OcTOBER 15, 1897. ] 
THE American Forestry Association has held 
a special meeting at Nashville, Tenn., with an 
excursion to Biltmore and Chattanooga, leav- 
ing Washington for Biltmore on the night of 
of September 16th. The party were enter- 
tained at Biltmore by Dr. Schenck, who ex- 
plained and illustrated the methods of forestry 
management used on the estate of 1,300 acres. 
The chief meeting was held at Nashville on 
September 22d, at which papers were presented 
by Messrs. George B. Sudworth, J. B. Kille- 
grew and others. 
THE Macmillan Company will have ready for 
publication in the autumn the first volume of 
‘The Scientific Papers of Henry T. Huxley,’ 
reprinted from the journals of scientific societies, 
edited by Professor Michael Foster and Pro- 
fessor E. Ray Lankester. The scientific papers 
are expected to fill four volumes. 
THE current number of Nature (September 30) 
publishes the address on ‘Long Range Tem- 
perature and Pressure Variables in Physics’ 
given by Professor Barus as Vice-President, be- 
fore the Section of Physics at the Detroit meet- 
ing of the American Association. 
Proressor J. J. THomMPsSON’s work on the 
‘Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Elec- 
tricity and Magnetism’ has been translated 
into German by Professor Gustav Wertheim, 
being published by Friedrich Vieweg, Bruns- 
wick. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
AT a meeting of the trustees of Columbia 
University, on October 4th, President Low pre- 
sented the following letter : 
CoLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE City or NEW YORK. 
PRESIDENT’S Room. 
October 4, 1897. 
To the Trustees: As I have felt constrained by a 
sense of public duty to accept a nomination for Mayor 
of the City of New York at the hands of the Citizens’ 
Union, I feel it to be my duty to the University to place 
in your hands for such action as you may see fit to 
take my resignation as President of the University. 
I need not say that nothing but a deep sense of the 
imperative nature of the call to public duty would 
have led me to accept the nomination. 
Respectfully, : 
SETH Low. 
SCIENCE. 
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The letter of resignation was referred to a 
committee, which cannot report until the next 
meeting of the trustees, on November 15th, 
when the election will have taken place. 
THE 22d of October will hereafter be cele- 
brated at Princeton University as Charter Day. 
Ex-President Cleveland will this year make the 
address. A short address is also expected from 
the Earl of Aberdeen, Governor-General of 
Canada, on whom a degree will be conferred. 
PRESIDENT HARPER, of the University of Chi- 
cago, reports in his quarterly statement that 
there were in the University 169 instructors, 
of whom 19 are head professors, 22 professors, 
27 associate professors and 21 assistant profes- 
sors. The average salary for the year 1896-7 
for all departments, including University Ex- 
tension Division and the Divinity School, was 
$2,108.52. 
THE Union of the Medical Departments of 
New York University and of Bellevue Hos- 
pital Medical College having failed, the build- 
ing of the latter institution, which was destroyed 
by fire, has been rebuilt, and the College was 
opened on September 28th. Professor Lusk, 
whose death we were recently compelled to 
record, has been succeeded as president by Dr. 
Edward B. Janeway and as clinical professor 
of gynecology by Dr. Henry C. Coe. Dr. 
Henry H. Rusby has been appointed professor 
of materia medica and pharmacology, and Dr. 
John A. Mandel, professor of chemistry. 
ACCORDING to a letter to the Boston Tran- 
script the serious damage suffered by Johns 
Hopkins University through the lapsing of 
dividends on Baltimore & Ohio stock has 
aroused the Baltimore Board of Trade to con- 
sider the question of extending aid to the insti- 
tution from the public treasury. The Board 
will probably memorialize the State Legislature 
at its approaching session, setting forth the 
great advantage to Baltimore in a hundred 
different ways of having the University, and 
drawing attention to the probability that the 
very block of stock which has brought such 
loss to the University had been previously 
owned by the State, so that the University is 
only bearing a burden which the State itself 
might otherwise have borne. 
