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stration of apparatiTS, and individual papers. 

 The general topics to be discussed are feelings 

 (by Kiilpe and Sollier), subconsciousness 

 (Dessoir, Janet, Prince), measure of atten- 

 tion (Patrizi, Ziehen), religious psychology 

 (Hoffding, Leuba). The special topics are the 

 psychopedagogical classification of backward 

 pupils (Decroly, Perrari, Heller, Witmer), 

 pedagogical psychology (loteyko), orientation 

 at a distance (Thauzies), perception of posi- 

 tion and movement of the body and limbs 

 (Bourdon). Under standardization will be 

 included terminology, standard colors, enum- 

 eration of errors in testimony experiments, 

 notation of age of children, mathematical de- 

 termination of numerical results of experi- 

 ments. Communications relative to the con- 

 gress should be addressed to the general 

 secretary. Professor Ed. Claparede, 11, 

 Avenue de Champel, Geneva. 



The skeleton of the fine male olcapi pre- 

 sented to the Natural History Museum some 

 time since by Major Powell-Cotton has, we 

 learn from the London Times, been articu- 

 lated and put out in the east corridor. The 

 attitude corresponds with that of the mounted 

 skin, for which the museum is indebted to 

 the same donor, the head and neck being 

 nearly in a line with the back. When the 

 ohapi was described it was believed that the 

 neck was partly raised, and this idea was em- 

 bodied in mounting the skin of the female 

 presented by Sir H. H. Johnston. It has 

 since been found that the head and neck are 

 stretched forwards. In addition to the two 

 mounted specimens mentioned, the museum 

 has a third, obtained by the Alexander-Gos- 

 ling expedition, and presented by Mr. Boyd 

 Alexander. This possesses the small bare tips 

 to the horns, which are not developed in 

 Major Powell-Cotton's specimen. In one of 

 the cases of the geological gallery casts of the 

 skull of the oTcapi have been put out by the 

 side of the skull of the extinct Samotherium, 

 its nearest ally, for comparison. So close is the 

 resemblance between these two forms that in 

 the official guide to the extinct mammals and 

 birds one species of Samotherium is referred 

 to as " an extinct olcapi." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The recent New York legislature passed 

 the bill providing that the governor of the 

 state shall appoint five members of the board 

 of trustees of Cornell University. The bill 

 to establish at Cornell a state school of san- 

 itary science and public health was not passed. 

 Por the general support of the State College 

 of Agriculture, Cornell University, the legis- 

 lature has appropriated $175,000, an increase 

 over last year of $25,000. 



Professor William Nichol, of Kingston, 

 has given to Queen's University, Kingston, 

 Ont., a building for mining and metallurgy, 

 and the Ontario government has appropriated 

 $100,000 for a chemistry building. 



At the recent McGill University convoca- 

 tion it was announced that $60,000 had been 

 guaranteed by the committee, which intends 

 to establish a chair in memory of the late 

 Dr. Harrington, professor of chemistry. 

 About $20,000 has already been subscribed 

 and a committee of four has agreed to be 

 responsible for the remaining $40,000. 



The Sanders chemical laboratory at Vassar 

 College was dedicated on May 15, when brief 

 addresses were made by the donor, Dr. Henry 

 M. Sanders, of New York; President Taylor, 

 and Professor Charles W. Moulton, head of 

 the department of chemistry. 



Dr. Bovd H. Bode, assistant professor of 

 philosophy in the University of Wisconsin, 

 has been appointed professor of philosophy in 

 the University of Illinois. 



At Williams College, Dr. F. L. Griffin has 

 been appointed assistant Professor of mathe- 

 matics; Dr. Brainerd Mears, instructor in 

 chemistry and Dr. J. M. Warbeke, instructor 

 in philosophy. 



Mr. J. K. Eobertson, of Toronto Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed lecturer in physics 

 at Queens University. 



Mr. Walter K. Van Haagen, B.S., assistant 

 in chemistry, Lehigh University, has been 

 elected associate professor of chemistry in the 

 University of Georgia. 



