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SCIENCE. 



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ruary. The position of assistant and expert in 

 forestry history, at a salary of $1000 per an- 

 num, will also be filled in February as the result 

 of an examination. Details regarding these, 

 as of all other Civil Service examinations, 

 can be obtained by addressing the U. S. Civil 

 Service Commission, Washington, D. C. 



An examination will be held on February 6th 

 for the position of draughtsman in the Geolog- 

 ical Survey. The candidates should have ex- 

 perience in the preparation of drawings of in- 

 vertebrate fossils. 



The Civil Service Commission of New York 

 State will hold open competitive examinations 

 on or about January 27, 1900, in various cities 

 throughout the State, for the position of chem- 

 ist, State Board of Health, with a salary of 

 $125 per month. The examination will consist 

 ■entirely of practical questions relating to analy- 

 sis of food products, and questions relating to 

 experience and training of the candidates ; can- 

 didates having applications on file will be given 

 ample notice of the time and place of examina- 

 tion most convenient to their places of residence. 



A STATE department of Trade, Art and Com- 

 merce has been established for the Russian 

 Empire. 



The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 

 proposes to organize an International Conference 

 on Malaria. 



A Congress on Tuberculosis will take place 

 at Naples in the spring of 1900. The Con- 

 gress, in connection with which there will be 

 a great hygienic exhibition, is under the patron- 

 age of the Queen of Italy. Professor Baccelli, 

 Minister of Public Instruction, will preside. A 

 German committee has already been formed to 

 assist in making arrangements for the Congress. 



We learn from the London Times that sev- 

 eral prominent English medical men have been 

 staying in Kome for some days. They visited 

 the scientific and academic institutions and de- 

 voted special attention to the researches of 

 Professors Grassi, Bignami, Celli and Dionisi, in 

 connection with malaria. Arrangements were 

 made for the maintenance of continual inter- 

 course between the Roman School of Hygiene 

 and the London School of Tropical Medicine. 

 The English doctors visited various hospitals 



and conferred with the Minister of Public In- 

 struction, who promised to be present at the 

 ofBcial inauguration of the tropical school in 

 London. 



At the annual meeting of the New York 

 Neurological Society, held January 2d, the fol- 

 lowing ofBcers were elected : President, Fred- 

 erick Peterson ; First Vice-President, Joseph 

 Collins ; Second Vice-President, L. Stieglitz ; Be- 

 cording Secretary, Pearce Bailey ; Corresponding 

 Secretary, Lewis A. Conner ; Treasurer, Graeme 

 M. Hammond ; Councillors, C. L. Dana, M. A. 

 Starr, B. Sachs, E. D. Fisher and J. Arthur Booth. 



At a meeting of the Zoological Society of 

 London, on December 17th, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 the secretary, read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's menagerie 

 during the month of November, 1899, and called 

 special attention to two snake-fishes {Polypterus 

 senegalus) from the river Gambia, obtained by 

 Mr. J. S. Budgett, F.Z.S., during his recent 

 expedition to the Gambia, and presented by him 

 on November 22d. These were believed to be 

 the first examples of this fish ever brought alive 

 to Europe. 



The German Emperor began an address to 

 the ofiicers of Berlin garrison on January 1st 

 with the words: "The first day of the new 

 century sees our army," etc., and the day has 

 been celebrated in Berlin as the first day of the 

 twentieth century. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of the late Dorman B. Eaton, 

 Columbia University receives $100,000 to found 

 a professorship of municipal science and ad- 

 ministration, and Harvard University $100,000 

 to endow a chair in the science of government. 



Me. Louis H. Severance, of New York 

 City, has given $60,000 to Oberlin College for a 

 chemical laboratory. The provision made for 

 the College by Mrs. C. E Haskell amounts to 

 $77,000. 



De. Alonzo E. Tayloe, who, as we recently 

 announced, has been called from the William. 

 Pepper Laboratory of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania to the professorship of pathologj' in 

 the University of California, is at present in 

 Berlin arranging for the purchase and construe- 



