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Carl Byron James, assistant professor of biol- 

 ogy in Adelbert College and the College for 

 Women, is also absent upon leave for the year. 



Dr. Eugen Oberhummer, professor of his- 

 torical and political geography in the Univer- 

 sity of Vienna, will deliver three lectures at 

 the Johns Hopkins University on November 

 14, 15 and 16. His subjects are: "Develop- 

 ments and Methods of the Geography of Man," 

 " Eaces and Peoples of Europe," " Principal 

 Geographical Features of Austria and Hun- 

 gary." 



On October 29 Professor S. E. Acree, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, delivered a lecture 

 before the Chemists' Club of Washington, 

 D. C, on the progress of the researches con- 

 ducted in his laboratory. The subjects dis- 

 cussed were tautomerism, dilatometry, catal- 

 ysis, reactions of alkyl halides and the theory 

 of oxidation and reduction. The discussion 

 was followed by a smoker. 



Dr. a. C. Abbott, professor of hygiene and 

 bacteriology, in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, gave two lectures at the University of 

 Maryland, on November 9 and 10. The sub- 

 jects were : " The Eunction of the Municipal- 

 ity in Public Preventive Medicine " and " The 

 Interdependence between the Laboratory and 

 the Clinical Investigators." 



Mr. Henry S. Bryaxt, president of the 

 Geographical Society of Philadelphia, gave 

 the annual address on November 2, his subject 

 being " The Land of the Golden Dragon, or 

 Travels in Erench Indo-China." 



William Henry Brewer, professor emeritus 

 of agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Yale University, for many years a 

 prominent figure in American science, died on 

 November 2, at the age of eighty-two years. 



Arthur Ervhn Brown, secretary of the 

 Zoological Society of Philadelphia and active 

 head of the Zoological Garden, the author of 

 contributions to herpetology and mammalogy, 

 died on November 1, at the age of sixty years. 



Monuments to Professor Guzzenbaur and 

 Professor Nothnagel, two eminent professors 

 of medicine at the University of Vienna, have 

 been unveiled. 



M. Henri Dunant, of Geneva, founder of 

 the Eed Cross Society, died on October 30, at 

 Hilden, Switzerland, aged 82 years. 



Professor Earaboeuf, professor of anatomy 

 at Paris, has died at the age of sixty-nine 

 years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The General Education Board has made 

 conditional appropriations amounting to $725,- 

 000, distributed as follows : Baylor Univer- 

 sity, Waco, Tex., $200,000; Trinity College, 

 Durham, N. C, $150,000 ; University of Chat- 

 tanooga, Tenn., $150,000; Meredith College, 

 Ealeigh, N. C, $50,000; Wesleyan Female 

 College, Macon, Ga., $100,000, and Amherst 

 College, Amherst, Mass., $75,000. 



WoosTER University has received $100,000 

 from Mrs. J. S. Kennedy, of New York, for 

 the erection of a dormitory for men. 



The Academy of the University of Ulinois, 

 which was established in 1876, is to be aban- 

 doned. In discontinuing the academy the 

 board of trustees have in mind a plan to es- 

 tablish a model high school at the university 

 in connection with the school of education. 



The foundation-stone of new engineering 

 laboratories for Liverpool University was laid 

 October 22 by Mr. T. Fenwick Harrison. The 

 cost of erection of the building will be met by 

 a fund of £35,000, which has been provided by 

 Mr. Fenwick Harrison, Mr. J. W. Hughes and 

 Mr. Heath Harrison. 



In the " School of Higher Studies " of the 

 National University of Mexico, recently 

 founded, professors are being engaged to give 

 courses lasting each three months. Such an 

 appointee has the title professor and is to re- 

 side at Mexico City each year for three 

 months during his term of office. Among 

 those already appointed on these terms are 

 Professor Eichet (Paris, physiology), Capitan 

 (Paris, ethnology). Boas (New York, anthro- 

 pology), Eowe (Philadelphia, political sci- 

 ence), Eeiche (Germany, botany), Baldwin 

 (Baltimore, philosophy and social science). 

 Professor Baldwin opened the series with a 

 course entitled " The Individual and Society " 



