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for the protection and preservation of the for- 
est reserve. It has full control of the Adrion- 
dack Park and forest reserve, and is authorized 
to make rules for its care and safety. The 
commission appoints thirty-five ‘fish and game 
protectors and foresters,’ one of whom is 
known as chief, and two others as his assist- 
ants, the chief to have direction and control of 
the entire force. The chief forester receives 
$2,000 per year and traveling expenses; the 
assistant foresters $1,200 each; and the re- 
maining foresters $500 each; all haying an 
extra allowance for traveling expenses and 
each of them to receive one-half of all fines col- 
lected in actions brought upon information fur- 
nished by them. 
THE Cairo correspondent of the London 
Times writes: ‘‘The crime statistics for the first 
three quarters of this year, compiled by the 
Minister of the Interior, show a gratifying 
diminution, which is confirmed by the registers 
of the Ministry of Justice. The figure has fallen 
from 1,493 cases in the corresponding period of 
1896 to 1,143—a decrease of over 23 per cent. ; 
and robberies with violence, which constitute 
the most serious class of crime in Egypt, have 
diminished from 476 to 287, or nearly 40 per 
cent. The fact that the decrease is distributed 
generally over the country and has occurred 
steadily month by month shows that it is due, 
not to any accidental circumstances, but to bet- 
ter organization and control, and indicates a 
real adyance in the state of public security 
throughout the country.”’ 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY will deliver the ora- 
tion on ‘ University Day,’ to be observed by the 
University of Pennsylvania, on Washington’s 
Birthday. 
THE Association of Colleges and Preparatory 
Schools in the Middle States and Maryland will 
meet this year at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 
On November 26th and 27th Professor Ralph 
S. Tarr and Mr Charles C. Wilson will intro- 
duce the discussion of science in the schools, 
which is assigned an important place on the 
program. 
Ar the annual meeting of the Council of New 
York University, on November Ist, Chancellor 
SCIENCE. 
[N. S. Vox. VI. No. 150. 
MacCracken presented a report covering the 
work of the University for the past twelve 
years. It appears that when Dr. MacCracken 
first became connected with the University, in 
1885, the value of its property was only about 
$600,000, whereas it is now nearly $2,500,000. 
The gifts last year amounted to more than 
$250,000. 
Tue Teachers’ College, New York, shows a 
marked growth this year, the number of stu- 
dents being two hundred and forty-one, against 
one hundred and twenty-nine last year. 
Iv is expected that a Hall of Physics will be 
built at Syracuse University next year, the sum 
of $25,000 haying already been subscribed for 
the purpose. 
AT the last meeting of the Board of Trustees 
of the University of Alabama Mr. George S. 
Wilkins (Princeton) was elected professor of 
civil and mining engineering, and Dr. John Y. 
Graham (Princeton) professor of biology. 
Dr. FRANK K. CAMERON, late associate pro- 
fessor of chemistry in the Catholic University 
of America at Washington, has been appointed 
research assistant in physical chemistry in Cor- 
nell University. 
Dr. WARNER FITE, assistant professor of 
philosophy in Williams College, has been ap- 
pointed to a docentship in philosophy in the 
University of Chicago, and Mr. A. F. Buck and 
Miss Jane Downey have been appointed assist- 
ants in the psychological laboratory. 
THE chair of philosophy and the chaplaincy 
of Lehigh University have been filled by the 
election of the Rey. Langdon C. Stewardson, 
rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Worces- 
ter, Mass. 
Dr. Max von Frey, of Leipzig, has been 
called to the chair of physiology at the Uni- 
versity of Zurich, and Dr. George Kraus to the 
chair of botany in the University of Halle, as 
successor of Professor J. von Sachs. 
Dr. MAx Dessorr has been promoted to an 
associate professorship of psychology in the 
University of Berlin, Dr. Lothar Heffter has 
been made associate professor of mathematics 
at the University at Bonn, and Dr. Brikencajer 
