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SCIENCE. 



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the college grounds, judging Mr. Caird's con- 

 ditions to harmonize neither with the needs 

 of the college nor with the general plan of 

 building construction. 



The tenth annual meeting of the National 

 Association of State Universities began at 

 Washingion, D, C, on November 13, with 

 thirty-two presidents of state universities pres- 

 ent. The session was devoted to the annual 

 address of Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews, 

 of the University of Nebraska, president of 

 the association, and to a discussion of the 

 attitude state universities should take toward 

 graduate work. 



The new chemistry building of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, which has been in the 

 course of construction during the past year, 

 has been completed and is now ready for occu- 

 pancy. The building is completely equipped 

 with apparatus for the study of all branches 

 of the subject, including electrical, .physical 

 and pharmaceutical chemistry. The audi- 

 torium on the main floor will accommodate 

 between 500 and 600 students, and the labora- 

 tory for general chemistry which adjoins it 

 has 540 individual working desks. Smaller 

 research laboratories for graduate and ad- 

 vanced students, a laboratory for inorganic 

 chemistry, and the ofiices of the professors of 

 the department, occupy the remainder of the 

 first floor. Two large laboratories for analyt- 

 ical chemistry, the department library and two 

 lecture rooms constitute the second floor. On 

 the third floor are placed the laboratories for 

 pharmaceutical, physical and electrical chem- 

 istry, and the office and laboratory of the state 

 chemist. The old chemical laboratory on the 

 shore of Lake Mendota has been remodeled 

 for the departments of chemical engineering 

 and assaying. The quarters in North Hall 

 formerly occupied by the departinent of 

 pharmacy have been remodeled and are now 

 occupied by the department of commerce. 

 Besides lecture and class rooms, a portion of 

 the hall has been set aside for the new com- 

 mercial museum, which is rapidly being ar- 

 ranged for the use of the commerce students. 



The number of students registered this 

 term at Cambridge University is 1,008, dis- 



tributed as follows : King's, 66 ; Trinity, 200 ; 

 St. John's, 66; Peterhouse, 12; Clare, 61; 

 Pembroke, 76; Gonville and Caius, 86; Trin- 

 ity Hall, 44; Corpus Christi, 21; Queen's, 10; 

 St. Catharine's, 15; Jesus, 57; Christ's 46; 

 Magdalene, 15 ; Emmanuel, 76 ; Sidney Sus- 

 sex, 27; Downing, 32; Selwyn Hostel, 39; 

 non-collegiate, 39. 



Dr. Herbert Moody has been appointed 

 assistant professor in analytic chemistry at 

 the College of the City of New York. He is 

 a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, and for four years was instructor 

 there. 



The committee for the supervision of in- 

 struction in geography at Oxford has ap- 

 pointed Dr. A. J. Herbertson, director of the 

 school of geography, for the remainder of the 

 term of five years for which the grants to the 

 school of geography have been voted. 



At Manchester University, Mr. C. G. Hew- 

 itt, B.Sc. (Man.), has been appointed assistant 

 lecturer and demonstrator in zoology ; and Mr. 

 A. Stephenson, B.Sc. (Wales), lecturer in the 

 Technical College, Sunderland, assistant lec- 

 turer in mathematics. 



The council of King's College has made the 

 following appointments : Mr. E. P. Harrison, 

 Ph.D., and Mr. H. S. Allen, M.A., B.Sc, as- 

 sistant lecturers in physics ; Mr. C. E. Russell, 

 B.A., assistant lecturer in mathematics; Mr. 

 L. Hinkel, assistant demonstrator in chemis- 

 try; Mr. W. Woodland, demonstrator in zool- 

 ogy; Mr. O. S. Sinnatt, B.Sc, and Mr. R. 

 Wolfenden, B.Sc, -demonstrators in engineer- 

 ing; Mr. J. E. S. Frazer, F.E.C.S., transferred 

 from St. George's Hospital to King's College 

 as demonstrator in anatomy. 



Dr. Rene du Bois-Reymond has been ap- 

 pointed head of the department for special 

 physiology in the physiological laboratory of 

 the University of Berlin, in succession to the 

 late Professor P. Schultz. 



Dr. G. Hellmann, chief of department in 

 the Royal Meteorological Institute in Berlin, 

 has been appointed professor in the university. 

 A department library and reading room has 

 also been provided. 



