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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 378. 



ical Survey, Washington, at the usual price 

 of five cents per sheet. 



VNIYERSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Duke of Loubat has given the College 

 de France an annuity of $1,200 to found and 

 maintain a professorship for the study of 

 American antiquities. In 1899 he founded a 

 similar professorship in the University of Ber- 

 lin. 



The Columbian University of Washington, 

 D. C, has just completed plans and let con- 

 tracts for the erection of a new hospital build- 

 ing and a new medical and dental school on 

 H Street, N. W., between Thirteenth and 

 Fourteenth. The buildings will be colonial in 

 style. The hospital will have a frontage of 

 60 feet to the south, and the medical school 

 building (50x144 feet) will be five stories 

 high. Large new laboratories thoroiiglily 

 equipped for modern work, well-lighted lecture 

 and reading rooms will afford excellent facili- 

 ties for medical and dental students. 



The University of Cincinnati has received 

 a donation of about $5,000 for the purchase of 

 presses and other machines for the University 

 of Cincinnati Press. Hereafter the University 

 will do all its printing and will print the sci- 

 entific publications and texts which are pub- 

 lished by the teachers in all the departments 

 of the University. 



The regents of the University of Michigan 

 have indorsed the action of the engineering 

 faculty, making it obligatory for students to 

 spend six months between the junior and 

 senior years in practical work. 



The faculty of McGill University has de- 

 cided to ask the Dominion Government at the 

 present session of Parliament to enact a law 

 inaugurating a five years' course in medicine 

 instead of four as at present. 



The courses offered by the graduate school 

 of Tale University are distributed as follows: 

 Philosophy, 50 ; social science, history and law, 

 17; Semitic languages and biblical literature, 

 59; classical and Indo-Iranian philology, 59; 

 modern languages, 65; physical and natural 

 sciences, 81; mathematics, 29; fine arts, 4; 

 music, Y; physical culture, 3. 



The Bulletin of the University of the State 

 of Missouri gives the number of professors 

 and instructors who have attended different 

 universities as follows: Harvard, 15; Yale, 1 

 Columbia, 2; Johns Hopkins, 8; Virginia, 5 

 jSTorth Carolina, 1; Georgia, 1; Michigan, 3 

 Wisconsin, 2; California, 1; Stanford, 2; In- 

 diana, 1; Missouri, 22; Dartmouth, 2; Chica- 

 go, 5 ; Miami, 1 ; Minnesota, 1 ; Lake Forest, 

 2 ; Cincinnati, 1 ; Clark, 3 ; Cornell, 6 ;• Wil- 

 liams, 1 ; Lehigh, 1 ; DePauw, 2 ; Ohio, 1 ; 

 Trinity (Toronto), 1; McGill, 1; Heidelberg, 

 3; Ecole des Beaux Arts, 1; Paris, 5; Berlin, 

 10; Halle, 2; Munich, 2; Classical School at 

 Athens, 2 ; Classical School at Rome, 1 ; Strass- 

 burg, 1; Leipzig, 2; Goettingen, 2; University 

 of London, 2. 



Of the three European fellowships con- 

 ferred at Bryn Mawr College, one has been 

 awarded to Miss Marie Eeimer, A.B. (Vas- 

 sar) for work in chemistry, and one to Miss 

 Ilarriet Brookes, A.B. (McGill), for work in 

 physics. 



Me. E. a. S. Redmayne has been appointed 

 professor of mining in the .University of Bir- 

 mingham, and Mr. Thomas Turner, professor 

 of metallurgy. 



The Isaac Newton studentship, Cambridge 

 University, of the value of £250 for the en- 

 couragement of study and research in astrono- 

 my and physical optics, open to bachelors of 

 arts under the age of 25 years, has been 

 awarded to Mr. T. H. Havelock, B.A., scholar 

 of St. John's College. 



Me. J. S. Budgett, of Trinity College, has 

 been elected to the Balfour Studentship at 

 Cambridge University. The studentship is ten- 

 able for three years and the annual value is 

 about $1,000. 



De. Eenst Beckmann, professor of chemis- 

 try at the University at Leipzig, has been 

 called to the newly established chair of chem- 

 istry at the University of Berlin. 



De. J. PiccAED, professor of chemistry at 

 the LTniversity of Basle, and Dr. E. Buguion, 

 professor of anatomy at the University of 

 Lausanne, will this year retire from active 

 teaching. 



