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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 5.5. 



been elected librarian of the Consolidated 

 Libraries of New York, representing the Lennox 

 Library, the Astor Library and the Tilden Be- 

 quest. 



The Botanical Library and the Herbarium 

 of Columbia College, ■will be placed in a build- 

 ing to be erected in the New York Botanic 

 Garden, and in return the privileges of the 

 garden will be accorded to students of the Col- 

 lege. 



Macmillan & Co. announce that they will 

 begin in September next a ' Garden craft series,' 

 the first volume of which will be Plant Breeding 

 by Professor L. H. Bailey. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 question of founding a medical faculty in the 

 University of Odessa, which had been long 

 under discussion, has finally been decided in 

 the afiirmative. The municipality of Odessa 

 has generously offered to double its grant for 

 the new faculty, raising it from 250,000 to 

 500,000 roubles, that is, to over $250,000. 



The opening article in Ajjpleton's Popular 

 Science Monthly for January is a description of 

 the origin of the Smithsonian Institution by Dr. 

 H. Carrington Bolton. The author describes 

 Smithson's curious career, but scarcely attempts 

 to assign his reason for making the United 

 States his residuary legatee. The article re- 

 views the formation and growth of the institu- 

 tion, and a second article will consider its 

 present status and many activities. 



The election of officers of the Binghampton 

 (N. Y.) Academy of Science, held on the after- 

 noon of January 4th, resulted as follows: 



President, Prof. E. E. Whitney (re-elected). 



Vice-President, PuoF. Herbert J. Jones (re- 

 elected). 



Becording Secretary, Willaed N. Clute (re- 

 elected). 



Corresponding Secretary, Bdet E. Nelson. 



Treasurer, Joseph K. Noyes. 



A reception was tendered the members in 

 the evening by the Young Women's Christian 

 Association at their rooms in the Strong Building. 



A new Russian journal, a Revievj of Psy- 

 chiatry, Neurology and Experimental Psychology, 

 edited by Dr. Bekhteret, will hereafter 'be pub- 

 lished monthly. 



The deaths are announced of Cavaliere Dr. 

 Alfonso Ademello, sanitary director of the hos- 

 pital of Grossetto, and known for his excava- 

 tions at Grossetto and for his writings on the 

 Maremma, of Dr. Sickenberger, professor of 

 botany and chemistry in the medical high school 

 in Cairo; of Dr. A. de Cerqvieira Paito, professor 

 of organical chemistry in Bahia, and of Dr. 

 Paul Reis, professor of physics at Mainz. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The new catalogue of Harvard University 

 shows the total number of instructors to be 366 

 and the total number of students 3,600. The 

 students are distributed as follows: 1,771, Col- 

 lege; 340, Scientific School; 285, Graduate 

 School; 41, Divinity School; 465, Law School; 

 531, Medical School; 102, Dental School; 55, 

 Veterinary ; 15, Bussey Institute. The number 

 of students is 310 greater than last year as com- 

 pared with a gain of 134 for that year. 



Aetee 1901 only college graduates will be 

 admitted to the Harvard medical school. Johns 

 Hopkins University is the only American Uni- 

 versity now making this requirement. 



The departments of Physics and Mechanical 

 Engineering at Brown University have been 

 materially improved by the removal of the work 

 shops that formerly occupied the basement of 

 the Wilson Physical Laboratory to a building 

 recently constructed for their reception. The 

 new building has thirty-six hundred square feet 

 of floor space, and is well equipped with all the 

 machinery necessary for thorough courses of 

 instruction in practical metal and wood working. 

 Of the rooms thus rendered available in the 

 physical laboratory two are to be fitted out for 

 high temperature and pressure investigations, 

 two for an electrical engineering laboratory, and 

 one for a drawing room for the department of 

 civil engineering. 



The late Franklin Baldwin, of North Grafton, 

 Mass. , has made the following bequests to take 

 effect on the death of his wife : Wellesley Col- 

 lege, $50,000 to found a chair in mathematics 

 in memorjr of his daughter, Katie Emma Bald- 

 win ; Smith College, Northampton, $12,000 for 

 scholarships; The University of Vermont, $10,- 

 000 for scholarships ; Dartmouth College, $6,000 



