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tuted the true cause of tuberculosis, which 

 therefore must be considered a parasitic 

 disease. Six months earlier, in the autumn of 

 1881, Koch had demonstrated his culture and 

 staining methods to the International Medical 

 Congi'ess in Lord Lister's laboratory. On his 

 return to Berlin he continued his researches, 

 and, making use of Ehrlich's methylene-blue 

 pigment, discovered a bacillus present in none 

 but tuberculous matter. In order to bring 

 this out clearly on the plate, Koch stained 

 with Bismarck-brown, and found that the 

 bacilli retained their blue color, while all the 

 rest grew brown. This gave him a method of 

 demonstrating the presence even of isolated 

 tubercle bacilli." 



VNIVERSITr AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Tale University has received two bequests 

 of $100,000 each— one from WiUiam C. Eggles- 

 ton, of New York City, and one for a scholar- 

 ship from Lura Currier, of New Tork City, 

 accruing by the death of E. W. Currier. 



At the University of Nebraska a general 

 advance of two to three hundred dollars in 

 salaries of deans and professors and of about 

 one hundred dollars for instructors has been 

 ordered by the regents. 



At the same institution the regents are 

 planning to begin the erection of an Engineer- 

 ing Hall. At least $50,000 will be spent upon 

 the foundation and the lower stories during 

 the present year, and it is hoped to complete 

 it later with as much more. On the Experi- 

 ment Station Earm they plan to erect a new 

 heating plant, a stock pavilion, a feeding bam 

 and to complete the woman's building, for 

 which the sum of $100,000 was appropriated 

 by the state legislature. They wiU expend 

 $25,000 during the next two years upon the 

 North Platte substation, mainly in permanent 

 improvements, and have set aside a fund of 

 $15,000 for state farmers' institutes for the 

 biennium. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 has received a bequest of $5,000 by the will 

 of Alexander S. Wheeler, of Boston. 



The medical building of McGiU University 

 was destroyed by jSre on April 15. The build- 

 ing was erected at a cost of about $350,000 

 and contained collections and apparatus of 

 great value. It is said that about half the 

 loss is covered by insurance. It wiU be re- 

 membered that an equally disastrous fire de- 

 stroyed the engineering building of McGill 

 University about two weeks ago. 



The University of California announces the 

 establishment of a resident graduate fellow- 

 ship in anthropology of a value of five hun- 

 dred dollars. Applications for the award for 

 1907-'08 should be sent to the secretary of 

 the Department of Anthropology of the Uni- 

 versity, at the Affiliated Colleges, San Eran- 

 cisco, on or before May 10, and should be ac- 

 companied by all information or records sub- 

 mitted in support. 



Dr. C. Judson Herriok, professor of 

 zoology at Dennison University, has been 

 elected professor of neurology in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, the appointment to take 

 effect at the beginning of the next academic 

 year. The chair at Denison University will 

 be filled by Dr. George E. Coghill, professor 

 of biology at Willamette University, Salem, 

 Oregon. 



At the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. H. 

 S. Jennings has been promoted to the posi- 

 tion of professor of experimental zoology. 



At the recent annual meeting of the regents 

 of the University of Nebraska the following 

 promotions to full professorships were made 

 in the scientific departments : A. L. Candy 

 from associate professor of mathematics to 

 professor of pure mathematics; H. H. Waite 

 from associate professor of bacteriology and 

 pathology to professor of the same; C. 0. 

 Engberg from assistant professor of mathe- 

 matics to professor of applied mathematics. 



De. Corbett, professor of pathology in Shef- 

 field University, has been appointed lecturer 

 in bacteriology in Cambridge University. He 

 is succeeded at Sheffield by Dr. J. M. Beattie, 

 senior assistant to the professor of pathology 

 at Edinburgh University. 



