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SCIENCE. 



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stimulus has been needed, as of late the num- 

 ber of university students has tended to de- 

 crease. The committee further presents an 

 interim report on the decrease of students pend- 

 ing a fuller investigation which is to include 

 the other Scottish universities and English and 

 foreign schools. In Edinburgh the number of 

 students continuously decreased from 3,576 in 

 1889-90 to 2,825 in 1895-96, above and below 

 which figure they have fluctuated but slightly. 

 The Royal British Commission on Tubercu- 

 losis is now sitting in London. The experi- 

 mental part of its work will be carried out 

 near Stansted, in Essex, on two farms that 

 have been placed at the disposal of the com- 

 mission by Sir James Blyth. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller, has made a fur- 

 ther gift of $1,250,000 to the University of Chi- 

 cago, making the total amount given by him 

 $10,251,000. 



By the recent death of Mrs. Anne Went- 

 worth, of Lowell, Mass., Dartmouth College 

 will, it is said, come into the possession of an 

 estate worth about $500,000, bequeathed to it 

 by Tappan Went worth. 



Wesley AN University has secured $100,- 

 000 which will be used for an administration 

 building, and $25,000 toward a fund for the 

 building of an observatory and scientific labora- 

 tories. 



It is reported that Mr. Carnegie will liberally 

 endow the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering 

 of the Stevens Institute on the occasion of the 

 dedication on February 6. 



Dr. Purdie, professor of chemistry in St. 

 Andrews University, has offered the University 

 a gift of £5,000 for the purpose of building and 

 equipping a small chemical research depart- 

 ment at St. Andrews. In his letter to Principal 

 Donaldson intimating the gift. Professor Purdie 

 says that their universities are very poorly pro- 

 vided for research when compared with those 

 of foreign countries, and that scientific indus- 

 tries suffer in consequence. 



The physical laboratory of the University of 

 Michigan will be enlarged next year by taking 

 in the third floor of the building, which has 



hitherto been devoted to bacteriology, and pos- 

 sibly by the addition of a large lecture room 

 to seat 300 persons. The present capacity of 

 the building is insuflBcient to accommodate the 

 500 students who are taking courses in physics. 

 Fire of unknown origin destroyed the main 

 building of the University of Wooster. The 

 loss is estimated at $250,000, with insurance of 

 about $70,000. It is supposed that an explo- 

 sion of chemicals in one of the laboratories was 

 the cause. 



The registration at the SheflBeld Scientific 

 School of Yale University this year and last is 

 as follows : 



1900-1901 1901-1902 



Graduate Students 105 133 



Seniors 134 128 



Juniors 143 143 



Freshmen 199 245 



Special Students 29 26 



6lO 675 



There is thus an increase of 65 students, espe- 

 cially noticeable being the increase in the num- 

 ber of graduate students and of the Freshman 

 class. 



The number of dental students in America 

 from foreign countries is increasing every year. 

 In the dental department of the University of 

 Pennsylvania this year 80 of the 364 registered 

 students are foreigners, representing a large 

 number of nationalities. 



Mr. John A. Brashear has been elected 

 Chancellor of the University of Western Penn- 

 sylvania. Mr. Brashear was last year vice- 

 president of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and chairman of the 

 Section of Mechanical Science and Engineering. 



Dr. Henry Lefavour, professor of physics 

 at Williams College, and dean of the faculty, 

 has been elected president of the newly-organ- 

 ized Simmons College for Women at Boston. 



Professor E. G. Harris, of the Missouri 

 School of Mines, has been elected professor of 

 civil engineering in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Dr. Theodore W. Richards has been elected 

 full professor of chemistry at Harvard Univer- 

 sity. It will be remembered that Professor 

 Richards was recently called to a chair of 

 chemistry at Gottingen. 



