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the Secondary Schools,’ by Professor John F. 
Woodhull, Teachers’ College, New York; on 
‘The Practical Study of the Brain in a Primary 
School,’ by Professor Burt G. Wilder, Cornell 
University, and on ‘ The Place of Electricity in 
the College Curriculum,’ by Brother Potamian, 
Manhattan College. These papers were dis- 
cussed by Professor A. P. Brigham, Colgate 
University; Professor E. L. Nichols, Cornell 
University; Professor W. LeConte Stevens, 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and others. 
Among other subjects considered by the convo- 
eation were Athletic and Oratorical Contests, 
Instruction in Ethics in Secondary Schools, The 
Relations of the College to the University and 
a National University, under which latter sub- 
ject Professor R. H. Thurston, Cornell Uni- 
versity, read a paper entitled, ‘The National 
University and Technical Education.’ In some 
remarks on the work of the University, Regent 
T. Guilford Smith called special attention to 
the work in geology and botany of Dr. F. J. H. 
Merrill and Mr. J. A. Lintner. 
THE New York State Teachers’ Association 
met at the Normal College, New York, from 
June 30th to July 2d, with about 2,000 mem- 
bers in attendance. There was a nature study 
section in which papers were read on ‘ Nature 
Study in a Crowded City,’ ‘The Use of the 
Microscope,’ ‘The Mounting of Botanical 
Specimens,’ ‘ Literary Aids,’ and other subjects 
of interest to teachers of science in the schools. 
A State Society for Child Study was organized 
with Mr. George Griffith, of Utica, as Presi- 
dent, and Professor M. V. O’Shea, recently 
elected professor of pedagogy at the University 
of Wisconsin, as Secretary and Treasurer. 
Dr. CHARLES E. BEECHER has been promoted 
to a University professorship of historical 
geology at Yale University, and Dr. L. Y. 
Pirsson to a professorship of physical geology 
in the Lawrence Scientific School. 
Dr. F. E, Hvxt, of Toronto University and 
the University of Chicago, has been appointed 
to the chair of physics in Colby. University, 
vacant by the resignation of Professor William 
A. Rogers. 
THE following promotions and appointments 
have recently been made by the Trustees of the 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Vou. VI. No. 132. 
Johns Hopkins University: John M. T. Fin- 
ney, M.D., now associate, to be associate 
professor of surgery ; Lorrain S. Hulburt, Ph. 
D., now associate, to be collegiate professor of 
mathematics; James E. Humphrey, S8.D., now 
lecturer, to be associate professor of botany ; 
William J. A. Bliss, Ph.D., now assistant, to 
be associate in physics; N. Ernest Dorsey, Ph. 
D., now fellow, to be assistant in physics; 
William T. Mather, Ph.D., now fellow, to be 
assistant in physics; George B. Shattuck, Ph. 
D., now fellow, to be assistant in geology ; 
Oliver L. Fassig, S.B., of the U. S. Weather 
Bureau, to be instructor in climatology ; 
Charles R. Bardeen, M.D., to be assistant in 
anatomy. 
FELLOWSHIPS at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity have been awarded as follows: F. S. Conant, 
Zoology (the Bruce fellowship); Cleveland Abbe, 
Jr., Geology; G. A. Drew, Biology; C. W. 
Greene, Biology; J. G. Hardy, Mathematics ; 
W. A. Jones, Chemistry; C. E. Mendenhall, 
Physics; S. A. Mitchell, Astronomy; J. L. 
Nichols, Pathology; E. E. Reid, Chemistry, 
C. W. Waidner, Physics. It appears that 
these awards represent four notable instances 
of heredity either of ‘nature’ or of ‘ nurture.’ 
THE White professorship of moral philoso- 
phy at Oxford, vacant by the death of the late 
Professor Wallace, has been filled by the selec- 
tion of Mr. John Alexander Stewart, tutor of 
Christchurch, and known as the editor of Aris- 
totle’s Ethics. 
THE allowance made from the public funds 
for the English University Colleges and for the 
College at Dundee has this year been increased 
from £15,000 to £25,000. On the recommen- 
dation of a committee, consisting of Mr. T. H. 
Wairen, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 
and Mr. G. D. Liveing, professor of chemistry, 
Cambridge, the apportionment has been made 
as follows : 
The Owens College, Manchester...... £3,500 
University College, London............ 3,000 
University College, Liverpool......... 3,000 
Mason College, Birmingham........... 2,700 
King’s College, London..............+. 2,200 
Yorkshire College, Leeds............... 2,200 
Durham College of Science.............. 2,200 
University College, Nottingham...... 1,500 
