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made on the grounds where small flat fish 

 congregate west oi the Borkum. Keef, and the 

 results obtained are already of great interest 

 and importance. They indicate that during 

 Decembei, ^and January there was a marked 

 migration southwards and westwards of the 

 small plaice previously congregated on the 

 inshore grounds of the northern and western 

 coasts of Holland, the distances traveled being 

 in many cases quite unprecedented — viz., from 

 100 to 160 miles in six weeks or two months. 

 Over 10 per cent, of the fish liberated have 

 already been recovered. Although it is not 

 proposed to draw conclusions at the present 

 stage of the inquiry, these results already sug- 

 gest that the supply of flat fish in the southern 

 part of the North Sea, as far south as the 

 Thames estuary, is maintained to some extent 

 by immigrations of small fish from the ' nur- 

 series ' off the north coast of Holland. The 

 investigation of fish eggs will not be com- 

 menced until the next breeding season. Dur- 

 ing a recent visit of the Huxley to Heligoland 

 for this purpose Drs. Heincke and Ehrenbaum 

 joined Mr. Garstang for a day's fishing, and 

 demonstrated their appliances for this part of 

 the work. Uniform apparatus is now being 

 prepared for next season's investigations. 

 Special assistants are being trained for the 

 work in the markets, but have not yet begun 

 operations away from Lowestoft. The Eng- 

 lish portion of the international scheme of 

 hydrographic and plankton observations, the 

 execution of which has been assigned to the 

 Marine Biological Association, is to be carried 

 out in the western half of the English Chan- 

 nel. These investigations have for their ob- 

 ject the study of the seasonal changes which 

 take place in the physical and biological con- 

 ditions prevailing over the entire region cov- 

 ered by the international program, though 

 more particularly directed to a study of the 

 waters entering the North Sea from different 

 directions. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The late Andrew E. Gault bequeathed 

 $10,000 to McGill University, and the will 

 of the late James Cooper gave $60,000 to 

 endow a chair of internal medicine. 



The Maine legislature having appropriated 

 $2,500 a year for a department of forestry at 

 the University of Maine, the trustees have 

 authorized the appointment of a professor of 

 forestry. 



CoKNELL University has recently acquired 

 three new farms. These farms, with its 

 campus and original farm give Cornell Uni- 

 versity about 460 acres of land, 275 of which 

 are available for the use of its College of 

 Agriculture. 



By the will of Spencer Morris, formerly 

 professor of medical jurisprudence and tox- 

 icology at the Medico-Chirurgical College 

 in Philadelphia, $12,250 is bequeathed to that 

 institution, the income of which is to be 

 awarded annually to the member of the grad- 

 uating class who receives the highest general 

 average at the final examination for the de- 

 gree of Doctor of Medicine. 



The trustees of Trinity College have es- 

 tablished a course in civil engineering to be 

 opened in September next. 



Dr. J. E. DuEEDENj interim professor of 

 biology at the University of North Carolina, 

 has been appointed acting assistant professor 

 of zoology at the University of Michigan. 



Professor Norman E. Gilbert, professor 

 of physics and instructor in mathematics at 

 Hobart College, has accepted a call as assist- 

 ant professor of physics at Dartmouth College. 



Professor Albert Lefevre, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been called to take charge of the 

 Department of Philosophy at Tulane Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Ir"MNG King, head of the department 

 of psychology and pedagogy in the Wisconsin 

 Normal School, at Oshkosh, has been elected 

 to the chair of psychology and history of edu- 

 cation in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. 



The honorary professorship of forestry at 

 the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 

 vacant some time ago by the death of the 

 late Sir Henry Gilbert, E.E.S., has now been 

 filled up by the appointment of Dr. W. 

 Schlich, CLE., F.R.S., late Inspector-General 

 of Forests, Government of India, principal 

 professor of forestry. Coopers Hill. 



