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record in favor of a bill designed to correct 

 the evils of expert medical testimony in the 

 courts. The draft of the bill provides, among 

 other things, that " in criminal cases for 

 homicide where the issues, involve expert 

 knowledge or opinion the court shall appoint 

 one or more suitable disinterested persons, 

 not exceeding three, to investigate such issues 

 and testify at the trial; and the compensation 

 of such person or persons shall be fixed by the 

 court and paid by the county where indict- 

 ment was found, and the fact that such wit- 

 ness or witnesses have been so appointed 

 shall be made known to the jury. This pro- 

 vision shall not preclude either prosecution or 

 defense from using other expert witnesses at 

 the trial." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 A BILL has been introduced in the Wiscon- 

 sin legislature which proposes to increase the 

 building fund of the University of Wisconsin 

 from $200,000 to $300,000 annually, and to 

 lengthen the period of this appropriation 

 from five to seven years. 



A NEW industrial fellowship has been pre- 

 sented to the University of Kansas by the 

 Holophane Glass Co. It yields $1,500 a year 

 for two years, together with ten per cent, of 

 the profits that may arise from any discover- 

 ies made by the student who pursues the 

 special study. The fellowship is open to 

 students of any university, but the work will 

 be done in the laboratories of the University 

 of Kansas. 



Bryn Mawr College has established ten 

 graduate scholarships, five open to English, 

 Irish or Scotch and five to German women 

 students, who have attained a standard equiva- 

 lent to that of the bachelor's degree. The 

 scholarship covers the fees for board, resi- 

 dence and tuition at Bryn Mawr College for 

 one academic year and as these fees for 

 graduate students amount to $405 this is 

 equivalent to a scholarship of £81 or of 1,620 

 Marks. 



Mr. Chinubhai Madhowlal has given four 

 lakhs of rupees (about $125,000) to be applied 



by the Bombay Government towards the de- 

 velopment of science teaching in Ahmedabad, 

 in connection, if possible, with the proposed 

 Curline Institute in Bombay. 



The University of Liverpool has received an 

 offer from Mr. Alexander Elder, to contribute 

 $50,000 for the establishment of a chair of 

 naval architecture. 



On recommendation of the faculty of 

 the medical department of Western Reserve 

 University, the trustees have voted that be- 

 ginning with the academic year 1910-11 the 

 requirement for unconditional entrance to 

 the medical department shall be graduation 

 from an approved college or scientific school 

 granting the bachelor's degree (or equivalent) 

 following the completion of a course of at 

 least three collegiate years and including in- 

 organic chemistry, physics, biology and Latin. 

 Conditional entrance will be granted upon 

 the completion of the work of the junior 

 year in the course of an approved college or 

 scientific school enforcing a four-year course 

 (or equivalent degree) including the subject 

 requirements enumerated above, conditioned 

 upon the strident obtaining a baccalaureate 

 degree before he enters the third year in the 

 medical school. 



Dr. a. Graham Lusk, professor of physiol- 

 ogy at the University and Bellevue Hospital 

 Medical School has been appointed professor 

 of physiology in the Cornell Medical College. 



Dr. Dana B. Casteel, instructor in zoology 

 in the University of Michigan, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in zoology in the Univer- 

 sity of Texas. 



Captain H. G. Lyons, F.E.S., director-gen- 

 eral of the survey of Egypt, has been appointed 

 lecturer in geography at the University of 

 Glasgow. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE LAW OF RADIATION 



To THE Editor of Science: Is it worth 

 while to keep on upholding certain theories, 

 and to wholly neglect certain new facts which 

 tend to undermine the very foundation on 

 which these theories rest? What justification 



