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Barlow, Sir Lauder Brunton, Sir Victor Hors- 

 ley, Dr. Mary Scharlieb, Dr. Hutchinson and 

 Professor Sims Woodhead. Lord London- 

 derry, in reply, said the proposals made by the 

 deputation had his sincerest sympathy, and 

 he only wished it was in the power of the 

 board of education to carry them out. He 

 was as anxious as any one to see increased in- 

 struction being given in the laws of health, 

 but at the present time the necessary teachers 

 did not exist, and he should be the last to wish 

 anybody to act as instructor in such impor- 

 tant subjects who had not received instruction 

 in them. The board was at the present mo- 

 ment devoting itself to the training of teachers 

 and instructing them properly in the whole 

 question of hygiene. He trusted that as time 

 went on its efforts in that direction would 

 bring about the desired results. 



The appropriation of $1,500 recently made 

 by the New York State legislature for coop- 

 erative hydrographic work with the U. S. 

 Geological Survey will be used in maintain- 

 ing records of the rise and fall, the ordinary 

 outflow, floods and droughts of many streams 

 in the state. By means of these records it is 

 possible to determine in specific cases the 

 water supply available for canals, public water 

 systems and water power. The condition of 

 streams in more than fifty places in the state 

 is regularly reported. The work has gradu- 

 ally grown until there is at present hardly a 

 section of the state in which some river is not 

 systematically measured. The list includes 

 Chemung, Allegheny, Susquehanna, Chen- 

 ango, Catskill, Delaware, Hudson, Mohawk, 

 Saranac, Oswegatchie, Genesee, Oneida, Sen- 

 eca, Oswego and Black rivers and their most 

 important branches. The developed water 

 power of these streams amounts to nearly 

 300,000 horse power, and they afford an al- 

 most unlimited amount of undeveloped power. 

 Mr. Robert E. Horton, hydrographer, of Utica, 

 N. Y., has charge of the work. 



We learn from Nature that the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences of Vienna announces the 

 following grants : To the Vienna Society for 

 Solar Observation, 1,600 Krone for observa- 

 tions on climatic changes in the Goldberg 



glacier, and to Professor Eitter Beck von 

 Managetta (Prague) 600 Krone for studies 

 of plant distribution in the Julian Alps. 

 Prom the Wedl bequest, to Drs. Obermayer 

 and Pick (Vienna) 600 Krone for the chem- 

 istry of immune substances, to Dr. Moritz 

 Probst 800 Krone for continuation of work 

 on the brain, to Dr. Karl Camillo Schneider 

 400 Krone for a zoological expedition to 

 Grado, to Professor Julius Tandler 1,000 

 Krone for studies in the development of birds. 

 The committee of the Treitel legacy awards 

 the following grants : To Professor Hans 

 Skraup. (Graz) 1,500 Krone for studies on 

 albumens, to Dr. Franz Werner 6,000 Krone 

 for a zoological expedition to the Egyptian 

 Soudan, to Professor Julius Wiesner 4,000 

 Krone for eifects of light on plant life in the 

 Yellowstone district, to the Austrian Meteoro- 

 logical Society 4,000 Krone for investigations 

 of the upper atmosphere, and to the Earth- 

 quake Commission 5,465 Krone 39 heller. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Dr. Albert Frankel, one of the leading 

 German clinicians, who has been for twenty- 

 seven years decent in the University of Berlin, 

 has resigned. It is believed that his promo- 

 tion to a professorship was withheld owing to 

 the fact that he is a Jew. Dr. Hermann Op- 

 penheim recently resigned under similar cir- 

 cumstances. He was unanimously recom- 

 mended by the faculty for promotion, but the 

 recommendation was not confirmed by the 

 ministry. 



Dr. Henry L. Woodward has been appointed 

 assistant to the chair of physiology in the 

 Medical College of Ohio, medical department 

 of the University of Cincinnati. 



At the University of Leeds, Dr. J. B. Cohen 

 and Mr. Percy P. Kendall have been ap- 

 pointed professors of organic chemistry and 

 of geolog-y, respectively. 



Dr. Doring has been appointed professor of 

 analytical and applied chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Ereiberg. 



Dr. Karl Scheel has been made professor 

 and member of the German Eeichsanstalt. 



