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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 575. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the Copenhagen and 

 the Berlin academies of science have united in 

 publishing a catalogue of all the Greek and 

 Latin medical writings that have been handed 

 down to us from antiquity. This catalogue 

 is to be preliminary to the suggestion that the 

 International Association of Academies of 

 Science undertake the task of publishing a 

 complete scientific edition of the collected 

 works of the physicians of antiquity. The 

 plan is to be proposed at the next general 

 meeting of the delegates of the association, 

 which will be held at Vienna during the 

 spring of 1907. 



VNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of the late Dr. George S. Hyde, 

 $50,000, the income of which is to be paid to 

 his brother and sister during their lifetime, 

 will on their deaths revert to the Harvard 

 Medical School, to be used as the trustees of 

 the college see fit. 



The following buildings are under course 

 of construction at the University of Arkansas : 

 a dairy building, an agricultural hall, an 

 additional boy's dormitory, a woman's dormi- 

 tory, a chemical building. 



At the recent special session of the state 

 legislature the University of Wisconsin was 

 again authorized to draw its income from 

 the general fund of the state treasury, as 

 according to the new method of appropriating 

 funds for the university by setting aside two- 

 sevenths of a mill on all taxes, the university 

 income fund does not become available until 

 February each year, whereas the university 

 budget has always been estimated on the basis 

 of the fiscal year, which extends from July 1 

 to June 30 of each year. A misunderstanding 

 of the circumstances gave rise to a report that 

 the university had a deficit, but the report of 

 the legislative committee appointed to con- 

 sider the matter exonerated the university 

 authorities completely and showed that at 

 the end of the fiscal year next June there will 

 be a surplus, not a deficit, in the university 

 accounts. On this point the report states: 

 " According to the budget for the present year 



it is estimated that the present appropriations 

 for the university are ample and will meet all 

 expenses in maintaining the institution, and 

 will leave a balance on hand for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1906." "That the two- 

 sevenths mills tax," the report points out, 

 " together with a special appropriation of 

 $200,000, both provided for by chapter 320 

 of the laws of 1905, it is estimated will pro- 

 vide enough money to pay for the permanent 

 improvements above mentioned [the purchase 

 of land and preparation for additional build- 

 ings] over and above the amount required for 

 other purposes." 



Dr. George W. Atherton has resigned the^ 

 presidency of the Pennsylvania State College. 



Miss Alice L. Davison, Ph.D. (Pennsyl- 

 vania), has been appointed teacher of chem- 

 istry in the College for Women, Columbia, 

 S. C. 



Dr. a. J. EwART, special lecturer in vege- 

 table physiology, Birmingham University, has 

 been appointed professor of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Melbourne, in succession to the late 

 Baron von Miiller. 



The Council ,of King's College, London, 

 has elected Mr. Harold A. Wilson, M.A., 

 D.Sc, M.Sc, fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, to the chair of physics vacated by 

 Professor W. Grylls Adams, P.E.S. 



Professor Ehys Davis, secretary of the 

 Eoyal Asiatic Society, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of comparative religions at Manchester 

 University. 



Dr. G. a. Buckmaster has been appointed 

 assistant professor of physiology at University 

 College, London University. 



The general board of studies of Cambridge 

 University has appointed Mr. J. G. Leathern, 

 M.A., fellow of St. John's College, university 

 lecturer in mathematics until Michaelmas, 

 1910, and has reappointed Mr. 0. T. E. Wil- 

 son, M.A., F.E.S., fellow of Sidney Susses 

 College, lecturer in experimental physics for 

 five years from Christmas, 1905. 



Mr. William Wright, D.Sc, M.B., Ch.B., 

 P.E.C.S., has been appointed lecturer on an- 

 atomy at the Middlesex Hospital Medical 

 School. 



