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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 601. 



At the Eadcliffe College commencement 

 President Briggs announced tliat the requisite 

 sum of $75,000 to secure Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie's gift for a college library had been 

 secured. 



Mrs. Louisa N. Bullard has given Harvard 

 University Medical School $52,000 to establish 

 a chair of neuropathology. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the University of 

 California has transferred from San Fran- 

 cisco to Berkeley all instruction in the first 

 two years of the college of medicine. Stu- 

 dents desiring admission to the medical de- 

 partment of the university must have com- 

 pleted certain studies in physics, chemistry, 

 zoology, German and French, which ordinarily 

 require two years of residence at a university 

 or college of good standing. The first two 

 years of the strictly professional work is de- 

 voted to anatomy, physiology and pathology. 

 As heretofore, the work of the last two years 

 of the medical course will be carried on in 

 San Francisco. 



Foreign papers state that the council of the 

 University of Paris has definitely approved of 

 the scheme for the extension of the university. 

 This will include the construction of an insti- 

 tute of chemistry covering an area of 9,000 

 square meters. Here will be established the 

 viarious departments of chemistry belonging 

 to the faculty of science and the department 

 of applied chemistry which, since its creation, 

 have been provisionally installed in some 

 sheds. The cost of this will be 3,000,000 

 francs, which will be divided between the city 

 of Paris and the state. The extension scheme 

 also includes the acquisition by the university, 

 in view of future necessities, of a plot of land 

 of 14,000 square meters. Towards the cost of 

 ithis land the university will pay 1,900,000 

 francs and the city 700,000 francs, to which 

 will be added the donation from the Prince 

 of Monaco. On a portion of this area will be 

 erected the Institute of Oceanography, founded 

 by the Prince of Monaco. 



At the meeting of the University Court of 

 Edinburgh on June 17 an addition was made 

 to the teaching staff of the university by the 



establishment of an independent lectureship 

 in general and experimental psychology in 

 connection with the philosophical department. 

 The funds for the lecturer's salary are mainly 

 supplied by the Combe trustees, who have also 

 contributed £300 towards the equipment of a 

 laboratory. In consideration of this generous 

 assistance the court resolved that the lecture- 

 ship should be called the George Combe lec- 

 tureship. George Combe, known as the au- 

 thor of ' The Constitution of Man,' was the 

 chief representative of phrenology in Great 

 Britain in the first half of last century. He 

 left funds, which have considerably increased 

 since his death, for promoting the knowledge 

 of man's mental and organic constitution in 

 relation to the external universe and its laws, 

 and for diffusing that knowledge as widely as 

 possible. Besides experimental teaching and 

 research, it is expected that the lectureship 

 will be largely utilized in connection with the 

 training of teachers. An appointment will be 

 made in time for work to begin next session. 



Dr. G. H. Parker has been promoted to a 

 full professorship of zoology at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor Edward Octavius Sisson, Ph.D., 

 who has recently been elected head of the de- 

 partment of education in the University of 

 Washington, is a native of England. He re- 

 ceived his education in schools of this country. 

 In 1886 he received the degree of bachelor of 

 science in the Kansas Agricultural College. 

 From 1886-91 he was teacher and principal in 

 public schools. 



Dr. Valdemar Koch has been appointed to 

 the chair of physiological chemistry in the 

 University of Chicago. 



At Bowdoin College, Dr. Walter T. Tobie, 

 of Portland, has been elected professor of 

 anatomy and Dr. Thomas J. Burrage, also of 

 Portland, assistant demonstrator of histology. 



Dr. George A. Falkiner Nuttall^ F.E.S., 

 has been appointed reader in hygiene for five 

 years in Cambridge University. 



Professor Hans Chairi, of Prague, has been 

 appointed professor of pathology in the Uni- 

 versity of Strasburg as successor to Professor 

 von Recklinghausen. 



