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Illinois by the president, or that tenure of office 

 is insecure because of autocratic administration; 

 therefore, without entering at all into a discus- 

 sion of the case referred to in said articles, be it 



Resolved, by the senate of the University of 

 Illinois (a body which includes all heads of de- 

 partments and full professors in the university), 

 that it is our belief that each member of the fac- 

 ulty has entire freedom of opinion, that he is free 

 to express his opinions on all matters of univer- 

 sity administration and educational policy to his 

 colleagues and to the president without inter- 

 ference and without fear that it will endanger his 

 position. 



Resolved, That we hereby express our confidence 

 in the president of the university and our con- 

 viction that he administers his high oflSce as a 

 colleague rather than as a superior. 



Resolved, That in the opinion of the university 

 senate the course of the administration has been 

 such as to stimulate to a marked degree the 

 higher scientific and educational interests of the 

 university. 



Resolved, That as members of the faculty we 

 assure the president of our loyal and hearty sup- 

 port in the varied and difficult responsibilities 

 imposed upon him as the executive head of this 

 university. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Draper's Company will erect for Ox- 

 ford University an electrical laboratory at a 

 cost of £22,000 and will give an additional 

 sum of £1,000 for its equipment. 



The H. K. Gushing Laboratory of Experi- 

 mental Medicine at Western Eeserve Univer- 

 sity will be dedicated on Friday, November 20, 

 at 2 o'clock, when Professor William H. 

 Welch, of the Johns Hopkins University, will 

 make the address. 



Cornell UNm;RSiTT has bought within the 

 past year for the benefit of the College of 

 Agriculture and the Veterinary College ap- 

 proximately 500 acres of ground lying con- 

 tiguous to its other holdings. 



Mrs. Mart Fiskb Spencer, of Oberlin, has 

 presented to the botanical laboratory at Ober- 

 lin College a collection of seven thousand 

 European plants, gathered during twenty-five 

 years of residence in Munich. 



The council of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, of London, has adopted resolutions 

 which will in future admit women to the 

 examinations of the conjoint examining board 

 in England, to the examination for the 

 diploma in public health, to the examinations 

 for the fellowship, and to the examinations 

 for the license in dental surgery. 



Dr. Florian Cajori, head professor of 

 mathematics in Colorado College, has again 

 accepted the deanship of the Engineering 

 School. 



Dr. Daniel Starch, instructor in experi- 

 mental psychology in Wellesley College, has 

 been appointed instructor in psychology in the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. T. H. McHalton has resigned as horti- 

 culturist of the Georgia Experiment Station, 

 to take the position of adjunct professor in 

 charge of the Horticultural Department of the 

 Georgia State College of Agriculture at the 

 University of Georgia, Athens. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



DR. 0. P. HAT ON THE SKULL OF DIPLODOCUS 



My attention has been called to-day to an 

 article in Science from the pen of my friend. 

 Dr. O. P. Hay, in which he indulges in cer- 

 tain criticisms of my paper on the " Osteology 

 of Diplodocus " published in the Memoirs of 

 the Carnegie Museum, Volume II., page 225 

 et seq. 



" Humanum est errare," and it is quite 

 possible I have made mistakes. I shall be 

 glad to accept corrections when I am con- 

 vinced they are well founded. Until, how- 

 ever, I have time to reexamine the whole sub- 

 ject I am not inclined to adopt Dr. Hay's 

 opinion as final. His ipse dixit does not carry 

 conviction with it, especially as I am aware 

 that he is only beginning his studies in this 

 difficult field of investigation. We all 

 acknowledge him to be a competent student of 

 the Testudinata, but his investigations as to 

 the skulls of the dinosauria are of quite recent 

 origin. 



Leaving out of sight difficult questions 

 which relate to the interpretation of the 

 foramina of the skull intended to give exit to 



