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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 554. 



The American Geologist states that Mr. G. 

 K. Gilbert has given to the department of 

 geology of Denison University upwards of 

 1,000 volumes of literature, consisting of 

 U. S. Geological Survey reports, state reports, 

 reprints, proceedings and other valuable books. 

 It will be remembered that the library of the 

 university was destroyed by fire some time 

 since. 



The Vienna correspondent of the London 

 Times writes that the prime minister has laid 

 before the House of Parliament a bill em- 

 powering the government to devote 25,000,000 

 crowns for the purposes of higher education, 

 chiefly for medical teaching. The sum will 

 cover the cost of building a new institute for 

 physico-medical investigations, a new institute 

 for hygiene in Vienna, and a new central 

 home for several medical institutions of minor 

 importance. In Prague both the German and 

 the Czech universities are to be reconstructed ; 

 in Lemberg a new clinic for medicine and for 

 surgery is to be provided; and in Cracow new 

 clinics are to be erected and a medical library 

 is to be founded. 



The amount allotted by Parliament to each 

 of the University Colleges for the year 1905-6 

 will be as follows : 



Manchester £12,000 



University College, London 10,000 



Liverpool 10,000 



Birmingham 9,000 



Leeds 8,000 - 



King's College, London 7,800 



Newcastle-on-Tyne 6,000 



Nottingham 5,800 



Sheffield 4,600 



Bedford College, London 4,000 



Bristol 4,000 



Reading ..' 3,400 



Southampton 3,400 



Dundee 1,000 



£89,000 



A CHAIR of protozoology has been estab- 

 lished in the University of London, the secre- 

 tary of state for the colonies having arranged 

 for an appropriation for this purpose of £700 

 a year for five years. The academic council 



has further appropriated a sum of £200 a year 

 for assistants and laboratory expenses in con- 

 nection with the chair. 



Professor Maynard M. Metcalf, of the 

 Woman's College of Baltimore, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of zoology at Oberlin 

 College. 



Dr. Austin Plint Eogers, of Columbia 

 University, has been made assistant professor 

 in the department of geology and mining at 

 Stanford University. 



Dr. Oliver M, W. Sprague, assistant pro- 

 fessor of economics at Harvard University, 

 has accepted a chair at the University of 

 Tokio. 



At the University of Colorado, Mr. J. H. 

 Wallace, B.S. (Illinois), has been appointed 

 instructor in graphics, and Mr. Saul Epsteen, 

 A.B. (California), Ph.D. (Zurich), instructor 

 in mathematics. 



Dr. Wilfred H. Manavaring, S.B. (Mich- 

 igan, '95), M.D. (Hopkins, '04), at present 

 fellow of the Eockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research and assistant in pathology in the 

 LTniversity of Chicago, has been appointed 

 head of the new department of pathology and 

 bacteriology in Indiana University, with the 

 rank of associate professor. 



Mr. Leroy D. Swingle, A.B. (Lafayette), 

 science teacher in Seattle (Wash.) Seminary, 

 has been appointed fellow in zoology at the 

 University of Nebraska. 



Professor A. E. Simpson has retired from 

 the chair of midwifery at the University of 

 Edinburgh after a service of thirty-five years. 

 Professor Simpson was the nephew and suc- 

 cessor in the chair of Sir James Young Simp- 

 son, the discoverer of chloroform as an an- 

 esthetic. 



Dr. Otto Dimrotii, professor of chemistry 

 at Tiibingen, has been called to Munich. 



Dr. Alois Eiehl, professor of philosophy at 

 Halle, has accepted a call to Berlin. 



Dr. Karl Isidor Cori, director of the Zoolog- 

 ical Station at Trieste, has been promoted to 

 a professorship of zoology at the German uni- 

 versity at Prague. 



