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SCIENCE 



[X. S. Vol. XXXI. No. 795 



The Duke of Portland has promised £2,000 

 towards establishing a chair of mining at 

 Nottingham University College. 



The trustees of Cornell University have 

 decided to limit the work in the medical de- 

 partment at Ithaca to one year in the future 

 instead of two, as has been the custom since 

 the school was founded. 



Of thirty-one elections to the Phi Beta 

 Kappa honorary fraternity at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, nineteen are women, and of twenty- 

 seven elections at the University of Illinois 

 twenty are women. 



Closer relations are being established be- 

 tween the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Columbia University, and the Mt. Sinai and 

 German Hospitals in New York. The follow- 

 ing members of the staffs of the hospitals have 

 received appointments in Columbia Univer- 

 sity. Prom Mt. Sinai Hospital Drs. Brill, 

 Libman, Gerster and Berg, and from the Ger- 

 man Hospital, Drs. Kammerer, Stadtmiiller 

 and Hensel. 



Dr. George P. Burns, of the University of 

 Michigan, has been called to the chair of bot- 

 any at the University of Vermont. 



Mr. Leonard Doncaster, lecturer in the 

 University of Birmingham, known for his 

 work in zoology and especially in heredity, 

 has been elected a fellow of King's College, 

 Cambridge. 



Mr. William Eay, Ehode scholar from 

 Adelaide at Oxford, has been elected to the 

 Philip Walker studentship at Oxford, for 

 research in pathology. The fellowship is of 

 the value of £200 a year for three years. 



Dr. G. Haberlandt, of Graz, has been called 

 to the chair of botany at the University of 

 Berlin, vacant by the retirement of Professor 

 Schwendener. 



Dr. Karl Uhlig, of Berlin, has been called 

 to the chair of geography at Tiibingen, to 

 succeed Professor K. Sapper. 



Dr. Alfred Grund, of the University of 

 Berlin, has been made professor of geography 

 in the German University of Prague. 



Dr. Ernst Meumann, of Halle, has been 

 called to the chair of philosophy at Leipzig, 

 vacant through the death of Professor Max 

 Heinze. 



DISCUSSION AX^D CORRESPONDENCE 



the directory of AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



The Directory of American Museums of 

 Art, History and Science, which is being pre- 

 pared by the American Association of Muse- 

 ums, is nearly ready for the printers, and all 

 museums which have not already returned in- 

 formation regarding their collections are 

 urged to communicate at once with the under- 

 signed. 



The data desired include a list of the staff; 

 an enumeration of the nature and extent of 

 the collections, with comments on the more 

 important material ; a statement of the sources 

 and amount of the financial support; particu- 

 lars regarding the building, including the 

 amount of floor space occupied; the scope and 

 purposes of the museum; information concern- 

 ing the museum library and publications, if 

 any; and the times and conditions upon which 

 the museum is open to the public, with statis- 

 tics of attendance, if available. 



The cooperation of the American museums 

 is earnestly requested in order that the direc- 

 tory may be as complete as possible. 



Paul M. Eea, 



The Chableston Museum, Secretary 



Charleston, S. C. 



a queer fish 

 Some newspapers have connected me with 

 the statement that a specimen said to be a 

 fish with four legs was caught in Brazil. Per- 

 mit me to say that the particular specimen has 

 no legs and is not a fish. 



0. H. Eigenmann 



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 hesonderer Beriichsichtigung der parasit- 

 isclien und pathogenen Formen. ZweiteAu- 

 flage der "Protozoen als Parasiten und 

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