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SCIENCE. 



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University of Pennsylvania, 8212,000 to the 

 Pennsylvania State College and $112,000 to 

 Jefferson Medical College. Large sums are 

 also appropriated to some forty different 

 hospitals throughout the State. 



The Eev. O. C. S. Wallace has accepted 

 the chancellorship of McMaster University. 



De. J. L. GooDiriGHT has been appointed 

 president of the "West Virginia University, 

 and Dr. P. R. Eeynolds vice-president. 



The program of the department of astron- 

 omj in the University of Chicago announces 

 among its officers of instruction S. W. Burn- 

 ham, professor of practical astronomy, and 

 E. E. Barnard, professor of astronomy, biit 

 the courses during 1895 will be given by 

 Professor George E. Hale, Dr. T. J. J. Lee 

 and Dr. Kurt Laves. 



Professor Egbert Adamsox, now of the 

 University of Aberdeen, has been appointed 

 professor of logic in the University of Glas- 

 gow. 



Mr. W. T. a. Emtage, professor of mathe- 

 matics and j)hysics at University College, 

 Nottingham, has been appointed principal 

 of the Wandsworth Technical Institute. 



The regents of the University of Cali- 

 fornia have biult two brick dwellings on 

 the summit of Mt. Hamilton for the use of 

 the astronomers of Lick Observatory. 



Steps are being taken for the foundation 

 of a Jewish Universitj^ at Jerusalem. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BIBLI- 

 OGRAPHY. 



To THE Editor op Science : I have fol- 

 lowed with great interest the discussion in 

 Science about the proposed general index 

 of scientific hterature, the more so, as this 

 subject has engaged my own speculations 

 for some time past. Three or four years 

 ago, while still in Sweden, I tried to interest 

 librarians and literary men in the founding 

 of a Bibliographic Society, one of the aims of 



which should be to maintain a bibliographic 

 bureau much of the same kind as fore- 

 shadowed by some of your correspondents. 

 And last year I read before the Neiv York 

 Library Chtb a paper on ' International Sub- 

 ject Bibliographies,' afterwards printed in 

 The Library Journal, July, 1894. The points 

 there specially emphasized were : 



1. That the big, monumental bibliogra- 

 phies are things of the past, the need of our 

 days being shorter lists of the available 

 literature in the several sciences and 

 branches of sciences. 



2. That such bibliographies should be in- 

 ternational. 



3. That the work should be carried on 

 from some central bureau, established in 

 connection with some great general library, 

 and which could serve the double purpose, 

 besides this one, of being an information 

 bureau for scientific literature, and a train- 

 ing school for bibliographers. Of such 

 bureaus there could be established several, 

 e. g., one for natural and phj^sical sciences ; 

 one for history, geography and archteology; 

 one for anthropology, social and political 

 sciences, etc., and of course there would be 

 needed one set of bureaus here in America, 

 and one or several in Europe. 



4. That the work should be in charge of 

 some international congress, as I looked at 

 it then, a Congress of Librarians. 



I wish to emphasize right here, as has 

 been done by the Harvard University Com- 

 mittee, that the word science should be 

 taken in its very broadest aspect, no sub- 

 ject that can be treated in a systematic and 

 scientific way to be from the outset ex- 

 cluded. 



I will not enlarge now on the question of 

 card index cs. book index, or on the several 

 other details that have come up in the 

 discussion, as I consider these to be of sec- 

 ondarj^ importance to the questions : Shall 

 anj'thing whatever be done in the matter ? 

 And by whom ? 



