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partial failures, and 6 per cent, total failures. 

 The total percentages of successes was therefore 

 80. The total amount voted by Parliament 

 during the year was £15,300, and £769 became 

 available in addition. The expenditure was 

 £15,187, showing a decrease of £25 as com- 

 pared with 1894-95. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is reported in the daily papers that the 

 subsidy given by the state to the University of 

 California will be doubled, being hereafter 

 $240,000 annually. Mr. Levi Strauss, of San 

 Francisco, has endowed twenty-eight under- 

 graduate scholarships in the University, and 

 seven graduate scholarships, of the value of 

 $250, have been endowed by other doners. The 

 number of students in the University has in- 

 creased from 918 in 1891-2 to 2,250 in the 

 present year. It is again stated that the Uni- 

 versity will receive gifts amounting to $5,000,- 

 000 for buildings, of which sum $1,200,000 is 

 promised by Mrs. Hearst, of San Francisco. 



Chicago University has received a gift of 

 $225,000 from Mrs. Mary Esther Reynolds in 

 fulfilment of a pledge made nearly five years 

 ago. 



Dr. Hugo Munsteebeeg, professor of ex- 

 perimental psychology in Harvard University, 

 will return to Cambridge at the opening of the 

 next academic year. He has hitherto retained 

 his position in the University at Freiberg, and 

 during the past two years has been in residence 

 at that University. 



Dr. Heineich Ribs has been appointed to 

 the Barnard Fellowship of Columbia University. 

 He will undertake the study of the physical 

 properties of clays. 



Peofessoe "William John Sollas, F. R. S., 

 D. So. Camb., Hon. LL. D., of Dublin, pro- 

 fessor of geology in the University of Dublin, 

 has been elected to the chair of geology at Ox- 

 ford, vacant by the death of Professor Green. 

 According to the London Times Professor Sol- 

 las was a foundation scholar of St. John's, 

 Cambridge, and obtained a first class in the 

 natural science tripos. In 1882 he was elected 

 a Fellow of St. John's, and in 1889 was made a 

 F. R. S. In 1878 he was awarded the proceeds 



of the Wollaston Endowment for his researches 

 in fossil sponges, and in 1893 the Bigsby Medal 

 for geological and paleontological investiga- 

 tions. Antecedently to his appointment at 

 Dublin in 1883 he was first lecturer and then 

 professor of geology and zoology in University 

 College, Bristol. He has investigated in person 

 many regions of Europe, America, Australia 

 and Polynesia. He was last year sent by the 

 Royal Society in charge of the scientific expe- 

 dition to Funafuti. 



Professor H. W. Hughes. M.B., M.S. 

 (Edin.) has been appointed professor of an- 

 atomy at King's College, London. 



Professor Ruckee, F.R.S., has been ap- 

 pointed Reade lecturer at University of Cam- 

 bridge for the present year. Mr. F. F. Black- 

 man, of St. John's College, has been appointed 

 university lecturer in botany. Dr. Arthur 

 Willey has been elected to the Balfour student- 

 ship in animal morphology for another year. 



De. John Yule Mackay, professor of an- 

 atomy of the University of Dundee, has been 

 appointed principal of the College. 



The Clothworkees' Company, of London, 

 has oflered £200 for five years, and Miss E. A. 

 Ormerod oflers £100 toward the emolument of 

 the Sibthorpian professorship of rural economy 

 at Oxford. 



It appears from the report for 1896 of the 

 New York Examination Department of the 

 University of the State of New York, on about 

 400,000 papers submitted by academic students, 

 that the increase is greater in languages than in 

 science. Not only do English and modern 

 languages show an increase, but also Greek and 

 Latin, whereas six of the eleven branches of 

 science show a decrease. Thus there is an in- 

 crease of 1,304 papers in first-year Latin and a 

 decrease of 1,322 in geography, of 1,186 in 

 physiology and hygiene, of 907 in physical 

 geography, of 310 in physics. Part I., of 197 in 

 chemistry. Part I., and of 145 in botany. The 

 causes for the decrease of the number of stu- 

 dents studying science in our schools at a time 

 when there is an increase in the number of 

 those studying literature and languages should 

 be considered by the State Science Teachers' 

 Association at the next annual meeting. 



