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SCIENCE. 



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crease of the disease in the city can be expected 

 to follow such measures, and it is not surpris- 

 ing that the usual annual increase is greater this 

 year. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The total amount of the bi-centennial fund of 

 Yale University is now $1,090,000. This sum 

 includes $490,000 subscribed or pledged uncon- 

 ditionally to the general building fund; $250,- 

 000 pledged conditionally in case three addi- 

 tional subscribers can be found to give $100,000 

 each, thus making pos.sible the carrying out of 

 the building plan and $350,000 given or pledged 

 for special purposes other than those of the 

 general building fund. During the year the 

 university has received also the Vanderbilt be- 

 quest of $100,000 free of tax ; $50,000 from the 

 estate of Charles J. Stille ; $30,000 from the 

 estate of Professor O. C. Marsh, and $15,000 

 from the estate of Catherine W. Jarman, mak- 

 ing, with minor legacies, about $200,000. The 

 University has further just received from Mr. 

 W. E. Dodge of New York City the sum of 

 $30,000 "for the purpose of promoting among 

 its students and graduates and among the edu- 

 cated men of the United States an understand- 

 ing of the duties of Christian citizenship and a 

 sense of personal responsibility for the perform- 

 ance of those duties." The income of the fund 

 will be paid each year for a series of lectures. 



The sum of $109,000 covering the debt of 

 "Wellesley College has been raised making avail- 

 able a gift of $100, 000 from Mr. John D. Eocke- 

 feller. 



The daily papers contain a dispatch from 

 Havana regarding an alleged scandal in the 

 University, where some of the best known men 

 in Cuba are said to have received $24,000 a year 

 each as professors. There were 72 of these pro- 

 fessors and 24 assistants, some of them having 

 no classes at all and others only one or two stu- 

 dents. Many of the professors drew other gov- 

 ernment salaries. When this was called to 

 General Wood's attention he immediately in- 

 augurated reforms, which resulted in cutting 

 down the list to 46 professors and assistants. 

 So at least runs a cablegram from Havana on 

 which perhaps not very much reliance should 

 be placed. 



The United States transport MePherson, 

 having on board 231 of the Cuban teachers who 

 will attend the summer school at Harvard 

 University, arrived in Boston harbor on June 

 80th. 



Professor Charles L. Edwards, recently 

 of the University of Cincinnati, was elected on 

 June 26th to the professorship of natural history, 

 in Trinity College, Hartford. The new Hall 

 of Natural History, just completed at a cost of 

 $60,000, is a building of three stories above a 

 high basement, and is designed for the various 

 needs of biology and geology. There are suites 

 of laboratories for anatomy, physiology, ex- 

 perimental morphology, zoology, botany and 

 geology, together with a vivarium. The south- 

 ern half of the building, provided with a large 

 central light well extending from the first floor 

 to the arched roof, is the museum. The already 

 valuable collections of Trinity College, includ- 

 ing the Ward series of invertebrates, vertebrate 

 skeletons and Blascke models will be largely 

 augmented in the near future. Professor Ed- 

 wards will supervise the equipment of the 

 laboratories during the summer. 



The following appointments are also an- 

 nounced : H. T. Cory, a graduate of Purdue 

 University, now in charge of the engineering 

 courses in the University of Missouri, professor 

 of civil engineering in the Universitj' of Cin- 

 cinnati ; Dr. Franz PfafF, assistant professor of 

 pharmacology and therapeutics of the Harvard 

 Medical School ; Dr. L. E. Dickson has resigned 

 his position as associate professor of mathematics 

 in the University of Texas, to accept a call to 

 the University of Chicago ; Dr. Grace N. Dol- 

 son, a graduate of Cornell University, has been 

 made professor of philosophy at Wellesley Col- 

 lege ; at Princeton University, Professor E. O. 

 Lovett has been promoted to a full professorship 

 of mathematics, and Mr. A. A. H. Lyba has 

 been called to a professorship of mathematics at 

 Roberts College, Constantinople ; Dr. George 

 V. N. Dearborn has been appointed assistant 

 professor of physiology in the Tufts College 

 Medical School. He succeeds Dr. Albert P. 

 Mathews, who has been called to an instructor- 

 ship in physiology in the Harvard Medical 

 School. 



