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features ■will also receive considerable atten- 

 tion. All persons interested in this subject 

 are cordially invited to attend tbe meetings. 

 Further information concerning the meeting 

 may be had by addressing the secretary of the 

 society, Wm. T. Home, University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley, California, or Professor H. 

 S. Jackson, Corvallis, Oregon. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The newly founded university at Frankfurt 

 a. M. has been opened as planned, having en- 

 rolled Edinger, Ehrlich, Embden, B. Fischer, 

 Goppert, Herxheimer, Neisser, Eehn and 

 others. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have signed 

 the statutes of the university on the historic 

 date, August 1. Austria-Hungary has also 

 just founded a new university, the fifth in the 

 empire. It is located at Presburg, in Hungary, 

 about 40 miles east of Vienna. It was inau- 

 gurated with simple ceremonies on October 4. 



It will be remembered that after the fall of 

 Louvain and the destruction of the university 

 and its library, the University of Cambridge 

 formally invited the Louvaiu professors and 

 students to transfer their university to Cam- 

 bridge, and, as far as it might prove possible 

 to do so in a foreign land, to carry on their 

 teaching and examining. After some time it 

 became apparent that the authorities of the 

 Belgian university did not see their way for- 

 mally to accept. This, however, has not pre- 

 vented steps from being taken for the forma- 

 tion of unofficial courses, which are being con- 

 ducted by the following professors : Dr. Arien, 

 Louvain; Professor Breithof, Louvain (graph- 

 ics) ; Professor Carnoy, Louvain (Greek) ; 

 Professor Colson, Liege (chemistry) ; Pro- 

 fessor Corbiau; Professor Dejace, Liege (law) ; 

 Dr. Devigne, Liege (law and philosophy) ; 

 Professor Leon Dupriez, Louvain (law) ; Pro- 

 fessor Van Gehuchten, Louvain (neuropathol- 

 ogy) ; Professor Gillet ; Professor Van Hecke, 

 Louvain (engineering) ; Professor Canon Van 

 Hoonacker, Louvain (theology) ; Professor de 

 La Vallee-Poussin, Ghent (Sanskrit); Pro- 



fessor Steels; Professor Van den Ven (Byzan- 

 tine Greek). 



The University of Glasgow has offered acad- 

 emic hospitality to accredited teachers and 

 students of Belgian universities who have 

 taken refuge in Glasgow. The heads of the 

 several departments will afford them such 

 facilities for study and research as it may be 

 found practicable to provide. 



Plans are practically completed for the con- 

 struction of the Anthony 'N. Brady Memorial 

 Laboratory of the Tale Medical School. The 

 laboratory and administration building will be 

 erected early in the spring of 1915. 



Dr. James Eowland Angell, who is head 

 of the department of psychology and dean of 

 the Faculties of Arts, Literature and Science 

 in the University of Chicago, has declined the 

 offer of the presidency of the University of 

 Washington at Seattle. 



Mr. L. R. Ford, of Harvard University, has 

 resigned, on account of the war, the Sheldon 

 fellowship on which he was to have studied 

 abroad, and has accepted a lectureship in 

 mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. 



Professor William Marshall, on leave from 

 Purdue University, has returned from Europe 

 and has been appointed assistant professor of 

 mathematics in the University of Arizona for 

 the year 191^15. 



Dr. Rudolph H. Kocher has been appointed 

 instructor in research medicine in the Hooper 

 Foundation of Medical Research of the Uni- 

 versity of California, Berkeley. 



Dr. a. H. Lothrop, formerly of Columbia 

 University, has been appointed professor of 

 biological chemistry in Queens University, 

 Kingston, Ontario. 



Dr. Walter Ramsden, senior demonstrator 

 in physiology at Oxford University, has been 

 elected to the Johnston chair of bio-chemistry 

 at Liverpool University rendered vacant by 

 the resignation of Dr. Benjamin Moore. 



The vacancy in the chair of chemistry of 

 the University of Aberdeen, caused by the re- 

 tirement of Professor F. R. Japp after twenty- 

 four years' service, has been filled by the ai>- 



