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York City, to consider the question of the 

 dissemination of mosquitoes. Governor Mur- 

 phy, of New Jersey, has been invited to 

 preside, and addresses are expected from Dr. 

 L. O. Howard and others. 



It is said that a project for the establishment 

 of a Behring Institute, after the model of the 

 Pasteur Institute in Paris, is under considera- 

 tion by the German Government. The pri- 

 mary objects of the new institute are to be the 

 furtherance of research in the domain of 

 serum therapy and the accurate preparation of 

 serums of all kinds. 



Nature, for November 26, gives the first 

 place to the following note. 



A rumor has reached us that at the annual 

 meeting of the Royal Society on Monday next an 

 attempt is to be made by a certain section of the 

 fellows to upset the selection of officers made last 

 week by the council. It appears that the phys- 

 iologists are imder the belief that they have ac- 

 quired a prescriptive right to hold one of the two 

 secretaryships. It is true that for upwards of 

 forty years they have so held it, but the group 

 of natural sciences includes more than physiology 

 or even biology, and the council, in the exercise 

 of its discretion, has thought that it was high 

 time that one of the other sciences should be 

 represented in this secretaryship. We are further 

 informed that a copy of a letter is being circulated 

 which appears to convey an invitation from the 

 president and council to a certain physiologist to 

 accept the vacant office. That letter was, it is 

 stated, written in error, without the sanction or 

 knowledge of the president and council, but in 

 view of it a special meeting was called to consider 

 the matter, when the council decided to adhere 

 to the decision at which they had already arrived 

 in the ordinary and regular way — a decision which 

 is obviously in the best interests of the Royal 

 Society as a whole, and doubtless the great ma- 

 jority of the fellows will support it by their votes 

 on Monday. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 General F. M. Drake, of Des Moines, has 

 bequeathed $50,000 to Drake University. 



The fund left by Mr. Lewis Elkin for an- 

 nuities for women teachers of the public 

 schools of Philadelphia, is said to amount to 

 $1,800,000. 



A DONOR who wishes to remain anonymous 

 has given, through Professor Sterling, £50,000 



to University College, London, to be used for 

 the promotion of higher scientific education 

 and research. 



Ottawa University, a Roman Catholic in- 

 stitution, was destroyed by fire on December 

 2. The loss is said to be at least $200,000, 

 most of which is covered by insurance. Three 

 of the priests were seriously injured. The 

 main building of Jewell Lutheran College in 

 Iowa has also been destroyed by fire. The loss 

 is estimated at $25,000, one half being covered 

 by insurance. One of the students was killed. 



The Eev. George Morgan Ward has been 

 elected president of Wells College, Aurora, 

 N. T. 



Dr. C. H. Judd has been made acting di- 

 rector of the Yale Psychological Laboratory 

 for the present year. At the same time an 

 advisory committee on the laboratory has been 

 appointed consisting of Professors Ladd, Dun- 

 can and Sneath. 



Dr. Jaiies E. Lough, professor of psychol- 

 ogy of the School of Pedagogy of New York 

 University, has been appointed director of the 

 summer school. 



Dr. Horace Clark Rici-i.utDS, instructor in 

 physics in the University of Pennsylvania, has 

 been made assistant professor of physics. 



At a meeting of the electors to the Wilde 

 readership in mental philosophy, held on No- 

 vember 19, at Oxford, Mr. William McDougall, 

 M.A., M.B., fellow of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, and reader in experimental psychology 

 at University College, London, was elected 

 reader in place of Mr. Stout, recently elected 

 professor of logic and metaphysics in the Uni- 

 versity of St. Andrews. Mr. McDougall took 

 the degree of B.Sc. with first-class honors in 

 geology at Victoria University; he afterwards 

 gained first-class honors in physiology and 

 anatomy in both parts of the Natural Science 

 Tripos at Cambridge. 



Mr. Reinhold F. A. Hoernle, B.A., Balliol 

 College, has been elected to the John Locke 

 scholarship in mental philosophy. 



Mr. W. M. Fletcher, of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, has been appointed demonstrator 

 of physiology. 



