July 22, 1S98.] 



SCIENCE. 



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a daily paper : Vitascope, kinetoscope, phanto- 

 scope, criterioscope, cinematograph, biograph, 

 kinematograph, wonderscope, animatoscope, 

 vitagraph, panoramograph, cosmoscope, ana- 

 rithmoscope, katopticum, magniscope, zeoptro- 

 trope, phautasmagoria, projectoscope,variscope, 

 cinograpli, cinomograph, hypnoscope, ceuto- 

 graph, x-ograph, electroscope, cinagraphoscope, 

 craboscope, vitaletiscope, cinematoscope, muto- 

 scope, cinoscope, animaloscope, theatograph, 

 chronophotograplioscope, motograph, kineto- 

 graph, rayoscope, motorscope, kinetinephone, 

 thromotrope, phenakistoscope, venetrope, virte- 

 scope, zinematograph, vitopticon, stinetiscope, 

 vivrescope, diaramiscope, lobsterscope, cor- 

 monograph, kineoptoscope. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



De. E. Benjamin Andrews, President of 

 Brown University, has been elected Superin- 

 tendent of the Chicago Schools by the Board of 

 Education. Thirteen votes were cast for Dr. 

 Andrews and six for Albert G. Lane, the pres- 

 ent Superintendent. Dr. Andrews will accept, 

 and will assume the duties immediately. Pro- 

 fessor Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who holds the 

 chair of Greek at Cornell University and is an 

 alumnus of Brown University, is prominently 

 mentioned in connection with the vacant presi- 

 dency. 



Professor John M. Coulter, head of the 

 department of botany in the University of Chi- 

 cago, is Principal of the "Winona Assembly and 

 Summer School, which is holding a session from 

 July 4th to August 28th. The buildings and 

 grounds have been fitted up at a cost of about 

 $300,000. 



The sixth volume of the Annual Register of 

 the University of Chicago is a book of 480 

 pages. The summary of attendance shows a 

 total enrollment for the year of 2,307 students, 

 1,428 men and 879 women. By quarters the 

 figures are : 



Summer, '97, 1273 



Autumn, '97, 1170 



"Winter, '98 1169 



Spring, '98, 1094 



The enrollment of students in the University 

 of Nebraska for the year 1897-98 was as fol- 

 lows : 



Graduate students, 143 



Collegiate students 993 



Law students 102 



Special professional students, . . ., 30 



Agricultural and mechanical school, 36 



School of art and music, 325 



Preparatory school 190 



Summer school 262 



Deducting duplicated names there were 1915 

 in all, of which 1,043 were men and 872 women. 

 The instructional staff and assistants numbered 

 184. 



Two hundred and fifty students were en- 

 rolled in the summer session of the University of 

 Nebraska, June 6th to July 16th. Hitherto this 

 has been a semi-independent summer school, 

 but this year the experiment was made of offer- 

 ing condensed courses of regular University 

 work. By more frequent meetings of classes 

 and more hours per week in the laboratories, as 

 much was accomplished in many subjects in six 

 weeks as in a full seiaester under ordinary condi" 

 tions. The success of the summer session just 

 closed encourages the University authorities to- 

 continue the experiment next year. Fully sixty- 

 five per cent, of the students in this session 

 were teachers in the schools of the State. 



It has been ordered by the Kussian Minister 

 of Public Instruction that the number of Jewish 

 students in any faculty of the University of 

 Moscow shall not exceed three per cent, of the 

 total number of students in that faculty. 



The Egyptian Ministry of Public Instruction 

 advertises for a senior and a junior professor 

 of agriculture for the School of Agriculture, 

 Gheezeh. The salaries are about $2,500 and 

 $1,500 per annum. Applications may be made 

 before August 12th to the Principal of the 

 School, W. C. Mackenize, D.Sc., 6 Hartington 

 Gardens, Edinburgh. 



In the absence of Mr. "W. H. E. Elvers, who 

 is accompanying Professor Haddon on his expe- 

 dition to the Torres Straits, courses in experi- 

 mental psychology in University College, Lon- 

 don, will be given by Mr. E. T. Dickson. 



Dr. "Willy Kunkelthal, associate professor 

 of zoology at Jena, has been called to a full 

 professorship in Breslau ; Dr. F. J. Becker, 

 professor of mineralogy in the German Univer- 

 sity at Prague, has been called to "Vienna. 



