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the summer on the gulf coast in Texas under 

 direction of Professor C. E. McClung. This 

 material will be used in the biological classes 

 of the university and wiU also be furnished at 

 cost to zoology classes in the accredited high 

 schools of the state. 



The registration at the close of the first 

 week at the University of Wisconsin shows an 

 increase of 331 students over the number en- 

 rolled at the same time last year. This gain 

 indicates that the total number of students at 

 the university this year will be over 4,500. 



The new building of the engineering 

 laboratory of the Heriot-Watt College, Edin- 

 burgh, was opened by the Earl of Eosebery on 

 September 16. 



The Eussian minister of public instruction 

 has forbidden women to attend university lec- 

 tures in the future, but permits those to com- 

 plete their studies at universities who have 

 already received permission, and whose trans- 

 fer to higher educational institutions for 

 women is impossible. 



At Wesleyan University (not Northwestern 

 University, as previously stated) David E. 

 Whitney, of Columbia University, has been 

 appointed instructor in biology, and J. W. 

 Turrentine, M.Se. (North Carolina), Ph.D. 

 (Cornell), instructor in physical chemistry. 



Dr. Hahry T. Marshall has returned from 

 Manila and has assumed charge of the work 

 in pathology and bacteriology at the Univer- 

 sity of Virginia. He is assisted by Dr. Carl 

 Meloy, who returns to the university this year 

 as adjunct professor of pathology. 



The following appointments have been an- 

 nounced in the SheiEeld Scientific School of 

 Yale University: Arthur Lyman Dean, Ph.D., 

 to be instructor in industrial chemistry; J. F. 

 McClelland, M.E., to be lecturer on mining 

 engineering, and William Harry Kirkham to 

 be instructor in biology. In the Medical 

 School Dr. Marvin Scarborough, M.A., has 

 been appointed instructor in pharmacology. 



At the College of the City of New York 

 the following have been promoted from the 

 grade of tutor to that of instructor: In 

 chemistry, Eobert W. Curtis, Ph.D. (Yale); 



William L. Prager, Ph.D. (Clark); Eeston 

 Stevenson, Ph.D. (Columbia) ; in descriptive 

 geometry and drawing, William Chadwick and 

 Frederick W. Hutchison; in education, Sam- 

 uel B. Heckman, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) ; in 

 philosophy, Howard D. Marsh, Ph.D. (Colum- 

 bia) ; in physics, David H. Eay, Se.D. (New 

 York University). Dr. W. L. Estabrooke has 

 been appointed a tutor in the department of 

 chemistry. 



At George Washington University Mr. 

 Sidney I. Kornhauser has been appointed in- 

 structor in biology and Dr. Irving K. Phelps, 

 instructor in physiology. 



Mr. James P. Barrett has resigned an as- 

 sistantship in botany at Illinois Agricultural 

 Station to accept a fellowship in botany at 

 Cornell University. 



The board of governors of the University 

 of Toronto in July last established, at the 

 urgent request of Professor A. B. Macallum, 

 the head of the department of physiology and 

 physiological chemistry, a second professor- 

 ship in the department and on September 24 

 the board appointed Professor T. G. Brodie, 

 M.D., F.E.S., of the Eoyal Veterinary Col- 

 lege, London, to the position as titular pro- 

 fessor of physiology. Professor Brodie has 

 accepted the appointment and will assume his 

 duties at Toronto in November. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



AN UNUSUAL METEORIC FALL 



To THE Editor of Science: There was an 

 unusual and somewhat remarkable fall of 

 meteoric masses in this vicinity on the even- 

 ing of Thursday, September 17, some of the 

 facts concerning which may be worthy of 

 record in Science. I was an eye-witness of 

 some of the phenomena, as will appear. The 

 general account is gleaned from the news- 

 papers of the following day. On the date 

 mentioned, at about quarter past seven o'clock 

 in the evening, a large and brilliant meteor 

 passed over the whole state of Massachusetts 

 from west to east. According to reports, a 

 large fragment of it dropped into Boston 

 harbor between Apple Island (a small island) 

 and the shore of the town of Winthrop, which 



