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SCIENCE. 



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towards a new physical laboratory for Univer- 

 sity College, Liverpool. It appears from the 

 report of the treasurer of the College that there 

 was last year a deficit of $6,000 and that the 

 debt of the College is $55,000. 



The Oxford City Council has secured a new 

 valuation of the property of the University and 

 the Colleges which would subject them to an 

 increased tax of $23,000 a year. The question 

 of increased valuation will probably come be- 

 fore the Courts. 



According to the daily papers Lafayette 

 College conferred on October 24th, an honorary 

 Ph.D. degree on the Eev. Ernest P. F. Pfat- 

 techer of Lebanon. If this news is correct the 

 Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools 

 of the Middle States and Maryland should at 

 its approaching meeting take action that will 

 prevent the improper use of this degree. 



The registration at Harvard University is as 

 follows: in the college, senior class, 391; junior 

 class, 379 ; sophomore, 539 ; freshman, 537 ; 

 special students, 149 ; total in college, 1,995, a 

 gain of 99 over last year; the scientific school, 

 506, a gain of 12 ; graduate school, 327, a gain 

 of 12; divinity school, 25, a loss of 2; law 

 school, 618, again of 14; medical school, 590, 

 a gain of 40 ; dental school, 129, a loss of 3 ; 

 veterinary school, 17, a loss of 7 ; Bussey in- 

 stitution, 27, a gain of 2 ; total for the academic 

 jtear 1900, 4,234; total gain, 167. 



The enrollment of undergraduates at Prince- 

 ton University shows a total gain of 120 com- 

 pared with the figures of last year. There are 

 745 academic students, an increase of fifty-nine, 

 and 421 in the scientific department, a gain of 

 fifty-eight. Seven men are registered in the 

 electrical school, against four last year. 



At Williams College Dr. F. H. Howard, of 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New 

 York, has been appointed instructor in physiol- 

 ogy and hygiene in place of Dr. Woodbridge, 

 who died a year ago. 



The income of the Stearns' Fellowship in 

 the pharmaceutical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan for the present and sixth year 

 has been divided between Harold C. Watkins 

 and Charles R. Eckler, who are at work in 



parallel lines upon the same subject, namely, 

 the chemical and botanical characteristics of 

 certain plants of the poppy family. Mr. Wat- 

 kins will investigate the chemistry, Mr. Eckler 

 the botanical characteristics of the plants. 

 The work is under the supervision of Professor 

 Julius O. Schlotterbeck. 



SieH. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., is vice-chancellor 

 of the reorganized University of London, and 

 Sir John Wolfe Wolfe-Barry, P.R.S., is one of 

 the crown members of the senate. The faculty 

 members representing science are Sir Michael 

 Foster, Sec. F.R.S., Dr. William B. Hallibur- 

 ton, F.R.S., Professor William Ramsay, F.R.S., 

 and Professor A. W. Riicker, F.R.S. The rep- 

 resentatives of the different institutions in the 

 senate also include a number of scientific men 

 — Lord Lister, Professor G. C. Foster, Dr. P. 

 H. Pye-Smith and others. 



Professor T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., has re- 

 signed from the chair of geology in University 

 College, London, which he has held for thirty- 

 three years. 



The Committee of the School of (Geography, 

 at Oxford Universitj', has elected the Rev. 

 Edward Clarke Spicer, of New College, to the 

 Geographical Scholarship for 1900-1901. 



Dr. Hans Georges, engineer-in-chief of the 

 firm of Siemens & Halske, has been appointed 

 director of the Electrical Engineering Institute 

 and professor of electrical engineering in the 

 Dresden Institute of Technology. 



Dr. Lorenz, of the University at Halle, has 

 been made director of the Physical and Tech- 

 nological Institute of the University at Got- 

 tingen. 



Dr. M. von Raciborski has been appointed 

 professor of botany and director of the botanical 

 gardens in the agricultural school at Dublaney, 

 near Lemberg. 



Dr. Franz Kolacek, of the Bohemian Uni- 

 versity at Prague, has been appointed professor 

 of physics in the School of Technology at Briiun, 

 and Dr. Sauer of Heidelberg professor of min- 

 eralogy and geology in the Polytechnic Institute 

 at Stuttgart. Dr. Emil Borras of the Geodetic 

 Institute at Pottsdam has been promoted to a 

 professorship. 



