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the University of Chicago in the different 

 groups was as follows : Philosophical-sociologi- 

 cal 1,169, language and literature 2,544, divin- 

 ity 788, education 1,602, sciences 1,128. The 

 number of courses 'offered in the sciences and 

 the registration were as follows : 



Physical. 



Mathematics 14 317 



Astronomy 3 40 



Physics 11 191 



Chemistry 14 195 



Geology .^ 124 



Totals 50 867 



Biological. 



Zoology 9 72 



Anatomy 9 70 



Physiology 2 33 



Neurology 4 28 



Botany 11 158 



Totals 35 361 



It is reported that restrictions will be placed 

 on foreign students attending the Technical In- 

 stitute at Charlottenburg. In Berlin, in Mu- 

 nich, and in other technical schools, there has 

 recently been much complaint in regard to the 

 number of foreigu students. The restrictions 

 are aimed especially against Russians, Ameri- 

 cans being less numerous than formerly. 



It is expected that a professorship of pathol- 

 ogy will be filled at the University of Sydney 

 at the close of the present year. 



Dr. Roland Thaxter has been promoted to 

 a professorship of cryptogamic botany at Har- 

 vard University. 



Gilbert H. Boggs, A.B. (Georgia), Ph.D. 

 (Pennsylvania), has been appointed instructor 

 in chemistry in the University of Maine. W. 

 C. Ebaugh, A.B. (Pennsylvania), Ph.D. (Penn- 

 sylvania) has taken the professorship of chem- 

 istry and physics in Kenyon College, Gambler, 

 Ohio. Lily G. Kollock, A.B. (Woman's Col- 

 lege), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), has received an 

 appointment in the Girls' High School, Louis- 

 ville, Kentucky, as professor of chemistry and 

 physics. Thomas M. Taylor, S.B. (Oberlin), 

 Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), becomes instructor in 

 chemistry in Oberlin College. Leonard P. 

 Morgan, S.B. (Pennsylvania) has accepted an 

 instructorship in chemistry in the Mining and 

 Agricultural College, Stillwater, Oklahoma. 



In the Medical College of Western Reserve 

 University, Dr. F. C. Waite, of the University 

 of Chicago, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of histology and embryology, Dr. H. B. 

 Parker demonstrator in pathology, and Dr. R. 

 G. Perkins lecturer on bacteriology. 



At the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. M. 

 Howard Fussell has been appointed assistant 

 professor of medicine. Dr. Thomas R. Neilson 

 assistant professor of genito-urinary diseases, 

 and Dr. Elisha H. Gregory, Jr., demonstrator 

 of anatomy. Dr. Frederick A. Packard will 

 deliver the lectures upon applied therapeutics, 

 and Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr., those on the physio- 

 logical action of drugs, in the place of Dr. 

 Horatio C. Wood, professor of therapeutics, 

 who has been granted leave of absence for a 

 year. 



At Washington University, Mr. A. P. Win- 

 ston has been appointed instructor in political 

 economy and Mr. A. O. Lovejoy, lately of Le- 

 land Stanford Junior University, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of philosophy, 



Francis Gang Benedict, Ph.D., has been 

 promoted to an associate professorship in chem- 

 istry, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, 

 Conn. 



Dr. Earl Barnes has been appointed a 

 special lecturer in pedagogy in the School of 

 Pedagogy of New York University. 



Dr. a. a. Lawson, of the botanical staff of 

 the University of California, who has spent the 

 past year at Chicago (as fellow in botany), has 

 been appointed assistant in botany at Lelaud 

 Stanford Junior University. 



Mr. H. T. a. Hus, M.S., a graduate student 

 in botany at the University of California, has 

 been appointed assistant in botany at the Uni- 

 versity of Amsterdam, Holland. 



Dr. Hermann Simon, decent in physics at 

 Frankfort a/M., has been appointed associate 

 professor of physics and electricity in the Uni- 

 versity at Gdttingen, and Dr. Ernst Neumann, 

 docent in applied mathematics and physics in 

 the University of Halle, has been appointed to 

 an associate professorship in the University at 

 Breslau. Dr. Julius Precht, associate professor 

 of physics at Heidelberg, has been called to the 

 Technical Institute at Hanover. 



