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SCIENCE. 



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Colorado, hut it was not tmtil 1874 that the 

 Legislature of the Territory made the first 

 appropriation for its support. When Colorado 

 was admitted to the union in 1876 the consti- 

 tution provided that the university should he- 

 come an institution of the state. Since that 

 time the university has been well supported 

 both by a regular portion of the tax levy and 

 by special appropriations which have been 

 made from time to time. The present year's 

 enrollment is about 550 in the IJniversity 

 while the State Preparatory school, managed 

 also by the Regents, has 375 piipils. Last 

 June 71 degrees were conferred. 



The new building of the Central High 

 School of Philadelphia, erected at a cost of 

 $1,500,000, was dedicated on November 22. 

 President Roosevelt and several members of 

 his cabinet were present. The exercises, which 

 were continued on the twenty-fourth and 

 twenty-fifth, included addresses by Dr. W. T. 

 Harris, commissioner of education, Dr. 

 Thomas M. Drown, president of Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, and R. E. Thompson, president of the 

 school. 



The Supreme Court has handed down an 

 opinion sustaining the decision of Justice 

 Truax in directing the New York University 

 to reconvey to the Medical College Laboratory 

 of the city of New York the premises which 

 were deeded over to the university in 1897 in 

 accordance with a plan for combining the 

 laboratory and the university. 



"We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that the Gordon Memorial College, at Khar- 

 toum, which Lord Kitchener opened on Novem- 

 ber 8, is now ready for the chemical and bac- 

 teriological research laboratories presented by 

 Mr. Heaaiy S. Wellcome during his recent visit 

 to the Soudan. The fixtures and appliances 

 made in England have already been shipped. 

 The equipment for scientific work is said to be 

 complete in every detail, and to be equal to 

 any similar laboratories in Europe. The 

 Sirdar has appointed Andrew Balfour, M.D., 

 B.Sc, D.P.H., of Edinburgh, director of these 

 research laboratories. The Soudan affords ex- 

 cellent opportunities for the study of tropical 

 diseases, especially malaria, typhoid, and 



dysentery, and it is hoped that the results of 

 the investigations of Dr. Balfour and his staff 

 will be of the greatest importance. Dr. Bal- 

 four will also assist the authorities in the 

 investigation of the criminal poisoning cases 

 which are very frequent in the Soudan. The 

 nature of some of the poisons used by the 

 natives is at present obscure, and it is pos- 

 sible that the work in these laboratories may 

 considerably increase our knowledge of toxic 

 agents. Apart from the original researches 

 and general sanitary work. Dr. Balfour and 

 his staff will devote their attention to the study 

 of the cereals, textile fibers, and various mat- 

 ters affecting the development of the agricul- 

 tural and mineral resources of the Soudan. 



Dr. Herman Knapp has resigned the chair 

 of ophthalmology at the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Columbia University, and has 

 been appointed emeritus professor. 



Professor R. Ogden Doremus has retired 

 from the chair of chemistry in the New York 

 City College, with which he has been con- 

 nected for fifty-one years. 



W. H. BouGHTON, assistant professor of 

 civil engineering in Denison Universit,y, has 

 accepted the position of professor of civil en- 

 gineering in the University of West Virginia. 



Dr. C. H. Gordon, superintendent of the 

 city schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, has been 

 appointed instructor in geology and geography 

 in the University of Nebraska. Dr. Gordon 

 retains his position at the head of the city 

 schools and will, for the present, give a course 

 in petrology and during the spring semester 

 a course in geography, the latter designed es- 

 pecially for teachers or those having teaching 

 in view. In addition to this work he will also, 

 during the spring semester, repeat his course 

 of lectures on school supervision and manage- 

 ment given last year. 



It is announced that Dr. Martin H. Fisch- 

 ern, associate in physiology at the University 

 of Chicago, and Dr. Charles D. Rogers, assist- 

 ant in physiology, will go with Professor 

 Jacques Loeb to the University of California. 



Erratum: In the review of Professor Baldwin's 

 ' Development and Evolution,' page 820 above, for 

 othoplasy read orthoplasy. 



