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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. IV. No. 90. 



A DEPARTMENT of biology in tlie graduate 

 school of Georgetown University has been or- 

 ganized and placed under the direction of Dr. 

 C. W. Stiles. The instructors and lecturers in- 

 clude Merton B. Waite, professor of botany ; 

 Sylvester D. Judd, instructor in biology ; Dr. 

 Frank Baker, lecturer on anthropology ; Dr. 

 Leland O. Howard, lecturer on insects ; Dr. T. 

 S. Palmer, lecturer on mammals ; Prof. James 

 E, Benedict, lecturer on marine invertebrates ; 

 Prof. Charles T. Simpson, lecturer on mol- 

 lusks : Prof. Chas. W. Eichmond, lecturer on 

 birds ; Prof. Henry Olds, lecturer on songs of 

 birds, and Prof. W. P. Hay, lecturer on am- 

 phibia and reptiles. 



A COMMITTEE of the graduate students of 

 Bryn Mawr College has in preparation a hand- 

 book of courses open to women in foreign uni- 

 versities. It will contain a complete list of 

 professors and lecturers at all colleges and uni- 

 versities where women are admitted; together 

 with the subjects in which lectures are given, 

 the entrance requirements, fees, beginnings and 

 endings of terms, degrees granted to women, 

 and other particulars of importance. In this 

 connection it may be noted that the University 

 of Durham will not only open the degree of 

 B. A. to women, but will also throw open some 

 eight scholarships and exhibitions, varying in 

 value from £20 to £70 a year, besides various 

 university prizes, and that Bonn has followed 

 the example of several other German universi- 

 ties and now admits to the lectures women who 

 can show proper preparation and secure the 

 permission of the lecturer. 



The Pope gave permission last year for lay- 

 men to attend the English universities, and the 

 Duke of Norfolk has purchased for $65,000 a 

 site on which it is proposed to erect a Eoman 

 Catholic college at Oxford. 



Prop. W. L. Ames, who has been for some 

 years at the head of the Department of Draw- 

 ing and Designing at the Rose Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute, has recently resigned to accept a similar 

 position in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 



Miss Parker, a daughter of Prof. W. A. 

 Parker, of the University of Alabama, has 

 been appointed professor of natural sciences in 

 the Georgia Industrial College at Milledgeville. 



The correspondent of the N. Y. Evening Post 

 from Colgate University writes that Mr. J. Fay 

 Smith, a graduate student of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, will take charge of the department of phys- 

 ics until January, when Prof. Nichols, who has 

 been for two and a half years at the University 

 in Berlin, will return. Mr. H. E. Nims has 

 charge of the department of chemistry during 

 Prof. McGregory's absence in Gottingen, where 

 he will remain until January. 



The following appointments are announced 

 in the Naturivissenschaftliche Rundschau : Dr. 

 Lobry de Bruyn has been made full professor 

 of general and pharmaceutical chemistry in the 

 University of Amsterdam ; Dr. W. H. Julius 

 has been promoted to a full professorship of 

 physics in the University of Utrecht ; Dr. Wil- 

 helm Fleischmann, of the University of Konigs- 

 berg, has been made director of the agricultural 

 institution at the University of Gottingen, and 

 Dr. Emil Erlenmeyer has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of chemistry in the University of 

 Strasburg. 



SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



Ice Work Present and Past. T. G. Bonney, 

 D. Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. In- 

 ternational Scientific Series. D. Appleton 

 & Company. 1896.* 



In the introduction it is intimated that this 

 work is written primarily for the student. 

 There are many passages, however, which in- 

 dicate that amateurs, teachers, general geolo- 

 gists, and even glacial specialists, were in the 

 author's mind as he wrote. It is not, on the 

 one hand, a strictly popular work adapted to 

 those who are quite unfamiliar with the subject; 

 nor is it, on the other, a thoroughgoing treatise 

 especially serviceable to glacialists. It is not 

 clear that the author has been altogether suc- 

 cessful in the difiElcult task of adapting his 

 method and matter to the intermediate class. 

 A doubt arises whether he has been explicit 

 and illustrative enough upon the glacial fun- 

 damentals, on the one hand, and, on the other, 

 whether he has not entered so much into detail 

 in the treatment of certain local phenomena, es- 



* Eeviewed by request. 



