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[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 365. 



Course III., Parasites and Parasitism, J. Percy 

 Moore. On Thursdays, beginning on January 2. 



Course IV., Structure anfl Life Histories of Some 

 Common Birds, Witmer Stone, M. A., Conservator of 

 the ornithological section. Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia. On Mondays, beginning on 

 January 6. 



Course V., Sedimentary Rocks, their Origin and 

 Formation, Amos P. Brown, Ph.D., professor of 

 mineralogy and Geology, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Philadelphia. On Thursdays, beginning on 

 February 6. 



Course VI., The Principles and Methods of Zo- 

 ology, Philip Calvert, Ph.D., instructor in zoology, 

 University of Pennsylvania. On Mondays, beginning 

 on February 11. 



Course VII., Studies of Plant Life in the Vicinity 

 of Philadelphia, Stewardson Brovrn, conservator of 

 the botanical section of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia. On Thursdays, beginning on 

 March 13. • 



Course VIII., Mollusks, Henry A. Pilsbury, con- 

 servator of the conchological section of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. On Mondays, be- 

 ginning on March 17. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL S-:EWS. 

 A MEETING has been held in Halifax to con- 

 sider a plan for the affiliation of the colleges in 

 the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 and Prince Edward Island, and the establish- 

 ment of a university in the maritime provinces. 

 The American residents of Montreal have 

 given the sum of $9,000 to McOill University 

 to found a political science fellowship in honor 

 of the late President McKinley. 



The Berlin correspondent of the London 

 Times states that the estimates for the army in- 

 clude a vote for the new military technical col- 

 lege which the Government proposes to open in 

 the course of next year. The necessity for some 

 such institution has been impressed upon the 

 military authorities by the advancing scientific 

 requirements of modern warfare, which are now 

 too numerous and too varied to be adequately 

 provided for by the resources at the com- 

 mand of the existing Staff College. There are 

 branches of technical knowledge which, al- 

 though they cannot strictly be classed as mili- 

 tary, are, nevertheless, indispensable for the 

 soldier. Among such subjects are steam-power, 



electricity, mechanics, the construction of boats 

 and bridges, and the establishment of means 

 of communication. In recognition of this fact 

 the college which is shortly to be opened will 

 have for its objects the extension of general 

 technical knowledge in the army and also the 

 special technical training of engineer officers, as 

 well as of those officers who desire to prepare 

 themselves there for a career in the railway, 

 ballooning and other special departments of the 

 service. The college will provide for the in- 

 struction of 200 officers, the course of study 

 will be completed in three years, and the stu- 

 dents will pass through three grades. One 

 hundred officers will take the first year course, 

 and of these 50 will subsec^uently proceed to 

 the second and third grades. It is expected 

 that the college will be opened on October 1, 

 1902, The ordinary annual expenses are esti- 

 mated at 300,000 Marks. 



Professor Adrian J. Brown, director of the 

 British School of Malting and Brewing, of 

 Birmingham University, has issued a report in 

 which he says that they have now more stu- 

 dents than the laboratories ought to accommo- 

 date, and he has been compelled to refuse 

 others who have applied for admission. There 

 are 18 students at present working in the 

 school, and of these 16 devote their whole time 

 to their work. 



Four students of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania have been awarded scholarships by the 

 Institute for Medical Eesearch, founded by 

 Mr. John D. Rockefeller. Those receiving the 

 scholarships are Dr. George H. Gildersleeve, of 

 the hygienic laboratory, and E. B. Vedder, C. 

 M. Duval and Dr. F. P. Gray, of the patho- 

 logical laboratory. 



Mr. William Maxwell Eeed has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of astronomy at 

 Princeton University to fill the position left 

 vacant by Mr. Taylor Reed. 



Miss Edith M. Tewkesbury, B.A. (Welles- 

 ley), has been appointed instructor in chemistry 

 at Wells College. 



Thomas Shaw, professor of animal industry 

 at the Minnesota State Agricultural College, has 

 resigned to become editor of an agricultural 

 journal. 



