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SCIENCE. 



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Nutrition and Hygienic Physiology; (3) Hy- 

 giene of Childhood and School Life; (4) In- 

 dustrial Hygiene; (5) The Prevention of In- 

 fectious Diseases and the Cure of Patients 

 suffering therefrom; (6) a. Hygiene of the 

 Dwelling and the Community; h, Hygiene of 

 Traffic; (7) Military, Colonial and Marine 

 Hygiene; (8) Demography. An exhibition is 

 to be held in connection with the congress. 



The Academy of Sciences of Berlin has 

 received the preliminary report of the mission 

 which went to Abyssinia last spring to explore 

 the ruins of the ancient city of Aksum. 



It is said that valuable documents relating 

 to Volta were destroyed in the fire at the 

 Milan International Exposition, which caused 

 a loss of some $2,000,000. 



PoRBiGN journals announce that Dr. W. J. 

 Goodhue, medical superintendent of the Mo- 

 lokai Leper Settlement, has, after several 

 years of research, succeeded in demonstrating 

 the bacillus of leprosy in the mosquito (Culex 

 pungens) and the common bed-bug (Cimex 

 lectularius) . 



The British home secretary has appointed 

 a departmental committee to inquire and re- 

 port what diseases and injuries, other than 

 injuries by accident, are due to industrial 

 occupations, are distinguishable as such, and 

 can properly be added to the diseases enu- 

 merated in the third schedule of the Work- 

 men's Compensation Bill, 1906, so as to entitle 

 to compensation persons who may be affected 

 thereby. The chairman of the committee is 

 Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P., parliamentary 

 under-secretary of state for the Home De- 

 partment; and the members are Professor 

 Clifford AUbutt, F.R.S., regius professor of 

 physics at Cambridge University; Mr. H. H. 

 Cunynghame, C.B., assistant under-secretary 

 of state. Home Office; and Dr. T. M. Legge, 

 medical inspector of factories. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of the late Theodore Kearney, 

 of Freno, his entire estate, amounting to about 

 $1,000,000, is bequeathed to the department of 

 agriculture of the University of California. 

 It is said that the will will be contested °by a 



cousin, under the provisions of the California 

 law that not more than one third of an estate 

 shall be bequeathed to charity when there are 

 legal heirs. The will takes cognizance of this 

 section of the code, and appoints four promi- 

 nent men to inherit any portion of his estate 

 which can not legally go to the university. It 

 is also claimed that the State University is 

 not a charitable institution, but part of the 

 state government. 



AccoRDmG to The Athenwum the number 

 of matriculated students at the German uni- 

 versities during the summer term is 44,942, 

 an increase of over 3,000 on last year. Of 

 these 6,569 are at Berlin, 5,734 at Munich, 

 4,147 at Leipsic, 3,275 at Bonn, 2,350 at Frei- 

 burg, 2,128 at Halle, 1,925 at Gottingen, 1,922 

 at Heidelberg, and 1,362 at Jena, while the 

 rest are distributed among various universi- 

 ties. There are 12,413 students of law; 10,- 

 752 are studying philosophy, philology or his- 

 tory, 6,584 medicine, and 6,212 mathematics 

 or natural science. The number of students 

 has nearly trebled during the last thirty years, 

 the returns for 1876 showing that in that year 

 the entries amounted only to 16,812. 



Mr. Leroy Abrams, of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, a former instructor in Stanford 

 University, has been made assistant professor 

 of systematic botany at Stanford. 



M. Carlo Bourlet has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of descriptive geometry in the Paris 

 National Conservatory of Arts. 



Dr. Moller has been appointed director of 

 the Forest School at Eberswalde. 



Dr. David von Haussmann, of Berlin, has 

 been called to the chair of pathology at Mar- 

 burg. 



Dr. Karl Hintze, professor of mineralogy 

 at Breslau, has been called to Bonn. 



Dr. Arnold Sommerfeld, professor in the 

 Technical Institute at Aachen, has accepted 

 the chair of theoretical physics at Munich. 



Professor Eontgen, of Munich, having de- 

 clined the offer of the chair of physics at 

 Berlin University in succession to the late 

 Professor Paul Drude, the direction of the 

 physical institute has been temporarily placed 

 in the hands of Professor Nemst. 



