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a very slight widening of the back of the 

 parietal region to remedy a defect which was 

 pointed out to him by Professor Elliot Smith 

 when he first studied the brain-cast. The ca- 

 pacity of the brain-case thus remains much 

 the same as he originally stated, and he main- 

 tains that Professor Keith has arrived at a 

 different result by failing to recognize the 

 mark of the superior longitudinal sinus on 

 the frontal region and by unduly widening 

 that on the parietal region. It is understood 

 that Mr. Dawson and Dr. "Woodward will 

 offer an account of the season's work to the 

 Geological Society at an early meeting, and 

 Professor Elliot Smith will include a de- 

 tailed study of the brain-cast of Eoanthropus 

 in a memoir on primitive human brains which 

 he is preparing for the Eoyal Society. 



Leonardo da Vinci left a number of anat- 

 omical drawings with descriptions which are 

 now in the Eoyal Library at Windsor, after 

 lying hidden in the Ambrosia Library, Milan, 

 for centuries. The British Medical Journal 

 states that photographs of these, with English 

 and German translations of the descriptions, 

 have been prepared by Ove C. L. Vangensten, 

 A. Fonahn and H. Hopstock, and published 

 by Jacob Dybwad, of Christiania. Dr. Hop- 

 stock is prosector of anatomy in the Univer- 

 sity of Christiania, where Dr. Eonahn is pro- 

 fessor of the history of medicine, and Mr. 

 Vangensten, professor of Italian. The first 

 volume (" Quaderni d'Anatomia," I.), pub- 

 lished in 1911, contains 13 folios, 22 pages in 

 facsimile (collotype), and TO designs. The 

 subjects illustrated are respiration, the alter- 

 nating motions of the diaphragm and the 

 muscles of the abdomen, together with the 

 passage of the food through the alimentary 

 canal, and the heart. A special volume on the 

 heart (" Quaderni d'Anatomia," II.), con- 

 taining 24 folios, 33 pages in facsimile (collo- 

 type) and 240 designs, was published in 1912. 

 The third volume, which appeared in Septem- 

 ber of the present year, consists of 12 folios, 

 20 pages in facsimile (collotype), dealing with 

 the organs of generation. The remainder of 

 the hitherto unpublished Windsor papers will 

 follow, one volume appearing annually in Sep- 



tember. The whole work will comprise six 

 volumes. The Professor Voss prize has been 

 awarded to the editors by the University of 

 Christiania. 



UmVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



There is under construction at Smith Col- 

 lege a biological hall for which the trustees 

 have appropriated $140,000. Hitherto the de- 

 partments of physics, zoology and botany have 

 done most of their work in Lilly Hall. With 

 the completion of the new building this hall 

 will be left entirely to physics. 



A SECOND gift of $10,000 from Mr. Melville 

 H. Hanna, to Union College, is announced. 



Lafayette College has received $90,000 for 

 a chapel from a donor whose name is withheld. 



An anonymous friend has presented to the 

 University of Leeds £10,000 for the erection of 

 a school of agriculture. 



By the will of the late Henry Follett Osier 

 the University of Birmingham is to receive 

 the sum of £10,000, with a prospective share 

 in the residuary estate. 



Cornell University Medical College 

 opened on October 1, with an enrollment as 

 follows : Eor the degree of M.D. : first year, 36 ; 

 second year, 32 ; third year, 20 ; fourth year, 

 20; special students (work not leading to the 

 degree M.D.), 5; for the degree of Ph.D., 2; 

 for the degree of M.A., 2 ; making a total of 117. 

 All students now registered, with the excep- 

 tion of those pursuing the combined seven 

 years course leading to the degrees of A.B. and 

 M.D., are graduates of arts or science, or 

 doctors of medicine doing advanced work. 



Professor Willard C. Fisher, whose forced 

 resignation from the chair of economics and 

 sociology at Wesleyan on the alleged ground 

 of his views on Sabbath observance will be 

 remembered, has been appointed lecturer on 

 economics at Harvard University for the cur- 

 rent academic year. 



The trustees of The Ohio State University 

 have made the following promotions: Charles 

 St. John Chubb, Jr., C.E., to be professor of 

 architecture; Dana James Demorest, B.S.C., 

 to be professor of metallurgy; Harry Clifford 

 Eamsower, B.S.C., to be professor of rural 



