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medical press of North Brazil, is entirely a 

 "Virchow number," in whicli the life and 

 work of the venerable savant are treated in 

 six elaborate articles by Professor Juliano 

 Moreira, Dr. Alfredo de Andrade, Professor 

 Pacifico Pereira, Dr. Americo Froes, Professor 

 Matheus dos Santos and Dr. Afranio Peixoto. 

 The Bevista do Gremio dos Internos dos 

 Eospiiaes has also published a special Vir- 

 chow number. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEW8. 

 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, professor of 

 philosophy and education, and since the 

 resignation of Dr. Seth Low acting-president 

 of Columbia University, was elected president 

 of the University on January 6 by unanimous 

 vote of the trustees. 



The University of Wooster, at Wooster, O., 

 will replace the building recently destroyed by 

 fire. Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago has given 

 $100,000 to the institution for this purpose 

 on condition that Wooster and Wayne Coun- 

 ties raise $40,000 and the Synod of Ohio $100,- 

 000 by February. 



Columbia University has received an 

 anonymous gift of $100,000, and a gift of 

 $3,000 from Mr. Adolph Lewissohn for the 

 purchase of a complete set of German disser- 

 tations for the doctorate. 



William H. Chapman, president of the Sa- 

 vings Banli of New London, has presented to 

 the city, through the board of school visitors, 

 $100,000 for the building and equipment of a 

 manual training school for use in connection 

 with the public school system. 



Mr. John D. Eockefeller has offered to 

 give Brown University $75,000 for the erec- 

 tion and furnishing of a building to be used 

 for social and religious purposes, on condition 

 that $25,000 be secured as an endowment fund 

 for the building before the next commence- 

 ment. 



By subscriptions from the alumni, $50,000 

 have been collected for the new Hall of Com- 

 mons at Hamilton College. It will be built 

 during the summer. 



Washington University, St. Louis, receives, 

 by the will of Colonel George E. Leighton, 

 $25,000, and by that of Mr. William E. Huse, 

 $20,000. Both these gentlemen were members 

 of the board of directors of that institution. 



The 'New England Building,' at Vassar 

 College, containing laboratories for the de- 

 partments of biology, physiology and geology, 

 was formally opened on January 8, when a re- 

 ception was given there by the board of trus- 

 tees. The name commemorates the fact that 

 the building fund of $50,000 was the gift of 

 alumnae residing in New England. 



Dr. Charles W. Dabney, president of the 

 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has re- 

 ceived a proposition from eastern philanthro- 

 pists to establish a summer school at the Uni- 

 versity, the school to be free for teachers from 

 all over the South. 



Dr. Herbert A. Giles, professsor of Chinese 

 at Cambridge University, will give the first 

 course of lectures for the new Chinese depart- 

 ment of Columbia University. 



The following appointments have been made 

 at the University of Toronto: Dr. W. H. 

 Piersol, instructor in biology and histology; C. 

 M. Praser, assistant in zoology; R. B. Thomp- 

 son, class assistant in botany; Dr. S. H. West- 

 man, laboratory assistant in histology; Dr. E. 

 E. Hooper, Dr. J. A. Eoberts, Dr. W. J. Mc- 

 Callum, and Dr. A. F. Adams to be class 

 assistants in histology; M. H. Embree and E. 

 A. McCallum, class assistants in biology. 



Mr. Henry Stewart Macran, fellow of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, has been elected pro- 

 fessor of mental and moral philosophy in the 

 University of Dublin in the room of Mr. Swift 

 Paine Johnston, who has been appointed one 

 of the assistant commissioners of the board 

 of intermediate education. 



The general board of studies of Cambridge 

 University will during the Lent term proceed 

 to the appointment of a Sidgwick University 

 lecturer in moral science. It is desired that 

 psychology should be one of the subjects on 

 which the lecturer is prepared to lecture. The 

 appointment will be for five years. 



