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tion of instruments for the new laboratories. 

 Mrs. Hearst has provided for the equipment of 

 the department of pathology, including bac- 

 teriology, general and special morphological 

 pathology, and pathological chemistry, as also 

 microscopes for the department of anatomy. 

 The equipment of the department of pathology 

 will be very complete and will provide especially 

 for research work. 



The sum of 17,000 Marks has been appro- 

 priated for apparatus for the new physical 

 laboratory at. Breslau. 



The bequest of $25,000 by the late E. F. 

 Holden to Syracuse University will be used for 

 the department of astronomy and for the ob- 

 servatory. 



Owen'8 College, Manchester, receives £1000 

 from the will of the late P. G. J. Ermen. 



The medical faculty of McGill University is 

 arranging courses on legal medicine and public 

 health. 



The College of Science of the University of 

 Illinois has issued a circular offering a four 

 years' course in natural science, the special 

 object of which is to prepare for work in eco- 

 nomic entomology. The principal studies of this 

 course are three years' work in entomology 

 (the last of which will be practically original 

 research carried on under general supervision 

 and advice), a year of chemistry, a half 

 year of physics, mathematics and drawing, 

 two years of German and one year of French, 

 half a year of agriculture (agricultural crops), 

 a year of horticulture (a three-fifths course), 

 and a half year each of elementary biology, 

 invertebrate zoology, human physiology, gen- 

 eral botany, bacteriology and geology. To 

 these are added, as minor courses, the mili- 

 tary physical training, and rhetoric required 

 for graduation. The courses in agriculture, 

 horticulture and botany are so selected as to 

 give the kind of knowledge and experience 

 especially needed by the economic entomologist, 

 and those in elementary biology and general 

 zoology lay a foundation of training and in- 

 struction for the special studies of the entomo- 

 logical course. Students graduating from this 

 course will receive the degree of B. 8. in 

 natural science. 



The attendance of regular students at the 

 University of Berlin this winter is 6478, which 

 is an increase of 605 students over the registra- 

 tion last winter. The increase is the largest in 

 the faculties of philosophy and law. The Uni- 

 versity of Berlin has more than three times as 

 many students as it had twenty-five years ago. 



The Rev. B. L. Whitman, D.D., since 1895 

 President of Columbian University,Washington, 

 D. C, has resigned to accept the pastorate of 

 the Calvary Baptist Church in Philadelphia. 

 Dr. Whitman's resignation will take effect on 

 June 1st, next. 



Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Ph.D., has 

 been appointed Gray professor of botany at 

 Harvard University. 



De. Hans Stobbe has been promoted to an 

 associate professorship of chemistry at Leipzig. 



De. Luther has qualified as decent in phys- 

 ical chemistry at Leipzig and Dr. Ley in chem- 

 istry at Wiirzburg. 



The Degree Committee of the Special Board 

 for Physics and Chemistry, at Cambridge Uni- 

 versity, are of opinion that the work submitted 

 by Richard Smith Willows, of Trinity College, 

 advanced student, comprising papers (1) On 

 the Variation of the Resistance of certain Amal- 

 gams with Temperature {Phil. Mag., Novem- 

 ber, 1899); and (2) On the Distance between the 

 Strife in the Positive Column and other Phe- 

 nomena connected with the Discharge, is of dis- 

 tinction as a record of original research. 



Dr. J. Frischauf, professor of mathematics 

 at Graz, has been suspended, apparently for 

 criticising his colleagues in the newspapers. 



The New York Medical Journal states that 

 Dr. S. L. Schenk, professor of embryology and 

 histology, and director of the Embryological 

 Institute at the University of Vienna, has been 

 retired on a pension. This action is in answer 

 to a petition of the medical faculty of the uni- 

 versity alleging the publication in the lay press 

 of scientific theories constituting a form of ad- 

 vertisement. Dr. Schenk, it will be remem- 

 bered, published a saccharine theory of sex 

 production. He had been a director of the Em- 

 bryological Institute for twenty-six years. 



