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SCIENGE. 



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Archaeology and upon Comparative Ethnology. 

 In order to systematize still further the work 

 ofifered in Archaeology, Dr. Hillprecht, Professor 

 of Semitic Philology and Archaeology ; Dr. 

 Clay, Lecturer in Assyrian, Hebrew and Semitic 

 Archffiology, and Dr. Bates, Lecturer in Greek 

 and Classical Archaeology, have been associated 

 with Mr. Culin in the administrative group en- 

 titled Archaeology and Ethnology, and will 

 offer courses next year in Babylonian and Early 

 Hebrew and Phenecian Paleography. The Life 

 and Customs of the Early Babylonians, Hebrew 

 Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy and Greek in- 

 scriptions. 



It is the intention of the University to de- 

 velop the work in Archaeology and Ethnology 

 in connection with the Free Museum of Science 

 and Art. The collections now in the Museum 

 offer students of Early Babylonian Archaeology 

 opportunities unrivalled in America, and in 

 some respects unexcelled in the world. The 

 material relating to the primitive culture of 

 North America and of Borneo is also very rich, 

 and that relating to Egyptian and Classical 

 Archaeology is sufficient to render substantial 

 aid to instructors in those departments. 



GENERAL. 



President Gilman of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity has made a plea before the finance com- 

 mittee of the Maryland Senate for a renewed 

 State appropriation of $50,000 annually for two 

 years. After enumerating the losses sustained 

 by the university in the depreciation of Baltimore 

 and Ohio Railroad stock values and the suspen- 

 sion of dividends, he said : The expense of main- 

 taining the university is not far from $200,000 a 

 year. The income from investments is $100,000. 

 The income from tuition, $50,000. These are all 

 round numbers, varying a little year by year. 

 Unless the deficit of $50,000 can be made up, 

 contraction must follow. Contraction will bring 

 great discredit, for it will be known throughout 

 the land. Students will drop out and a period 

 of anxiety will follow. The university has no 

 debts. Its capital invested in land, buildings, 

 books and apparatus, is $1,000,000. It has ex- 

 cellent friends, wide reputation, and the hope- 

 ful prospects of large gifts. But it cannot 

 anticipate the legacies which are known to be 



drawn in its favor. What is needed is a con- 

 tinuance of the aid which the last Legislature 

 gave for two years more. 



The condition of affairs at the University of 

 Cincinnati is extremely unfortunate. The Uni- 

 versity occupies a somewhat peculiar position 

 being a municipal institution with its Board of 

 Directors appointed by the Superior Court of 

 Cincinnati. It was founded by a citizen of the 

 city with a considerable endowment and has 

 received gifts from other citizens ; but it has 

 received its site and central building from the 

 city and obtains three-tenths of a mill from the 

 city tax list. It is regarded as the head of the 

 public educational system of Cincinnati and the 

 students are nearly all from the city. The 

 experiment of a municipal university is cer- 

 tainly interesting and it is unfortunate that its 

 future is at present endangered by political and 

 personal factions. The condition of affairs has 

 already been briefly reported in this Journal. 

 Of the twelve members of the academic faculty, 

 eight have been compelled to withdraw, no 

 definite charges having been made. Several 

 of them are men of science with established 

 reputation. Of the four remaining professors 

 one has resigned as a protest against the action 

 of the Directors. He has published an open 

 letter condemning in very outspoken language 

 the action of the president. At a meeting of 

 the Board of Directors on February 19th, a 

 committee of citizens presented a protest, but 

 the Board refused to give the Faculty a hearing. 



Mr. James Russell Parsons, Jr., has been 

 elected Secretary of the University of the State 

 of New York. 



Dr. "Wilhelm Wien, professor of physics at 

 Giessen, has been called to Wiirzburg as suc- 

 cessor to Professor Rontgen. 



Dr. Stanislaus Ciechanowski has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor in the University of 

 Crakow, and Professor v. Hertling, of Munich, 

 has been called to the professorship of philo- 

 sophy at Bonn, in the place of the late Dr. 

 Neuhauser. 



Dr. E. Ashkinass has qualified as docent for 

 physics in the University of Berlin, and Dr. U. 

 Belu for physics and Dr. Reitter for chemistry 

 in the University of Bonn. 



