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showing the symptoms of the disease, but con- 

 taining a similar parasite, subsequently pre- 

 sent all the symptoms of the disease; the sec- 

 ond is that the disease is limited to districts 

 of South Africa within which the particular 

 tsetse fly, Glossina palpalis, occurs, and that 

 where this fly does not occur sleeping sickness 

 is absent. The evidence, therefore, to connect 

 sleeping sickness, with the presence of try- 

 panosomes in the cerebro-spinal fluid is now 

 apparently very strong. 



UyiVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. John D. Eockefeller has offered to 

 give Vassar College $200,000, or such part of 

 this sum as may be equaled by gifts from 

 other sources before June 1904. $50,000 has 

 so far been subscribed, and an appeal is made 

 for further gifts. 



The building of the Medical Department of 

 Northwestern University was injured by fire 

 on November 20, the loss being estimated at 

 $10,000. 



The Association of Colleges and Prepara- 

 tory Schools of the Middle States and Mary- 

 land will hold its seventeenth annual conven- 

 tion at Columbia University, New York, on 

 November 27 and 28. Dr. Ira Remsen, presi- 

 dent of the Johns Hopkins University and of 

 the association, will give an address entitled 

 ' Some Unsolved Educational Problems.' The 

 subjects for discussion are 'The Elective Sys- 

 tem and Secondary Schools,' ' What Should be 

 the Length of the College Course ? ' and ' Ath- 

 letics in Schools and Colleges.' On Saturday 

 an Association of Mathematicians of the 

 Middle States and Maryland will be organized. 



It is reported that there is an outbreak of 

 typhoid fever both at Brown University and 

 at Williams College. 



The University of Liverpool was formally 

 inaugurated on November 7. Addresses were 

 made by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Lord 

 Derby, Vice-chancellor Dale and Sir Oliver 

 Lodge. 



A MEMORIAL has been addressed to the Gen- 

 eral Board of Studies at Cambridge urging 

 that increased opportunities for study in an- 

 thropology be offered at the university. 



Professor John A. Brasuear has resigned 

 the chancellorship of the Western University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



President Howard Ayres, for the last four 

 years president of the University of Cincin- 

 nati, has been deposed from that oflice by a 

 majority vote of the board of trustees. He 

 will retain the position until the close of the 

 academic year. 



The following appointments have recentl.v 

 been made in the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology : Leslie Rogers Moore, S.B., Arthur- 

 Alphouzo Blanchard, Ph.D., Livingston W. 

 Smith, Ph.D., instructors in inorganic chem- 

 istry; Frank Baldwin Jewett, Ph.D., William 

 Otis Sawtelle, S.B., instructors in physics; 

 Percy Goldthwaite Stiles, Ph.D., instructor in 

 physiology and personal hygiene ; Wilfrid 

 Evart MacDonald, A.B., Burton H. Camp, 

 A.B., instructors in mathematics; Eugene 

 Stillman Foljambe, S.B., James Russell Put- 

 nam, S.B., instructors in mechanical drawing 

 and descriptive geometry; Winfield C. Towne, 

 A.B., instructor iu gymnastics. 



Dr. J. N. Langley, F.R.S., fellow of Trinity 

 College, has been elected to the professorship 

 of physiology at the University of Cambridge, 

 vacant by the resignation of Sir Michael 

 Foster. 



The board of Trinity College has elected 

 Dr. Sydney Young, F.R.S., Dublin, professor 

 of chemistry in University College, Bristol, to 

 the chair of chemistry vacant by the resigna- 

 tion of Professor Emerson Reynolds. 



Dr. W. G. Smith, M.A., who was appointed 

 last year to the recently established lecture- 

 ship on exiaerimental psychology at King's 

 College, London, has resigned to accept a sim- 

 ilar position at the University of Liverpool. 

 The council of King's College has elected to 

 the post Dr. C. S. Myers, M.A., of Cambridge. 

 Dr. Smith was some time since instructor at 

 Smith College, and Dr. Myers has recently 

 visited the psychological laboratories of the 

 United States. 



Dr. Wilhelm Wortinger, of Innsbruck, has 

 been appointed professor of mathematics in 

 the University of Vienna, and Dr. A. Partheil, 

 associate professor of chemistry at Bonn, has 

 acceiJted a similar position of Konigsberg. 



