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A NEW Psycho-neurological Institute, under 

 the direction of Professor Bechterev, was re- 

 cently opened at St. Petersburg. 



The foundation stone of an Institute for 

 the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality 

 was laid in Berlin in the presence of the Ger- 

 man Empress on December 3. 



A Ckiminological Institute is to be estab- 

 lished in connection with the government 

 prison at Buenos Aires. Particular attention 

 will be paid to criminal psychology and 

 forensic psychiatry. 



The seventh meeting of the International 

 Congress of Criminal Anthropology will open 

 at Turin on April 28, under the presidency 

 of Professor Lombroso. Communications re- 

 lating to the congress should be addressed to 

 the Secretariate of the Congress, Institute di 

 Medicina Legale, Via Michelangelo, 26, 

 Torino, Italy. 



The city of Paris has placed a building at 

 the disposal of the International Hygienic In- 

 stitute which is about to be established. 



For the purpose of promoting the forestry 

 industry in south Manchuria, the Chinese 

 officials have engaged a Japanese expert from 

 Tokyo to act as head master for the pro- 

 posed school of forests at Mukden for a term 

 of four years, with two Chinese gentlemen as 

 his assistants ; but, owing to the lack of funds, 

 the school has not yet been opened. 



The government of Mysore has, according 

 to foreign journals, made public the new rules 

 for regulating the grant of scholarships for 

 scientific research and technical education 

 from the Damodar Dass charities fund. The 

 scholarships will be open to all Indians who 

 have taken with credit a degree in arts, medi- 

 cine, or engineering in an Indian or other 

 recognized university. Each candidate select- 

 ed will be given traveling allowance to Eng- 

 land or elsewhere from Bangalore on the 

 completion of his course of study or research. 

 He will be allowed, during his stay in Eng- 

 land or elsewhere, outside India, a sum of 200L 

 per annum, this allowance to be inclusive of 

 college fees, cost of books, instruments, and 

 boarding charges. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The contract for the new biological and 

 geological laboratory of Amherst College has 

 been awarded and work will begin when the 

 frost leaves the ground. The building should 

 be completed by January 1, 1909. 



Mk. Cullom presented to the senate on 

 February 10 a resolution of the Association 

 of American Universities assembled in con- 

 vention at the University of Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich., which was referred to the Com- 

 mittee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be 

 printed in the Record, as follows : 



Whereas: The executive committee of the 

 Latin-American Scientific CJongress had deter- 

 mined to make the next congress " Pan-American " 

 instead of " Latin- American " ; and 



Whereas: The Chilean government has extend- 

 ed an invitation to the government of the United 

 States to participate in this congress, to assemble 

 at Santiago, Chile, in December, 1908; and 



Whereas : This congress will serve to bring the 

 best thought and experience of America to bear 

 on the great problems common to all the republics 

 of this continent and will thus serve to strengthen 

 the ties between the American nations : be it 



Resolved by the Association of American Uni- 

 versities assembled in convention at Ann Arbor, 

 Mich., That the Congress of the United States be 

 earnestly requested to make provision for ade- 

 quate representation at this forthcoming Pan- 

 American Scientific Congress, as recommended in 

 the report of Secretary Root of December 19, 1907, 

 and in the special message of the President of 

 December 21, 1907. 



Dr. R. W. Stimson has resigned the 

 presidency of the Connecticut Agricultural ■ 

 College to become president of Smith's Agri- 

 cultural School, recently established at North- 

 ampton, Mass. 



C. F. Harding, a graduate of the electrical 

 engineering department of the Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute in the class of 1902, has 

 been appointed professor of electrical engi- 

 neering at Purdue University. 



Mr. L. Brebant, M.A. Oxon., has been ap- 

 pointed assistant to the professor of moral 

 philosophy in the University of St. Andrews. 



