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parts of the world, in search of valuable seeds 

 and plants for introduction into America, has 

 returned. He has employed on his various 

 expeditions Mr. D. G. Fairchild, who now 

 resumes his connection with the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture as one of its explorers. 

 The countries visited this year with a view 

 to more thorough exploration later by the 

 department are Italy, Sicily, Tripoli, Tunis, 

 Malta, Egypt, German East Africa, Zanzi- 

 bar, Portuguese East Africa, Natal, Trans- 

 vaal, Cape Colony, Grand Canary, Madeira, 

 Portugal, Spain, Bohemia, Sweden, Denmark, 

 Holland, Belgium and England. Such seeds 

 and plants as were secured were given by 

 Mr. Lathrop to the Department of Agriculture 

 for propagation and distribution, and it is 

 hoped that some of them may prove of great 

 value to the country, repaying him for his 

 patriotic and generous interest in increasing 

 the variety of food and ornamental plants of 

 America. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At Cambridge University 866 new students 

 have been admitted, an increase of sixteen 

 over last year. At the University of London 

 the number is 1,016, an increase of 400 over 

 last year. 



The London Times states that in connec- 

 tion with the Liverpool Institute of Compara- 

 tive Pathology (Liverpool University), of 

 which Professors Boyce and Sherrington are 

 directors, a tropical veterinary department has 

 been established. Its objects are to train 

 veterinary and medical men in the tropical 

 diseases of animals, to afford facilities for 

 research in such diseases and organize expedi- 

 tions, and to organize preventive measures in 

 the tropics against diseases of animals. A 

 memorandum on the subject has just been 

 issued by the institute. It is pointed out 

 that the advantages which Liverpool possesses 

 for the study of tropical medicine are equally 

 applicable to tropical veterinary medicine, 

 there being an immense foreign cattle trade 

 with the port. The Johnston Laboratory of 

 Liverpool University, opened last May by 

 Mr. Walter Long, M.P., contains the fully- 



equipped laboratories of the Institute of Com- 

 parative Pathology, of the Tropical School 

 of Bio-Chemistry and of the Cancer Research 

 Committee, and is directly connected with the 

 departments of bacteriology, pathology and 

 physiology. These subjects, closely associated 

 in the new Thompson Yates and Johnston 

 Laboratories, it is pointed out, mutually help 

 one another, and thus increase the thorough- 

 ness of training and greatly promote the op- 

 portunities for research. The secretary of 

 state for war has approved of the course laid 

 down by the institute, and in future officers 

 of the Army Veterinary Department will be 

 sent to Liverpool for • their special training, 

 the Army Department paying the fees. The 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine also 

 trains officers sent specially by the govern- 

 ment. In connection with the new depart- 

 ment it is desired to establish a practical 

 post-graduate class in veterinary medicine and 

 also a school of veterinary medicine. Firms 

 interested in the cattle trade have subscribed 

 a considerable sum towards the expenses in- 

 volved, but further funds are needed. 



Lord Goschen has been elected chancellor 

 of Oxford University in succession to the late 

 Lord Salisbury. Lord Strathcona, Canadian 

 High Commissioner, has accepted the nomina- 

 tion to the chancellorship of Aberdeen Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. Henry Sanger Snow has resigned the 

 presidency of the Brooklyn Polytechnic In- 

 stitute. 



At Williams College, Mr. Lorande Loss 

 Woodruff, A.B. (Columbia, 1901), A.M., 1902, 

 has been appointed assistant in biology. 



Arthur E. Wade, Cornell College, 1901, has 

 been promoted to the head of the Chemical 

 Department of the Medical College of Sioux 

 City, Iowa. 



H. J. Turner, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), has 

 been appointed instructor in chemistry at 

 Tufts College. 



Dr. E. Grimmich, professor of anatomy, has 

 been elected rector of the German University 

 of Prague. 



Dr. W. Wirtincer, of Innsbriick, has been 

 called to a chair of mathematics at Vienna. 



