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SCIENCE. 



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the old paths. The department of biology 

 having been founded by Dr. John was 

 among the first to suffer. It was summa- 

 rily abolished, the announcement being 

 made without previous warning only the 

 day before commencement. From a pro- 

 fessor of zoologjr and one of botany at the 

 beginning of the last college year, the in- 

 structional force is reduced to a single 

 tutor, who is expected to give instruction 

 in the elements of both sciences. 



The Board of Trinity College, Dublin, 

 while declining to grant permission to 

 women to attend lectures and examinations 

 at the College, have offered, on certain con- 

 ditions, to conduct examinations for special 

 certificates. 



The Eegents of the State University 

 have voted to confer the university degree, 

 M. D., only after one year's post-graduate 

 study subsequent to receiving the degree of 

 bachelor or doctor of medicine from some 

 registered medical school, and only on can- 

 didates who have spent not less than four 

 years' total study in accredited medical 

 schools. — Medical Record. 



Prof. J. "W. Judd has been appointed 

 successor of Huxley as Dean of the Eoyal 

 College of Science, South Kensington. 



The chair of surgerj' in the University of 

 Breslau, vacant through the death of Prof. 

 Trendlenburg, which was declined by Prof. 

 Mikulicz, has now been offered Dr. Schede, 

 of Eppendorf General Hospital, Hamburg. 



Dr. Rudolf Metzner, of Freiburg, has 

 been called to the chair of physiology in 

 the University of Basel, in the place of Pro- 

 fessor Miescher, who has retired. 



De. Emil Yung has been made professor 

 of zoology and comparative anatomy in the 

 University of Genf as successor to Karl 

 Vogt. 



Dr. Hans Pechmann has received a call 

 to a professorship of chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Tiibingen. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 the new bibliographical bureau for 



ZOOLOGY. 



On January 1st, 1895, there will be estab- 

 lished in Zurich, Switzerland, an Interna- 

 tional Bibliographical Bureau for Zoology 

 and comparative Anatomy. This Bureau 

 is being organized on the broadest foun- 

 dations and will be strictly international 

 in character. There are already a number 

 of committees in the more important coun- 

 tries of the world, and it is to be hoped 

 that the organization will soon be entirely 

 complete. In this country there is a com- 

 mittee nominated by the ' Society of Natu- 

 ralists.' In France the organization is quite 

 complete, and may serve as a model of 

 what we still need in this country. In the 

 first place there is an influential central 

 committee in Paris.* In connection with 

 this body is a corps, ' Associate Members.' 

 The fiinction of the ' Membres Associ6s ' is 

 to exercise direct local influence in such 

 emergencies as require it. For example, it 

 is proposed to issue an appeal to all pub- 

 lishing societies, asking them to send in to 

 the central Bureau their publications for the 

 purpose of recording the zoological observa- 

 tions which thej' contain. From the very 

 outset of our undertaking it became evi- 

 dent that scientific societies would in gen- 

 eral be glad to respond to such an appeal, 

 but that there were considerable diificulties 

 in the waj' of relying unconditionally upon 

 this cooperation. A preliminary canvass 

 was undertaken among the leading Paris 

 societies, which showed conclusively that 

 both learned societies and publishing firms 

 were most willing to cooperate, but that 

 they would have to have the matter prop- 

 erly brought to their notice by persons de- 

 voted to the movement; a mere general 

 appeal might easily go unnoticed, and thus 

 important works never reach the Bureau. 

 * See the ' I?apport de M. Bouvier, Mem. Soc. Zool. 

 de France,' 1895, ler fasc. 



