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SCIENCE. 



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the death of Kant, for a series of papers on 

 ' Kant's present significance.' There will also 

 be a paper in recognition of the bicentenary 

 of the death of Locke. It is hoped that one 

 session may be held conjointly with the Psy- 

 chological Association. In addition to these 

 special features, a full and varied program is 

 assured by the large number of papers al- 

 ready offered. 



The San Francisco section of the American 

 Mathematical Society holds its meetings al- 

 ternately at the University of California and 

 Stanford University, in September and Febru- 

 ary, respectively. The next meeting will be 

 held at Stanford University on February 25. 

 Professor M. V. Haskell is president and Pro- 

 fessor G. A. Miller, secretary of the section. 



At the recent Princeton meeting of the As- 

 sociation of Teachers of Mathematics of the 

 Middle States and Maryland, officers were 

 elected as follows: President, Professor 

 Thomas Scott Fiske, Columbia University; 

 vice-president. Dean H. B. Fine, Princeton 

 University; secretary, Arthur Schultze, High 

 School of Commerce, New York City; mem- 

 hers of the council. Professor Edwin S. 

 Crawley, University of Pennsylvania, and 

 Miss Jenny Van Vleck, Girls' High School, 

 Brooklyn. 



The American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers is meeting in New York this week. Mr. 

 Ambrose Swasey, the retiring president, an- 

 nounced as the subject of his address ' The 

 Achievements of the Engineer with respect to 

 exact Measurements.' Mr. John E. Freeman, 

 of Providence, E. I., has been nominated for 

 president next year. 



The opening meeting of the eighty-sixth 

 session of the British Institution of Civil 

 Engineers took place on November 1. Sir 

 William White, the retiring president, took 

 the chair at the opening of the meeting, and 

 he was supported by Sir Guilford Molesworth, 

 the incoming president. Sir Benjamin Baker, 

 Sir William Preece, Professor Unwin, Colonel 

 Crompton, Sir J. Wolfe Barry, Mr. Alexander 

 Siemens, Dr. Kennedy, Sir Alexander Binnie, 

 Mr. C. Hawksley, Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw, Dr. 

 Elgar, Mr. Yarrow, Sir John Thornycroft, 



Sir George Bruce, Mr. E. A. Hadfield and 

 Dr. Tudsbery (secretary). 



The Ben Nevis Meteorological Observa- 

 tories were closed on October 1, after having 

 been in operation for nearly twenty-one years. 

 The cost of the observatories and improve- 

 ments was about $35,000 provided by subscrip- 

 tion, and the annual cost of maintenance had 

 been about $5,000, most of which was privately 

 subscribed. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The New York Evening Post states that 

 Sir William Macdonald is perfecting- his plans 

 for the new agricultural college and experi- 

 mental farm which, under the supervision of 

 Professor Eobertson, late of the Government 

 Experimental Farm at Ottawa, he is to estab- 

 lish at St. Anne de Bellevue, near Montreal. 

 About seven hundred acres of land have been 

 secured by the founder, who declares that the 

 college is a personal affair of his own, and 

 that he does not intend to be bound down to 

 any definite sum of money in the completion 

 of his work. The erection of the buildings 

 will be commenced next spring, and the whole 

 cost is expected to be between one and two 

 million dollars. The institution will be pat- 

 terned after the agricultural college at Guelph, 

 and the experimental farm at Ottawa. 



The Oxford Congregation by a vote of 200 

 to 164 has rejected the proposal that in the 

 entrance examinations candidates who are 

 seeking honors in mathematics or natural sci- 

 ence may be allowed to substitute French or 

 German for Greek. 



At a dinner of the Oxford Colonial Club, 

 held on November 14, Lord Eoseberry an- 

 nounced that the Ehodes Trustees, hearing 

 that the university was in some danger, from 

 want of the necessary means, of losing their 

 present teacher of pathology, were prepared to 

 contribute £200 a year for five years. 



Dr. Leo Loeb has been appointed assistant 

 professor of pathology at University of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Mr. E. G. D. Eichardson has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in mathematics at Yale 

 University. 



