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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. V. No. 130. 



ard E. Dodge, William Hallock, Charles B. 

 Scott, Ralph S. Tarr, Joha L. Wilson. 



We learn from Natural Science that the sixth 

 meeting of the Nederlandsch Natuur en Genees- 

 kundig Congress, corresponding to the American 

 and British Associations for the Advancement 

 of Science took place at Delft, on April 22d, 23d 

 and 24th, The general President was Pro- 

 fessor J. M. Telders, and the five sections were 

 presided over respectively by W. A. van Dorp, 

 of Amsterdam ; W. Kapteijn, of Utrecht ; P. 

 P. C. Hoek, of Helder ; H. Treub, of Amster- 

 dam, and K. Martin, of Leyden. The sectional 

 meetings were held in the various laboratories 

 and lecture-rooms of the Polytechnic School, in 

 both morning and afternoon. Several of the 

 sections had very attractive programs ; among 

 the most interesting papers in Section II. (Bio- 

 logy) may be mentioned one by Professor 

 Hubrecht on 'Primates and Lemurs,' and one 

 by M. C. Dekhuijzen, of Leyden, on methods 

 of investigating the micro-organisms in fresh 

 water. The Section for Physics and Chemistry 

 had an able paper by Col. C. F. Geij van Pittius, 

 on various explosives, and one by H. A. van 

 Ijsselstein on an interesting form of telephone. 

 The paper which formed the last of the series 

 on Saturday was of special interest, a lecture 

 by Professor M. W. Beijerinck, on luminous 

 bacteria. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is rumored that a union between New York 

 University Medical School and the Bellevue 

 Hospital Medical College will not be carried 

 into effect. 



The name of the Maine State College at 

 Orono has been changed to the University of 

 Maine. 



Dr. J. L. Goodnight, who has been Presi- 

 dent of the West Virginia University, at Park- 

 ersburg, for two years, and Dr. J. A. Myers, 

 who has been Director of the State Experiment 

 Station for nine years, have been removed by 

 the Board of Regents of the University. It is 

 said that this action is due to political reasons. 



De. James Woodeow , on reaching the age of 

 seventy years, has resigned the presidency of 

 South Carolina College. President Craighead 



and Professors Tompkins and Wright have re- 

 signed from Clemson College. President Craig- 

 head has been elected President of the College 

 of Wisconsin. Dr. W. H. Hervey has resigned 

 from the presidency of the Teachers' College, 

 New York. 



Peofessoe a. C. Aemstrong, now professor 

 of philosophy at Wesleyan University, has 

 been appointed to a professorship in the de- 

 partment of history in Princeton Universitj"^. 

 E. M. Weyer, of the University of Leipzig, 

 and M. Matsumoto, of the University of Tokio 

 (Japan), have been made assistants at the Yale 

 Psychological Laboratory. Mr. Muir, now of 

 Halifax University, has been appointed to the 

 chair of psj'chology in Mount Holyoke College. 



The American Society for the Extension of 

 University teaching offers at the University of 

 Pennsylvania a summer meeting from July 6th 

 to 30th. Thirty-eight lectures are announced, 

 and many of the courses will prove of scientific 

 interest. Conferences on the teaching of 

 geography will be led by Professors W. M. 

 Davis and R. E. Dodge. Professor W. F. 

 Magie will give two lectures on Mediaeval 

 Science. Professor J. T. Rothrock will lecture 

 on forestry and Professor W. P. Wilson on Muse- 

 ums. In psychology, courses of lectures are 

 announced by Professor Lightner Witmer, Pro- 

 fessor J. Mark Baldwin, Professor E. B. Titch- 

 ener, Mr. R. P. Halleck and Miss Laura Fisher. 



The New York Board of Education has an- 

 nounced the courses of study for the three new 

 high schools which will be opened in Septem- 

 ber. Three courses are offered — classical, com- 

 mercial and general. The first mentioned fills 

 the requirements of the classical courses in the 

 colleges and includes five hours in physics or 

 chemistry in the fourth year. The commercial 

 course requires two hours in physiology and 

 four hours in biology in the first year and three 

 hours in physics in the second year. The gen- 

 eral course offers a larger number of electives. 

 A student can take four hours in science in the 

 first year, seven in the second, four in the third 

 and four in the fourth. It is not clear to us 

 why the student in the third year may take 

 fifteen hours in languages and in the fourth 

 year nineteen, while he is confined to four 

 hours in science. 



