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representative an account of the work which is 

 being done in Freetown and Lagos under his 

 direction as leader of the expedition sent out 

 by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 

 in the course of which he said it was too early 

 to speak of the sanitary work at Freetown, but 

 the number of the mosquitoes in the center of 

 the town had certainly been largely reduced. 

 There were hardly any to be found in Dr. 

 Logan Taylor's house, where formerly they 

 used to swarm, and the same state of affairs 

 prevailed at Government House, where Major 

 Ross stayed with the Governor. Dr. McKen- 

 drick, of the Indian Medical Service, who had 

 been deputed to watch over the operations of 

 the expedition on behalf of the Government of 

 India, was not bitten once during a whole month. 

 In former days he would certainly have been 

 bitten at least five or six times a day. Major 

 Ross said he had no doubt that the expeditions 

 would be successful and that they would be 

 continued as long as necessary. At Lagos the 

 measures adopted by Sir William Macgregor 

 were admirable and he was confident of suc- 

 cess. The Governor of Accra, Major Nathan, 

 was anxious to start similar work there at once, 

 and doubtless experts would be sent out imme- 

 diately by the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine. On the whole, Major Ross ex- 

 pressed himself as being well satisfied with his 

 tour. Personally he did not think the health 

 of the Coast was as bad as was painted. He 

 believed that by minute attention to details 

 the place would be made as healthy as India 

 for Europeans. Old West Africans are sober 

 and careful and generally live in very good 

 health. It was the improvident newcomer 

 who generally seemed to suffer. He had been 

 informed that there was a high rate of mortal- 

 ity amongst such on the Cape Coast. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has agreed to pay all 

 the expenses of a department of anthropology 

 at the University of California, which will be 

 devoted especially to the study of Indians of 

 the Pacific coast. 



Mr. Aaron French, the Pittsburg manu- 

 facturer, who has made large gifts to the 



Georgia School of Technology, has established 

 a third scholarship in that institution. 



Syracuse University receives about $40,- 

 000 by the will of the late Justice George N. 

 Kennedy. 



By the death of Mrs. Henrietta Cramp, Wes- 

 leyan College, at Bloomington, 111., has re- 

 ceived $50,000, bequeathed to it by the late 

 Rev. Samuel Cramp. 



We recently had occasion to call attention to 

 the great development of the universities of the 

 Central and Western States during the past ten 

 years. There is every reason to suppose that 

 in the course of the next ten years a great ad- 

 vance will be made in the Southern States. 

 Tulane University has recently made great 

 progress, and the University of South Carolina, 

 under the presidency of Dr. F. P. Venable, 

 will have this year about 600 students. This 

 university should be included among those 

 competent to carry on advanced work, though 

 it was omitted from our summary of the uni- 

 versities awarding the degree of Doctor of 

 Philosophy. There were, as a matter of fact, 

 two doctorates of philosophy awarded last year, 

 as follows : 



Archibald Henderson, Mathematics : ' The Cone of 

 the Normals and an Allied Cone for Central Surfaces 

 of the Second Degree. ' 



James E. Mills, Chemistry : ' Some Molecular 

 Changes caused by Rise in Temperature.' 



As a result of the recent troubles in the 

 Storrs Agricultural College, Mr. George W. 

 Flint has been dismissed from the presidency. 

 Professor R. W. Stimson, who holds the chair 

 of English at the College, has been appointed 

 acting president. 



Professor E. M. Wood, of Baker Univer- 

 sity, at Baldwin, Kansas, is to succeed the late 

 Professor Henry Benner, as professor of mathe- 

 matics and astronomy in Albion (Mich.) Col- 

 lege. 



Professor Thomas C. Esty, of Amherst, 

 has succeeded Professor Baker in the chair of 

 mathematics at the University of Rochester. 



Paul Arnold, M.A., of Los Angeles, has 

 been appointed professor of mathematics in the 

 University of Southern California. 



