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the Board on Geographic Names provide that 

 the vowels shall have the sounds that are com- 

 mon to the vowels in the languages of southern 

 Europe. It follows, therefore, that u has the 

 sbund of 00 in boot and that Manchuria is 

 therefore preferred to Manchooria, Chefu to 

 Chefoo, Amur to Amoor. It has been ruled 

 that ai has the sound of i in ice; au the sound 

 of ow in how (ao — a very frequent combina- 

 tion in the East, heard in names like Min- 

 dadao and Nanao — is slightly different from 

 the preceding) ; ei, as in Beirut, has the 

 sound of the two Italian vowels, but is fre- 

 quently slurred, when it is scarcely distin- 

 guishable from ey in the English word they. 

 In accordance with the rules, c is always 

 ' soft,' having the sound of s. ' Hard ' c is 

 represented by k, and it therefore follows that 

 Korea is the accepted form, and not Corea. 

 Other rules are that ch is always ' soft,' as in 

 church; f is sounded as in English and ph 

 should not be used to represent this sound; 

 g is always 'hard,' as in get; h is always pro- 

 nounced; j and h have the English sound; 

 kh has the sound of the oriental guttural; 

 gh is another guttural; ng represents in dif- 

 ferent words different sounds — two sounds, as 

 in finger, and one, as in singer ; q should never 

 be employed for the sound of qu, which is rep- 

 resented by kw, as in Kwantung; y is always 

 a consonant, as in yard. 



The Boston Society of Natural History has 

 undertaken to publish a series of lists of New 

 England animals to form a volume of its Oc- 

 casional Papers. These lists will be issued 

 at irregular intervals, and are considered a 

 necessary preliminary to more exhaustive 

 monographs on New England animals, the 

 publication of which the society hopes at some 

 future time to undertake. To facilitate the 

 preparation of these catalogues, the coopera- 

 tion of persons interested in the fauna of New 

 England is invited. Any New England speci- 

 mens for the society's museum should be sent 

 to Mr. Charles W. Johnson, curator, and all 

 notes, records, etc., to Mr. Samuel Henshaw, 

 editor of ' New England Eauna,' in care of 

 the society, Boston. The first two parts of 



the projected volume, containing lists of the 

 Eeptilia and Amphibia, are now in press. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Sir William McDonald will give $100,000 

 to McGill University to establish a students' 

 union hall. 



The Chicago Board of Education proposes 

 to build, at a cost of $500,000, a commercial 

 high school on the lake front. 



OuE consul at Bahia writes that the state 

 of Bahia is about to organize a school of 

 mines and wishes to arrange for a competent 

 professor of mining. The state will make a 

 contract for three years to pay the equivalent 

 of from $3,000 to $4,000 a year as salary, with 

 free transportation. It will be necessary that 

 the applicant be a graduate of some recog- 

 nized American school of mines and that he 

 have both a practical and theoretical knowl- 

 edge of mining. A speaking knowledge of 

 Portuguese or Spanish is preferred, but lack 

 of such will be no bar to a good man. Appli- 

 cations should be addressed to Dr. Miguel 

 Calmon du Pin e Almeida, Secretario da Agri- 

 cultura, Industria, etc., Bahia, Brazil, or may 

 be sent to the consulate for delivery. 



The report of the members of Mr. Moseley's 

 education commission to the United States 

 will be published on April 9. It will contain 

 about 600 pages and will be published at the 

 nominal price of one shilling. 



Examinations for the Cecil Ehodes scholar- 

 ship at Oxford will be held in the various 

 states on April 13. 



Mr. Alexander Smith has been made pro- 

 fessor of chemistry and director of general 

 and physical chemistry at the University of 

 Chicago. 



Dr. Max Mason, of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology, has been appointed 

 instructor of mathematics in Tale University. 



Dr. Karl Wernicke, professor of psychiatry 

 at Breslau, has been called to Halle to fill the 

 chair vacant by the removal of Professor Th. 

 Ziehen to Berlin. 



Dr. K. S. Semstrom, professor of physics 

 at the University of Helsingfors, has retired 

 from active service. 



