192 SCIENCE. 
presented sometime since to the American 
Museum of Natural History his geological 
library, numbering about 3,000 volumes, 10,- 
000 pamphlets and 1,200 maps. This is one of 
the largest libraries of its kind in the world, 
and gives the Museum the most complete col- 
lection of books on paleontology and geology 
in America. 
Dr. JULES MARINGER, who died on May 13th, 
left the sum of 100,000 fr. to the Pasteur Insti- 
tute, Paris. 
THERE are several vacancies in the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey which are to be filled by Civil 
Service examinations. The most important of 
these is the position of Inspector of Standards, 
for which the examination will be held on Oc- 
tober 28th. It will consist of training, especially 
original investigation and published papers in 
physics and an essay on the functions of a 
National Office of Weights and Measures. On 
September 5th and 6th an examination for two 
minor positions will be held in the same Survey, 
that of Computor at a salary of $1,000, and 
of Aid at a salary of $720. 
SoME time ago, as we learn from the British 
Medical Journal, a sum of £2,000 was handed 
to General Donny by a donor who wishes to 
remain anonymous, to be applied in furtherance 
of the study of ‘colonial pathology.’ A com- 
mittee of the Société d’ Etudes Coloniales, Brus- 
sels, appointed to consider the best manner of 
utilizing the gift, decided to employ the money 
in equipping a scientific mission to proceed to 
the Congo State and study the diseases of hot 
countries in that region. Dr. Van Campen- 
hout, an army medical officer who had already 
been twice on duty in the Congo, and Dr. Red- 
ing were selected for the service. After long 
preparation they embarked on June 29th. The 
Congo State has established at Leopoldsville a 
physiological and bacteriological laboratory, in 
which the work will be carried out. The same 
committee has offered two prizes, each of the 
value of £100, to be awarded (1) to anyone who 
shall considerably advance any knowledge of 
Laveran’s hematozoon within and without the 
human body, and (2) to anyone who shall de- 
termine the real origin of hzemoglobinuric 
bilious fever. 
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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
ARRANGEMENTS have been finally made by 
which the London University, which, it will be 
remembered, is only an examining body, will 
be removed from Burlington Gardens to the 
Imperial Institute. In return for rooms in the 
Institute the government will pay the existing 
mortgage on the building of £40,000 and dis- 
charge a floating debt of the Institute not to 
exceed £15,000. The necessary structural alter- 
ations will be undertaken at once. 
Tue Russian Minister of Public Instruction 
has issued a proclamation, by order of the Tsar, 
to the effect that all students who took part in 
the disorders last year are pardoned, except- 
ing those who are entirely excluded from attend- 
ing the high schools. Part of the students 
will return this month and part in August, 
1900. 
Iv is expected that a technical school will be 
established at Toronto, the government having 
offered an annual grant of $3,000 for mainte- 
nance, provided that the city erect a building 
at a cost of at least $100,000. 
FRANCIS RAMALEY, PH.D., University of Min- 
nesota, has been appointed professor of biology 
in the University of Colorado, at Boulder, in 
succession to Professor John Gardiner, who has 
retired on account of continued ill health, hay- 
ing held the chair since 1889. 
Proressor C. 8. Prosser, of Union College, 
Schenectady, New York, has been elected as- 
sociate professor of historical geology at Ohio 
State University, Columbus. 
Mr. W. SoMERVILLE, professor of agriculture 
and forestry at the College of Science, New- 
castle-on-Tyne, has been elected to the newly- 
established chair of agriculture at Cambridge 
University. 
Proressor C. W. RONTGEN, of Wurzburg, 
has recived a call to the University of Mu- 
nich. 
Proressor R. ABEGG has been elected As- 
sociate Director of the Chemical Institute at 
Breslau. 
Dr. Ernst EBERMEYER, professor of forestry 
at the University of Munich, has retired. 
