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throughout the year; that it may not be let at 
any time for game preserving, or for any pur- 
pose inimical to bird life; and that it may re- 
main in perpetuity as a national memorial to 
the greatest outdoor naturalist England has 
produced—Gilbert White, of Selborne. Such 
a recognition, the Society urge, would show that 
the admiration of Gilbert White in the nine- 
teenth century wasso practical as to be of value 
to the naturalist and the English-speaking race 
for all succeeding time. The Society have no 
wish to attempt to interfere with the use of the 
Forest by the War Office for the purposes of 
military manceuvres. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
BiLts have been again introduced into both 
Houses of Congress to establish the University 
of the United States. Such a bill was intro- 
duced by Senator Edmunds in 1890 and referred 
to a select committee, which reported unani- 
mously in its favor. The standing committee 
since appointed has also reported unanimously 
in its favor and it is said that the bill will 
probably be passed during the present session. 
NEGOTIATIONS ere said to be under way look- 
ing towards the affiliation of the University of 
Chicago and the Rush Medical College. 
EVELYN COLLEGE, Princeton, has been closed, 
owing to the fact, as stated by the principal, 
that Princeton University refuses to recognize 
any work for the education of women. 
Mr. FRANZ Kempe, of Stockholm, has given 
the University of Upsala the sum of about 
$45,000 for the establishment of an associate 
professorship of physiological botany under the 
condition that Dr. Lundstrom be the first 
incumbent. 
By the will of the late F. Ulrich the German 
University of Prague receives 100,000FI. for 
the distribution of scholarships. 
A PROPOSITION has been introduced into the 
French Chamber and referred to the Education 
Commission creating a chair of colonial science 
in the University of Paris. , 
PROFESSOR WALDEMAR LINDGREN, of the U. 
S. Geological Survey, has been appointed to 
the chair of metallurgy and mining engineering 
in Stanford University. 
SCIENCE. 
[N. 8. Von. VI. No. 155. 
Mr. EpGar R. Cumines, of Cornell Univer- 
sity, who graduated from Union College last ' 
June with honors in geology, has been appointed 
instructor in geology in the University of In- 
diana. 
Dr. W. OPHULS, assistant in the University of 
Gottingen, has been called to the chair of pa- 
thological anatomy in the University of Mis- 
souri. 
Dr. S. Fucus has been promoted to an asso- 
ciate professorship of physiology at the Univer- 
sity at Jena. 
THE regents of the University of the State 
of New York have just published as bulletin 38 
a compilation of all the laws, ordinances and 
by-laws pertaining to higher education in this 
State. It includes not only the University law, 
but also the educational articles from the Con- 
stitution and the various statutes governing 
professional education and license to practice, 
and other allied matters. Its practical utility 
is greatly increased by many annotations and 
cross references and by a very full index, so 
that every lawyer or school officer will find it 
indispensable when considering any of the large 
class of questions covered. It is being sent to: 
every institution in the University free, but 
lawyers or others interested may obtain copies 
from the regent’s office, post;free, at the nominal 
price of 15 cents for the 108 pages. 
THE report of the Sites Syndicate of Cam- 
bridge University was approved on November 
25th. By it provision was made for sites for 
the erection of a law school, for new buildings 
for the department of botany, for a museum of 
general and local archeology and of ethnology, 
to be erected on ground purchased from Down- 
ing College. The mathematical professors are 
to be provided for by buildings to be erected on 
the site purchased from Messrs. Murtlock & Co., 
while the rooms now occupied by them are to 
be assigned, together with the bird room, when 
vacated, to the department of morphology. 
The rooms between the bird room and the 
department of physiology are to be assigned to 
the departments of physiology and morphology. 
The present Geological Museum in Cockerell’s 
buildings and the rooms in Scott’s buildings 
occupied by the University for business pur- 
