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ary inspectors. Professor James McCall; sani- 

 tary inspectors, Mr. T. F. Strutt; women on 

 hygiene, the Duchess of Montrose ; the hygiene 

 of school life. Professor John Edgar. 



VSIYEK8ITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 We learn from the London Times that the 

 Schunck Laboratory, bequeathed to Owens Col- 

 lege by the late Dr. Schunck, who had in his 

 lifetime endowed the college with £20,000 on 

 behalf of chemical research, has been removed 

 from his residence at Kersal and rebuilt in 

 the college precincts as nearly as possible in 

 its original form. It comprises two floors and 

 a basement, with the most modern appliances, 

 also a valuable library and a collection of 

 coloring matter, natural and artificial. Dr. 

 Perkin, who assisted Dr. Schunck in the de- 

 velopment of alizarin, performed the ceremony 

 of opening the laboratory in its new home on 

 July 1. Mrs. Schunck presented, through her 

 son Mr. Charles Schunck, a medallion portrait 

 of her late husband, which has been placed in 

 the laboratory. 



Members of the graduating class of Har- 

 vard University expect to pursue work as 

 follows : 



Business 128 



Law 121 



Teaching 68 



Scientific pursuits 68 



Medicine 20 



Railroading , 14 



Architects 12 



Ministry 8 



Journalism 7 



The fact that ten times as many students 

 expect to follow scientific pursuits as will 

 enter the ministry witnesses a great change 

 that has taken place within recent years. 



The relation that 'the evolutionary theory as 

 originally laid down by Darwin has come to 

 have in what would once have been regarded 

 as widely removed fields was specially consid- 

 ered by the zoological department of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan the second half of this 

 college year. The course was supplementary 

 to the course on organic evolution, and aimed 



to give a critical appreciation of the develop- 

 ment of the evolution theory since Darwin, 

 and of the bearing of that development on 

 various fields of knowledge. The theory of 

 evolution has so profoundly influenced psychol- 

 ogy, ethics and social science, to say nothing 

 of other subjects, that an acquaintance with 

 the ground and import of this theory is a 

 necessary part of the equipment of the student 

 in any of these fields, as well as of the biol- 

 ogist, who has an interest in the broader as- 

 pects of his work. It was the purpose of the 

 course to give the student the necessary basis 

 for appreciating in some degree the import of 

 biology. Somewhat more than half the time 

 was devoted to organic evolution, particularly 

 to its post-Darwinian developments, while the 

 remainder was devoted to the evolution of the 

 behavior of the lower animals and of man, 

 and to social and ethical evolution. The 

 course was conducted by different members of 

 the zoological staff, each dealing with those 

 aspects of the subject to which he has devoted 

 especial attention. 



At the June meeting of the trustees of 

 Western Reserve University the following 

 appointments were made in the Medical De- 

 partment: Torald Sollman, professor of phar- 

 macology and materia medica; Frederick 

 Clayton Waite, associate professor of histology 

 and embryology; Roger G. Perkins, assistant 

 professor of bacteriology and pathology ; Percy 

 W. Cobb, demonstrator in physiology; E. D. 

 Brown, demonstrator in pharmacology and 

 materia medica; J. B. Austin, demonstrator in 

 histology and embryology. The following 

 gifts were received during the year : For the 

 endowment of Harry Willson Payne Professor- 

 ship, $100,000; for the Adolph Cudell Library 

 fund, $200; for current budget expenses, 

 $5,000. 



Professor Howard J. Banker, of the South- 

 western Normal College of Pennsylvania has 

 been elected professor of biology in DePauw 

 University at Greencastle, Indiana. • 



Professor Georg Gaffky, professor in the 

 University of Giessen, has accepted a call to 

 occupy the chair vacant through the resigna- 

 tion of Dr. Robert Koch, in the University of 

 Berlin. 



