64 SCIENCE. 
Tue Anatomical Society of Great Britain and 
Ireland met at Cambridge on July 8th. 
We learn from the British Medical Journal 
that on June 27th, in the presence of a number 
of eminent official, academic and scientific 
men, Virchow formally opened the new patho- 
logical museum which bears his name and has 
been built under his superintendence. It has 
cost about 560,000 Marks, and contains a collec- 
tion of more than 20,000 specimens, collected 
almost wholly by Professor Virchow himself, 
and representing the history of pathology dur- 
ing the past half century. Professor Virchow 
delivered a speech in which he pointed out that 
while foreign countries, especially England, 
had long preceded Germany in anatomical re- 
searches the Fatherland could now rival them 
on that ground. 
AT asitting of the Municipal Council of Paris, 
M. Bertillon has been dismissed from his posi- 
tion as Chief of the Indentification Service at the 
Perfecture of Police, owing to his report in 
1894 on specimens of Dreyfus’s hand writing, 
submitted to him for comparison with the bor- 
dereau by the Minister of War. M. Gobert, 
expert of the Bank of France, who was first 
appointed to examine the matter, reported that 
the bordereau might well have been written 
by another person than the one suspected. M. 
Bertillon’s report ran as follows: ‘‘If one sets 
aside the hypothesis of a document very care- 
fully forged, it clearly appears that one and 
the same person wrote the letter (i. e., the bor- 
dereau) and the pieces communicated for-com- 
parison.’’ 
JUDGE CoLT, of the United States Circuit 
Court, in Boston, has reversed the decision of 
the Board of Appraisers, which held that sur- 
gical instruments imported to this country were 
dutiable. He holds that the instruments are 
not dutiable, being ‘scientific instruments’ 
within the meaning of the law. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
THE British Medical Journal states that at the 
special meeting of the Senate of the University 
of London summoned for June 28th a long 
discussion took place upon a motion submitted 
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by the Chancellor (Lord Kimberley) accepting 
the proposals of the government to transfer 
the University from Burlington Gardens to the 
Imperial Institute. The meeting was an un- 
usually large one, and sat for two hours, but 
finally adjourned without coming to a decision. 
It is understood that great reluctance was ex- 
pressed to surrendering the present buildings, 
but that the majority favored the acquisition of 
some portion of the Institute buildings to meet 
the demands of increased accommodation for 
teaching and laboratory work, such as must 
speedily follow the passing into law of the 
statutes framed by the Royal Commission. 
At the University of Wisconsin Dr. W. H. 
Hobbs, assistant professor of mineralogy and 
petrology, has been promoted to a full profes- 
sorship, and Robert W. Wood, instructor in 
physics, to be an assistant professor. 
PrRoFEssOR RusH RHEES, of Newton Theolog- 
ical Seminary, has been elected President of the 
University of Rochester. He willassume office 
in July, 1900, which will be the fiftieth anni- 
versary of the founding of the institution. 
OF the eight fellowships given annually by 
the University of Virginia, two have been 
awarded in the sciences as follows : Mathematics, 
T. G. Johnson ; Agriculture, W. F. Maret. The 
fellowships are of the value of $300 a year, and 
each fellow is expected to teach one hour daily 
in the University and to devote the remainder 
of his time to advanced study and research. 
Proressor HE. A. SCHAEFER, F.R.S., for fif- 
teen years Jodrell professor of physiology in 
University College, London, has been elected 
to the chair of physiology in the University of 
Edinburgh. 
At a meeting of the Council of University 
College, London, held on Saturday, June 17th, 
Professor Montelius was appointed Yates lec- - 
turer in archeology for the year 1900. 
Dr. SCHENCK, docent in physiology in the 
University at Wurzburg, Dr. Martin, docent in 
anthropology in the University of Zurich, and 
Dr. Blaschke, honorary docent in mathematics in 
the Technical Institute of Vienna, have been 
promoted to assistant professorships. 
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