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special memorial hall, in a niche that is closed 

 with a white marble slab, is placed the urn 

 that contains the ashes of Robert Koch. The 

 walls and floors are all of marble. Over the 

 niche for the urn is a marble tablet on which 

 is a portrait of Koch in relief, larger than life 

 size, and on the opposite wall the chief dates 

 of Koch's life are engraved. On December 11 

 the special memorial service took place in the 

 new hall of the university. The large hall 

 which seats about 1,500 persons was filled with 

 a mourning throng which included many 

 physicians, especially members of the Berlin 

 medical faculty, representatives of the govern- 

 ment and the chief German medical faculties 

 and representatives of many medical societies 

 as well as of foreign universities and societies. 

 The memorial address was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor Gaffky, who was for many years a pupil 

 of Koch and is his successor as director of the 

 institute for infectious diseases. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The report of the tax appraiser on the 

 Kennedy estate has now been published, show- 

 ing that the bequests for educational and 

 public purposes are even larger than had been 

 anticipated. Columbia University receives 

 $2,358,000, New York University $952,000 and 

 Eobert College, Constantinople, $1,800,000; 

 the bequests to the New York Public Library 

 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are in 

 the neighborhood of $2,800,000. Barnard 

 College and Teachers College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, each receive $100,000, as do Hamilton 

 College, Elmira College, Amherst College, 

 Williams College, Bowdoin College, Yale Uni- 

 versity, Tuskegee Institute and the Hampton 

 Institute. Lafayette College, Oberlin College, 

 WeUesley College, Berea College and Anatolia 

 (Turkey) each receive $50,000. The bequest 

 to hospitals and to the boards of the Presby- 

 terian Church are very large. 



Mr. Carnegie's latest gift of $3,800,000 to 

 the Technical Institute in Pittsburgh is to be 

 used approximately as follows : $2,300,000 for 

 increase of present endowment, $1,375,000 for 

 new buildings, $100,000 for additional equip- 

 ment and $25,000 on grounds. 



The residue of his estate, valued formally 

 at "not more than $50,000," is divided be- 

 tween Yale and the University of Leipzig by 

 the will of Dr. Albert Seesel, a New York 

 physician. With the income there is to be 

 founded at each institution the " Theresa 

 Seesel Fund " in memory of his mother, to be 

 used for researches in biology. 



A LECTURESHIP on the history and institu- 

 tions of the United States has been estab- 

 lished at Oxford, to be held by American 

 scholars. The subject matter of the lecture- 

 ship is to be the political, institutional, eco- 

 nomic or social history or conditions of the 

 United States. 



The trustees of the University College of 

 Medicine, Richmond, Va., have awarded con- 

 tracts for a new college building, to cost $135,- 

 000, to replace the one recently burned. 



The University of Cincinnati sent as dele- 

 gates to the meeting of the Ohio College As- 

 sociation and the Ohio Association of Medical 

 Teachers at Columbus during the Christmas 

 vacation, President Dabney, Dean WooUey, of 

 the Medical School, and Professor Jones. 

 President Dabney presented a resolution 

 which was unanimously adopted, asking the 

 Board of Medical Examiners' of Ohio and the 

 Ohio Medical Association to join with the 

 Ohio College Association in memorializing the 

 legislature to advance the standard for en- 

 trance to the medical colleges in Ohio, by re- 

 quiring that the entering student shall have 

 done two years of college work, including in 

 this work chemistry, physics, biology (each of 

 these with laboratory courses) and modern 

 languages. The Medical College of the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati has already adopted this 

 standard. 



Dr. W. H. Howell has resigned as dean of 

 the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and has 

 been succeeded by Dr. J. Whitridge Williams. 

 Dr. JosLiH H. Penniman, professor of Eng- 

 lish and formerly dean of the college depart- 

 ment of the University of Pennsylvania, has 

 been chosen vice provost. 



Dr. David L. Edsall, professor of medi- 

 cine in the University of Pennsylvania, has 



