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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 475. 



The Madrid correspondent of the London 

 Times writes that in anticipation of the total 

 eclipse of the snn of August, 1905, the papers 

 are beginning to urge the government to in- 

 clude in next year's estimates an item pro- 

 viding for a scientific mission of Spanish as- 

 tronomers to be sent abroad, in order to study 

 in foreign observatories the latest methods of 

 investigating the phenomenon. For the eclipse 

 of 1900 the Cortes voted 190,000 pesetas, but 

 the measure was taken so late that the money 

 was spent at a loss:" It may be mentioned that 

 the zone of about 200 kilometers covered by 

 the eclipse of 1905 traverses Spain from Ga- 

 licia and Asturias to Valencia and Castellon. 

 The northern coast between Coruha and San 

 Vicente de la Barquera and the eastern from 

 Valencia to the Gulf of San Jorge will be 

 included in the zone of total obscurity. Ob- 

 servers at Ferrol, Lugo, Oviedo, Gijon, Leon, 

 Palencia, Burgos, Soria, Teruel and Saragossa 

 will have some four minutes in which to make 

 their notes. Madrid lies to the south of the 

 zone of total eclipse. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEW8. 



It was announced at the meeting of the 

 trustees of the Catholic University of America 

 on January 28 that the annual collection au- 

 thorized for the university will amount to 

 $100,000, and that this sum might be expected 

 in each of the next nine years. 



Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 has received a gift of land valued at $50,000 

 from the heirs of William Earl Dodge. 



Mr. Henry Phipps has given $20,000 to the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital to establish a clinic 

 for consumptives. 



Harvard University has received $6,000 for 

 scholarships from the estate of Daniel A. 

 Buckley. 



The finance committee of Liverpool has 

 recommended a grant of $50,000 to Liverpool 

 University for the current year. 



A FELLOWSHIP in dermatology has been en- 

 dowed at Liverpool University by Dr. Stopford 

 Taylor. 



Ti-iE Association of American Universities 

 will hold its nest meeting at Yale University 



on February 18, 19 and 20. The program in- 

 cludes a discussion of uniformity of university 

 statistics opened by Dr. Rudolf Tombo, Jr., 

 of Columbia University; a discussion of the 

 question ' Are the degrees of Bachelor of Sci- 

 ence, Bachelor of Philosophy and Bachelor of 

 Letters to be preserved or to be merged in the 

 degree of Bachelor of Arts ? ' by Professor 

 Eichard Hudson, of the University of Mich- 

 igan and by Professor Paul Shorey, of the 

 University of Chicago, and a discussion on 

 the administration, financial support and cir- 

 culation of university publications, including 

 doctor's dissertations and scientific journals 

 and the general transaction of the business of 

 the university, by President Ira Eemsen, of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, and Professor 

 Charles Montague Bakewell, of the University 

 of California. Papers will also be presented 

 on the actual and the proper lines of distinc- 

 tion between college and university work by 

 President Hadley of Yale University, and 

 President Jordan of Stanford University. The 

 admission of Brown University and New York 

 University as members of the association will 

 be considered. 



Dr. Charles S. Howe will be inaugurated 

 president of the Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence on May 11. 



Mr. W. D. Gibbs, director of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station of the University of 

 Texas, has been appointed president of the 

 New Hampshire College of Agriculture and 

 the Mechanic Arts. 



Dr. H. D. Bergey has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of bacteriology at the University 

 of Pennsylvania; Drs. Leo Loeb, William T. 

 Cummins and Henry R. Alburger have been 

 appointed assistant demonstrators of pathol- 

 ogy; Dr. H. C. Richards has been appointed 

 assistant professor of physics. 



Dr. Oskar Eckstein, instructor in organic 

 chemistry in Tufts College, has been appointed 

 lecturer in chemistry in the University of 

 Chicago. 



Mr. Christopher Royoe has been appointed 

 instructor in mathematics at New York Uni- 

 versity on account of the illness of Professor 

 Pomeroy Ladue. 



