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polyclinical hospitals and similar institutions to 
the fact that medical operations for any pur- 
poses save those of the diagnosis, cure, and pre™ 
vention of disease are forbidden, even when 
otherwise permissible from the legal and moral 
point of view—(1) in the case of a person who 
is a minor or for other reasons is not entirely 
responsible ; (2) in cases where the person in 
question has not explicitly given permission for 
the operation ; (3) in cases where this permission 
has not been preceded by a proper statement of 
the injurious consequences which might possi- 
bly result from the operation. I likewise order 
that operations of this nature shall be under- 
taken only by the director of the institution 
himself or by his special authorization. When- 
ever such an operation is performed the register 
of the case must contain a statement that the 
above conditions have been fulfilled, and must 
also give a detailed account of the circumstances. 
The existing regulations affecting medical oper- 
ations for the purposes of the diagnosis, cure, 
or prevention of disease are not affected by 
these instructions.”’ 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
By the will of the late Professor Edward Ed- 
ridge Salisbury, Yale University will receive on 
the death of Mrs. Salisbury a certain part of 
the residue of the estate, the amount being 
estimated at $150,000. One-half of the sum is 
to provide an additional income for the Salis- 
bury professorship of Sanskrit and comparative 
philology, and the other half is to accumulate 
until it reaches $100,000, when the income is 
to be used for such purpose as the trustees may 
determine. 
By the will of the late J. A. Vanderpoel, 
Rutgers College will receive $25,000 on the 
death of Mrs. Vanderpoel, the money to be 
used for scholarships in chemistry. 
A BILL has been introduced at Albany pro- 
viding for the establishment of a State electrical 
school at Schenectady, which would be a part 
of Union College. The bill appropriates $150,000 
for the establishment of the school and $25,000 
for maintenance. Union College is to offer 100 
scholarships and the General Electrical Com- 
SCIENCE. 
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pany is to give the use of its shops for observa- 
tion and instruction. 
A BILL has also been introduced at Albany 
appropriating $100,000 for the establishment of 
a State Veterinary College for the eastern part 
of the State to be consolidated with the College 
of New York University. 
THE Paris faculty of medicine has established 
a school for the study of tropical diseases, with 
special chairs of bacteriology and parasitology. 
A MEMORIAL to the Secretary of State for 
India, begging for an inquiry into the recent dis- 
missal of seven of the staff of Coopers Hill 
College, has been signed by Lord Kelvin, Lord 
Lister, Lord Rayleigh, Sir Frederick Abel, Sir 
Frederick Bramwell, Sir William Huggins, Sir 
Norman Lockyer, Sir Andrew Noble, Sir Wil- 
liam Crookes, Sir Archibald Geikie, Sir Henry 
Roscoe, Professor Dewar, Professor J. J. Thom- 
son, Professor Armstrong, ~Professor Marshall 
Ward, Professor Ewing, Mr. W. H. M. Christie, 
Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, Mr. W. N. Shaw, and by 
some seventy other Fellows of the Royal So- 
ciety. 
AT the Rush Medical College, University of 
Chicago, Dr. G. S. Lingle has been appointed 
professor of experimental physiology, and Dr. 
W. D. Zoethout laboratory professor of neu- 
rology. 
Iv is reported that Professor Frank Thilly, of 
the University of Missouri, has been offered the 
chair of ethics at Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 
versity. 
AT the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
the following promotions have been made: 
Dr. Henry Fay, assistant professor of analyt- 
ical chemistry and metallography ; Dr. James 
F. Norris, assistant professor of organic chemis- 
try ; Dr. F. H. Thorp, assistant professor of in- 
dustrial chemistry, and Dr. W. R. Whitney, 
assistant professor of theoretical chemistry and 
proximate analysis. In the department of 
physics, Messrs. L. Derr, C. L. Norton and Dr. 
G. V. Wendell have been promoted to assistant 
professorships. 
Dr. F. SCHENCK, of Wurzburg, is to succeed 
Kossel as professor of physiology at Marburg. 
