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ing-off from the three hundred guineas ob- 

 tained for the last specimen sold by Mr. 

 Stevens, the reason being attributed to the 

 fact that several other fine examples are in 

 the market. Mr. Pax's specimen was origin- 

 ally bought for two sovereigns. The next 

 highest price obtained at the recent sale was 

 £8 18s. 6d. for a clutch of four eggs of Bona- 

 parte's sandpiper. For a single egg, the high- 

 est price was 27s. 6d. for one of Pallas's sand- 

 grouse. 



The annual return showing the number of 

 experiments performed in Great Britain on 

 living animals during the year 1903 has been 

 issued as a parliamentary paper. According 

 to the abstract in the London Times the total 

 number of licensees was 347, of whom 97 per- 

 formed no experiments. Evidence is afforded 

 showing that licenses and certificates have 

 been granted and allowed only upon the recom- 

 mendation of persons of high scientific stand- 

 ing; that the licensees are persons who, by 

 their training and education, are fitted to un- 

 dertake experimental work and to profit by 

 it; and that all experimental work has been 

 conducted in suitable places. The total num- 

 ber of experiments was 19,084, being 4,178 

 performed with anesthetics and 16,913 witbput, 

 more than in 1902. Of the total, 2,171 were 

 anesthetics. In no case was a cutting opera- 

 tion more severe than a superficial venesection 

 allowed to be performed with anesthetics. The 

 experiments performed without anesthetics 

 were mostly inoculations; a few were feeding 

 experiments, or the administration of various 

 substances by the mouth, or the abstraction of 

 a minute quantity of blood for examination. 

 In no instance was a certificate dispensing 

 with anesthetics allowed for an experiment 

 involving a serious operation. Operative pro- 

 cedures performed without anesthetics were 

 only such as were attended by no considerable 

 pain. In a very large number of such ex- 

 periments the results were negative and the 

 animals suffered no inconvenience from the 

 inoculation. The usual inspection of regis- 

 tered places found the animals everyn'here 

 well lodged and cared for. Only two irregu- 

 larities were reported. 



U^UVERSITY AXD EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At the recent commencement exercises of 

 Columbia University a gift of $250,000 from 

 Mr. Lewisohn was announced, to be used for 

 a building for the School of Mines. 



The sum of $325,000 has been collected for 

 MacAlaster College in Mimiesota. The larg- 

 est gifts were $100,000 from Mr. C. D. Dayton 

 and $50,000 from Mr. J. J. Hill. 



A NEW physiological laboratory, erected at 

 a cost of $125,000, has been opened at the 

 University of Vienna. 



President E. A. Alderman, of Tulane 

 University, has been elected president of the 

 University of Virginia. The University of 

 Virginia, in accordance with the democratic 

 ideas of Jefferson, has hitherto been governed 

 by a board of visitors and the faculty with- 

 out a president. 



The removal of Professor John Dewey from 

 the University of Chicago to Columbia Uni- 

 versity has led to certain changes in the de- 

 partment of philosophy and education at Chi- 

 cago. Psychology has been made a separate 

 department, with Professor James R. Angell 

 at the head, and Professor James IT. Tufts 

 has been promoted to the head of the depart- 

 ment of philosophy. It is further reported 

 that Mr. John H. Locke will be made head of 

 the School of Education. 



Professor J, W. Gregory, of Melbourne, 

 and formerly of the British Museum, has been 

 elected to the chair of geology at Glasgow 

 University. 



Mr. F. G. Donnan, Ph.D., lecturer in chem- 

 istry in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, 

 has been appointed to the Brunner chair of 

 physical chemistry in the University of Liver- 

 pool. 



The council of the University of Birming- 

 ham has conferred the honorary title of pro- 

 fessor of geography on Mr. W. W. Watts, 

 M.A., F.R.S., assistant professor of geology. 



The University of Vienna has officially 

 recognized work in radiology in the medical 

 faculty. Dr. Leopold Freund, Dr. Robert 

 Kienbock and Dr. Guido Holzknecht have 

 been appointed docents in the subject. 



