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thropic, demand the most careful examination. 

 All these researches should go forward in an at- 

 mosphere of repose and leisure, very different 

 from that of business and professional engage- 

 ments. ' ' 



GENERAL. 



The Ithaca Daily Journal states that there are 

 179 students enrolled in the Cornell University 

 summer school, exclusive of 40 students in the 

 school of law. A large part of the students — 

 58 per cent. — come from states other than New 

 York. 



During the last ten years the department of 

 entomology of Cornell University has deferred 

 the regular winter term's work until summer. 

 These summer terms have been largely at- 

 tended, and by many who are now holding pro- 

 fessorships in other colleges or at experiment 

 stations. The present summer term is attended 

 by 18 students, 6 of whom are graduates, and 

 a part of the graduates are professors of ento- 

 mology in other colleges. Certainly, if insect 

 life and the economic side of entomology are 

 to receive due consideration, this plan of a sum- 

 mer instead of a winter term commends itself. 

 There is also the advantage of not being dis- 

 turbed by the demands of other subjects. It 

 also makes more advanced work possible. 



Dr. Thaddeus L. Bolton, of the faculty of 

 the State Normal School at Worcester, has re- 

 signed to accept a position in the State Normal 

 School at San Jose, Cal. , at the head of the de- 

 partment of psychology, pedagogy and training 

 of teachers. 



Dr. Vaughan Harley has been appointed 

 to a newly established professorship of patho- 

 logical chemistry in University College, London. 



Prof. Paul Jacobson has been called to 

 Berlin to fill the position of General Secretary of 

 the German Chemical Society. 



Drs. Josse and Kammerer have been ap- 

 pointed full professors of engineering in the 

 Technical High School of Berlin, and Prof. 

 Schmidt, of Stuttgart, has been made director of 

 the Weather Bureau at Wiirtemburg in the 

 place of Prof. Mack, who has retired. 



Garden and Forest states that the first horti- 

 cultural school for women in Germany was 



opened at Friedenau, near Berlin, in the autumn 

 of 1894, and it will graduate its first class of 

 seven members next fall. One of the graduates 

 will then assume the position of teacher in a 

 similar school recently established at Riga, in 

 Livonia. On the first of October next still an- 

 other institution of the kind will be opened on 

 the estate of Baroness Barth-Harmating, near 

 Plauen, in Saxony. The courses of study ex- 

 tend over two or three years, and include 

 not only the various branches of horticulture, 

 but also fundamental scientific instruction and 

 such knowledge of business methods as is 

 needed for the successful prosecution of com- 

 mercial gardening. Emphasis is laid upon the 

 fact that the new work thus made possible for 

 women is suitable for those of the cultivated 

 classes, and not for uneducated or semi-edu- 

 cated rustics. 



Tele Duke of Devonshire has introduced in 

 the House of Lords a bill, somewhat similar to 

 that introduced by Lord Playfair in the last 

 Parliament, consolidating the educational insti- 

 tutions of London with a view to the establish- 

 ment of a great university. The report of the 

 Cowper Commission has thus the support of the 

 two English parties, but it is not likely that any 

 progress will be made during the present ses- 

 sion of Parliament. 



The issue of Nature for July 9th contains an 

 extended article discussing the position of 

 science at Oxford, which takes a somewhat dis- 

 couraged view of the place of science in the 

 University. It attributes the comparatively 

 small number of students in the school of 

 natural science in part to the lack of scientific 

 instruction in the public schools, which is in 

 turn due to the nature of the examinations re- 

 quired for entrance to the University, and in 

 part to the fact that there are only three science 

 tutors in all the colleges, while the course 

 chosen by the student depends largely on the 

 advice of his tutor. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE. 

 THE TEACHING OF ANATOMY. 



To THE Editor of Science : It seems to me 

 proper to take some exception to Prof. Mall's 

 paper on this subject, which you quote from in 



