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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. Xir. No. 300. 



number of persons under treatment has never 

 been so large as it was in the first year. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mb. a. C. Bartlett has given the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago 8125,000 for a gymnasium as a 

 memorial of his son who died on July 15th. 



A COLLECTION of eight hundred Arabic manu- 

 scripts, made by Count Landberg and said to be 

 worth $20,000, has been presented to Yale Uni- 

 versity by Mr. Morris K. Jesup of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History. 



The trustees of the College of the City of 

 New York are considering the lengthening of 

 the course to seven years. They have asked 

 that the appropriation made by the Board of 

 Estimate and Apportionment last year be in- 

 creased from $200,000 to §225,000. It is ex- 

 pected that the new buildings in 138th Street 

 will be begun during the present autumn. 



The new president of the University of 

 Eochester, Kev. Rush Rhees, who was elected 

 last June, has assumed control, and his formal 

 installation will take place on October 11th. 

 President Seth Low, of Columbia University, 

 will deliver an address on ' The City and the 

 University' ; President Harper, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, will speak on ' The College 

 Officer and the College Student' ; President 

 Seelye, of Smith College, will speak on ' Limi- 

 tations to the President's Power in the Amer- 

 ican College.' 



The London Educational Times states that dur- 

 ing the coming session evening science courses 

 will be held in connection with the Technical 

 Education Board at University College, King's 

 College and Bedford College. At University Col- 

 lege Professor J. A. Fleming, F.R.S., will give 

 a course of ten lectures, followed by laboratory 

 practice, in advanced electrical measurements. 

 A course of lectures on the electric motor and 

 its application to electric traction will be given 

 by Professor C. A. Carus- Wilson, each lecture 

 to be followed by an experimental demonstra- 

 tion or by a class for the practical working of 

 numerical examples in connection with the sub- 

 ject. A course will be given by Professor E. 

 Wilson at King's College on direct and alter- 

 nating currents. In mechanical engineering, 



Professor T. Hudson Beare will give a course 

 of ten lectures at University College, on the 

 theory of steam engines and boilers, with labora- 

 tory work on the testing of steam engines and 

 boilers. Professor Beare will also give a course 

 of five lectures on the theory of gas and oil en- 

 gines, combined with laboratory work. 



David J. Beewee, Associate Justice of the 

 United States Supreme Court, has accepted the 

 position of lecturer on the responsibilities of 

 citizenship at Yale University. The lectures 

 will be delivered next February. 



Peofessoe Goss, who has for a number of 

 years been professor of mechanical engineering 

 and director of the mechanical laboratory in 

 Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., has been 

 made dean of the Engineering Schools of the 

 University. 



Peofessoe L. C. Glen, of South Carolina 

 College, has been appointed professor of geology 

 at Vanderbilt University. 



J. R. Steeet, Ph.D. (Clark), has been ap- 

 pointed professor of pedagogy at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. Alexandee Macphail, M.B., CM., 

 senior demonstrator of anatomy in Glasgow 

 University, has been appointed professor of 

 anatomy in St. Mungo's College, Glasgow. 



The following promotions have been made in 

 German universities : Dr. Wilhelm Authenrieth, 

 of the University of Freiburg, has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor of pharmaceutical 

 chemistry ; Dr. R. Abegg, of the University of 

 Breslau, associate professor of chemistry ; Dr. 

 A. Loewy, of the University of Berlin, pro- 

 fessor of physiology ; Dr. Osann, of the Uni- 

 versity at Basle, associate professor of geology 

 and mineralogy ; Dr. Paul Eisler and Dr. Vor- 

 lander, of the University at Halle, associate pro- 

 fessors of anatomy and chemistry, respectively. 



De. Joseph Anton Gmeinee has qualified 

 as docent in mathematics in the University of 

 Vienna ; Dr. Max Schwarzmann, as docent in 

 mineralogy at the University of Giessen ; Dr. 

 Joseph Boleslaw Grzybowski, as docent in 

 paleontology at the University of Cracow and 

 Dr. Steinbriick as docent in agriculture at the 

 University at Halle. 



