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University of St. Andrews for the endowment 

 of a chair of anatomy. His gift is made under 

 the condition that the University make ade- 

 quate provision for the first two years of a 

 course in medicine. Mr. Musgrove, the present 

 holder of the lectureship of anatomy at St. 

 Andrew's, is to be the first incumbent of the 

 new chair. 



The Nation quotes from the Zeitschrift fur 

 Fhilosophie und Pddagogik certain conditions 

 prevailing at the German universities regarding 

 admission to the examinations for the degree of 

 Doctor of Philosophy. In all the twenty-one 

 universities of the Empire, the gymnasium 

 graduates are permitted to take examinations 

 in all the departments of the philosophical 

 faculty, while there is no agreement, not even 

 in the universities of the same country, with 

 reference to the promotion of the graduates of 

 the Kealgymnasia or the Oberrealschulen ; the 

 Real or purely scientific non-classical graduates 

 being nowhere allowed to become candidates 

 for degrees. Those who have completed the 

 semi-classical Realgymnasia are admitted to 

 examinations in twelve universities (of these 

 six are in Prussia), in all departments of the 

 philosophical faculty, while eight admit them 

 in modern languages, mathematics, and nat- 

 ural sciences ; and one, the University of 

 Erlangen, only in mathematics and natural 

 sciences. The Oberreal-school graduates 

 (in those institutions the scientific studies 

 strongly predominate) are admitted to the 

 philosophical doctorate in all sections only by 

 Greifswald, in five universities only in natural 

 sciences and mathematics ; and in ten (among 

 these six are in Prussia) they are not admitted 

 to a degree at all. Two universities have not 

 yet taken final action in the matter. In view 

 of this, the action of the German Realschul 

 Association, representing the interests of the 

 higher non-classical education in Germany, at 

 the recent convention in Berlin is of interest. 

 At this meeting, attended by more than three 

 hundred philologians, a petition, originally 

 drafted by the National German Society of En- 

 gineers, and signed by 12,000 names, was 

 adopted, asking that the graduates of all the 

 nine-year secondary schools, i. e., the Gymna- 

 sia, the Realgymnasia, and the Oberrealschulen, 



should alike and without discrimination be ad- 

 mitted to university privileges and degrees, 

 and that in future the lowest three classes in 

 all the schools of this kind should have the 

 same non-Latin courses. This petition has been 

 presented to the Cultus-Minister of Prussia. 



De. Alwyn S. Wheelee, Ph.D. (Harvard), 

 has been elected to the assistant professorship 

 of chemistry in the University of North Caro- 

 lina. 



The following have been elected professors 

 and lecturers of Royal College of Surgeons 

 of England for the ensuing collegiate year : 

 Hunterian Professors, Mr. Charles Stewart, 

 M.R.C.S. Eng., F.R.S., Mr. Percy Furnivall, 

 F.R.C.8. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., and Mr. Chris- 

 topher Addison, F.R.C.S. Eng., M.D., B.S. 

 Loud., L.R.C.P., Lond., Arris and Gale lec- 

 turer, Mr. T. G. Brodie, M.R.C.S. Eng., M.D. 

 Lond,, L.R.C.P. Lond., Erasmus "Wilson, lec- 

 turer, Mr. Walter Edmunds, F.R.C.S. Eng., 

 M.B., M. C. Cantab. Mr. S. G. Shattock, 

 F.R.C.S. Eng., was re-elected pathological 

 curator, and Mr. R. H. Burne was re-elected 

 anatomical assistant in the museum. 



The registration at the first summer session 

 of Columbia University was 417. The attend- 

 ance consisted of 114 men and 303 women of 

 whom about 80 per cent, were teachers. 



Me. F. p. Spalding, a graduate of Lehigh 

 University, who has been instructor in that 

 University and in Cornell University and has 

 recently been acting as a professional engineer, 

 has been appointed professor of civil engineer- 

 ing in the University of Missouri. 



De. J. C. Shedd, instructor in physics at the 

 University of Wisconsin, has accepted the pro- 

 fessorship of physics at Colorado College, to suc- 

 ceed Dr. S. J. Barnett, who goes to Stanford 

 University. 



De. Waltee E. Gareey formerly assistant 

 in the department of physiology of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, has been elected to chair of 

 physiology in Cooper Medical College, San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal. This summer he was one of the in- 

 structors in the course in physiology at the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Holl, 

 Mass. 



