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quirements, as by adding a fourth year to the 
medical course and by reorganization of the 
Law School. <A further growth is represented 
by the students of Barnard College and Teach- 
ers College, respectively 278 and 297, both es- 
tablished at the beginning of President Low’s 
administration and now under the sphere of 
influence of Columbia University. If 1,173 ex- 
tension students are added the total number 
under the immediate influence of the Uni- 
versity is 3,985. 
Among the important educational advances 
of the year may be mentioned the creation of 
a large number of scholarships in the place of 
free and reduced tuition, the establishment of 
a professorship of anthropology and an adjunct 
professorship of mechanical engineering, and 
the decision to conduct a summer session in 
1900. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
WE record with great regret the death of Sir 
William Dawson, the eminent geologist and 
author, for twenty-eight years principal of Mc. 
Gill University. He was born in Nova Scotia 
in 1820 and died on November 19th. 
THE University of Pennsylvania has ap- 
pointed a committee to arrange with similar 
committees of other organizations for a me- 
morial in honor of the late Professor Brinton. 
THE Washington Star states that the orders 
recently issued in the case of Professor S. J. 
Brown, U. 8. A., have been modified by the 
Acting Secretary of the Navy, so as to assign 
him to duty as astronomical director of the 
Naval Observatory, to take effect December 
17th, instead of making him director of the 
Nautical Almanac, an office attached to that in- 
stitution, as originally intended. 
A COMMITTEE formed at the Dover Meeting 
of the British Association is making arrange- 
ments for an international meeting of scientific 
men in connection with the Paris Exposition of 
1900. Those wishing to assist in this undertak- 
ing should address the assistant secretary, Mr. 
J. R. Marr, 5 Old Queen Street, London, S. W. 
THE third annual meeting of the Society for 
Plant Morphology and Physiology, will be held, 
in conjunction with the meetings of the Ameri- 
SCIENCE. 
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can Society of Naturalists and the Affiliated 
Scientific Societies at New Haven, on Wednes- 
day, Thursday and Friday, December 27—29th. 
FREDERIC W. SANDERS, Ph.D. (Chicago), 
formerly professor in the University of West 
Virginia, has been elected President and Di- 
rector of the New Mexico College of Agriculture 
and Mechanic Arts and Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station at Mesilla Park, New Mexico. 
Dr. W. H. CorFieLp, professor of hygiene 
and public health in University College, Lon- 
don, has been appointed to the newly created 
post of consulting sanitary adviser to the British 
Office of Works. 
Mr. Horace PLUNKETT, M.P., has been 
appointed vice-president of the new department 
of Agriculture and Technical Education for 
Treland. 
WE learn from Nature that at the recent an- 
nual meeting of the Royal Academy of Medi- 
cine in Ireland, the following men of science 
were elected honorary Fellows of the Academy: 
Sir J. Burdon-Sanderson, Bart., F.R.S.; Prof. 
Howard Kelly, Baltimore; Professor Koch, 
Berlin; Professor Kocher, Bern; Professor 
Th. Leber, Heidelberg ; Sir W. MacCormac, 
Bart., K.C.V.O., London; Professor Martin, 
Berlin ; Professor Nothnagel, Vienna; Pro- 
fessor Osler, Baltimore; and Sir W. Turner, 
F.R.S., Edinburgh. 
Dr. WILLIAM S. CuurcH, President of the 
Royal College of Physicians, London, has been 
elected an honorary fellow of University Col- 
lege, Oxford. 
THE gold medal of the Highland Agricul- 
tural Society of Scotland has been awarded 
to Professor Cossar Ewart in recognition of his 
intercrossing and other experiments. 
Proressor H. S. CARHART of the Physics 
Department of the University of Michigan, who, 
as we have already stated, is in Berlin, has 
compared the standard Clark cell with the 
standard of the Physical Technical Institute 
and found that the electromotive force of the 
standard Clark cell does not differ more than 
one in twenty thousand from the average 
electromotive force of the standard cell of the 
institute. 
