July 26, 1895.] 



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It is stated that the University of Ciu- 

 cinaati has received a gift of $45,000 from 

 Mr. Henry Hanna, to be used in the erec- 

 tion of a wing in the new University build- 

 ing. 



The Belgium ambassador in Berlin has 

 called the attention of the German govern- 

 ment to the fact that imitations of the 

 stamp of the University of Ghent have 

 been counterfeited with a view to selling 

 diplomas of the University, and the Berlin 

 Foreign Office gives warning of the exist- 

 ence of these documents. 



Professor William J. Hussey, of Illi- 

 nois, has been appointed to succeed Profes- 

 sor Bernard as astronomer of Lick Obser- 

 vatory. 



De. L. a. Bauer, formerly of the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, is lecturing 

 this year on mathematical physics and on 

 geophysics at the University of Chicago. 



J. Allen Gilbert (Ph. D., Yale) has 

 been made assistant professor of psychology 

 at the University of Iowa. 



Principal Peterson has been presented 

 with a gift of silver plate on the occasion of 

 his leaving the University of Du^ndee to be- 

 come president of McGill College, Mon- 

 treal. 



It is stated that J. H. Tyrrell, of the Ge- 

 ological Department of Canada, will be 

 elected professor of geology and mineralogy 

 in the University of Toronto, succeeding 

 Professor Chapman, who has just resigned. 



It is stated that Professor Hering, of 

 Prague, has been offered the chair of physi- 

 ology, vacant by the death of Professor Karl 

 Ludwig. 



Dr. Elexander Eolossow has been ap- 

 pointed professor of histology and embrj'- 

 ology in the University of "Warsaw in the 

 place of Dr. H. Hoj'cr, who has resigned. 



Dr. Sommee, professor of anatomy in 

 Greifswald University, has tendered his 

 resignation, to take effect on September 1st. 



We learn from the Natunvissenschaftliche 

 Rundschau that the geologists Dr. Eobert 

 Scheibe and Dr. Fritz Kotter have been ap- 

 pointed professors in the Bergakademie, of 

 Berlin. Dr. Rex and Dr. Steinbach have 

 been appointed to assistant professorships 

 of anatomy and physiology, respectively, irt 

 the University of Prague. 



Dr. Th. Cuetius has declined a call to 

 the professorship of chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Tilbingen, vacant through the 

 death of Lothar von Meyer. 



Professor H. Wild, director of the Cen- 

 tral Observatory, Universitj^ of St. Peters- 

 burg, has resigned his position on account 

 of ill health. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 BALM FOE WOUNDED AUTHORS AND PROOF- 

 READERS. 



The recent receipt of Dr. Wortman's 

 memoir ' On the Osteology of Agriochcerus,' 

 like its several predecessors published within 

 a year or so, has recalled a remarkable lapse 

 of memory occuring to two of the most 

 eminent and sagacious naturalists of all 

 time. The case is of psychological signifi- 

 cance, and I have thought it might amuse 

 as well as interest readers of Science. 



Prof. Huxley, in his excellent ' Introduc- 

 tion to the Classification of Animals ' (pub- 

 lished in 1869), in his first chapter .' On 

 Classification in General,' concluded a con- 

 sideration of Cuvier's law of the correlation 

 of structure with the following paragraphs: 



"Cuvier, the mpre servile of whose imitators are 

 fond of citing his mistal<en dootrines as to the nature 

 of the methods of palseontology against the conclu- 

 sions of logic and of common sense, has put this so 

 strongly that I cannot refrain from quoting his 

 words.* 



"_put I doubt if any one would have divined, if 

 untaught "by observation, that all ruminants have the 

 foot cleft, and that they alone have it. I doubt if 

 any one would have divined that there are frontal 

 horns only in this class; that those among them. 



* Ossemens f ossiles, ed. 4""® tome, f , p. 184. 



