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meiits are being pushed forward to early com- 

 pletion. 



The Boston Transcript reports that the 

 total enrolment of students in Harvard Uni- 

 versity, not inckiding Radcliffe College and 

 the Stimmer School, reckoned from October 7, 

 is 3,865, as against 4,004 at a corresponding 

 time last year. In Harvard College there are 

 1,896 students, which is 93 less than on Oc- 

 tober 7 last year. In the Lawrence Scientific 

 School are registered 500, a decrease of 14. 

 The Graduate School shows 364, an increase 

 of 21, and the Bussey Institution has enlarged 

 its numbers from 22 to 27, but these are the 

 only two departments of the university in 

 which there has not been a loss. In the 

 Divinity School there are 34, a loss of 3; in 

 the Law School 681, a loss of 24 ; in the Medical 

 School 281, a loss of 8; and in the Dental 

 School 82, which is 23 less than last year on 

 the above date. It might be mentioned in 

 connection with the Medical School that the 

 entering class has 10 more students than in 

 1904, the first increase since a degree was re- 

 quired for admission. 



Registration figures complete to October 

 .20, for all departments of Cornell University, 

 at Ithaca, are, according to the New York 

 Evenhig Post as follows: 



1904. 1905. 



Sibley College 1,040 1,078 



Arts 648 693 



Civil engineering 377 411 



Law 213 219 



Agriculture 178 216 



Veterinary 104 88 



Architecture 68 79 



Medicine 82 57 



Graduates 147 151 



Total 2,857 2,992 



The president of Tulane University an- 

 nounces the proposal to found a school of 

 tropical medicine in connection with that in- 

 stitution. 



At the last meeting of the corporation of 

 Harvard University, as reported in the Boston 

 Transcript, the resignations of the following 

 instructors were accepted : A. B. Plowman, '02, 

 instructor in botany; H. W. Hill, instructor 

 in bacteriology; P. Hodge, assistant in phys- 



ics, and A. K. Adams, '04, assistant in geology. 

 Appointments were made for one year, as 

 follows: L. D. Hill, '94, and E. R. Shepard, 

 assistants in physics; M. R. Cohen, assistant 

 in philosophy; R. Kent, assistant in geology; 

 E. C. Froelich, '03, and H. N. Davis, '03, 

 instructors in mathematics; A. C. Boylston, 

 '03, R. P. Jackson, '03, B. S. Lucy, J. E. 

 Zanetti, '06, C. M. Brewster, W. Y. Green, 

 W. C. Holmes, E. Mueller, G. N. Terzieff and 

 L. H. Whitney, assistants in chemistry; G. S. 

 Porbes, '02, lecturer on physical chemistry; 

 J. G. Jack and D. A. Clarke, '04, instructors 

 in forest botany; R. C. Hawley, instructor in 

 forestry; H. N. Eaton, assistant in geology, 

 and E. J. Sanders, assistant in meteorology 

 and physiography. 



The University of Maine opened on Sep- 

 tember 20 with 190 additions to its collegiate 

 departments. Of these about 120 are regular 

 freshmen. The following appointments have 

 been made in the various scientific depart- 

 ments : J. S. Stevens, professor of physics, 

 dean of the College of Liberal Arts; W. K. 

 Ganong, acting professor of electrical engi- 

 neering; A. C. Jewett, associate professor of 

 mechanical engineering; G. E. Tower, pro- 

 fessor of forestry; M. H. Bedford, instructor 

 in chemistry; W. R. Ham, instructor in phys- 

 ics; T. M. Gunn, instructor in mechanical 

 engineering; H. D. Carpenter, instructor in 

 electrical engineering; A. W. Gilbert, instruc- 

 tor in agriculture; J. M. Bearce, tutor in 

 physics; L. T. Ernst, assistant in horticulture; 

 M. G. Leeds, assistant in the experiment sta- 

 tion. 



Mr. James H. Jeams, lecturer at Cam- 

 bridge, has been made professor of applied 

 mathematics at Princeton University. 



Dr. George Ben Johnston, of the Medical 

 College of Yirginia, has been elected professor 

 of surgery at the University of Yirginia to 

 succeed Dr. A. H. Buckmaster, resigned. 



Dr. John Earnest Longing, Harvard, takes 

 the chair in chemistry at Hobart College, 

 Geneva, N. Y., in place of Dr. Herbert Ray- 

 mond Moody, who has gone to the College of 

 the City of New York. 



