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tion, a theory which the people described as 
‘the older and more orthodox Methodist minis- 
ters’ so abominate that they will not even give 
Professor Tubbs a hearing. Apparently the 
general issue of academic freedom is not in- 
volved here, for the school professes to be a 
sectarian institution; that is, it subordinates 
the independent investigation of the truth to 
the propagation of certain doctrines. Professor 
Tubbs himself admits that his standing as a 
scientist, his success as a teacher and adminis- 
trator, and his character as a man were not the 
only things considered in his appointment, for 
he says: ‘‘ Bishop Vincent fully questioned 
my beliefs, approved them, and appointed 
me to the seminary.’’ The only question is 
whether an evolutionist can be an orthodox 
Methodist in central Kansas. The trustees of 
the school say no. The decision may cause 
Professor Tubbs temporary inconvenience ; but 
if belief in evolution is his only fault, he can 
comfort himself with the reflection that he is 
far better off than the ‘university’ at Salina. 
—The N. Y. Evening Post. 
MR. CARNEGIE’S GIFT TO SCOTTISH UNI- 
VERSITIES. 
Av the time when Mr. Carnegie’s gift was 
first announced, and when nothing had been 
made known except its magnitude and the fact 
that it was intended to defray the cost of Uni- 
versity education for Scottish students, we felt 
it necessary to point out, while cordially ex- 
pressing our admiration of the munificence of 
the donor, that the very magnitude of the fund 
would render its wise administration a matter 
ofsome difficulty, and to call attention to cir- 
cumstances which might interfere with the 
practical realization of the intended benefits. 
The conditions of the trust, as now disclosed, 
appear to meet, in almost every particular, the 
considerations which we mentioned. The ap- 
plication of half the income for the purpose of 
improving the apparatus of education and for 
establishing what can hardly fail to become 
world-renowned laboratories in every depart- 
ment of science which falls within the province 
of a university will at once lift those of Scot- 
land to the very highest level of academic im- 
portance, and will be likely to place the coun- 
SCIENCE. 
(N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 339. 
try in the very forefront of practical scientific 
teaching and investigation. Medical science 
is specially mentioned in the trust, and, to 
take only a single example, it will be 
within the power of the trustees to en- 
able any Scottish University to equip an 
expedition for inquiring into the life histories 
of fever-carrying mosquitoes or other insects, 
and thus to accomplish, perhaps in the course 
of a few months, more than could be accom- 
plished by private enterprise, aided only by 
small and laboriously collected donations, even 
in the course of years. The problems of or- 
ganic chemistry, again, are daily becoming of 
more and more importance in relation to health 
and to disease ; as are those of inorganic chem- 
istry in relation to a large number of manufac- 
turing processes or industries. In respect of 
these and many kindred matters the great hin- 
drance to scientific work in Great Britain has 
been simply want of means; and this want 
once removed, a very important step will have 
been taken towards assisting us to hold our own 
in the great industrial contests which the future 
can hardly fail to have in store for us, and in 
which scientific knowledge will certainly be one 
of the most important elements of success. We 
cannot but think that this section of the trust is 
likely, as time goes on, to prove itself infinitely 
the more important of the two, and that in the 
future, under the elastic terms and liberal pow- 
ers of the deed, it may even come to swallow 
up or to supersede the general payment of fees 
which, after all, are not so large as to placea 
serious impediment in the way of any young 
man who is not absolutely destitute, and who 
is determined to push his way to the front of 
any calling in which it may be his purpose to 
engage.—The London Times. 
CURRENT NOTES ON PHYSIOGRAPHY. 
THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND. 
THE mid-southern coast of England is bor- 
dered by a narrow anticline of mesozoie strata, 
greatly eroded. The largest remnant of the 
anticline is the Isle of Wight, while further 
west a nearly isolated portion is called by the 
anticipatory name of the Isle of Purbeck. The 
physical features of the Jatter, with those of 
