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must be spent in practical work either in 

 archeological expeditions and research among 

 the monuments of antiquity as yet so little 

 studied in Russia, or in similar special work 

 at home or abroad. The institute grants the 

 degree of doctor of archeology or archeog- 

 raphy. Among those connected with the new 

 institute whose names are favorably known 

 outside Russia may be mentioned Dr. 

 TJspensky, director of the institute, the author 

 of fifty capital monographs in Russian; Dr. 

 Fleischer, who was associated with English 

 and American archeologists in recent excava- 

 tions in Persia; Professor Grot, and other 

 Moscow professors. Decent Visotsky has been 

 appointed secretary to the institute. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Kansas legislature appropriated for the 

 state university at its last session $250,000 for 

 the erection of engineering buildings, work on 

 which will be begun at once. 



Through the generosity of Mr. Arthur J. 

 Cox, of Iowa City, an alumnus of the engi- 

 neering department of the State University of 

 Iowa, an annual prize of one hundred dollars 

 has been established in the College of Applied 

 Science of that institution for the best thesis 

 submitted for the first degree in engineering. 

 The prize is to be knovim as the " Thomas J. 

 Cox prize in engineering," in memory of the 

 father of the donor. 



According to Consul-General T. St. John 

 Gaffney, of Dresden, during the winter 1906-7 

 the twenty-one universities of Germany were 

 attended by 45,136 students, of whom 254 were 

 women. He gives the following details: The 

 increase over the corresponding term of last 

 year is'. 2,740 students. In addition to these 

 numbers, 5,509 persons availed themselves of 

 the privilege of listening to lectures without 

 matriculating as members. Of this class 2,105 

 are women. As regards the various courses, 

 the figures give the total number of Protestant 

 students of theology as 2,208 and of Catholic, 

 1,708. The number of students of law is 

 given as 12,146, of medicine, 7,098; of philos- 

 ophy, history and languages, 10,985, and of 



mathematics and natural sciences, 6,234. The 

 largest increase of students has taken place in 

 medicine and philology, while there is a con- 

 tinued scarcity of Protestant theological stu- 

 dents. The best attended university is that 

 of Berlin, with 8,188 students; next to this 

 comes Munich, with 5,567; Leipzig, with 

 4,466; Bonn, with 2,992; Halle, with 2,250, 

 and then Breslau, Gottingen, Freiburg, Strass- 

 burg and Heidelberg. The two last have im- 

 proved their position in the tabulated list of 

 attendances, whereas Tubingen, Giessen and 

 Erlangen, which are favorite universities in 

 summer, take lower places in the list than 

 formerly. 



Dr. James E. Talmage has resigned his 

 position as professor of geology at the Uni- 

 versity of Utah in order to devote himseK to 

 investigation in the field of mining geology. 

 Professor Talmage has occupied the chair 

 since its establishment as an endowed pro- 

 fessorship thirteen years ago. In 1897 he re- 

 tired from the presidency of the University of 

 Utah to continue his work in geology. His 

 successor in the department of geology is Dr. 

 Fred J. Pack, who is one of his former stu- 

 dents and a graduate from Columbia Uni- 

 versity, now professor at the Brigham Young 

 College. 



Dr. Frederick Hollister Safford has been 

 promoted to an assistant professorship in 

 mathematics in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Messrs. Maurice J. Babb and Louis 

 O'Shaughnessy have been appointed instruct- 

 ors in mathematics. 



Dr. Gustav Hellmann has been appointed 

 professor of meteorology at the University of 

 Berlin and director of the Meteorological 

 Institute, in succession to Professor W. von 

 Bezold. 



Dr. Cornelius Doelter, of Graz, has been 

 appointed professor of mineralogy in the Uni- 

 vei-sity of Vienna, in the place of Professor 

 G. Tschermak, who has retired. 



M. H. LE Chatellier, of the College de 

 France, has been appointed professor of gen- 

 eral chemistry at the Sorbonne, in succession 

 to Moissan. 



