AUGUST 20, 1897.] 
misery till the time comes for their despatch to 
meet the requirements of the London season, 
which coincides with the natural nesting time. 
The French government for some years pro- 
hibited the transit of quails through France in 
the close season, but as this simply led to their 
being sent through Germany and Belgium the 
prohibition has been removed, notwithstanding 
the protests of the Union des Sociétés des 
Chasses. Millions of small birds called ‘larks,’ 
though they include every variety, and espe- 
cially robbins, killed largely during the breeding 
Season, are also annually exported to England, 
and it is feared that they will be entirely ex- 
terminated in Italy. 2 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
A LARGE majority of the professors of Brown 
University have signed an open letter address- 
ing to the corporation a protest against at- 
tempting to curtail the freedom of speech of 
the President. The letter gives a straightfor- 
ward expression to the views which university 
professors should unite in maintaining and re- 
moves from Brown University the stigma put 
by the corporation in claiming that they can 
control the freedom of speech of its faculty. 
President Andrews, however, in accepting the 
presidency of a magazine ‘ university ’ confuses 
the friends of academic freedom. 
THE London University Commission bill has 
been postponed by the government until next 
year. 
Iv is reported in the daily papers that Mr. 
Washington Corrington, of Peoria, Ill., now 
eighty-five years old, has appointed trustees to 
have control of his property, to be used after 
his death to found a university at Peoria. His 
property is estimated at over $1,000,000. 
Tue Bradley Polytechnic Institute, of Peoria, 
will be dedicated on October 8th, the principal 
address being made by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, Hon. Lyman J. Gage. 
THE trustees of the University of Illinois 
have decided to admit women to the College of 
Physicians, Chicago. 
AT arecent meeting of the Council of the 
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University of Paris it was resolved that, as soon 
as financial resources permitted, the following 
courses should be added: Experimental phy- 
siology, objective psychology and astronom- 
ical physics, and additional courses in paleon- 
tology and histology. 
Ir is intended that the name of Croom Robert- 
son, late Grote professor in University College, 
London, to whom psychology in England is 
greatly indebted, shall be connected in some 
way with the new psychological laboratory 
established at University College. The princi- 
pal contributors to the fund are Mr. Haldane, 
Q. C., Mr. A. J. Balfour, Professor H. Sidg- 
wick, Mr. F. Galton, Dr. Savage, Sir John Lub- 
bock and Mr. Shadworth Hodgson. 
THE London Times reports that at Dewsbury, 
eiter the funeral of Dr. Hinchliffe, it was 
announced that the deceased, after providing 
for his housekeeper and servants, had be- 
queathed property and shares, with about £50,- 
000, toward higher education, but the purposes 
of the bequest are not stated. 
Dr. H. V. NEAL, Harvard University, has 
been elected professor of biology at Knox Col- 
lege, Galesburg, II. 
M. IzouLeT has been appointed to the newly 
established professorship of social philosophy 
in the Collége de France. 
Mr. W. W. WArtTrtTs, Assistant Geologist at the 
British Geological Survey, has been appointed 
assistant professor of geology at Mason College, 
Birmingham. 
Dr. HERMANN THOMES, docent in pharma- 
ceutical chemistry in the University of Berlin, 
has been promoted to a professorship. Profes- 
sor George Ruge, of Amsterdam, has been ap- 
pointed professor of anatomy and director of 
the Anatomical Institute at Zurich. Dr. Ossan, 
associate professor of mineralogy at Heidelberg, 
has been called to a chair in the School of 
Chemistry at Muhlhausen. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE, 
THE ANTECEDENT COLORADO. 
TO THE EDITOR OF SCIENCE: In addition to 
the doubts brought forward by Davis (SCIENCE, 
