July 12, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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torial committee, the secretary of which is 

 M. Victor J. Van Lint, 115 rue Joseph II., 

 Bruxelles. The journal will deal with all 

 questions relating to public health. 



L' Association francaise pour V avancement cles 

 sciences will hold its twenty-fourth session 

 at Bordeaux, August 4th to 9th. 



AccoEDiNG to the Monthly Bulletin of 

 the Board of Health of the State of ISTew 

 York the average daily mortality for the 

 month of May was 308 as compared with 

 368 for the preceding four months of the 

 year. The improvement was due to the 

 suspension of the epidemic of grip, which 

 began in January. 



Aeeangements are being made by the 

 Marine Biological Association [England] 

 for a series of dredging and trawling expe- 

 ditions during July, August and September, 

 to investigate the fauna and flora of the 

 outlying grounds between the Eddystone 

 Eocks and Start Point. In order to make 

 the results as complete as possible, it is ex- 

 tremely .desirable that the investigation of 

 each group should be carried out by a com- 

 petent naturalist. Zoologists and botanists 

 who are willing to take part in these expe- 

 ditions, or to assist in working out the ma- 

 terial collected, are requested to communi- 

 cate with the director, the Laboratory, 

 Plymouth . — Academy. 



EDUCATIONAL AND VNIVEESITY NEWS. 



On July 29th Judge Eoss, in the United 

 States District Court, San Francisco, made 

 a decision in favor of the Stanford estate 

 against the claim of the Grovernment for 

 $15,000,000. 



De. Gael Baeus, of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, Washington, has accepted the 

 Hazard professorship of physics in Brown 

 University. It is stated that Brown Uni- 

 versity has recently spent $100,000 in the 

 building and equipment of a physical labor- 

 atory. 



A NEW edition of the quinquennial cata- 

 logue of Harvard University has been issued 

 from the Universitj^ press. It now requires 

 a volume of 515 closely printed octavo pages 

 to include the officers and graduates of the 

 University since 1636. 



De. Theobald Smith, Chief of the Divi- 

 sion of Animal Pathologj^ in the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has been offered a professorship in 

 Howard University. 



Geoege William Smith, who recently 

 declined the presidency of the University of 

 Kansas, has been elected president of Col- 

 gate University. He is now professor of 

 history in Colgate Uuiversitj'. 



Me. Arthue F. Nesbit, of Milton, Pa., 

 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, has been appointed instructor 

 of phj'sics and electrical engineering in the 

 New Hampshire College of Agriculture. 



The quarterly statement of President Har- 

 per, of the University of Chicago, shows that 

 the teaching staff of the university at present 

 consists of 164 professors and instructors. 

 The total enrollment of students for the 

 year has been 1587, and for the summer 

 quarter between 600 and 700 have already 

 registered. The trustees of the Ogden es- 

 tate have added $50,000 to the sum already 

 given to the University. 



The University of Vermont has bought 

 for $12,000 a house at Burlington which 

 will be used as a dormitory for women 

 students. 



It is stated that Dr. Pearsons has offered 

 on certain conditions to give $50,000 each to 

 Berea College and Whitman College. 



The buildings of the University of Mis- 

 souri destroj'cd by fii-e January 9th, 1892, 

 have now been rebuilt at a cost of $500,000. 

 Seven new buildings are ready for use, in- 

 cluding a chemical bailding, a biological 

 and geological building and a phj'sical and 

 engineering building. 



