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intellectual outlook and to supply the physical 

 grounds for their criticism of life. The com- 

 mittee of the new society includes the names 

 of Drs. Brissaud, Debove, Fournier, Gilbert, 

 Galippe, Grasset, Huehard, Lacassagne Land- 

 ouzy, Lannelongue, Pinard, Poncet, Pozzi 

 Eegis, Charles Richet, and Albert Robin as 

 representatives of medicine, and those of such 

 men as Anatole France, Jules Lemaitre, 

 Victorien Sardou, and Jules Claretie among 

 representatives of literature. Altogether there 

 are forty members of the Committee of Direc- 

 tion and Patronage, all members of the In- 

 stitiite of France, the Academy of Medicine, 

 or connected with the College de France or the 

 University. It begins its existence under the 

 happiest auspices, and we shall look forward 

 with the keenest interest to the results of work 

 in which the most advanced science is com- 

 bined with all that is best in literature and 

 art. 



The London Times states that the president 

 of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 

 Sir Alfred Jones, has received the following 

 telegram from the sleeping sickness expedition 

 of the school, which was sent to Africa early 

 in May last : " Send quantity atoxyl imme- 

 diately. Cattle experiments indicate success. 

 Montgomery Trypanosomiasis Expedition, 

 Broken Hill, N. W. Rhodesia." Atoxyl is the 

 name of the remedy recommended for thera- 

 peutical treatment in cases of sleeping sick- 

 ness. The sleeping sickness expedition ar- 

 rived at Kalomo on June 10, where they were 

 the guests of Mr. Codrington, the administra- 

 tor, who gave every facility for their work. 

 At the end of July it was intended that Dr. 

 Kinghorn, one of the members of the expedi- 

 tion, should proceed direct to Fort Jameson. 

 Mr. Montgomery, the other member, will go 

 west to the River Kafue, and up that river 

 towards the Congo. He will then strike across 

 the country, and meet Dr. Kinghorn on the 

 river Luapala about November, traversing the 

 whole of the time a territory infested by the 

 T'se T'se fly. One of the main objects of the 

 expedition, which is financed by the Liverpool 

 School and supported by the British protec- 

 torates concerned and the British South Af- 



rican Company, is to endeavor to prevent the 

 spread of sleeping sickness into districts hith- 

 erto uninfested. The expedition will also 

 study the disease on the spot, and will pay 

 special attention to the disease of animals and 

 the distribution of biting flies. It is the 

 fourth expedition of the Liverpool School that 

 has been sent to Africa to study trypano- 

 somiasis. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 At the summer convocation of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago President Judson stated that 

 Mr. Rockefeller had given during the present 

 year about $3,000,000 for endowment and for 

 other purposes and land on the south side of 

 the Midway valued at $2,000,000. These 

 great gifts have already been reported, but 

 should be repeated now that they have ofiicial 

 confirmation. The statement made by the 

 daily papers, but not printed in Science, that 

 Mr. Rockefeller had endowed a pension sys- 

 tem in the University of Chicago is not con- 

 firmed. The land devoted to the University 

 of Chicago is now a little more than a hundred 

 acres. The gift of Mr. Rockefeller enabled 

 the university to make advances in the 

 salaries of more than eighty members of the 

 faculty. 



A College of Education has recently been 

 organized at Ohio State University with the 

 object of preparing educators above the rank 

 of grade teachers and stimulating study and 

 research along educational lines. W. W. 

 Boyd, formerly high school visitor, has been 

 appointed dean and Geo. D. Hubbard, of the 

 department of geology elected secretary. The 

 bulletin of the college, issued in July of this 

 year, announces courses in subject matter in 

 all lines of the College of Arts, Philosophy 

 and Science, in Manxial Training and Do- 

 mestic Science, courses in education, and 

 courses in the teaching of the various subjects. 

 Students may register in September, 'OY. 



Dr. Ludwig Mond has subscribed $15,000 

 and Dr. Aders Plimmer $10,000 for a building 

 for the department of physiology. University 

 College, London. This will be erected in the 

 south quadrangle, hitherto the playgTound of 



