May 29, 1896.] 



SCIENCE. 



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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Woman's EducatioBal Association of 

 Boston proposes to institute scholarships in 

 summer schools for Boston school teachers, 

 and urges women's clubs and other organiza- 

 tions of women interested in public-school work 

 to establish similar scholarships, or to select at 

 least one of their young teachers who shall be 

 sent to a summer course. A list of eight of the 

 chief colleges and universities offering such 

 courses is added. During the summer of 1896 

 the scholarships of the Boston Association will 

 be chiefly offered for the course in physical 

 geography at Harvard University. The amount 

 of money now at the disposal of the Association 

 being small, the committee asks that contribu- 

 tions toward this object be sent to Mrs. R. H. 

 Richards, Institute of Technology, Boston. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Wisconsin has recently made the following 

 promotions in the faculty of that institution : 

 Louis W. Austin, Ph. D., from instructor in 

 physics to assistant professor in physics ; Lellen 

 S. Cheney, B. S. , from instructor in general 

 and pharmaceutical botany to assistant profes- 

 sor of pharmaceutical botany; Wm. S. Marshall, 

 Ph. D., from instructor in biology to assistant 

 professor of zoology; Wm. A. Scott, Ph. D., 

 from associate professor of political economy 

 to professor of economic history and theory. 

 Frank C. Sharp, Ph. D., from instructor in phil- 

 osophy to assistant professor of philosophy; Rod- 

 ney H. True, Ph. D., from instructor in pharm- 

 acognosy to assistant professor of pharmacog- 

 nosy. 



The Connecticut Dental Association has voted 

 to petition the Yale corporation for the estab- 

 lishment of a dental school at Yale University. 



De. Eobeet G-. Remsen, Je., of the Class of 

 '73, has given the New York University $3,000 

 toward the endowment of scholarships. 



The University of Glasgow has received 

 £8,000 by the will of the late Dr. John Grieve, 

 the money to be used for the foundation of a 

 lectureship or fellowship. 



The following foreign appointments are an- 

 nounced : Dr. Ludwig Katheriner, professor of 

 zoology and comparative anatomy in Frei- 



burg, Switzerland ; Mr. James G. Lawn, pro- 

 fessor of mining at the South African School of 

 Mines, Cape Town and Dr. Otto Fischer, asso- 

 ciate professor of physiological physics at 

 Leipzig. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



A EEVIEW OF BIGELOW'S PAPEES ON METEOE- 



OLOGY AND SOLAE PHYSICS. 



About a year ago the writer was so struck 

 upon reading a paper* on the ' Inversion of 

 Temperatures in the 26.28 Day Solar Magnetic 

 Period ' that he was led to look a second time 

 at a previous paper by the same author, viz., a 

 ' Report on the Relations of Solar Magnetism to 

 Terrestrial Magnetism and Meteorology.'! A 

 severe estimate of these papers induced the 

 writer to study carefully such others % of Prof. 

 Bigelow's papers as have been accessible. The 

 result is that the writer has reached a trenchant 

 conviction that Prof. Bigelow's theories are 

 peculiarly and wildly vagarious and that his re- 

 sults are meaningless. A more recent paper § 



* By Frank H. Bigelow, Professor of Meteorology, 

 U. S. Weather Bureau. Am. Jour. Sci. (3), 48, p. 

 435. 



t Report for 1891-2 of the Chief of the U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, p. 519. 



X Notes on a new mefhodfor the discussion of magnetic 

 ohservations. By Feank H. Bigelow. Bulletin No. 



2, U. S. Weather Bureau. 



The polar radiation from the sun. By Feank H. 

 Bigelow. Astron. and Astro-Physics. 13. p. 26. 



27(6 two magnetic fields surrounding the sun. By 

 By Feank H. Bigelow. Astron. and Astro-Physics. 

 October, 1893. 



Further study of the corona. By Feank H. Bige- 

 low. Am. Jour. Sci. 3, 40. p. 343. 



The Solar corona, an instance of the Neiotonian poten- 

 tial function in the case of repulsion. By Feank H. 

 Bigelow. Am. Jour. Sci. 3, 42. p. 1. 



Note on the causes of the variations of the magnetic 

 needle. By Feank H. Bigelow. Am. Jour. Sci. 



3, 42. p. 253. 



The solar eoroim discussed by spherical harmonics. 

 By Feank H. Bigelow. Smithsonian Institution, 

 1889. 



Bulletin No. 18, of the U. S. Scientific Expedition 

 to West Africa, May, 1890. 



I Tlie Earth as a magnetic shell. By Feank H. 

 Bigelow. Am. Jour. Sci. 3, 50. p. 81. 



