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House of Lords that the tax leads to the disper- 
sion of art collections, pictures being exported 
from England to the value of $6,000,000 an- 
nually. 
THE British Medical Journal states, on the 
authority of the Secretary of the Pretoria Ag- 
ricultural Society, that Professor Koch’s results 
with rinderpest inoculation are better than 
usually stated to be. He says that the method 
carried out in hundreds of instances has proved 
successful, but the unfortunate part has been 
that the ignorant Boer has not carried out all 
the particulars as instructed. He knew of one 
instance in which a Boer, after inoculating an 
animal with the virus, actually cleaned his 
fingers on the back of the nearest one grazing. 
Tn his opinion, however, it is not quite possible 
to stamp out the disease by the method, as it is 
impossible to inoculate throughout South 
Africa the hundred thousands of heads of cat- 
tle belonging to the natives in isolated districts 
in various parts of the country, and this con- 
tagious virus is, moreover, carried by the 
aasvogels (a species of vulture), who feed on 
the carcasses and carry the rinderpest from 
farm to farm. 
Ir is stated in Nature that a botanical society 
has recently been established at Perth, West 
Australia, and has been given the designation 
of the Mueller Botanic Society, as a tribute to 
the memory of the late Baron von Mueller, who 
spent the best part of his life in investigating 
the plants and other products of Australia. 
Sir John Forrest has been elected President of 
the new Society; Mr. Wittenoom and Mr. 
Leake, Vice-Presidents, and Mr. Skews, Secre- 
tary. 
THE Auckland Institute, says Natural Science, 
has decided to add a new hall, 50 feet square, 
to its Museum, on the east side of the Ethno- 
graphical Hall. It is intended to receive the 
statuary presented by Mr. T. Russell, which has 
hitherto found an uncongruous home among 
stuffed vertebrates. The space thus gained will 
be occupied by groups of the larger mammals, 
and £100 offered by Mr. Russell will be used to 
procure a group of the larger carnivores. Little 
Barrier Island, on which an attempt is being 
made to preserve the indigenous fauna and flora 
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of New Zealand, has been placed under the 
control of the Institute, with a grant of £200 
for the first year’s expenses. Mr. R. H. Shake- 
spear has been appointed curator, and it is 
hoped that he may be able to stop the depreda- 
tions of collectors. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Ir is announced that a college for women 
under the auspices of the Roman Catholic 
Church will be established at Washington. It 
will’ be called Trinity College, and will be 
adjacent to the Catholic University of America. 
THE municipal council of Marseilles has 
passed a resolution favoring the establishment 
of a university in that city. 
Mr. C. L. Herrick, lately professor of bi- 
ology at Denison University, has been elected 
President of the Territorial University at Albu- 
querque, New Mexico. 
Dr. A. R. Hi~t has been appointed pro- 
fessor of psychology and ethics in the University 
of Nebraska, and Dr. E. L. Hinman has been 
promoted to an adjunct professorship of phil- 
osophy in the same University. 
Miss BERTHA STONEMAN, who has been en- 
gaged for several years in the study of the de- 
velopment of fungi in the botanical department 
of Cornell University, and who received last 
year the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, has 
been appointed professor of botany in the 
Huegenot College in Cape Colony, South Africa. 
This is a college for the education of the 
daughters of the French and Dutch Huegenots 
and English residents in South Africa. She 
sails from New York on Saturday, July 24th, 
for Liverpool, and thence by the British African 
line of steamers for South Africa. 
Miss ArmA ANNA SmirH, M. S., and Miss 
Ethel Muir, Ph.D., both of Cornell University 
have been appointed assistants in Mount Hol- 
yoke College, South Hadley, Mass., the former 
in botany and the latter in philosophy. 
Miss ELLEN HAyes, for the past nine years 
professor of mathematics in Wellesley College, 
has just been made professor of applied mathe- 
matics in the same College. The courses of 
