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rived at in the case of the prize for as- 

 tronomy, but a sum of 3,000 lire has been 

 awarded to Professor Filippo Angelitti in con- 

 sideration of his valuable work in editing and 

 discussing the unpublished writings of Profes- 

 sor Carlo Brioschi. The prize for philology 

 has been divided between Professor Angelo 

 Solerti and Professor Remigio Sabbadini, and 

 finally a Ministerial prize of 1,500 lire for nat- 

 ural science has been awarded to Professor L. 

 Paolucci for his monograph on the fossil plants 

 of the Ancoua district. The Academy has re- 

 cently elected the following associates and for- 

 eign members : National Associates — in physics, 

 Professors A. Righi, A. Roiti, and A. Pacinotti ; 

 in geology and paleontology, Signore G. Scara- 

 belli ; in zoologj% Professor C. Emery. Corre- 

 spondent in mechanics, Professor C. Somigliana. 

 Foreign Members — in mechanics, Professors A. 

 G. Greenhill and V. Voigt ; in physics. Professor 

 "W. C. Rontgen ; in geology and paleontology 

 Professor A. Karpinsky and Sir Archibald 

 Geikie ; in zoology. Professor E. Ray Lankester. 



An ichthyosaurus 20 feet in length, the head 

 two feet across, has, as we learn from Nature, 

 recently been uncovered in the Warwickshire 

 village of Stockton. The land is excavated by 

 cement firms and has yielded many lower mid- 

 dle Lias fossils. The present specimen will, it 

 it is said, be presented to the Natural History 

 Museum by the owner of the quarry. 



UmVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is reported in the daily papers that Miss 

 Jennie Flood has given to the University of 

 California her Menlo Park mansion, together 

 with five hundred and forty acres of land, and 

 four-fifths of the stock of a waterworks plant 

 which she owns. 



The National Council of Education has 

 authorized the appointment of a committee of 

 fifteen to investigate the whole subject of the 

 establishment of a national university and to 

 report to the Council at its next meeting. 



At Princeton University Mr. A. H. Phillips 

 and Dr. E. O. Lovett have been appointed to as- 

 sistant professorships in mineralogy and mathe- 

 matics, respectively. 



Me. a. a. Heller, instructor in botany 

 in the University of Minnesota, has resigned 

 his position to devote his time entirely to col- 

 lecting. Professor Conway MacMillan may be 

 addressed in reference to the Exchange Bureau. 



The State Department at Washington has- 

 received from Minister Conger at Pekin in- 

 formation that Dr. William A. P. Martin has 

 been appointed President of the University of 

 China, recently established by imperial decree. 

 Dr. Martin was President of Pekin University 

 for nearly thirty years. He is a citizen of the 

 United States, but went to China as a mis- 

 sionary about forty years ago. Associated with 

 Dr. Martin in the presidency is Hsu King Chang, 

 now Minister to Russia. The selection of the 

 corps of professors, some twenty, not including 

 fifty native tutors, is left entirely to Dr. Martin. 



Mr. E. G. Coker has been appointed assistant 

 professor of engineering in McGill University. 



Dr Rudolf Cohn, decent in physiological 

 chemistry in the University of Konigsberg, has 

 been made professor. Dr. Zograf has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of zoology and Dr. 

 Mrensbier assistant professor of comparative 

 anatomy in the University of Moscow. Profes- 

 sor Plolder, of Konigsberg, has been called to 

 the chair of mathematics at Leipzig. Dr. Koetz 

 has qualified as decent in chemistry in Gottingen 

 and Dr. Smoluchowskie von Smolen as decent 

 in physics in Vienna. Dr. Adam Nell, profes- 

 sor of mathematics in the Darmstadt Techno- 

 logical Institute, has retired, having reached 

 the age of seventy- four years. 



Professor Riedlee has presented to the en- 

 gineering laboratory at Berlin machinery valued 

 at $30,000. 



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Nature Study in Elementary Schools. By Mes. 



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A Header accompanying the same, pp. xv -|- 



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