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until it is killed. In experiments performed 

 under certificate B (or EE or F linked with B) 

 the animal is anaesthetized during the opera- 

 tion but is allowed to recover. The number 

 of inoculations for the diagnosis of rabies 

 performed in 1899 was 164, the steady de- 

 crease during recent years noticed iu the re- 

 port for 1898 having been maintained. Table 

 III. (B) is devoted entirely to inoculations, 

 hypodermic injections, and some few other 

 proceedings performed without anaesthetics. 

 It includes 6813 experiments. The total 

 number of experiments (8469) is somewhat 

 less than in 1898 (9151). The licensees were 

 found in all cases to be desirous of acting 

 in strict accordance with the spirit as well as 

 the letter both of the Act and of the special 

 conditions attached to their licenses. In Ire- 

 land nine licenses were in existence during 1899. 

 Of these four expired, one was renewed, and 

 two new licenses were granted. The experi- 

 ments performed were 227 in number, 79 being 

 xinder license alone and 148 under certificates. 

 Two licensees performed no experiments. The 

 animals experimented on were 171 rabbits, 43 

 dogs, 12 guinea-pigs, and one rat. The experi- 

 ments appear to have been of a useful character, 

 and either painless or painful only to a slight 

 extent. The bulk of them were inoculations 

 for the diagnosis of diseases, such as canine 

 rabies and tuberculosis. 



The Moscow Society of Physiologists, a 

 branch of the Imperial Society of Friends of 

 Natural Science, has, according to the British 

 JkfedicoZ JoarreaZ, undertaken to issue a journal 

 entitled Le Physiologiste Buase, which is intended 

 to make the work of members of the Society in 

 physiology, physiological chemistry, histology, 

 embryology, general pathology, and pharma- 

 cology known to that large section of the sci- 

 entific world to which Russian is an unknown 

 tongue. Original papers will be published in 

 French or German ; and summaries of all Rus- 

 sian work appearing elsewhere will be given in 

 French. The first volume, which has already 

 been issued, contains papers from the laboratories 

 of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Tomsk. 

 Among the writers are Professor Morokowitz, 

 head of the Physiological Institute of Moscow, 

 and editor of the journal; Professors Setschenow, 



Bogdanofi", Salaskine, Chalfeieff, and Kulagin. 

 La Physiologiste Susse is sent gratuitously to all 

 institutes of physiology, pathology, and phar- 

 macology. As giving some idea of the relative 

 numbers of such institutes in difierent countries, 

 it is interesting to note that Austria receives 31 

 copies. Great Britain, 23, Germany 46, Prance 

 42, other European countries 59, the United 

 States 29, South America 4, Asia 5, Australia 3, 

 Africa 1. Le Physiologiste Russe is published 

 and distributed with the help of contributions 

 from friends of biological science, who have 

 subscribed a capital sum of £2000 for the pur- 

 pose. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Lord Caltheope and his son have given to 

 the University of Birmingham about 25 acres 

 of laud for its scientific department. The site 

 is very suitable, permitting the establishment 

 of the department nearer to the center of the 

 city than would otherwise have been possible. 



Me. Ewan Richaeds Frazee, of Balliol Col- 

 lege, is announced as the donor of £5000 for a 

 pathological laboratory at Oxford. 



Teinity College has received from Mr. J. 

 M. Allen, of Hartford, a complete set of the 

 Proceedings of the American Asssociation for 

 the Advancement of Science. 



The trustees of Iowa State College in their 

 annual session made the following additions to 

 the faculty of the college : H. J. Burt of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, assistant professor of civil en- 

 gineering, this being a new chair ; B. S. Lampear 

 of Cornell University, assistant professor in elec- 

 trical engineering ; Lewis E. Young of Penn- 

 sylvania State College, instructor in mining 

 engineering ; I. A. Williams of Iowa State Col- 

 lege, 1898, instructor in mining engineering. 



The vacancy at Toronto University caused 

 by the retirement of Professor Pike from the 

 chair of chemistry has been filled by the ap- 

 pointment of Mr. William R. Lang, who has 

 for some years filled the position of lecturer in 

 organic chemistry at Glasgow University. 



Professor Briegee has been appointed to 

 the newly established chair of hydrotherapy at 

 Berlin University. 



