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SCIENCE. 



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king e.xainple. In 1S87 there were in this 

 state 112,247 married women under the age of 

 45; in 1901 there were 149,247, yet the num- 

 ber of children born was about the same in 

 each year. The legitimate birth rate per 

 10,000 married women under the age of 45 

 is 239; in 1891 it was 276. A curious fact is 

 that the decline occurs in every class, among 

 people of every shade of opinion, except among 

 women of Irish birth, whc) exhibit no decline. 

 But as the proportion of women of Irish birth 

 is fast decreasing that element in mainte- 

 nance of the birth rate will soon disappear. 

 Large as is the area of the Australian conti- 

 nent Mr. Ooghlan thinks it is impossible that 

 its people will become truly great under the 

 conditions affecting the increase of popula- 

 tion which now exist. Immigration has prac- 

 tically ceased to be an important factor, the 

 maintenance and increase of the population 

 depending on the birth rate alone — a rate 

 seriously diminished and still diminishing. 



VXIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Professor F. D. Tucker, principal of the 

 school of agriculture of the University of 

 Minnesota, has been elected and has eiitered 

 upon his duties as president of Memorial Uni- 

 versity, Mason City, la. This institution was 

 founded about two years ago as a memorial 

 to the Grand Army of the Republic. One 

 building, the College of Arts, costing $100,000, 

 has already been erected and will be occupied 

 during the coming year. 



University College, Eeading, has received 

 towards the cost of the new buildings £10,000 

 from Lady Wantage, widow of Lord Wan- 

 tage, who was president of the college from 

 1896 to 1901 ; £10,000 from Mr. W. G. Palmer, 

 M.P.; and a third £10,000 from three other 

 contributors. 



The Leeds Corporation technical instruc- 

 tion sub-committee, with the approval of the 

 finance committee, has decided in the event 

 of a charter being granted to the York- 

 shire College, to give £4,000 a year towards 

 the University funds, in addition to the 



£],.')50 granted from the residue of the local 

 taxation. 



Dr. BiRTox D. Myers, assistant in anatomy 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, has an ap- 

 pointment as instructor in anatomy in the 

 Indiana State University. 



Dr. C. H. Gordon, until recently suijcrin- 

 tendent of schools at Lincoln, Nebr., and 

 instructor in geology and geography in the 

 University of Nebraska, has been appointed 

 acting-professor of geology in the University 

 of Washington to take charge of the work of 

 Professor Henry Landes, who has been granted 

 a year's leave of absence for study in the 

 University of Chicago. 



The following is a list of appointments in 

 the scientific departments of the University of 

 Maine for the coming year: H. S. Boardman. 

 B.C.E. and C.E., University of Maine, pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering; W. N. Spring, 

 B.A. and M.F., Yale, professor of forestry: 

 W. D. Hurd, B.S., Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege, professor of agTiculture; A. W. Cole, 

 B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, instruc- 

 tor in shop-work; H. P. Hamlin, B.C.E., Uni- 

 versity of Maine, instructor in civil engineer- 

 ing; G. T. Davis, B.A., and J. B. Reed. B.A., 

 of the University of Michigan, instructors in 

 chemistry; E. H. Bowen, A.B., Colgate, tutor 

 in physics; P. D. Simpson, B.S., University 

 of Maine, tutor in civil engineering; R. M. 

 Connor, B.S., University of Maine, tutor in 

 mathematics; Edith M. Patch, A.B., Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, entomologist in the experi- 

 ment station; S. C. Dinsmore, B.S., Univer- 

 sity of Maine, assistant chemist in the experi- 

 ment station. 



Professor Authenrieth, of Freiburg, lias 

 been called to a professorship of chemistry in 

 the University of Greifswald; Dr. Krigar- 

 Menzel, decent in physics in the University 

 of Berlin, has been appointed acting professor 

 in the Technical Institute at Charlottenberg ; 

 Dr. Armin Tschermak, decent in physiology 

 and assistant in the Physiological Institute of 

 the University of Halle, has been promoted 

 to a professorship, and Dr. Wilhelm Kiister 

 has been appointed professor of chemistry in 

 the Veterinary School at Stuttgart. 



