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tory on Ben Nevis have decided to close the 

 institution in October. 



The Berlin correspondent of the Medical 

 News describes the recent exposition of the 

 Berlin Medical Society which, it appears, was 

 arranged in six different groups : (1) Ana- 

 tomical and pathological model preparations ; 



(2) Phantoms and plastic models; (3) Tables 

 and Charts, including Photography and Radi- 

 ography; (4) Microscopy in all its branches; 

 (5) Apparatus for Demonstration; (6) Pro- 

 jection Apparatus. In addition lectures were 

 provided for on eight consecutive nights by 

 the following eminent men: (1) Professor v. 

 Bergmann on the means of medical instruc- 

 tion; (2) Professor Doyen, of Paris, upon the 

 development of surgical technic and methods ; 



(3) Professor Jolly on the pathology of brain 

 and spinal diseases ; (4) Professor v. Leyden, 

 demonstrations of diseases of the heart; (5) 

 Professor Wassermann on bacteriology and 

 serum therapy; (6) Professor Liebreich on 

 pharmacology; (7) Professor v. Michel on 

 tuberculosis of the eye; (8) Professor 01s- 

 hausen on diseases of women and obstetrics. 



Peogress of the topographic mapping of 

 Kentucky by the United States Geological 

 Survey is indicated by the instructions re- 

 cently given to Mr. W. L. Miller, one of the 

 topograiDhers of the Survey, to assume charge 

 of a party and conduct the mapping of the 

 territory surrounding Harrodsburg, boiinded 

 by latitudes 37° 30' and 38° and longitudes 

 84° 80' and 85°, as far as the length of the 

 field season will permit. Mr. Miller's party 

 will consist of Messrs. F. F. Franl-: and W. C. 

 Palmer, levelmen; F. Moorhead and J. F. 

 Howard, rodmen, and R. Berry and J. W. 

 Craig, field assistants. Mr. Miller will later 

 be joined by Mr. Hersey Munroe, topographer, 

 who will have general supervision of the work ; 

 he will be accompanied by an assistant, Mr. 

 G. T. Ford. 



The daily papers report that the French 

 government has adopted the automatic tele- 

 phone invention of a Russian engineer. The 

 apparatus does away with 'Central' girls. 

 The subscriber turns five disks, each num- 

 bered from to 9, to form the number wanted, 

 whereupon the correspondent is called auto- 



matically. If he is absent a sign soon appears 

 saying: 'Rang one minute; no answer,' while 

 the caller's number is registered at the other 

 end, so that he may be called after the person 

 sought returns. When the number desired is 

 already 'busy,' a special buzz is immediately 

 heard. In order not to dismiss all the tele- 

 phone girls together, which might disturb the 

 labor market, the new system will be intro- 

 duced gradually. Three towns of moderate 

 size are being equipped now — Limoges, Nimes 

 and Dijon. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The will of the late Charles Kendall Adams, 

 president of the University of Wisconsin, gives 

 most of the estate to Mrs. Adams for life. The 

 property is then to go to the University of 

 Wisconsin to establish fifteen fellowships of 

 the value of $10,000 each. 



President Butler, of Columbia University, 

 has offered to establish two fellowships for 

 American students to study in France if the 

 French government will establish at Columbia 

 University two fellowships for students from 

 France. 



The enrollment at the summer session of the 

 University of California, including the Mar- 

 ine Biological Laboratory at San Pedro, is 

 829, an increase of 30 over last year. 



The Academy of Miinster has been made a 

 University. 



Dr. Edmund James will be installed as 

 president . of the Northwestern University, 

 October 21. The exercises will cover three 

 days, and formal invitations are to be sent to 

 prominent European and American colleges 

 and universities and learned societies to send 

 delegates. 



Dr. O. Vogt has been made assistant direc- 

 tor of the physiological laboratory of the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin. 



Professor David Hilbert, professor of math- 

 ematics at Gottingen, has declined a call to the 

 L^iversity of Berlin. 



Dr. Johannes Hartmann, astronomer in the 

 Astronomical Observatory at Potsdam, has 

 been made professor. 



