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eral Wood has, in view of the probability that 
mosquitoes are concerned in the spread of 
ye'low fever, issued orders for the use of mos- 
quito netting in barracks and hospitals and on 
the field where possible, for the use of petroleum 
on temporary pools and for filling up permanent 
pools. 
Tue British Medical Journal reports that Pro” 
fessor Celli, who is a member of the Italian 
Parliament, will introduce drastic measures for 
the suppression of malaria in Italy. He would 
make punishable by law the neglect of land- 
owners and all employers of labor to provide in 
malarial districts every means of fighting the 
the fever. Bosselli and Sonnino have proposed 
that the Minister of Finance purchase pure 
quinine and sell it to the public at a slight ad- 
vance over cost. The profit could be applied to 
the extermination of malaria. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
AN influential meeting was held at San Fran- 
cisco, on December 22d, to advocate the pas- 
sage of an inheritance tax law in aid of the 
State University. 
THE late Chief Justice Faircloth, of North 
Carolina, bequeathed $20,000 to the Baptist Fe- 
male University of Raleigh. 
WE regret to learn that the will of the late 
George V. Clayton, giving about two and a- 
half million dollars to the city of Denver for 
the establishment of a college for poor boys, is 
being contested by a brother. 
THE great Hydraulic Laboratory of Cornell 
University is nearing completion and will be 
ready for work early in the spring. In its in- 
complete condition it has been used for experi 
ments in connection with U. 8. Deep Water 
Ways Commission, also in experiments for the 
New York State Canals. Investigations have 
also been made in reference to the water sup- 
plies of the City of New York and for the Lake 
Superior Power Company. Corporations and 
individuals wishing to make investigations for 
the benefit of Hydraulic Science or Public Im- 
provements are invited to communicate with 
the Director of the College of Civil Engineering 
of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
SCLENCE. 
[N.S. Von. XIII. No. 315. 
GROUND has been broken for the new Hall of 
Mechanical Engineering, for Syracuse Univer- 
sity, and work is being pushed forward in order 
that it may be in readiness for occupancy by the 
spring of the next college year. The building 
will be of stone, four stories above the base- 
ment, 133 feet in length, by 60 feet in depth. 
Its equipment will be thoroughly modern in 
every detail. 
THE report telegraphed from California to 
the daily papers that President Benjamin Ide 
Wheeler would this year succeed President 
Eliot, of Harvard University, is entirely with- 
out foundation. 
CHANCELLOR WILLIAM H. PAYNE, PH.D., 
LL.D., of the University of Nashville, Tenn., 
has been elected to the professorship of the 
science and the art of teaching in the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, vacant by the death of Dr. B. 
A. Hinsdale. Dr. Payne was Dr. Hinsdale’s 
predecessor in this chair. 
H. WADE HIBBARD, A.B., A.M., M.E, for- 
merly connected with the Rhode Island Loco- 
motive Works, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Val- 
ley Railroads, has been elected Professor of 
Mechanical Engineering of Railways, having 
for the past two years been assistant professor 
and Principal of the Railway School of Sibley 
College, Cornell University. This railway 
course is the latest addition to the several 
specialized finishing schools which are avail- 
able for the 670 students in mechanical engi- 
neering now registered at Cornell. 
Dr. ARTHUR Roprnson, lecturer on anat- 
omy in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 
has been appointed professor of anatomy in 
King’s College, London, in the vacancy caused 
by the death of Professor Hughes. 
Dr. FREDERICK GOLTZ, who has occupied the 
chair of physiology of the University of Stras- 
burg for twenty-nine years, has retired. 
Avr Trinity College, Cambridge, the Coutts- 
Trotter studentship for the promotion of orig- 
inal research in natural science, especially for 
physiology and experimental Physics, has been 
divided between Charles Francis Mott, B.A., 
and Owen Williams Richardson, B.A., both 
scholars of the college. The tenure is until 
September 29, 1902. 
