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and the skill, intelligence and enterprise of 
physicians may be depended upon to make an 
inyestigation.”’ 
Tue laboratory courses in biology at Wesleyan 
University will be conducted next year by Mr. 
Estin during the absence of Professor Conn in 
Europe. 
TuE Berlin correspondent of the London 
Times writes that, at the recent Medical Con- 
gress, Professor Liebreich, who may, perhaps, 
be described as the leader of the anti-Koch 
party in the Berlin scientific world, stated his 
theory of tuberculosis as opposed to Professor 
Koch’s. Phthisis, he said, might be present 
without tuberculous bacilli as concomitants. 
The reception of tuberculous bacilli into the 
system had an injurious effect only in cases 
where there existed a predisposition to disease, 
and thus the bacilli were only parasites. It was 
a radically false method to attempt merely to 
deliver a consumptive patient from the presence 
of bacilli. The chief thing was to increase the 
vital power of the cellular tissue. Cantharidine 
was a specific capable of producing this result. 
Was there any method of disinfecting the 
cellular system? In Professor Liebreich’s ex- 
perience he found that etherized oil of mustard 
had this effect. The lecturer did not think 
that the therapeutic systems which had been 
built up on the basis of bacteriology were de- 
fensible. The results obtained with diptheritic 
serum were apparent rather than real. Pro- 
fessor Koch’s method of treating tuberculosis 
had no prospect of ultimate success. Professor 
Liebreich’s views were summarized in the sen- 
tence: ‘‘Tuberculosis is a ‘nosoparasitism,’ 
and the essential feature of the disease is the 
deterioration of the organism.’’ Several subse- 
quent speakers of eminence strongly combated 
Professor Liebreich’s assertions, urging in par- 
ticular the indubitable successes obtained with 
diphtheritic serum. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
THe Hull Biological Laboratories of the 
University of Chicago were formally dedicated 
on July 2d. The presentation was made 
by Miss Helen Culver and the acceptance 
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acknowledged by the President. The dedi- 
catory address was made by Professor William 
H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins University, 
his subject being ‘ Biology and Medicine.’ The 
laboratories were open to inspection in the 
afternoon. A dinner was given to the visiting 
biologists before Professor Welch’s address and 
a reception was given afterwards by the mem- 
bers of the biological faculties to Miss Culver 
and Professor Welch. 
THE University of Chicago will erect a new 
building outside the University grounds which 
will contain the plant for power, light and 
heat, the extensive printing and bookbinding 
establishment and a retail bookselling and 
stationery department. 
THE trustees of the College of the City of New 
York have approved the purchase of a site on 
Convent Avenue, and have authorized the ex- 
ecutive committee to select plans for the build- 
ings. 
PRESIDENT G. J. KOLLEN, of Hope College, 
situated at Holland, Mich., announced at the 
recent commencement that $100,000 had been 
subscribed for the College by various donors. 
By the will of the late Dr. John T. Atwater, 
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Yale University re- 
ceives land valued at $25,000. 
THE Ohio Supreme Court has handed down 
a decision that gives the Ohio State University 
the estate left by the late Mr. Henry F. Page, 
consisting of farms and personal property, the 
exact value of which is not known. 
THE Thirty-fifth University Convocation of 
the State of New York met at Albany from the 
28th to 30th of June, with a large attendance of 
those interested in higher education. Addresses 
were made by Chancellor Upson, Governor 
Black and President Canfield, of the Ohio State 
University. The first morning was devoted to 
the teaching of science, papers being presented 
on the ‘Present Trend of Geography,’ by 
Professor W. M. Davis, Harvard University; 
on ‘ Methods of Teaching Botany in the Second- 
ary Schools,’ by Professor Geo. F. Atkinson, Cor- 
nell University; on ‘ The Proper Use of Library 
and Laboratory in Teaching Physical Science in 
