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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XX. No. 517. 



Columbia University, by a decision of the 

 Court of Appeals, will take possession of real 

 estate bequeathed by Stephen W. Phosnix, of 

 New York, and yielding an annual rental of 

 about $10,000. The bequest was contested by 

 Mr. PhcEnix's family. 



A STATEMENT lias been issued by the rector 

 of the Catholic University announcing that 

 no part of the $100,000 collected for the uni- 

 versity last year has been lost through the 

 failure of the treasurer. The amount that 

 the university has lost or is liable to lose is 

 not, however, stated. It seems extraordinary 

 that a university should loan its endowment 

 fund at six per cent, interest to an individual 

 who used the' money for real estate specula- 

 tions. 



C. P. Chase, treasurer of Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, announces the gift of $1,000 by the Earl 

 of Dartmouth to the fund for the rebuilding 

 of Dartmouth Hall. 



The preliminary register of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University shows the total enrolment to 

 be Y40, against 696 at the same period last 

 year. This is the largest enrolment in the 

 history of the institution. The faculty, in- 

 cluding assistants and lecturers, numbers 160, 

 a gain of ten over last year. There are 291 

 candidates for the degree of M.D., compared 

 with 275 last year, the total number of grad- 

 uate students being 556, an increase of six- 

 teen over the year preceding. Undergrad- 

 uate students number 186, a gain of 17 per 

 cent, over the enrolment at the same time last 

 year. Candidates for the A.B. degree next 

 June number thirty-three. 



The department of geology, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, has arranged for the follow- 

 ing special courses to be given during the 

 winter and spring quarters of 1905 : 



January 2-February 10. — (1) Courses in Non- 

 metallic Economic Geology, by E. R. Buckley, 

 Ph.D., state geologist of Missouri. (a) An ele- 

 mentaiy outline course; (6) An advanced course 

 on structural materials. 



February 13-Marcli 2Jf. — (2) Courses on Pre- 

 Cambrian Geology, by Professor C. K. Leith, Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. (a) The Archeozoic and 

 proteozoie Formations; (6) Laboratory course 



on metamorphie rocks, accompanying the above. 



April 3- May 12. — (3) Courses on Ore Deposits, 

 by F. L. Kansome, U. S. Geological Survey. (a) 

 An elementary course on ore deposits in general; 

 ( y ) An advanced course on gold, silver, copper 

 and lead (in part) ores. 



Dr. Charles "W. Dabney was installed as 

 president of the University of Cincinnati on 

 November 16. His inaugural address was 

 entitled ' Democracy and the School.' 



Mr. Clifton D. Howe, assistant in botany 

 in the University of Chicago, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in botany in the Biltmore 

 Forest School, Biltmore, North Carolina, and 

 will begin his new duties on January 1. 



We learn from the Electrical World that 

 Dr. F. A. C. Perrine, chief engineer of the 

 Standard Electric Company, of California, 

 has become a member of the faculty of the 

 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Dr. Per- 

 rine will affiliate with the department of 

 electrical engineering as consulting professor 

 in long distance electric power transmission. 

 Dr. Louis Duncan has been appointed con- 

 sulting professor of electric traction. Dr. 

 Duncan was the organizer and head of the 

 department of electrical engineering at Johns 

 Hopkins University, and recently reorganizer 

 of the department of electrical engineering 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Mr. T. D. a. Cockerell has been appointed 

 lecturer on entomology in the University of 

 Colorado, Boulder. 



Professor James Eobeetson, commissioner 

 of agriculture and dairy of the Dominion of 

 Canada, has resigned from the government 

 service and will take charge of the agricultural 

 college to be established near Montreal by Sir 

 William McDonald. 



Dr. J. F. Pompecky, for the last ten years 

 associated with the late Professor Karl von 

 Zittel, at Munich, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of geology in the agricultural school of 

 Hohenheim, near Stuttgart. 



Dr. Karl Exner, professor of mathematical 

 physics at Innsbriiek, , and Dr. A. Bauer, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the "Vienna Polytechnic 

 Institute, have retired from active service. 



