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of 38 to 48 per 10,000 inhabitants, while the 

 southern parts have only about 22 to 30 deaths 

 from tuberculosis to each 10,000 inhabitants. 

 The highest mortality is found in Bohemia, 

 with a mean of 54 in the north and 36 in the 

 south, per 10,000. Vienna also has a high 

 average mortality from this disease — 42 per 

 10,000 — but the hospitals as a center for a 

 large area are largely responsible for this 

 high rate. 



VNIYERSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, has paid 

 $25,000 to Beloit College and to Pomona Col- 

 lege. Dr. Pearsons has now given more than 

 $4,000,000 to email colleges. 



Work is being pushed rapidly upon the 

 engineering laboratory of the University of 

 Nebraska, the foundations being laid and the 

 workmen now having begun the walls of the 

 lower story. It is to be completed during the 

 coming year. 



Professor Alfred D. Cole, of Vassar Col- 

 lege, returns to the Ohio State University as 

 professor of physics and head of the depart- 

 ment, which now numbers eleven meru Pro- 

 fessor B. F. Thomas, who has conducted the 

 department for more than twenty years, will 

 give up the executive work, but remains as 

 professor of physios. 



Professor Edwin M. Wilcox, of the Ala- 

 bama Polytechnic Institute, has been elected 

 to the position of botanist of the Experiment 

 Station and professor of agricultural botany 

 in the University of ISTebraska. He has ac- 

 cepted the tender made him by the regents of 

 the university, and will assume the duties of 

 his new position the first of September, at 

 which time his predecessor. Professor Heald, 

 closes his work in Nebraska. 



Dr. C. H. Shattuck, of Washburn College, 

 has recently been called to the chair of 

 botany and forestry in the State Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College, at Clemson College, 

 South Carolina. 



In the University of Virginia Medical 

 School, Dr. H. T. Marshall, formerly professor 

 of pathology in Philippine Medical School, has 

 been elected professor of pathology. Dr. J. 



A. E. Eyster, associate professor of physiology 

 at Johns Hopkins has been elected professor 

 of pharmacology and materia medica, and Dr. 

 Carl Meloy, formerly instructor at Johns 

 Hopkins in pathology, has been elected adjunct 

 professor of pathology. 



Dr. Aron, of Berlin, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of professor of physiology in the Philip- 

 pine Medical School. 



0. W. G. EoHRER, B.Sc, M.D., M.A. (Wes- 

 leyan), has been appointed associate professor 

 of pathology and assistant in genito-urinary 

 diseases at the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, Baltimore. 



Dr. Clifton Durant Howe has resigned 

 his position of associate director of the Bilt- 

 more Forest School, Biltmore, North Caro- 

 lina, to become lecturer in forestry in the 

 University of Toronto. 



The following promotions were announced 

 at the recent commencement exercises of the 

 St. Louis University School of Medicine: 

 Warren P. Elmer, M.D. (Michigan), and 

 William Engelbach, M.D. (Northwestern), 

 assistant professors of medicine; William W. 

 Graves, M.D. (Washington University), as- 

 sistant professor of nervous diseases; M. G. 

 Seelig, A.B. (Harvard), M.D. (Columbia), 

 assistant professor of pathology; James M. 

 Wilson, Ph.B. (Cornell), M.D. (Eush), asso- 

 ciate professor of embryology. 



Dr. James Walker, of University College, 

 Dundee, succeeds Professor Crum Brown in 

 the chair of chemistry at the University of 

 Edinburgh. 



Dr. H. Dold, of Tubingen, has been ap- 

 pointed lecturer in bacteriology and compara- 

 tive anatomy in the Boyal Institution of 

 Public Health, London. 



Professor Volhabd will retire this year 

 from the directorship of the chemical labora- 

 tory at Halle. It is understood that he will 

 be succeeded by Professor Daniel Vorlander, 

 at present one of the heads of a division of the 

 laboratory. 



Professor Hans Horst Meyer, the pharma- 

 cologist, who was called to Vienna about three 



