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SCIENCE. 



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resigned to take a professorship in chemis- 

 try in AVashington State University, to 

 which institution Dr. M. W. Harrington, 

 late of the Weather Bm-eavi, has been called 

 as President, and Mr. Harry Landes, A. M., 

 of Harvard University, to the professorship 

 of Geology. 



It has been incorrectly reported in 

 several journals that the University of Cali- 

 fornia will be moved from Berkeley to San 

 Francisco. Mayor Sutro has given 1.3 acres 

 of ground in San Francisco and the State 

 Legislature has appropriated $250,000 for 

 the erection of buildings, but these are for 

 the professional schools of law, medicine, 

 dentistry, pharmacy and art, which have 

 always been located in San Francisco. 



Mrs. Cornelia A. AxwiLLhas given $6,000 

 to Columbia College for the foundation of 

 two scholarships, to be known as the Stuart 

 Scholarships in the school of arts, in memory 

 of her grandsons, S. B. Stuart, Class of 1880, 

 E. T. Stuart, Class of 1881, both of whom 

 have since died. Mrs. Atwill reserves the 

 privilege of nominating the scholars if so 

 disposed, during her lifetime. 



President Peter McVicae has resigned 

 the Presidency of Washburn College, To- 

 peka, Kans., which position he has held 

 since 1871. 



The British Treasury has offered to in- 

 clude in next year's estimates a grant of 

 £20,000 to the University College of South 

 AVales. Cardiff and the Drapers company 

 have offered to subscribe £10,000, provided 

 that similar amounts are collected locally. 



AMONd recent foreign appointments we 

 notice that Dr. Dogiel, professor of anatomy 

 in the Universitj' of Tomsk, has been called 

 to the University of St. Petersburg, and Dr. 

 J. P. Kuenen has been called to the new 

 Harris chair of physics in University Col- 

 lege, Dundee. Dr. F. Mares has been pro- 

 moted to the professorship of physiology at 

 the Bohemian University of Prague and Dr. 



Schuchardt has been appointed to a newly 

 established chair of psychiatry at Rostock. 



The Williams Science Hall given to the 

 University of Vermont by Dr. E. H. Wil- 

 liams, of Philadelphia, at a cost of $13,000 

 is now nearing completion. It contains 

 laboratories and lecture I'ooms for the de- 

 partments of chemistry, physics, biology 

 and electrical engineering. The present 

 Freshman Class, 78 in number, is the largest 

 in the history of th3 Universitj'. 



From the Oxford University Gazette of 

 October 11th giving the courses for the 

 Michelmas term, it appears that in mathe- 

 matics, astronomy and mechanics lectures 

 are given occupying together twelve hours 

 per week ; in physics four hours per week ; 

 in chemistry eleven hours ; in compara- 

 tive anatomjf two hours or more; in phy- 

 siology five hours; in botany six hours; 

 in geology six hours; in rural economy two 

 hours ; in zoology two hours, and in an- 

 thropologj^ one hour. Laboratory work is 

 offered in connection with most of these 

 courses, but the opportunities for scientific 

 study at Oxford do not seem to be so favor- 

 able as at the leading German and Ameri- 

 can universities. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 THE PROBLEM OF SOLAR M.\GNETISM. 



The work of Professor Bigelow (Science, p. 

 .509, October 18, 1895) upon this subject has 

 reached such dimensions as to command atten- 

 tion ; at the same time the conchisions require 

 the abandonment of so many ideas which ex- 

 perimental physicists have considered as repre- 

 senting experimental facts that I venture to 

 call attention to some of the points which 

 will render the new theory difficult of accept- 

 ance, by some at least. If Professor Bigelow 

 has forseen and quantitatively explained away 

 these difficulties we ought to have the explana- 

 tions. 



If meteorology has contented itself (p. 510) 

 with only a consideration of combinations of 

 'earth's gravity, earth's rotation and equa- 



