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Cervus sica manchuricus in full summer coat—a 
splendid specimen, presented by the Duke of 
Bedford. And a large specimen of the Tarpon 
fish, Megalops thrissoides, captured off Florida 
by Mr. Otis A. Mygatt, and presented by 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
WE are informed that the following doctor- 
ates were conferred last year in addition to 
those published in the issue of August 4th. At 
Northwestern University, Mr. Charles Hill was 
given the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with 
a thesis entitled ‘ Developmental History of the 
Primary Segments of the Vertebrate Head,’ and 
at the University of Minnesota, Mr. Francis 
Ramaley, now professor of biology in the Uni- 
versity of Colorado, was given the degree for 
work in plant morphology. 
THE two veterinary colleges situated in New 
York City have been consolidated under the 
name of the New York American Veterinary 
College and School, and this has been made a 
part of the New York University. Dr. A. F. 
Liantard has been appointed Dean. 
Two fellowships in pathology have been es- 
tablished in McGill University. They are of 
the value of $500 per annum, and the holders 
may be required to assist in directing laboratory 
work to the extent of 12 hours a week. 
THE reorganization and separation of the 
faculties of the two Colleges, ‘Letters’ and ‘In- 
dustrial,’ hitherto constituting the ‘ General 
Faculty’ of the University of Nebraska,’ has 
been referred to a committee consisting of the 
Deans of the Colleges and the Acting Chancellor 
of the University, to report to the Regents at 
the semi-annual meeting in December. Dr. 
Ellery W. Davis has been appointed Chairman of 
the Industrial College Faculty and Acting Dean 
of the Industrial College. 
AT a recent meeting of the Regents of the 
University of Nebraska bids were accepted for 
the erection of an Experiment Station building 
for $21,332 and a power plant for $2,947. Pro- 
vision has also been made for certain chemical 
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work in the sugar beet experiments in progress 
at Ames, Nebraska. - 
THE Council of the University of Paris has 
fixed the fees for those studying for the doc- 
torate as follows : Annual matriculation, 20 fr.; 
library, 10 fr. ; fees for laboratories, 200-800 fr.; 
examination, 140 fr. 
ProressoR HENRY G. JESUP, since 1877 
professor of botany in Dartmouth College, has 
resigned. 
Dr. Aueust L. RimBacu (Ph.D., Jena, 1887), 
of Jena, Germany, has been appointed instruc- 
tor in vegetable physiology and pathology in 
the University of Nebraska, He was professor 
of botany and zoology in the University of 
Cuenca, Ecuador, from 1889 to 1894, after 
which he spent nearly two years in botanical 
travel in the Andes and along the Pacific coast 
of tropical South America. More recently he 
has given his time to botanical researches in 
Germany. These have been chiefly physiolog- 
ical and ecological, and the results have ap- 
peared in numerous papers in the German 
botanical journals. 
Proressor EH. A. BURNETT, of the Agricul- 
tural College of South Dakota, has accepted the 
chair of animal husbandry in the University of 
Nebraska, and will resume the duties of his new 
position at the opening of the fall semester. 
Mr. Abel A. Hunter has been appointed botan- 
ical collector for the University. 
Mr. H. G. TIMBERLAKE, of the University of 
Michigan, has been appointed instructor in 
botany in the University of Wisconsin, and Mr. 
G. T. Moore, of Harvard University, has re- 
ceived a similar appointment at Dartmouth 
College. 
Dr. HE. H. StArzine, F.R.S., has been 
elected to the Jodrell professorship of physi- 
ology in the University of London, in succes- 
sion to Professor Schafer, who, as we have 
already stated, has accepted a call to Edin- 
burgh. 
Dr. SUTHERLAND, assistant professor of 
pathology at Glasgow, has been appointed pro- 
fessor of pathology at St. Andrews, in the place 
of Professor Muir, recently appointed professor 
of pathology at Glasgow. 
