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University improve the same, converting it 

 into a botanical garden to parts of vyhich the 

 public shall have admission. The regents 

 have signified their willingness to accept the 

 offer, and will doubtless begin work on the 

 land next spring. The ground is well adapted 

 to garden purposes, three acres being high 

 and level, and this area then running down a 

 steep hillside some fifty feet to low land con- 

 taining a natural pool. 



At the invitation of Columbia University, 

 the fourth annual conference of the Associa- 

 tion of American Universities is to be held in 

 New York on December 29, 30 and 31. 



The first sanitary conference of the 

 American republics convened at Washington 

 last week. , The Governments of Mexico, Cuba, 

 Chili, Costa Rica, Salvador, Honduras and the 

 United States were represented. Dr. Walter 

 Wyman, surgeon general of the marine hos- 

 pital service, presided at the opening session 

 and addresses of welcome were made by Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury Shaw and Assistant 

 Secretary of State Hill. 



The Ludwick Institute Coui-ses of free lec- 

 tures on the natural sciences and their appli- 

 cations, given under the auspices of the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, on 

 Mondays and Thursdays are for the present 

 year as follows : Hygiene and physiology, by 

 Seneca Egbert, A.M., M.D., beginning on No- 

 vember 13 ; Entomology, by Henry Skinner, 

 M.D., beginning on November 17 ; Some phases 

 of bird life, by Witmer Stone, M.A., beginning 

 on January 5 ; The faunas of the new Ameri- 

 can dependencies, Porto Eico and Cuba, 

 Hawaii and the Philippines, by Henry A. 

 Pilsbry, Sc.D., beginning on ' February 5 ; 

 Animals of the deep sea: a historical 

 sketch of their discovery, by Philip P. Calvert, 

 Ph.D., beginning on February 9 ; Geological 

 history; descriptions of some critical epochs 

 in the history of the earth, by Amos P. Brown, 

 Ph.D., beginning on February 12; Vertebrate 

 paleontology: types of extinct fishes and ba- 

 trachians and their living kin, by J. Percy 

 Moore, beginning on March 16 ; Characteristic 

 features of the chief plant groups, by Steward- 

 son Brown, beginning March 19. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 George Foster Peabody has offered to the 

 University of Georgia a $50,000 building, pro- 

 vided the Legislature will appropriate to the 

 University for maintenance the sum of $10,000 

 a year for two years and make improvements 

 costing $1,200. 



The University of California is about to 

 erect a physiological laboratory at a cost of 

 $25,000. It will be under the charge of Dr. 

 Jacques Loeb, recently called to the Uni- 

 versity from Chicago. 



The Yale Club of Chicago has voted to 

 establish in the academic and scientific de- 

 partments of the university four annual 

 scholarships of $600 each, to be given to stu- 

 dents who are residents of Illinois. Benefi- 

 ciaries will give notes for the amounts of the 

 scholarships to be repaid at intervals after 

 graduation. 



The education bill has been jaassed by the 

 British House of Commons. Less attention 

 has been paid to this bill in the United States 

 than it deserves. It to a certain extent na- 

 tionalizes the church and other religious 

 schools, supporting them from a government 

 grant and from local rates, but leaving them 

 in part under ecclesiastical authority and 

 permitting them to continue their religious 

 teaching. 



The regents of the University of the State 

 of New York have elected the Rev. William 

 Croswell Doane chancellor in the room of the 

 late Anson J. Upson. Mr. Wliitelaw Reed 

 was elected vice-chancellor. 



Dr. a. S. Chittenden has been appointed 

 assistant in pathology in the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, Columbia University. 



Major Ronald Ross has been elected to the 

 newly established chair of tropical medicine 

 at University College, London. 



M. Marey has succeeded the late M. Lacaze- 

 Duthiers as president of the section of natural 

 sciences of the Ecole pratique des hautes 

 etudes, Paris. 



Dr. 0. JuEL has been appointed professor 

 of botany in the University of Upsala. 



