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SCIENCE. 



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systematic review of the fishes of the eastern 

 shore of the Californiau Gulf, in the Mexican 

 province of Sinaloa. Twenty-nine new species 

 are recorded, many of which are here figured, 

 including a new Saw-fish and several new Sting- 

 rays. The present work, however, can be re- 

 garded only as the result of a reconnaissance, 

 although it is clearly of great value. Except 

 in the case of Chanos, it deals with no osteol- 

 ogical characters ; and from the nature of the 

 Hopkins expedition, one can hardly expect 

 that any definite information could have been 

 obtained as to the larval characters of these 

 fishes, or as to the ranges of sexual variation. - 



According to the Loudon Times, the British 

 Consul at Pirteus mentions in his last report 

 that a Pasteur Institute for the treatment of 

 hydrophobia by inoculation has now been in 

 existence in Athens for some time. During the 

 first 16 months of its existence 201 cases were 

 treated, of which 176 were from Greece, 21 

 from Egypt, and 4 from Asia Minor. There 

 was only one death, and in this case the patient 

 had delayed going for treatment until 15 days 

 after being bitten. The whole credit of found- 

 ing the institution belongs to Dr. Pampoukis, 

 the directoi', who was sent to study under M. 

 Pasteur in Paris in 1886, and who, on his re- 

 turn, started a microbiological institute at his 

 own expense and conducted a series of valuable 

 experiments for the government. He opened 

 the Pasteur Institute in August, 1894, at his 

 own expense ; small allowances have since 

 been made to him by the municipality and the 

 government. It is practically impossible to 

 overestimate the value of such an establishment 

 in the Levant, and its existence ought to be 

 widely known. Not only does the curse of 

 masterless dogs exist in Greece, but even more so 

 in the neighboring countries. A muzzling or- 

 der does exist in Attica, but it is not enforced, 

 and the strewing of poisoned meat in the streets 

 of Athens and Pirseus is apparently the only 

 attempt rdade by the authorities to deal with 

 an^ increasing amount of rabies. The lack of 

 water and the prevailing disregard of all forms of 

 animal^sufiering largely contribute to this result. 



The N. Y. Evening Post states that the agricul- 

 tural extension work carried on by Cornell pro- 



fessors under the provisions of the Nixon fund i 

 being yearly extended. Originally confined to 

 the Chautauqua grape belt, it was last year 

 extended to Genesee. This year Prof. Bailey 

 has organized work in Oswego county, where 

 experiments in strawberry culture are to be 

 mq-de, and in Onondaga and Oneida counties. 

 The work in each county partakes of the pre- 

 vailing local farm industry. 



The School of Applied Ethics, which for the 

 past four years has held sessions at Plymouth, 

 will omit the session this year. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



De. B. I. "Wheelee, of Cornell University, 

 has been elected president of the University of 

 Rochester. 



Prof. Graves, of Tufts College, has been 

 elected president of the University of Wyoming. 



Mrs. S. W. Bocock has given $5,000 to Yale 

 University for the purchase of books in social 

 science. 



At Cornell University an appropriation of 

 $15,000 has been made for constructing a hy- 

 draulic laboratory for the College of Civil Engi- 

 neering, and $30,000 has been appropriated for 

 an addition to Lincoln Hall, for the accommo- 

 dation of the College of Architecture. 



The present and past students of Radcliflfe 

 College and the Cambridge School are uniting 

 to found a scholarship at Kadcliflfe College to be 

 known as the Arthur Oilman Scholarship in 

 recognition of the services of Mr. Oilman, who 

 is about to resign his office of Regent. 



At Smith College Miss G. A. Smith has been 

 appointed assistant in botany. Miss H. W. 

 Bigelow, assistant in astronomy ; Miss L. D. 

 Wallace, assistant in zoology, and Miss E. S. 

 Mason, instructor is chemistry. 



Dr. Westermaier has been called to a pro- 

 fessorship of botany in the University of Frei- 

 burg, Switzerland ; Dr. Peltz to the chair of 

 mathematics in the Technical High School at 

 Prague, and Dr. Went to the professorship of 

 botany in the University of Utrecht in the place 

 of Prof. RauwenhofF, who has retired. 



At the commencement exercises of Cornell 

 University, President Schurman made an ad- 



