January 4, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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EDUCATIONAL. 



Dk. J. K. Talmagt. has been called to the 

 profesisorship of geolojjy recently estaljlished 

 in the University of Utah. 



America has aceouiplished uiiuli lor the 

 advancement of Anthropology-, but the work 

 has l)een largely done bj' the Government 

 institutions and by individuals. Columbia 

 College oflers this year courses in Anthro- 

 pology (Dr. Farraud and Dr. Ripley), and 

 the University of Califoi-nia must now be 

 added to the institutions proposing courses 

 in this subject. 



The Universities of Oxford and of Cam- 

 bridge have recently taken action of con- 

 siderable interest to Americans proposing 

 to study abroad. The comparatively few 

 Americans who have been in residence at 

 Oxford or Cambridge would undoubtedly 

 agree in recommending this course to others 

 as highly as studying at a German univer- 

 sity'. But hitherto degrees could only be 

 obtained by undergoing very irksome ex- 

 aminations. Oxford will now confer the 

 degrees Litt. B. and Sc. B. on evidence of 

 ' a good general education,' and research 

 work evincing • a high standard of merit.' 

 Three years" residence is required, but this 

 condition may be modified. Tlie grace 

 adopted at Cambridge is as follows : " That 

 a syndicate l>e appointed to consider: ( 1 ) the 

 means of giving further help and encourage- 

 ment to persons who desire to pursue courses 

 of advanced study or research within the 

 University ; (2) what classes of students 

 should be admitted to such courses; (3) 

 what academic recognition, whether by 

 degi'ees or otlierwise. should be given to 

 such students, and upon wliat conditions ; 

 that the syndicate be i!mpowered to consult 

 and confer with such jiersons and bodies as 

 they may think fit : and that they report 

 to the Senate before the end of the Lent 

 Term, 1895." 



The fourth edition oi Minerva (189-1-1895) 



presents as frontispiece an etched poi-trait of 

 Lord Kelvin by Ilerkomer. The book now 

 extends to 9.'}0 pages, an increase of 69 

 pages over the preceding edition, many new 

 institutions having been included. The 

 American universities and colleges added 

 in this edition are Brjni Mawr, Cincinnati, 

 Colgate, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Nebraska, Ohio AVesleyan, Ver- 

 mont, Wellesley. Western Reserve, making 

 the total number thirty-nine. In attend- 

 ance of students the order of the great uni- 

 versities is Paris, Berlin, IMadrid, Vienna, 

 Naples, Moscow, Budapest, Munich. Athens, 

 Oxford, Harvard. But in many of these 

 institutions attendance on popular lectures 

 seems to be included. 



A WORK with the range of Minerva, giving 

 the courses as well as the instructors in in- 

 stitutions of learning, would be of much 

 use, but a difficult undertaking. The need 

 has, however. Ijeen supplied for the differ- 

 ent institutions of Paris by Le livret de 

 I'etudiant de Paris (Delalain Frere 1894— 

 95), prepared under the direction of the 

 general council of the faculties. 



FORTHCOMI^fG BOOKS. 



Dr. Daxiel G. Brinton, Professor of 

 American Arch»ologj' in the Universitj' of 

 Penn.sylvania, has in press a Primer of 

 Mayan Hieroglyphics, to be published by 

 Ginn & Co., Boston, in which he aims 

 to explain the elements of the mysterious 

 wi'iting ■ on the monuments of Central 

 America. 



GiNN & Co. also announce a series of 

 handl)Ooks on the History of lieligions, edited 

 by Prof Morris Jastrow, Jr., of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. The Eeligions of India, 

 by Prof. E. AV. Hopkins, of Bryn Mawr, 

 will form the first volume. 



Macmillax iSc Co. announce The Principles 

 of Sociology, by Prof Franklin H. Giddings, 

 of Columbia College ; Monism, The Confemon 



