Deckmbee 13, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The object of the laboratory is to advance clini- 

 cal studies by original research, and the publi- 

 cation of results. Only graduate students of an 

 approved medical school are admitted to the 

 laboratory, which is said to be the only separate 

 building devoted entirely to chemical, micro- 

 scopical and bacteriological reserches and to 

 the post-graduate teaching of clinical labora- 

 tory methods. Provost Harrison accepted the 

 gift for the Trustees of the University, and Dr. 

 W. H. Welch, of Johns Hopkins University, 

 delivered an address on scientific and labora- 

 tory methods. 



Dr. William Pepper will be the first director 

 of the laboratory, and nine associates undertak- 

 ing original research have already been ap- 

 pointed. 



The corner stone of the new Library of Co- 

 lumbia College was informally laid on the after- 

 noon of Dec. 7. In the presence of the Trustees 

 and several ofiicers of the College President Low 

 made a few remarks and set the stone in place. 

 The first courses of the white Indian limestone of 

 which the building is to be constructed are now 

 being laid, and the iron work of the interior is 

 finished up to the main floor. 



Prof. Arthur Kendeick, assistant professor 

 of physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has 

 resigned to accept an associate professorship in 

 physics in the Rose Polytechnic Institute. Prof. 

 Kendrick was graduated at Amherst College, 

 and after a three years' graduate course in 

 physics in Harvard University, was made as- 

 sistant professor of the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute about three years ago. 



The corner stone of the new building of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 

 Prospect Hill, opposite Prospect Park, will be 

 laid December 14th, at three o'clock in the 

 afternoon. The New York Evening Post states 

 that Mayor Schieren will lay the corner stone, 

 and A. Augustus Healy, President of the Insti- 

 tute, will preside. The principal address will 

 be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, 

 President of the Long Island Historical Society 

 and first Vice-President of the Institute. A 

 poem for the occasion will be read by the Rev. 



John White Chadwick, and brief addresses will 

 be delivered by St. Clair McKelway, represent- 

 ing the Board of Regents of the State of New 

 York, and Seth Low, President of Columbia 

 College, as representing the educational interest 

 of New York city. The foundations of the 

 building, which are of Milford granite, are al- 

 ready laid, and the walls, which are to be of 

 light gray Indian limestone, are now rising 

 above the ground. . 



According to The British Medical Journal a 

 new, surgical polyclinic, in connection with the 

 Berlin University, will be opened very shortly. 

 Prof.Konig, the successor of Dr. Bardeleben, is to 

 be its head, and his assistant. Prof. Hildebrand, 

 who follows him to Berlin from Gottingen, its 

 chief surgeon. 



At a meeting held at the University of 

 London, on November the 21st, Sir James 

 Paget in the chair, and attended by delegates 

 from institutions named in the report of the 

 Royal Commission on the Gresham University, 

 by members of that Commission and of the 

 earlier Commission on ' A Teaching University 

 for London,' and by others interested in the 

 establishment of a teaching University, the fol- 

 lowing resolution was unanimously . passed : 

 ' ' That the Government be requested to intro- 

 duce, at an early date, a bill, similar to Lord 

 Playfair's London University Commission Bill, 

 1895, appointing a Statutory Commission to 

 carry out the recommendations of Lord Cowper' s 

 Commission, but with an added clause giving to 

 all institutions or persons directly aflPected by 

 any statute or ordinance proposed by the Statu- 

 tory Commission a right of appeal to the Privy 

 Council for the disallowance or alteration 

 thereof, previous to such ordinance being laid 

 before Parliament for confirmation." 



David H. Holmes, lately of Johns Hopkins 

 University, and at one time professor of Latin 

 in Allegheny College, has been elected to fill the 

 chair of Latin at the University of Kansas. 

 This position was made vacant by the death of 

 D. H. Robinson, who had occupied it for thirty 

 years. 



Thomas A. Jenkins, Ph. D., of Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has been put in charge of 

 Romance languages at Vanderbilt University 



