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ment by Hoppe-Seyler. However, in 1896, ster- 

 eorin was again discovered, this time by Bond- 

 zynski, and given the name of koprosterin. To 

 Flint, however, working with older, cruder meth- 

 ods, belongs the credit of having first isolated the 

 substance in pure crystalline form. Austin Flint 

 was one of the greatest teachers of the old school 

 of American medicine. A forceful orator and 

 skilled experimentalist, he was the first in this 

 country to expound the doctrines of the French 

 school of physiology which in his early life was 

 at the height of its renown. Dr. Flint took pride 

 in being of the fifth generation of noted physi- 

 cians, his great-grandfather and his father hav- 

 ing borne the name Austin Flint, a name which 

 outlives him in a surviving son. "We, the faculty 

 of Cornell University Medical College, with which 

 Dr. Flint was associated during ten years, hereby 

 record our appreciation of this life and beg to 

 tender our sympathies to his family. 



Augustus Jay Du Bois, for thirty years pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering in the ShefEeld 

 Scientific School, Yale University, died at his 

 home in New Haven, on October 19, at the age 

 of sixty-six years. 



The Eev. Father Charles M. Chaeroppin, 

 S.J., an astronomer, and formerly head of the 

 department of science of St. Louis University, 

 died at St. Charles, Mo., on October lY. 



Eev. Michael J. Tully, S.J., died on 

 October 20, at the age of thirty-nine years, at 

 Fordliam University, New York. Father Tully 

 had occupied the chair of chemistry in Boston 

 College, at Holy Cross, St. Francis Xavier 

 and Fordham University. 



Edward A. Minchin, F.E.S., professor of 

 protozoology in the University of London, has 

 died at the age of forty-nine years. 



Professor C. A. Ewald, of Berlin, distin- 

 guished for his work on diseases of the 

 stomach, for thirty years editor of the Berliner 

 Minische Wochenschrift, died on September 

 20, in his seventieth year. 



At the recent meeting in Manchester, as we 

 learn from Nature, the general committee of 

 the British Association unanimously adopted 

 the following resolution, which has been for- 

 warded to the Prime Minister, the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer and the Presidents of the 

 Board of Education and of Agriculture and 



Fisheries : " That the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, believing that the 

 higher education of the nation is of supreme 

 importance in the present crisis of our his- 

 tory, trusts that his Majesty's government will, 

 by continuing its financial support, maintain 

 the efficiency of teaching and research in the 

 universities and university colleges of the 

 United Kingdom." 



The geological department of Yale Univer- 

 sity has since 1871 graduated 50 men and 2 

 women with the degree of doctor of philos- 

 ophy. Of these 50 are living, and all but 4 

 are following geology as a profession. Up to 

 1890 the degree was conferred upon 7, during 

 the decade 1890-1900 upon 8, from 1900 to 

 1910 upon 22, and since then upon 15. Of 

 those following the profession, 15 are pro- 

 fessors and 6 are assistant professors or in- 

 structors in universities, 11 are geologists on 

 the Geological Survey of Canada and 5 on 

 the United States Geological Survey, 5 are 

 state geologists, and 3 are curators of geolog- 

 ical collections in public museums. 



VNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The sum of about $400,000 has been sub- 

 scribed in the University of Michigan alumni 

 campaign for $1,000,000 with which to build 

 and endow a home for the Michigan Union, 

 as a memorial to Dr. James B. Angell, presi- 

 dent emeritus. 



Delaware College, at Newark, has received 

 a gift of $500,000, from a donor whose name 

 is withheld, for the construction and mainte- 

 nance of buildings. 



The contracts have been awarded for the 

 erection of a new biological laboratory at the 

 University of Nebraska to house the depart- 

 ments of botany and zoology. The building 

 wiU be a memorial to the late Charles E. 

 Bessey and will be known as " Bessey Hall."' 

 The main building will consist of three floors 

 and a basement fifty by two hundred and 

 thirty-five feet with a short wing at each end. 

 Greenhouses and vivaria will be connected 

 with the building. 



