280 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XI. No. 268. 



there are now eight Pasteur Institutes in 

 France ; arranged according to the dates of 

 their establishment, they are those of Paris, 

 Algiers, Tunis, Montpellier, Marseilles, Bor- 

 deaux, Lille, Lyons. The last was opened on 

 the first day of this year. There are five like 

 institutes in Italy (Bologna, Milan, Naples, 

 Palermo, Turin), two in Austria-Hungary 

 (Vienna and Buda-Pesth), seven in Russia (St. 

 Petersburg, Moscow, Samara, Kharkof, War- 

 saw, Odessa, Tiflis), two in the Ottoman Em- 

 pire (Constantinople, Aleppo), one in Roumania 

 (Bucharest), and one in Malta. 



' Vaeiations and Regeneration in Synapta 

 inhaerus' on page 178 of the number of Science 

 for February 2, 1900, should have the name of 

 the author, Professor Charles L. Edwards, at- 

 tached to it. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Plans for a botanical laboratory to cost over 

 $100,000 have been submitted to the Senate of 

 Cambridge University. 



The new wing of the engineering laboratory 

 at Cambridge University, erected in memory 

 of the late Dr. John Hopkinson by his widow 

 and family, was formally opened on February 

 2d by Lord Kelvin ; and at the same time a 

 portrait of Dr. Hopkinson was unveiled. 



St. Laweencb Univeesity has recently re- 

 ceived a gift of $24,000 from a friend of that 

 institution. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 oflFers a new course in landscape architecture 

 which, as provisionally laid out, includes in the 

 second year horticulture, elementary architec- 

 tural design, shades and shadows, perspective, 

 freehand drawing, surveying, topographical 

 drawing and dynamical geology, with the usual 

 general courses in physics, language and historjr. 

 In the third year the same general lines of work 

 will be followed, with work in horticulture at 

 the Arnold Arboretum, architectural and land- 

 scape design, architectural history, freehand 

 drawing and pen and ink, stadia and plane 

 table surveying, curves and earth-work, high- 

 way engineering and structural geology. In 

 the fourth year, landscape architecture and de- 



sign and horticulture will be the main features, 

 with courses in sanitary engineering and drain- 

 age, building stones and sanitary science, his- 

 tory of ornament, life class, modeling, pen and 

 ink, water color, specifications and working 

 drawings and business relations. An ai-range- 

 ment has been made with the director. Prof. C. 

 S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, by which 

 students will receive a part of their instruction 

 there, particularly in all that relates to planting 

 and the use of plants and trees. With this work 

 at the Arboretum will be combined a series of 

 excursions to neighboring parks and country 

 places in order to study examples of planting 

 and design. The special instruction in land- 

 scape design will be conducted by Mr. Guy 

 Lowell a graduate in the class of 1894, who has 

 since taken the diploma of the Ecole des Beaux 

 Arts with distinction, and has made a special 

 study of landscape architecture in Europe. 



The course of landscape architecture, at Har- 

 vard University, the establishment of which 

 we recently announced, has been placed under 

 the direction of Mr. Frederic Law Olmsted, Jr. 

 He will be assisted by Mr. Arthur A. Shurtleff. 



The Techincal Education Board of the Lon- 

 don County Council offers two scholarships of 

 £150 each to teachers in schools. They are 

 tenable from Easter to Ohristmas 1900, and en- 

 able the holder to visit the continent and study 

 methods of teaching modern languages in com- 

 mercial schools. 



The foundation of a chair of American Ar- 

 chjEology at the University of Berlin by the 

 Duke of Loubat, has given a great impetus to 

 the development of the teaching of anthro- 

 pology at that University. Recently it has been 

 announced that Adolf Bastian has been made 

 Professor Ordinarius of Ethnology. This has 

 been followed by the announcement of the ap- 

 pointment of Dr. Felix von Luschan as Pro- 

 fessor (extraordinarius) of Anthropology. 



Nichols Knight, Ph.D., of Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed professor of 

 chemistry at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, la. 



June E. Downey, A.M. (Chicago), has been 

 appointed instructor in psychology at the Uni- 

 versity of Wyoming. 



