May 31, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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providing the money to build it can be 

 raised. 



Dr. Jame.s E. Russell has been made 

 professor of i)edagogy in the University of 

 Colorado. 



The American Institute of Archteology, 

 ■which had alreadj- given a fellowship of 

 SdOO to the American school at Athens, 

 voted a second fellowship of SGOO-SSOO at 

 the semi-annual meeting of the committee 

 held at Middletown, Conn., on May 17th. 

 These scholarships will probably be 

 awarded to students and graduates of the 

 cooperating colleges on competitive ex- 

 amination. The first examination will 

 probably be held at the end of a year. 



Prof. E. S. Holden has been made a 

 commander of the Order of the Ernestine 

 House of Saxony in recognition of his 

 services to science. 



Dr. p. Daxgeard has been appointed 

 professor of botany to the Faculty of 

 Sciences at Poitiers. — Nature. 



"We learn from the Xatuncissenschaftlichf 

 Bimchchau that Prof. Overbeck of Greifswald 

 has been appointed professor of phj-sics in 

 the University of Tiibingen as successor to 

 Professor Braun. Dr. Hermann Struve, 

 astronomer in the Observatory of Pulkowa, 

 has been made professor of astronomy in 

 the University of Konigsberg: Prof. Koken 

 of Konigsberg, professor of geology and 

 mineralogy in Tiiljingen : Prof. Hanser of 

 Erlangen, Director of the Erlangen Anatom- 

 ical Institution; Prof. Brauns of Karlsruhe, 

 professor of geology and mineralogj' in 

 Giessen, and Dr. Schutt of Kiel, professor 

 of botany in the University of Greifswald. 



Professor V. Knorre has been called to 

 the new chair of electro-chemistry in the 

 technical High School at Berlin-Charlotten- 

 burg. 



The death is announced on Maj* 4th of 

 Surgeon-Major Carter, F. R. S.. also of 

 Prof. Manuel Piuheiro Chagas, General 



Secretary of the Koyal Academy of Sciences 

 at Lisbon, at the age of fiftj^-three. 



It is announced that Dr. J. P. D. John, 

 who resigned the presidency of De Pauw 

 Univei-sity a few days ago, will be asked by 

 the trustees to reconsider his resignation. — 

 Evening Post. 



Theobald Smith, M. D., has been elected 

 professor of applied zoologj^, and Henry 

 Lloyd Smj-the assistant professor of mining, 

 in Harvard L^niversity. 



At the semi-annual meeting of the trus- 

 tees of the American University it was an- 

 nounced that Sl'27,300 had been subscribed 

 towards the erection of the first building 

 (the Hall of History), but that S150,a00 

 were required. Those present at the meet- 

 ing subscribed and assumed the entire 

 deficieucj'. 



Dr. Rob. Sachsse, assistant professor of 

 agricultural chemistry in Leipzig Univer- 

 sity, died on April 26. 



SCIEN'TIFIC JOCRXALS. 

 THE A.<TR0PHYSICAL JOURNAL, M.\Y. 



The Modern Spectroscope, XII: 'William 



HUGGLNS. 



Dr. Huggins here descriljes the Tulse 

 Hill ultra-violet spectroscope. An earlier 

 arrangement of telescope and spectroscope 

 had consisted in exchanging the small mir- 

 ror of an eighteen-iuch Cassegrain telescope 

 for a spectroscope with its slit in the prin- 

 cipal focus of the large mirror. Difficulties 

 of adjustment and the .sacrifice of either 

 light or purity due to the restricted size of 

 the spectroscope led to the abandonment of 

 this form. The small speculum was re- 

 placed and the collimator was then inserted 

 in the hole through the large mirror. The 

 long equivalent focal length of the Casse- 

 grain form is of advantage where it is de- 

 sirable to have images of considerable di- 

 mensions upon the slit, while the instrument 

 itself and the building may remain of mod- 

 erate size. 



