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whh many lantern illustrations. It is hardly 

 to be expected that the Discovery will reach 

 home in time to enable Captain Scott to give 

 an account of the work of the expedition. This 

 is more likely to be the leading event of the 

 following session. 



A Reuter telegram from Vienna says : As 

 a result of a long conflict between the Anti- 

 Semitic members of the Landtag and Count 

 Kielmansegg, governor of Lower Austria, on 

 the one hand, and the general body of Vienna 

 physicians and university professors on the 

 other, the members of the Vienna Medical 

 Chamber, which is entrusted with the profes- 

 sional control of the doctors in this city, 

 resigned en masse. The conflict began osten- 

 sibly over the question of vivisection, several 

 members of the Landtag accusing the doctors 

 of performing experiments on animals in a 

 manner contrary to the provisions of the Vivi- 

 section Law. The doctors allege that the 

 whole agitation is fostered by the Anti-Sem- 

 ites, who are generally hostile to science, and 

 that the fact that large proportion of Vienna 

 doctors are Jews tended greatly to increase 

 the hostility of the Anti-Semites. 



The Bureau of Agriculture of the Philip- 

 pines is organized with the following officers: 

 F. Lamson-Scribner, Chief of Bureau; Seth 

 Bohmanson, Chief Clerk; Harry H. Dell, 

 Director of Animal Industry; A. P. Hayne, 

 Director, Agricultural College and Experiment 

 Station, Negros Occidental; A. J. Washburne, 

 Manager of Stock Farm; Geo. M. Havice, 

 Superintendent of Government Farm at San 

 Raman, Mindanao; Wm. S. Lyon, in charge 

 of Seed and Plant Introduction; Harry T. 

 Edwards, Fiber Expert; Thomas Hanley, Ex- 

 pert in Tropical Agriculture; Wilfred J. 

 Boudreau, in charge of Rice Investigations ; 

 James H. Shipley, Expert in Plant Culture; 

 Zalmon K. Miller, Expert in Farm Manage- 

 ment and Machinery; Thomas L. Richmond, 

 Superintendent of Experiment Station in 

 Manila. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The president and fellows of Harvard Uni- 

 versity have voted to fix the nimiber of Austin 



Teaching Fellowships at twenty-four. These 

 fellowships are not subject to application like 

 other fellowships and scholarships, but are 

 treated like assistantships and annual instruc- 

 torships as regards the manner of appoint- 

 ment. Of the twenty-foui' fellowships, twenty 

 are under the faculty of arts and sciences, and 

 four under the faculty of medicine. 



The special course in agriculture, which has 

 been given at the Scientific School of Yale 

 University for twenty-five years, has been dis- 

 continued on account of the retirement of 

 Professor Brewer. 



The Prussian Ministry of Public Instruc- 

 tion is preparing a work on German education 

 for the St. Louis Exposition. The book is to 

 contain a complete account of German instruc- 

 tion in all its branches at the present time, 

 and also an account of its historical develop- 

 ment. There will be over a hundred contrib- 

 utors, the introduction being written by Pro- 

 fessor Paulsen. 



The University of Edinburgh has received 

 a gift by Dr. Henry Barnes, Carlisle, of MS. 

 letters of Boerhaave. 



Messrs. W. R. Ransom and E. C. Froelich 

 have been appointed instructors in mathe- 

 matics in Harvard University. 



Paul B. Bird has been appointed instructor 

 in marine engineering at Cornell University. 



Leo R. a. Suppan, Ph.G., formerly of the 

 Rolla School of Mines in Missouri, has been 

 elected instructor in chemistry in the St. 

 Louis College of Pharmacy. He thus be- 

 comes associated with the recently elected pro- 

 fessor of chemistry. Dr. Charles E. Caspari. 



Mr. W. E. WiLLLiMS, B.Sc, of the University 

 College of North Wales, has been elected fel- 

 low of the University of Wales for 1904. He 

 proposes as his subject of investigation, to 

 be carried on at Glasgow University, ' The 

 Effect of Magnetization on the Electrical 

 Properties of Nickel Steel.' 



Mr. Bertram Hopkinson, M.A., of Trinity 

 College, has been elected professor of mech- 

 anism and applied mechanics at Cambridge, 

 in place of Professor J. A. Ewing, resigned, 

 Mr. Hopkinson is the son of the late Mr. John 

 Hopkinson, the engineer. 



