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SCIENCE. 



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staft and laboratories at Pusa will provide 

 facilities for the application of higher science 

 to those agricultural problems the importance 

 of which to the welfare of India and its people 

 can hardly be exaggerated. Mr. Bernard 

 Coventry, manager of the Dalsingh Serai es- 

 tate, has been appointed principal, and enters 

 upon his new duties forthwith, but the college 

 will not be ready to receive students until 

 August or September of next year. 



The five-foot equatorial telescope, with 

 ISTewtonian and Cassegrain mirrors, and many 

 other astronomical and optical instruments 

 belonging to the late Dr. Common, are offered 

 for sale by T. A. Common, 88 Wigmore Street, 

 London, W. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Drapers' Company, in addition to their 

 previous gift of £10,000, have promised £5,000 

 to the building fund of University College, 

 Cardiff. 



The secretary of state for India has vetoed 

 the proposal to abolish the engineering college 

 at Coopers Hill, the proposal having been 

 warmly opposed by the government of India, 

 and by the Departments of Public Works, 

 Forests and Telegraphs, which are recruited 

 from the college. 



According to The British Medical Journal, 

 the total number of students attending the 

 French universities is 30,405, made up as fol- 

 lows: Paris 12,985, Aix-Marseille 1,080, 

 Besangon 333, Bordeaux 2,320, Caen Y52, 

 Clermont 299, Dijon 880, Grenoble 705, Lille 

 1,164, Montpellier 1,707 ; Nancy 1,327, Poitiers 

 863, Eennes 1,190, Lyon 2,069, Toulouse 2,291. 

 The Arts Faculty has 4,384 students, of whom 

 3,873 are French. It has 613 women students. 

 Law has 10,972 students, and of these 4,382 

 belong to the University of Paris and 1,021 

 to Toulouse. In the Faculty of Science there 

 are 4,765 students, of whom 1,546 attend the 

 Paris Faculty, 552 that of Lyon, and 476 at 

 Nancy. There is a total of 6,686 students of 

 medicine, of whom 6,115 are French. They 

 are distributed as follows : Paris 3,496, Lyon 

 958, Bordeaux 654, Montpellier 552. There are 

 571 foreigners attending this Faculty, of whom 



197 belong to Persia, 89 to Turkey, 63 to 

 Bulgaria, and 57 to Roumania. To these must 

 be added 202 French women students and 164 

 women students from abroad, together with 

 1,558 students who are taking the course of 

 medicine and pharmacy. Besides these there 

 are 3,014 students of pharmacy. 



Mk. J. G. Jack will conduct a field class at 

 the Arnold Arboretum on Saturdays during 

 the spring and early summer, to assist those 

 who wish to gain a more intimate knowledge 

 of the native and foreign trees and shrubs 

 which grow in New England. 



At a meeting of the trustees of Columbia 

 University, on April 11, the heads of the de- 

 partments of civil, mechanical, electrical and 

 mining enginering and of metallurgy were as- 

 signed to seats in the faculty of pure science. 

 Dr. William T. Bull, professor of surgery, 

 tendered his resignation, to take effect on 

 June 30. 



The senate of London University has re- 

 solved to establish a degree in veterinary 

 science in the faculty of science. 



At Harvard University Dr. C. L. Bouton 

 has been appointed 'assistant professor of 

 mathematics and Mr. G. S. Eeyner, assistant 

 professor of mining; Dr. H. W. Morse has 

 been appointed instructor in physics. 



Miss Maey Perle Anderson, who had 

 charge of the instruction in nature study in 

 the summer session at Columbia University in 

 1903, has been appointed instructor in botany 

 at Mt. Holyoke College for the coming year. 

 Miss Anderson has recently received the first 

 prize for an essay on the preservation of na- 

 tive plants awarded by the New Tork Botan- 

 ical Garden. 



Mr. Sidney Skinner, M.A., of the Caven- 

 dish Laboratory, and director of natural sci- 

 ence studies at Clare College, Cambridge, has 

 been appointed principal of the Southwestern 

 Polytechnic, Chelsea. 



Mr. W. L. Symes, M.E.C.S., has been ap- 

 pointed scientific assistant in physiology at 

 London University. Mr. John Herbert Par- 

 sons has been awarded the degree of doctor of 

 science in physiology as an external student. 



