for the fol- 

 lowing volumes of the series in addition to 

 those already announced : ' Rivers of North 

 America,' by Professor Israel C. Russell; 

 ' Whales,' by F. E. Beddard ; ' Bacteria,' by Dr. 

 J. H. Gladstone ; 'History of Botany,' by Pro- 

 fessor A. H. Green; 'Planetary Motion,' by 

 Dr. G. W. Hill, and 'Infection and Immunity,' 

 by Dr. George M. Sternberg. The title of Pro- 

 fessor Young's book has been changed to 

 'Meteors and Comets,' and that of Professor 

 Brinton's to ' Ethnic Psychology.' 



M. MouELON, of the Belgian Geological Sur- 

 vey, writes that the favorable reception met 

 with by Volume I. of the series B of the Biblio- 

 graphia geologica, cataloguing the publications 

 since the 1st of January, 1896, and Volume II., 

 soon to be ready, leads the Survey to publish 

 Volume I. of the series A, or retrospective series, 

 giving the titles of geological publications pub- 

 lished prior to 1896. The first volume of this se- 

 ries will comprise the titles of all geological pub- 

 lications of the library of the Geological Survey, 



and will consequently constitute the first part 

 of the catalogue of this library (drawn up ac- 

 cording to the decimal classification). Authors 

 are requested to send copies of their publica- 

 tions in order that they may be included in the 

 Bibliography. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The late A. S. Van Wickle, of Hazleton, 

 Pa., has bequeathed $45,000 each to Princeton 

 University and to Brown University and $30,- 

 000 to Lafayette College. 



Chancelloe MacCeacken, of New York 

 University, has announced an anonymous 

 donation, thought to be from Miss Helen 

 Gould, of SSO-.OOO to New York University. 



Mt. Holyoke College receives $5,000 by 

 the will of the late Elijah A. Morse, and Tufts 

 College $2,000 by the will of the late Mrs. 

 Eugenia Stowe, of Meriden, Conn. 



The Board of Trustees of the University of 

 Rochester has adopted resolutions admitting 

 women to the institution when $100,000 shall 

 have been raised for the purpose. 



At the recent commencement exercises of 

 the University of Nebraska 88 students were 

 admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 44 

 to the degree of Bachelor of Science, 39 to the 

 degree of Bachelor of Laws, 40 to the degree of 

 Master of Arts, and 2 to the degree of Doctor 

 of Philosophy. The University long since 

 abandoned the practice of conferring advanced 

 degrees upon any other basis than that of resi- 

 dent work under the direction of the faculty. 



It is reported that President Andrews, of 

 Brown University, has been ofiered and will 

 accept the superintendency of the public 

 schools of Chicago. 



The following promotions have been made at 

 Johns Hopkins University : Dr. Joseph S. 

 Ames to a full professorship of physics ; Dr. J. 

 Elliott Gilpin and Dr. Harry C. Jones to be asso- 

 ciates in chemistry and physical chemistry, re- 

 spectively, and Dr. Luis E. Livingood to be as- 

 sociate in pathology. The Bruce fellowship 

 was awarded to Gilbert A. Drew, of Iowa, who 

 this year receives the degree of Ph.D. in biol- 

 ogy- 



