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University on the Harvard lectureship founda- 

 tion. Professor Koyce also gives a course of 

 six Lowell lectures on the " Philosophy of 

 Loyalty," beginning on Novemher 18. 



During the first half of the present academic 

 year Professor Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, of 

 Columbia University, will continue to lecture 

 on philosophy at Amherst College on Satur- 



Professor Th. W. Eichards, of Harvard 

 University, will give a course of eight Lowell 

 lectures on " The Early History and Recent 

 Development of the Atomic Theory," begin- 

 ning on Monday, February 17. 



The first Thomas Young oration before the 

 London Optical Society was given on October 

 17, by Professor H. E. Tscherning, of the Sor- 

 bonne, Paris. 



The International Congress of Hygiene, 

 meeting in Berlin, on September 27, sent on 

 that day, which was the anniversary of 

 Pasteur's death, a telegram to his widow grate- 

 fully recalling the memory of the immortal 

 genius and imforgettable benefactor of 

 humanity. 



M. Maurice Loewy, director of the Paris 

 Observatory, born in Vienna in 1833, died on 

 October 15, while attending a meeting of the 

 national board of French observatories of the 

 Ministry of Public Instruction. 



Dr. Edmund von Mojsisovics, formerly vice- 

 director of the German Geological Survey, has 

 died at the age of sixty-nine years. 



The observatory of the University of Mich- 

 igan is being enlarged under the direction of 

 Professor Hussey. The old instruments are 

 being reconstructed and a new reflecting tele- 

 scope added, having an aperture of about 37J 

 inches. The optical work for this is being 

 done by the John A. Brashear Company, of 

 Allegheny. 



The Sixth International Conference on 

 - Tuberculosis, held in Vienna from September 

 19 to 21, adopted a resolution calling for gen- 

 eral compulsory reporting, in a specified man- 

 ner, of all deaths from tuberculosis of the 

 lungs or throat. 



The Association of Collegiate Alumnae will 

 hold its quarter-centennial meeting at Boston 

 on November 5 to 9. Addresses at the public 

 meeting on November 6 are to be given by 

 Professor Ellen H. Richards, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, on " Pro- 

 fessional Education," by President Charles R. 

 Van Hise, of the University of Wisconsin, on 

 " University Education," and by President M. 

 Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr College, on 

 " Women's College and University Education." 

 Among those who will address the association 

 are President Eliot, of Harvard University; 

 Professor Briggs, president of Eadcliffe Col- 

 lege; President Hazard, of Wellesley College, 

 and Professor William James, of Harvard 

 University. 



The forty-fifth university convocation of 

 the state of New York was held in the 

 senate chamber at Albany on Thursday eve- 

 ning, Friday, and Saturday, October 17, 18, 

 and 19. Among the speakers announced 

 were St. Clair McKelway; John H. Finley, 

 president of the College of the City of New 

 York; Sir C. Purdon Clarke, director of the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art; Frank Dam- 

 rosch, director of the Institute of Musical Art ; 

 Hollis E. Dann, professor of music at Cornell 

 University; Brander Matthews, professor of 

 dramatic literature, Columbia University; 

 Rush Rhees, president of Rochester Univer- 

 sity, and Paul H. Hanus, professor of the 

 history and art of teaching. Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



A Reuter representative on board the 

 Ragnvald Jarl has received the following de- 

 tails of the Arctic expedition undertaken by 

 the Due d'Orleans, who, together with Dr. 

 Eecamier, the surgeon and naturalist of the 

 expedition, has arrived in England by 

 that steamer from Bergen. The expedition, 

 which was on board the duke's polar yacht 

 Belgica, under the command of Captain de 

 Gerlaehe, included four men of science, Dr. 

 Eecamier, Lieutenant Bergendal, Lieutenant 

 Raehlew and Dr. Stappers. The ship left 

 Vardo on July 9, and passed through the Ma- 

 totchkin Shar on July 14. Soon after, the 

 Belgica was beset with heavy ice, from whiok 



