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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol,. I. No. 21. 



hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. 

 — N. Y. Medical Eecord. 



De. Gael Thieesch, professor of surgery 

 in the University of Leipsic, died on April 

 20th at the age of seventy-three. He was 

 appointed professor of surgery at Erlangen 

 in 1S54, and in 1867 proceeded to Leipsic. 

 During the Franco-Prussian war he was at- 

 tached as senior surgeon to the 12th Army 

 Corps. He was the author of standard 

 works on cholera and embryology. 



The number of medical journals at pres- 

 ent published in Russia is 38. Of these 20 

 are published in St. Petersburg, 5 at Mos- 

 cow, 4 at Warsaw, 2 at Odessa, 2 at Char- 

 koff, and 1 at Kasan, KiefF, Saratoff, Wor- 

 onesz and Pultawa, respectively. The old- 

 est of them all is the Medizinskoie Obozrenie, 

 which is twenty-one years old ; next comes 

 the Rxisskaia Medizina, which is in its nine- 

 teenth year; the Vratch, which is in its fif- 

 teenth, being third. — N. Y. Medical Eecord. 



We much regret to learn that the publi- 

 cation of Insect Life will cease with the next 

 number. Two new series of bulletins will 

 be started from the Division of Entomology 

 of the Department of Agriculture to take 

 its place. The one will contain articles of 

 a general economic and biological character 

 — practically such articles as have been 

 published most frequently in Insect Life — • 

 and the other will contain results of the 

 purely scientific work of the ofi&ce force. 



Theee has been established in Leicester, 

 England, a bacteriological institution under 

 the direction of a medical ofiicer in the 

 interests of anti- vaccination. 



Edward Buenett Tyloe, M. A., Reader 

 in Anthropology in the University of Ox- 

 ford, has been made Professor of Anthro- 

 pology. 



Prof. W. M. L. Coplin, who holds the 

 €hair of Pathology at Jefferson Medical 

 College in Philadelphia, has accepted the 

 call tendered him by the Trustees of Vander- 



bilt University, ISTashville, Tenu., to take 

 charge next fall of the departments of 

 Pathology, Biology and Bacteriologj', fot- 

 which they have just completed a new 

 building. — N. Y. Evening Post. 



Beigadier Geneeal Thomas L. Casey, 

 having reached the age requiring i-etirement 

 from the active list, has relinquished com- 

 mand of the corps of engineers and charge 

 of the engineer department. He is suc- 

 ceeded by Col. William P. Craighill. 



We learn through the N. Y. Medical 

 Record that the Medical Department of the 

 State Universitj^ of Minnesota was granted 

 $40,000 by the Legislature for a laboratory 

 building, making a total of $150,000 appro- 

 priated for buildings alone in a period of 

 four years. The medical law was likewise 

 amended to require of all graduates of later 

 date than 1898 ' attendance upon four 

 courses of medical lectures, in different 

 years, of not less than six months' duration 

 each.' 



The trustees of Williams College have ac- 

 cepted the legacj' of $20,000 from Mme. 

 Souberville, in memory of her father, Horace 

 F. Clark, D. D. The College has also re- 

 ceived a gift of $3,500 from ex-Governor 

 Pennoyer, of Oregon, to found a scholarship 

 in memory of his son. 



Dr. Ernst Eittee, of the University of 

 Gottingen, has been elected Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics in Cornell Universitj'. 



The death of Mrs. Henry C. Lewis, of 

 Coldwater, Mich., leaves the art collection 

 possessed bj' her late husband, valued at 

 $800,000, at the disposal of the University 

 of Michigan. At present the university has 

 not accommodation for the bequest, but 

 President Angell expects an art building to 

 be erected by private contributions. N. Y. 

 Evening Post. 



Aisr exhibition of California food products 

 will be held in Berlin from the 5th of May 

 to the 5th of July. 



