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was far and away the most important journey 

 he had ever made, and he expressed his grati- 

 tude to King Oscar, and to some friends in- 

 terested in scientific research for placing the 

 means at his disposal for the journey. 



The Geographical Journal states that it has 

 lately been announced that an expedition, 

 under the command of Lieutenant Heron, and 

 including several other officers on its staff, was 

 to leave Marseilles for Indo-Ohina on January 

 12. Its object is to complete our knowledge of 

 the coasts of Indo-China by accurate surveys, 

 and to study the distribution of terrestrial 

 magnetism in that region, besides carrying out 

 general investigations in matters relating to 

 hydrography and navigation. It sails under 

 the orders of the Minister of Marine. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The gift of Mr. John D. Eockefeller to the 

 Harvard Medical School of $1,000,000 was con- 

 ditional on $765,000 being collected to meet the 

 sum required for the removal and rebuilding 

 of the school. Of this sum about $600,000 has 

 been subscribed in two weeks. 



The executors of the will of the late Jonas 

 D. Clark have agreed to transfer $800,000 to 

 Clark University for the establishment of a 

 collegiate department. 



BccHTEL College at Ala-on, Ohio, has re- 

 ceived an unconditional gift of $20,000. 



The directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 have given $5,000 to the fund for the rebuild- 

 ing of the University of Wooster, destroyed by 

 fire on December 11. 



A BILL is now before the New York Legisla- 

 ture, appropriating $200,000 for new buildings 

 for the College of Agriculture at Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



The State Department has notified Presi- 

 dent Butler, of Columbia University, of the 

 receipt of a despatch from Minister Conger 

 at Pekin, which gives full information re- 

 garding the gift of books and other ma- 

 terial to illustrate the instruction in Chinese 

 subjects to be undertaken under the new 

 Dean Lung or Charpentier foundation at the 



University. The collection selected by the 

 Foreign Office of China for presentation to 

 Columbia is known as the T'u Shu Chi Ch'eng, 

 a standard collection of ancient and modern 

 works. It is the most comprehensive ever 

 made in China and consists of more than 6,000 

 volumes, divided into thirty-two classes in 

 which all facts regarding China are recorded 

 and classified, all sources of information and 

 all authorities cited and discussed. 



It is announced that hereafter students of 

 the medical school of Yale University may 

 complete the course in three years if they elect 

 the necessary preliminary studies in the 

 academic department. 



De. Chas. H. Judd, professor of psychology 

 in the University of Cincinnati, has received 

 a call to Yale University. 



Dr. J. W. Moore, professor of physics, has 

 been appointed dean of the Pardee Scientific 

 Department of Lafayette College, succeeding 

 the late Dr. T. C. Porter. 



. Dr. W. p. Snow has been made acting-head 

 of the department of hygiene at Stanford 

 University. 



Mr. S. E. Brasefield has been appointed in- 

 structor in civil engineering in Lafayette. Col- 

 lege. 



The Universities of St. Petersburg, KiefE 

 and lOiarkoff have been closed, owing to the 

 difficulties between the students and the au- 

 thorities. 



The Government has dismissed all the Eu- 

 ropean professors at the Imperial University 

 of Pekin, and Dr. Martin, the president, has 

 been offered a subordinate position. 



Mr. p. T. Tronton, M.A., F.R.S., has been 

 appointed to the Quain chair of physics in 

 University College, London. 



Mr. Prederick Purser, fellow of the Col- 

 lege, has been elected to the chair of natural 

 philosophy in Trinity College, Dublin, lately 

 vacated by Dr. Tarleton. 



Mr. George Eeynolds, M.A., F.E.S., pro- 

 fessor of engineering in the Owens College, 

 Manchester, has been appointed to the office 

 of Rede Lecturer at Cambridge University for 

 the present year. 



