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the park last year. The aquarium, which is 

 now controlled by the society, is visited daily 

 by fully five thousand persons. 



The French government has established a 

 bacteriological institute at Bangkok, Siam. 



The coast survey steamer Bache, which 

 was lately fitted out for service on the coast 

 of Porto Eico, will make surveys for charts 

 and maps of the coast of the island. 



The young women doing research work at 

 the University of Michigan have organized 

 the Women's Eesearch Club of the University 

 of Michigan. The officers are: president, 

 Lydia M. DeWitt, B.S., M.D., who is doing 

 work in histology; vice-president, Maud De- 

 Witt, B.S., zoological department; secretary, 

 Ellen B. Bach, A.B., botanical department; 

 and treasurer, Frances Dunbar, zoological de- 

 partment. 



The Friday evening meetings of the Royal 

 Institution of Great Britain will be resumed 

 on January 16, when Professor Dewar will 

 give an address on ' Low temperature investi- 

 gations'; on January 23, Dr. Tempest Ander- 

 son will speak on ' Eecent volcanic eruptions ' ; 

 on February 13, Professor Sheridan Delepine 

 will give a lecture on ' Health dangers in 

 food ' ; on February 2Y, Dr. Adolf Leibmann 

 will speak on ' Perfumes, natural and arti- 

 ficial ' ; on March 6, Professor J. G. McKend- 

 rick on ' Studies in experimental phonetics ' ; 

 on March 13, Professor Karl Pearson on 

 ' Character reading from external signs ' ; and 

 on March 20, Professor Schafer on the ' Paths 

 of volition.' 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



During the last few weeks, Cornell College, 

 Iowa, has added $Y1,500 to its endowment 

 funds. A friend whose name is not yet made 

 public gave $50,000. Mr. Fred W. Brown, of 

 BeUe Plain, Iowa, has given $10,000. Work 

 on the Carnegie library will be begun early in 

 the spring, as $40,000 of the endowment neces- 

 sary for its maintenance has been secured 

 and only $10,000 more is necessary. There 

 are upwards of 600 students in the institution. 

 The exercises at the installation of William 

 Lowe Bryan, Ph.D., as president of Indiana 

 University are as follows: 



JANUARY 20, 2.30 P.M., FOUNDATION DAT EXER- 

 CISES, EIGHTY-THIKD ANNIVEKSAET OF THE 

 FOUNDING OF THE STATE SEMINARY. 



Address on behalf of the trustees: Honorable 

 Benjamin F. Shively; address on behalf of the 

 faculty: Professor Ernest H. Lindley; address on 

 behalf of the alumni: President Joseph Swain, 

 Swarthmore College; addresses on behalf of the 

 State. 



8 P.M., RECEPTION TO DELEGATES AND VISITORS. 



Welcome to visitors: Professor Gustaf E. 

 Karsten, Chairman of Committee; responses by 

 delegates. 



JANUARY 21, 9 A.M., DEDICATION OF SCIENCE HALL. 



Address by Professor Edward L. Nichols, Cor- 

 nell University; address by Professor John M. 

 Coulter, University of Chicago; address on behalf 

 of the university, by Professor Arthur L. Foley. 



2:30 P.M., INSTALLATION OF THE PRESIDENT. 



Address by President W. H. P. Faunce, Brown 

 University; address by President E. Benjamin 

 Andrews, University of Nebraska; installation of 

 President Bryan by Chief Justice Hadley, Indiana 

 Supreme Court; address by President Bryan. 



The Treasury has given its assent to the 

 scheme by which Reading Corporation ac- 

 quires the site and buildings of the Univer- 

 sity College for the purpose of extending the 

 municipal offices, etc., at a cost of £50,000. 

 The college, in exchange, obtains a much 

 larger site on the London-road, whereon it 

 is intended to erect a handsome pile of col- 

 lege buildings. 



Peofessor Lehmann-Hohenbeeg has been 

 dismissed from his chair at the University of 

 Kiel for criticizing the courts. We do not 

 know how far this action may have been war- 

 ranted, but it appears somewhat remarkable 

 that the disciplinary court should state that 

 university professors, being officers of the 

 government, are not permitted to criticize the 

 government. 



At Purdue University Mr. L. V. Ludy has 

 been placed temporarily in charge of the de- 

 partment of analytical and applied mechanics 

 and Mr. J. A. Thaler has been appointed in- 

 structor in analytical and applied mechanics. 



Mr. J. S. MacDonald, assistant lecturer in 

 physiology at University College, Liverpool, 

 has been appointed professor of physiology at 

 University College, Sheffield, in succession to 

 Professor Myers-Ward, who goes to Charing 

 Cross Hospital as lecturer in physiology. 



