November 15, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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000 of the $50,000 required for the erection 

 of a building. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given Wil- 

 liams College $900 to free the infirmary 

 from debt. 



Edward Pierce, Ph. D. (Harvard), has 

 been appointed instructor in psychology in 

 the University of Michigan. 



V. Ij. Leighton, last year assistant in 

 the chemical laboratory of the University 

 of Kansas, has been called to a similar posi- 

 tion in Tufts College, Mass. 



The annual meeting of the ISTew England 

 colleges was held at Hanover, X. H., 

 (DaTtmouth College) on November 7th and 

 8th. The institutions represented by dele- 

 gates, including in nearly all cases the 

 presidents, were Harvard, Yale, Brown, 

 Williams, Amherst, Trinity, Wesleyan, 

 Tufts, Boston, Bowdoin, Clark, Vermont 

 and Dartmouth. 



An association of colleges and academies 

 of the Southern States was formed at At- 

 lanta on November 7th, representing four- 

 teen institutions. 



The friends of Mrs. Agassiz have con- 

 tributed $6,000 to Kadcliflfe College to be 

 used for the establishment of an Elizabeth 

 Cary Agassiz Scholarship. 



Dr. Galle, professor of astromonj' at the 

 University of Breslau and director of the 

 observatory, has resigned. 



Dr. Klinger, professor of chemistry at 

 the University at Bonn, has received a call 

 to the University of Konigsberg. 



The electrical and anatomical institutes 

 founded by M. Ernest Solvay and presented 

 by him and other donors to the University 

 of Brussels, were officially inaugurated on 

 October 30, under the Presidency of the 

 Burgomaster, assisted by M. Graux, the 

 Chancellor, and the entire body of profes- 

 sors. Delegations from the English and 

 Continental universities responded to the 



invitation of the Brussels University to 

 take part in the series of fetes organized in 

 celebration of the event. 



VISCUSSION AND C0BEE8P0NDENCE. 

 THE INTERNATIONAL CODE OF NOMENCLA- 

 TURE. 



Upon reading the statement that the Third 

 International Zoological Congress has appointed 

 an International Commission of five members 

 to study the different codes of nomenclature 

 proposed and adopted in various countries, some 

 zoologists may immediately draw the conclusion 

 that it is the intention to overturn (or rather to 

 attempt to overturn!) existing and well estab- 

 lished practices in nomenclature. One or two 

 persons with whom I have talked upon the sub- 

 ject did, in fact, have this impression. In order 

 to dispel such thoughts from any and all minds 

 in which they may arise, I desire to state defin- 

 itely that no such plan was contemplated by 

 Geheimrath Schulze (Berlin) when he made his 

 proposition, nor by the Congress when the 

 proposition was adopted. Furthermore, from 

 what I know personally of the men on the Com- 

 mission, it can be positively stated that such an 

 idea is very far from their thovights 



Every one will admit that there are points in 

 the International Code upon which differences 

 of opinion exist ; that different interpretations 

 of the code have been made in various coun- 

 tries ; that the arrangement of the code has been 

 criticized in some quarters ; that some of the 

 translations of the code have not been all that 

 could be desired in the way of exactness ; and 

 that in various countries differences of opinion 

 exist upon some points which are not in- 

 cluded in the present international code. 



The objects Prof Schulze had in making his 

 proposition were to submit all of these points to 

 investigation by an international committee ; to 

 have an authorized edition of the code in Eng- 

 lish, French and German ; to add points which 

 had been omitted ; to better the code where this 

 can be done ; and to embody the results of this 

 study in a report to be presented to the next 

 International Congress. 



I would further call attention to the fact that 

 the report of this commission is not final, but 



