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aminations of the water of the principal rivers 

 in that state. This work is carried on under 

 an act of congress authorizing the Geological 

 Survey to determine and report upon the water 

 supplies of the United States. Up to the 

 present time comparatively little has been 

 known either of the quantity and quality of 

 Kentucky waters, or of their availability for 

 use in domestic supply, especially in connec- 

 tion with the larger municipalities of the 

 state. The plan which has recently been put 

 into operation contemplates the periodical 

 examination of the waters of Kentucky River 

 at Jackson, Beattyville, Tyrone, Worthville, 

 Irvine and Frankfort; of Green River at 

 McKinney; of Dix River at Silver Springs 

 and of Salt River at Salvisa. The work is 

 carried on according to the standard methods 

 adopted by the Geological Survey and the 

 chemical profession generally throughout the 

 country, and is under the immediate charge 

 of Mr. M. 0. Leighton, hydrographer in 

 charge of the Hydro-economic Section. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Under the will of Sarah B. Harrison, 

 Yale University is given $100,000, in memory 

 cf her brother, the late Gov. Henry B. Har- 

 rison, of Connecticut, who for thirteen years 

 was a member of the Tale corporation. The 

 money is given in trust, the income to be used 

 for such purposes as the university shall 

 desire. 



A COLLECTION of fresh water fishes from 

 different parts of Siberia has recently been 

 received by the Zoological Department of 

 Stanford University. The collection consists 

 of several hundred specimens, and was do- 

 nated by Mr. James F. Abbott, '99, who is 

 now at the University of Chicago. 



The collections and library of the late Al- 

 bert H. Chester, professor of mineralogy and 

 geology at Rutgers College, have been do- 

 nated to the institution by his son, Mr. A. H. 

 Chester. 



It is said that the medical school which 

 was to have been opened at Constantinople 

 on November 6 has been abandoned and that 

 Professor R. Rieder, who was to have been 

 director, has returned to Bonn. 



The Council of the Senate of the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge has issued an important 

 recommendation at the instance of the chan- 

 cellor. The Duke of Devonshire had called 

 their attention to the expediency of modifying 

 the requirements of the university in respect 

 to classical languages and of enlarging the 

 range of modern subjects. It had further 

 frequently been urged upon the council that 

 changes were necessary, owing to the reorgan- 

 ization of secondary education throughout the 

 country and by recent developments in other 

 universities. The council recommended the 

 appointment of a syndicate, with extensive 

 powers of inquiry and discussion, to consider 

 what changes, if any, are desirable in the 

 studies, teaching and examinations of the 

 university. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the well-known ' Military 

 Medical Academy ' at St. Petersburg appro- 

 priates annually nearly $800 as a fund for 

 professors in the academy who during the year 

 have published works on their special branches 

 of science. This year it was divided between 

 Professors Bechtereff and Kravkoff, who pub- 

 lished manuals respectively on the functions 

 of the brain, and on pharmacology. 



Dr. Herbert P. Johnson has been appointed 

 associate professor of bacteriology in the Med- 

 ical Department of St. Louis University, St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



Mr. Franklin D. Barker, formerly head of 

 the Department of Natural Science in Ottawa 

 University, Ottawa, Kans., has been appointed 

 instructor in zoology at the University of 

 Nebraska, Lincoln. He enters at once upon 

 the duties of the new position. 



Dr. Howard S. Anders, president of the 

 Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of 

 Tuberculosis, and lecturer and clinical in- 

 structor in physical diagnosis in the Medico- 

 Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, has been 

 made an assistant professor of physical diag- 

 nosis in the latter institution. 



Dr. Pompeckj, of Munich, has been ad- 

 vanced to professor extraordinary in paleon- 

 tology and geology. 



