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SCIENCE. 



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sion of the Illinois Legislature an appropriation 

 was made for the erection and equipment of an 

 Observatory for the State University at Cham- 

 paign. The designs for the building were made, 

 under direction of Prof. Ira O. Baker, by the 

 Architectural Department of the University. 

 The instrumental equipment, consisting of a 

 12-inch equatorial, a 3-inch combined transit 

 and zenith telescope and a chronograph, will be 

 made by Warner & Swasey, the optical parts 

 being made by Brashear. This makes four 

 universities which have established observa- 

 tories within the past year, all of which have 

 ordered telescopes from Warner & Swasey, with 

 optical parts by Brashear. The list is as fol- 

 lows: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 

 (18-inch aperture); University of Ohio, Colvim- 

 bus (12-inch aperture); University of Minnesota, 

 Minneapolis (lOJ-inch aperture); University of 

 Illinois, Champaign (12-inch aperture). 



A CATALOGUE of the types and figured speci- 

 mens of fossil animals in the United States 

 National Museum has been recently completed, 

 and comprises type material representing 3,644 

 species, distributed as follows: Invertebrates, 

 Palffiozoic, 1,155; Mesozoic, 1,024; Cenozoic, 

 1,312 ; Vertebrates, 163. The fossil plants are 

 not yet fully catalogued, but it is known that 

 they represent more than 2,000 species, over 500 

 of them being contained in the ' Lacoe Collec- 

 tion ' alone. There are in round numbers 500 

 Palaeozoic, and 1,500 Mesozoic and Cenozoic spe- 

 cies. Every type or figured specimen is made 

 conspicuous by attaching to it a small, green, 

 diamond-shaped ticket, or a white ticket bear- 

 ing the word type. Should any specimen be 

 separated from its label this ticket will draw 

 attention to the fact that the specimen is a type 

 and must be cared for. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Johns Hopkins University has published 

 on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary 

 statements concerning the university which 

 bear witness to the important part it has taken 

 in the advancement of higher education and 

 research in America. The University has con- 

 ferred 358 degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, and 

 of these graduates 175 hold college professor- 



ships. Eight hundred students of the Univer- 

 sity have engaged in teaching, and nearly every 

 university and college in America numbers 

 among its faculty a student of Johns Hopkins 

 University. The following institutions have 

 had in their faculties ten or more of its stu- 

 dents : Chicago, 23 ; Wisconsin, 19 ; Bryn 

 Mawr, 18 ; Stanford, 17 ; Michigan, 17 ; Penn- 

 sylvania, 16 ; Cornell, 14 ; Columbia, 13 ; Mas- 

 sachusetts Institute of Technology, 11 ; Ne- 

 braska, 11 ; Northwestern, 11 ; Harvard, 10 ; 

 Woman's College of Baltimore, 10. There are 

 now in the University 403 graduate students of 

 which 150 are candidates for the degree of 

 M. D. or physicians attending special courses. 



The catalogue of the University of Minnesota 

 for 1895-96 shows the following enrollment 

 for the year : 



Graduate Students, all departments, 137 



Undergraduates : 



College Science, Literature and Arts, 832 



College Engineering, Metallurgy and the 

 Mecbanio Arts, 192 



College of Agriculture : 



Collegiate Course in Agriculture, 10 



School of Agriculture, 223 



School of Dairying, 97 



School for Women, 46 



College of Law, 369 



Department of Medicine : 



College of Medicine and Surgery, 243 



College Homceopathic Medicine and Sm-- 



gery, 31 



College of Dentistry, 90 



College of Pharmacy, 33 



Summer School 234 



2527 



Students enrolled in more than one de- 

 partment, 38 



Total, 2489 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 has issued a circular calling attention to the 

 opportunities it offers to college graduates. 

 There are this year 80 such students in the In- 

 stitute, 69 of whom are from other institti- 

 tions. The summer courses ofifered by the In- 

 stitute are especially planned for advanced 

 students. 



At the celebration of Founder's Day of New 



