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Carnegie Hall at which addresses will be made 

 by President Cleveland, Prof. Jaoobi and others, 

 and afterwards there will be a reception at the 

 building of the Academy, the corner stone of 

 which was laid by President Cleveland in 1889. 



Branches of the British Medical Association 

 are being formed in the leading cities of Canada 

 as a preliminary of the visit of the Association 

 next year. Montreal, Ottawa, Halifax and 

 Winnipeg have already strong local branches. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The cablegram report that Alfred Nobel 

 had left his fortune to Stockholm University is 

 now said to be incorrect. A cablegram from 

 Stockholm, dated December 31st, states that the 

 fortune, valued at $10,000,000, is almost en- 

 tirely bequeathed for the foundation of an inter- 

 national fund for the advancement of scientific 

 research. 



The Stevens Institute of Technology, Hobo- 

 ken, N. J., will celebrate its twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary on February 18th and 19th. 



President Haeper, of the University of 

 Chicago, has announced a deficit for the year of 

 $48,000, and that retrenchment will be neces- 

 sary especially in the direction of scholarships 

 and assistance to students. 



Gen. G. W. C. Lee has resigned from the 

 presidency of Washington and Lee University, 

 to take efiect at the end of the academic year. 



At the inauguration of the Lyons University, 

 the rector, M. Compayre, announced a dona- 

 tion to the University of £4,000. The British 

 Medical Journal states that the donor is M. 

 Auguste Falcouz, a Lyons banker. The interest 

 of this sum is to be disposed of as follows : 

 Every two years a prize of £40 sterling will be 

 given to the students of each of the four facul- 

 ties — literature, science, law and medicine — 

 who write the best essay on a current subject. 

 All French students under 30 years of age can 

 compete. The subject of the essay will be 

 chosen by the Council of the Lyons University 

 a year in advance. Every two years instru- 

 ments for the science and medical faculties will 

 also be bought. When fifty years have elapsed, 



the Lyons University will have entire control 

 over the capital in order to be able to meet the 

 demands of scientific progress. 



The Austrian government has brought in a 

 bill on the salaries of university professors. 

 The present salary of a professor is now about 

 $1,200, and he receives in addition the fees 

 from students attending his courses. It is now 

 proposed to raise somewhat the fixed salaries 

 and let the fees of students go to the state. 

 This would equalize the salaries of professors, 

 but is being opposed especially by professors in 

 the medical school whose required courses are 

 attended by a large number of students. 



We recently referred to the action of the 

 regents of the University of the State of New 

 York making it illegal for colleges of the State 

 to give the degrees A. B. and Ph. D. causa 

 honoris. When colleges in other states either 

 voluntarily or by compulsion cease giving the 

 Ph. D. degree causa honoris and for study in 

 absentia, those who wish to possess this-' honor ' 

 without the education it represents will need to 

 go to the newly founded ' university ' at Buenos 

 Ayres. It appears that they can there receive 

 the degree by a course of study in extent (in- 

 formation regarding its thoroughness is lacking) 

 about equal to that in an American college as 

 far as the end of the sophomore year. The 

 candidates for the doctorate, it appears, need 

 not know any mathematics, but they must study 

 one science — geography, and that of both the 

 ' old and new continents.' 



A SECOND university will be opened in Japan 

 during the present year. It will be at Kyoto 

 and will for the present only include profes- 

 sional schools. It is also reported that a Dutch 

 university will be established in Pretoria. An 

 English university at Cape Town seems to be 

 much needed. 



Prop. B. Hatsheck, of Prague, has been 

 called to the chair of zoology in the University 

 of Vienna, vacant by the resignation of Prof. 

 K. Clans. Prof. Th. Curtius, of Kiel, has been 

 called to the chair of chemistry at Bonn, va- 

 cant through the death of Kekul6. Dr. P. E. 

 Study, associate professor of mathematics at 

 Bonn, has been called to the chair of mathe- 

 matics at Greifswald. Dr. Schiisler, of the 



