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visitors. Prof. William Libbey is Secretary of 

 the Reception Committee and should be ad- 

 dressed by those desiring programs or tickets. 



We learn from the Academische Rundschau 

 that the total number of students matriculated 

 in the German universities during the present 

 summer semester is 29,864. This is 1,000 more 

 than last summer and the largest attendance 

 ever recorded, surpassing by about 400 the 

 largest previous attendance which was in the 

 summer of 1889. Berlin leads with 4,649 stu- 

 dents, followed by Munich, Leipzig, Tiibingen, 

 Heidelberg, Erlangen and Gottingen, at each of 

 which there were over 1,000. The students 

 are distributed among the faculties as follows : 

 Protestant theology, 2,959; Catholic theology, 

 1,502; law, 8,077 ; medicine, 7,931; pharmacy 

 and dentistry, 1,415 ; philosophy, philology and 

 history, 3,607; mathematics and natural science, 

 3.020; agriculture, 1,353. The total number of 

 foreigners, including Austria and Switzerland, 

 was 2,189, of whom 513 were Russians, 450 

 Americans, 139 English and 56 French. 



The Botanical Gazette states that Prof. Thos. 

 A. Williams, professor of botany in the Agri- 

 cultural College of South Dakota, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in the division of agrostology 

 of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. F. S. 

 Earle, of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 

 has been promoted to the professorship of 

 biology made vacant by the removal of Prof 

 Underwood to Columbia University. 



Prof. G. B. Mathews has resigned the 

 chair of mathematics in University College 

 North Wales. 



The chair of mental philosophy and logic 

 established sometime since in the University of 

 Cambridge has never been filled, owing to lack 

 of endowment. £700 annually have now been 

 appropriated for the chair, £200 of which is due 

 to the generosity of Prof Sidgwick, and it is 

 expected that a professor will soon be appointed. 



Sir Walter Gilby has founded in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge a lectureship on the history 

 and economics of agriculture, having guaranteed 

 for this purpose £25 a year for twenty-one 

 years. 



Mr. S. Henbest Capper, of Edinburgh, has 



been appointed to the newly-founded Mac- 

 donald Chair of Agriculture in the McGill Uni- 

 versity, Montreal. 



The following appointments are announced 

 in German universities : Dr. Kurt Riimker has 

 been made full professor of agriculture in the 

 University of Breslau ; Dr. Fr. W. Kiister, pro- 

 fessor of physical chemistry in the University of 

 Gottingen, and Dr. Wilhelm Sandmeyer, pro- 

 fessor of physiology in the University of Mar- 

 burg. Dr. Max Fischer, of Halle, has been 

 made professor in the Agricultural Institute at 

 Leipzig. Prof. Hofmeister, of Prague, has been 

 ' called to the chair of of physiological chemistry 

 in the University of Strasburg ; General M. 

 Rijkatschef has been appointed director of 

 the Physical Observatory in St. Petersburg, as 

 successor to Dr. Wild. Dr. Richard Lorenz 

 of Gottingen, has been made professor of elec- 

 tro-chemistry in the Polytechnic Institute in 

 Zurich. The railway inspector, Herr Troske, 

 has been appointed professor of engineering in 

 the Technical High School of Hanover. Dr. 

 Schleiermacher, of the Technical High School in 

 Karlsruhe, has been promoted to a full profes- 

 sorship of electro-chemisti-y, and Dr. Schuberg, 

 of the University of Heidelberg, to an assistant 

 professorship of zoology. Dr. J. Biehriuger has 

 been appointed docent in general and technical 

 chemistry in the Technical High School in 

 Braunschweig, and Dr. Benecke docent in bot- 

 any in the University of Strasburg. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 

 GIFTS TO THE LICK OBSERVATORY. 



Miss Caroline W. Bruce, of New York 

 City, has given the observatory a sum of money 

 to procure a large comet- seeker, and to provide 

 photometers for visual use with the thirty-six- 

 inch equatorial. 



Mr. Walter W. Law, of Scarboro'-on-Hud- 

 son, has likewise made a liberal gift towards 

 providing for the publication of the Observa- 

 tory Atlas of the Moon mentioned in the 

 Publications, Volume VIII. , page 187. The 

 grateful thanks of the Observatory are offered 

 to these friends, who have made it possible to 

 undertake new work. Edward S. Holden. 



Mount Hamilton. 



