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[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 492. 



The forestry department of the University 

 of Michigan has received a gift of about 

 ninety species, including over five hundred 

 specimens of forest trees, from Robert Doug- 

 las's Sons, forest tree nurserymen, of Wau- 

 kegan. 111. The material was selected at the 

 invitation of the donors, by Professor Eoth 

 and Mr. Davis, of the forestry department, 

 and will at once be set out on the Saginaw 

 Forest Farm. 



The new range of greenhouses of the New 

 Hampshire College of Agriculture was opened 

 on May 20. There were over two hundred 

 visitors in attendance, to whom a reception 

 was given by Professor P. W. Rane, head of 

 the department of horticulture. The green- 

 houses have been erected at a cost of $7,000, 

 appropriated by the state, and offer many 

 facilities for instruction and research. 



A plan for the reorganization of the faculty 

 of the department of medicine of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania has been approved 

 by the trustees, whereby the faculty member- 

 ship has been extended to the clinical, asso- 

 ciate and assistant professors, to the associates 

 and lecturers and to a limited representation 

 from the subordinate stafP. The scheme pro- 

 vides for an executive body or council, to be 

 composed of the heads of departments in fun- 

 damental subjects and two representatives of 

 the specialties. Jefferson Medical College has 

 adopted a similar plan, electing all the clin- 

 ical professors to a full professorship. 



Two pieces of foreign educational news 

 may be noted: The resident members of the 

 Oxford convocation voted by a large majority 

 to permit those not in priests' orders to be 

 examiners in the school of theology, but con- 

 vocation, composed largely of absent clergy- 

 men, rejected this measure by a vote of 676 

 to 278. This is perhaps only natural con- 

 servatism, but the Prussian Chamber of Depu- 

 ties on the same day. May 17, adopted a reso- 

 lution which is reactionary, namely, that the 

 elementary national schools shall, as a rule, 

 be either Protestant or Roman Catholic, that 

 each school shall contain, as a rule, pupils 

 belonging to one faith only and that these 

 pupils shall be instructed by teachers who 

 profess their own creed. A somewhat similar 



bill was proposed by the minister of education 

 in 1891, but owing largely to opposition in 

 academic circles was defeated, whereupon the 

 minister and the president of the ministry. 

 Count von Caprivi, resigned. 



There is a vacant instruetorship in Chem- 

 istry in Denison University, Granville, Ohio. 

 Instructor W. B. Clark has been granted leave 

 of absence to pursue graduate work in the 

 University of Chicago. 



We are asked to state that a position as 

 assistant in physiology is open for applicants 

 in the University of Pennsylvania. 



It is announced that Professor George 

 Trumbull Ladd has resigTied his chair of phi- 

 losophy at Yale University. 



Professor Charles Baskermlle, of the 

 University of North Carolina, has been elected 

 professor of chemistry in the College of the 

 City of New York. 



At Cornell University, Dexter S. Kimball 

 has been appointed Sibley professor of me- 

 chanic arts, in charge of the Sibley shops. 

 Professor Kimball succeeds Professor John L. 

 Morris, who, after continuous service since 

 1S68, will become professor emeritus in June. 

 Instructors have been appointed as follows: 

 C. N. Haskins in mathematics, H. H. Cochran, 

 W. J. Fisher and G. L. Manning in physics, 

 W. C. Geer in chemistry, G. D. Hubbard in 

 geology and E. A. Gray and P. Anderson in 

 anatomy. 



Dr. E. Burton-Opitz has been appointed 

 adjunct professor of physiology in Columbia 

 University and has been assigned a seat in 

 the faculty of pure science. 



At the University of Nebraska, Mr. G. E. 

 Condra has been promoted to a professorship 

 of geology and Mr. H. S. Evans to an adjunct 

 professorship of electrical engineering. 



Appointments have been made at McGill 

 University, as follows : Dr. R. Tait Mackenzie, 

 to be lecturer in anatomy; Dr. A. A. Robert- 

 son, to be lecturer in physiology; J. R. Roe- 

 buck, to be lecturer in chemistry; Dr. W. S. 

 Morrow, to be associate professor of physiol- 

 ogy; Dr. A. G. Nicholls, to be associate pro- 

 fessor of pathology and bacteriology; A. S. 

 Eve, to be lecturer in mathematics, and Dr. 

 Coker, to be associate professor of engineering. 



