OcTOBER 22, 1897.] 
“T will now remind you that ‘every dog has his 
day. ‘This is my day and the time is not far distant 
when your client will wish he had carried his tracks 
along with him. That you and he have run up 
against the wrong man is only a question of time. 
You can make the most of your opportunity and I 
will pursue the even tenor of my way.”’ 
Such occurrences are discouraging, even 
though it is certain that their duration will 
be but brief. We are of the opinion that it is 
the duty of the Geological Society of America, 
even though it should cost each member one- 
tenth of his time and of his income for one 
year, to see that the facts of the case are 
brought before the Legislature and the people 
of Missouri. 
THE outgoing Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge 
University stated in a valedictory address to 
the members of the Senate that the gifts to the 
museums and laboratories during the past year 
include a cast of the famous specimen of 
Iguanodon bernissartensis presented by his Maj- 
esty the King of the Belgians, a refrigerating 
machine for experimental purposes presented 
by Mr. T. B. Lightfoot, a valuable collection of 
dried plants presented by Mrs. C. Packe, a 
very important library of geological books pre- 
sented by Professor Wiltshire, M.A., of Trinity 
College, who has on previous occasions shown 
himself to be a most generous benefactor to the 
University, and two collections of great his- 
torical interest presented by the family of the 
late Charles Darwin. 
ACCORDING to the Statist, the yield of gold 
for 1896 was about £45,000,000, against an 
average of £21,738,000 for the period of 1881— 
90. For 1896 the production by fields was as 
follows: United States, £10,800,000; Austral- 
asia, £8,988,000; Transvaal, £8,604,000; India, 
£5,911,000; Russia and other countries, £10,- 
697,000—or a total of £45,000,000. The grand 
aggregate of the gold production since 1850 in- 
clusive is, in round figures, £1,163,000,000, or, 
approximately, 300,000,000 ounces of gold. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Tue Academic Freshman class at Yale Uni- 
versity is said by the New York Evening Post to 
number 58 less than last year, while there is an 
increase of 15 students in the Scientific School. 
SCIENCE. 631 
There is, this year, an increase of about 300 
students at the University of Michigan, chiefly 
in the law department, and of over 100 at Co- 
lumbia University. A decrease of about 50 stu- 
dents in the undergraduate department of 
Brown University is reported. 
THE New York Tribune states that the Uni- 
versity of Missouri receives $23,023 from the es- 
tate of the late John C. Conley, under the opera- 
tion of a law recently passed by the Legislature 
which provides that if a man dies leaving no 
father, mother or direct lineal descendant a 
certain per cent. of his estate, excluding any 
amount left for charitable or religious purposes, 
must go to the State University. 
Dr. R. C. CurRistiE, formerly professor at 
Owens College, Manchester, has given the Col- 
lege the whole of his share in the residuary es- 
tate of the late Sir Joseph Whitworth, estimated’ 
at £50,000. The College has also received 
gifts of £20,000 for the erection of a physical 
laboratory and £6,000 for its maintenance and 
of £1,500 towards the erection of a museum. 
THOSE who last winter objected to the action 
of Cornell University in deciding to follow the 
example of the great English and other Ameri- 
can universities and award the degrees A.B. and 
A.M. for scientific as well as for classical 
studies probably do not read this JOURNAL. 
Otherwise we should like to call their attention 
to the fact that Cornell in its short history has 
conferred forty-seven kinds of degrees, and 
ask whether it is an advantage to increase or 
decrease the numbers of kinds of degrees 
awarded for liberal studies. 
THE Board of Overseers of Harvard Uni- 
versity have concurred with the president and 
fellows in their votes changing the title of Hugo 
Miunsterberg from professor of experimental 
psychology to professor of psychology, and of 
William James from professor of psychology to 
professor of philosophy. 
Dr. WILLIAMS. CARTER, of the University 
of Pennsylvania, has been elected professor of 
physiology in the University of Texas. 
Dr. CHARLES W. Harcirtr, professor of 
biology in the College of Liberal Arts of Syra- 
