702 
on the list with 45 gallons. In none of the 
large towns in the South of France does the con- 
sumption fall below 30 gallons, but in seven 
large town in the North (Lille, Boulogne-sur- 
Mer, Dunkirk, Caen, Calais, Roubaix and 
Turcoing) it averages only six gallons. Another 
table gives the consumption of alcohol, and here 
Rouen, Cherbourg and Le Havre head the list 
with an annual total of nearly four gallons per 
head of the population, or more than double 
the quantity consumed in Paris. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
THE late George M. Pullman has left $1,200,- 
000 for the erection and endowment of a manual 
training school in the town of Pullman. 
THE Ohio Wesleyan University has received 
a bequest of $35,000 from the late Stephen 
Watson for the endowment of a professorship. 
THE West Virginia University has followed 
the example of the University of Chicago, and 
will hereafter hold continuous session, the aca- 
demic session being divided into four quarters 
of twelve weeks each with an intervening vaca- 
tion of one week. 
AN increase of forty-two students over last 
year is reported at Harvard College. The reg- 
istration is as follows: Seniors, 337; juniors, 
383; sophomores, 443; freshmen, 470; specials, 
163; total, 1,796. 
Dr. CHARLES W. DABNEY, recently Assistant 
Secretary of Agriculture, and special agent in 
charge of scientific and statistical investiga- 
tions, Washington, D. C., has been elected 
President of the University of Tennessee. 
Dr. ARTHUR ALLIN, of Ohio University, has 
been appointed professor of psychology and 
pedagogy in the University of Colorado. 
Dr. A. W. SHEEN has been appointed dem- 
onstrator in anatomy and Mr. S. C. Mahala- 
nobis demonstrator of physiology in the medi- 
cal department of University College of South 
Wales, Monmouthshire. 
J. GRAHAM Kerr, B.A., scholar of Christ’s 
College, Cambridge, has been appointed dem- 
onstrator in animal morphology for a period of 
five years from October 1, 1897, in place of Mr. 
KH. W. MacBride, who had resigned in order to 
SCIENCE. 
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accept the professorship of zoology in McGill 
University. 
TuE electors to the professorship of pathol- 
ogy, Cambridge University, will meet for the 
purpose of proceeding to the election of a pro- 
fessor on Saturday, November 6th. It is ex- 
pected that Dr. Kanthack will be elected. 
Dr. HERMANN Munxk has been promoted to 
a full professorship of physiology at the Uni- 
versity of Berlin. Dr. Hettner, of Leipzig, 
has been appointed assistant professor of geogra- 
phy in the University at Tubingen, and Dr. 
Max Busch assistant professor of analytical 
chemistry and chemical technology in the Uni- 
versity at Erlangen. 
THE annual report of President Schurman, of 
Cornell University, is the first of these impor- 
tant university publications to reach us. It opens 
with the minute adopted by the Board of Trus- 
tees on the death of their chairman, Mr. Henry 
W. Sage, who had made gifts to the University 
aggregating $1,175,000, and had given his ser- 
vices in many ways. The report reviews 
changes in the faculty, including some account 
of the work of Professors Dennis (analytical 
chemistry), Jacoby (civil engineering), Barr 
(mechanical engineering), and Trevor (chem- 
istry), who were promoted to full professor- 
ships during the year. There were in the Uni- 
versity 1,808 students, the number being prac- 
tically the same as in 1893-4, before the 
requirements for admission were advanced. 
As Cornell is sometimes said to be developing 
into a great technological school rather than 
into a university it is interesting to note that 
in this period there has been a decrease of 
about 100 students in the departments of ap- 
plied science and an increase of about 100 
students in the academic departments. These 
numbered 593 students and there were 161 
graduate students. President Schurman re- 
views the condition and work of the different 
departments and colleges of the University, 
the library, the grounds and the financial situ- 
ation. Thelibrary now contains nearly 200,000 
bound volumes ; 10,000 have been added during 
the year. The financial statement is very brief. 
Except money paid from the Fayerweather 
estate, the University has received no bequests. 
