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SCIENCE. 



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short addresses by Professors Warren, Dwight 

 and Shattuck and Mr. Coolidge, the architect. 

 In the evening a reception will be given at the 

 Boston Medical Library. . On Wednesday 

 morning there will be exercises at Cambridge, 

 which will include addresses by President 

 Eliot and Professor Welch, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, and the conferring of hon- 

 orary degrees. In the afternoon the triennial 

 banquet of the Harvard Medical Alumni As- 

 sociation will be held in Memorial Hall. 



The Johns Hopkins University announces 

 the establishment of advanced courses in ap- 

 plied science. They aim to present the most 

 recent advances of the several sciences from 

 the point of view of theory and in their special 

 bearing on industrial applications, and are 

 designed to meet the demand for a specialized 

 scientific equipment exceeding that indicated 

 by the usual collegiate or engineering degree. 

 Particular attention will be paid to the results 

 of research and to improvements in methods, 

 as reported in the current scientific literature. 

 Complete laboratory facilities are offered to 

 engineers and others who desire to prosecute 

 research along particular lines. The courses 

 are intended for the following classes of stu- 

 dents: (a.) Graduates in engineering or sci- 

 ence who wish to extend their equipment in 

 special directions; (6) engineers desirous of 

 knowing the present state and trend of re- 

 search in their subjects; (c) those wishing to 

 prosecute some special experimental research; 

 (J) those wishing to attend special courses in 

 applied science. 



An Italian-American educational alliance 

 has been established for the exchange of lec- 

 turers and professors between the two coun- 

 tries and the improvement of their educational 

 relations. The arrangements have been made 

 in Italy by Dr. Joseph S. Kennard, who espe- 

 cially represented the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



It is reported that at the meeting of the 

 Eussian Council of Ministers, held on August 

 21, it was decided to appoint a commission 

 to draw up a bill providing for universal pri- 



mary education, to be submitted to the council 

 of the empire and the duma at the beginning 

 of the next session. The council also decided 

 that it was imperatively necessary to increase 

 the salaries of primary teachers and to build 

 more schools, for which purpose it assigned a 

 grant of 5,333,000 roubles, chargeable to next 

 year's budget. A commission sitting under 

 the presidency of the minister of education 

 has recommended the reopening of the univer- 

 sities, under practically the same conditions 

 as were vainly tried last autumn, an autono- 

 mous government by a professorial council. 



Professor Dugald C. Jackson, head of the 

 department of electrical engineering at the 

 University of Wisconsin, has been elected pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering and head of 

 the electrical engineering department in the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as the 

 successor of Dr. Louis Duncan, who resigned 

 about a year and a half ago. 



Dr. Thomas E, McKinney, professor of 

 mathematics and astronomy at Marietta Col- 

 lege, has been called to Wesleyan University; 

 Dr. Henry L. Coar, instructor in the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of mathematics in Marietta College, 

 to succeed Professor McKinney. 



The University of Southern California at 

 Los Angeles has made the following promo- 

 tions and appointments : Miss Nelle Lancaster, 

 instructor in biology, to become assistant pro- 

 fessor of zoology; Edward A. Henderson, in- 

 structor in chemistry, to become assistant pro- 

 fessor of pharmaceutical chemistry; Miss 

 Plorence E. Durkee (A.B. Stanford Univer- 

 sity), appointed fellow in botany. 



Dr. Gustav Hauser, of Erlangen, will suc- 

 ceed Professor G. E. von Eindfleisch as pro- 

 fessor of pathology at Wiirzburg. 



Dr. Egbert Wollenberg, professor of psy- 

 chiatry at Tiibingen, has been called to a 

 similar chair at Strasburg. 



Dr. Ludwig Ehumbler, of Gottingen, has 

 been appointed professor of zoology in the 

 School of Agriculture at Hanover, 



