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society guarantees a yearly contribution of 

 $15,000 and for the building $225,000. The 

 government gives the ground and promises to 

 furnish one of the professors of the university 

 as the director of the institution. The man- 

 agement of the new imperial institute is to be 

 in the hands of a committee. 



The Eockefeller Institute for Medical Ee- 

 search, which owns all the property from 

 Sixty-fourth to Sixty-seventh Street and from 

 Avenue A to Exterior Street has secured from 

 the city the title to Sixty-fifth and Sixty- 

 sixth Streets from Avenue A to Exterior 

 Street. While these streets have been laid 

 out, they have never been cut through. 



The legislature of Pennsylvania last year 

 appropriated $3,000,000 for its public health, 

 $2,000,000 of which was to be expended in the 

 fight against tuberculosis, and $1,000,000 to 

 combat other diseases. The Medical Record 

 states that during the past four years the 

 number of deaths per annum has been de- 

 creased 14,000. It is estimated that about 

 2,500 deaths from typhoid fever and 7,000 

 from diphtheria were prevented last year by 

 the activities of the State Health Department. 

 The state maintains three sanatoria and 115 

 dispensaries for the treatment of tuberculosis 

 and during the past year treated 40,000 cases 

 of that disease. Taking the lowest estimated 

 value of a human life, $1,700, it is calculated 

 that the economic saving to the state through 

 this reduction of the death rate amounts to 

 $24,000,000 for the year. Preliminary ar- 

 rangements have been made for the medical 

 inspection of girls and boys in the third and 

 fourth class school districts throughout the 

 state. Five hundred physicians will be ap- 

 pointed to the task which embraces the exami- 

 nation of children in 321 boroughs and 460 

 townships. 



The following are the lecture arrangements 

 at the Royal Institution before Easter: Dr. P. 

 Chalmers Mitchell, a Christmas course of six 

 illustrated lectures on the " Childhood of 

 Animals," adapted to a juvenile auditory; 

 Mr. W. Bateson, Fullerian professor of physi- 

 ology, six lectures on the " Study of Genet- 



ics " ; Professor E. G. Coker, two lectures on 

 " Optical Determination of Stress and some 

 Applications to Engineering Problems " ; Dr. 

 T. Rice Holmes, three lectures on " Ancient 

 Britain " ; Professor A. W. Biekerton, two 

 lectures on the " New Astronomy " ; Professor 

 A. M. Worthington, two experimentally illus- 

 trated lectures on the " Phenomena of 

 Splashes " ; Mr. M. H. Spielmann, two lec- 

 tures on the " Portraiture of Shakespeare " ; 

 Mr. F. A. Dixey, two lectures on " Dimorph- 

 ism in Butterflies " ; the Rev. John Roscoe, 

 two lectures on the " Banyoro : A Pastoral 

 People of Uganda " ; Professor Sir J. J. Thom- 

 son, professor of natural philosophy, six lec- 

 tures on " Molecular Physics." The Friday 

 evening meetings will begin on January 19, 

 when Professor Sir James Dewar will de- 

 liver a discourse on " Heat Problems." 



UNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



By the terms of the will of Mrs. Jan K. 

 Sacher, who died in Oakland recently, the 

 University of California is to receive $500,000. 

 The will stipulates that $200,000 is to be spent 

 on a granite campanile tower, 300 feet in 

 height, to be erected in the center of the 

 university grounds. 



A HALF-MILUON endowment has been se- 

 cured by Huron College, a Presbyterian in- 

 stitution in Huron, S. D. 



St. Lawrence University has obtained a 

 $200,000 endowment fund, of which the Gen- 

 eral Education Board has contributed $50,000. 



A DEPARTMENT of veterinary science has 

 been established at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, with Professor A. S. Alexander as head. 

 Professor F. B. Hadley will assist Dr. Alex- 

 ander in the work. Headquarters for the new 

 department have been provided in the stock 

 pavilion where a dispensary and operating 

 rooms have also been provided. The courses 

 in veterinary science are designed for stu- 

 dents of agriculture and enable them to care 

 for animals intelligently both in health and in 

 disease, and to recognize the common dis- 

 eases, blemishes and vices to which animals 

 are subject. 



