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tlie San Jose scale for months in German papers. 

 It has not yet made its debut in a live condition 

 in Germany, thus confirming the opinion of ex- 

 perts that the climatic conditions of Germany 

 are not suited to its perpetuation ; but, while 

 the false alarm concerning the introduction and 

 ravages of the San Jose scale has vanished, its 

 ill effects in the nature of administrative meas- 

 ures against the import of American fruit have 

 continued, and the hardship of these proscriptive 

 ordinances are making themselves so acutely 

 felt that German trade circles and consumers 

 are beginning to protest. The chamber of com- 

 merce of the city of Hamburg (one of the most 

 important trade bodies of Germany), in its lately 

 published annual report, says on this subject ; 

 ' ' The station which last year was opened in 

 this city for the purpose of investigating the 

 presence of the San Jose scale on American 

 fruit has a laboratory where two scientifically 

 trained experts, with fourteen assistants, have 

 steadily pursued these investigations in the 

 most circumspect manner. While there may 

 not be any objection to examining ' raw fruit,' 

 the continuation of investigations in regard to 

 ' dried fruits ' must be considered an utterly 

 unnecessary hindrance to trade. The sanitary 

 experts, whom the imperial German depart- 

 ment of health, as well as the Belgian Govern- 

 ment, sent last year to California, have fully 

 confirmed the statements made by German 

 fruit importers that the drying methods in use 

 in the United States effectually kill the insects. 

 Therefore, the scales found on dried fruit from 

 America were dead. The trade suffers great 

 damage from the examination, stricter here than 

 elsewhere, and this chamber of commerce re- 

 grets that this unnecessary annoj'ance and 

 harmful practice was not at once discontinued 

 when the facts became known." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



New York University has received a gift 

 of §100,000— it is reported from Miss Helen 

 Gould — for the erection of a ' Hall of Fame for 

 Great Americans.' Colonades overlooking the 

 Harlem river will be erected containing 150 

 panels on which will be engraved inscriptions 

 commemorating eminent Americans. 



CoLUMBi.4. University has received from 



Mrs. Robert Goelet the gift of a bronze statue to 

 cost about $25,000. It will represent 'Alma 

 Mater ' and will be erected in the court before 

 the libI•arJ^ 



Oberlin College has received a gift of 

 $50,000 from Dr. and Mrs. Lucien C. Warner, of 

 New York, for a men's gymnasium. 



A BEQUEST of £20,000 has been made to the 

 New College, Hampstead (now a constituent 

 college of London University), under the will 

 of the late BIr. Henry Vaughan. 



A DAUGHTER of the late Professor Hughes 

 Bennet, of the University of Edinburgh, has 

 offered the University a sum of money to es- 

 tablish an addition to the physiological labora- 

 tory for the purposes of research. 



The Chicago College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons was three years ago affiliated with the 

 University of Illinois. An agreement has now 

 been made effecting a more complete consolida- 

 tion which is to last 25 years, and allowing the 

 University of Illinois to secure complete con- 

 trol of the College. 



Dr. Harris Hancock, A.B. (Virginia and 

 Johns Hopkins) and Ph.D. (Berlin), has been 

 elected professor of mathematics at the Univer- 

 sity of Cincinnati to fill one of the chairs re- 

 cently declared vacant by the Board of Direc- 

 tors. Dr. Hancock has published papers on 

 the Abelian functions, on the calculus of varia- 

 tion and other subjects. He is at present at 

 Paris. 



At Oberlin College, Simon F. MacLennan has 

 been appointed professor of psychology and 

 pedagogy, and Frederick O. Grover, professor 

 of botanjr. 



Professor R. S. Lawrence, of Emporia Col- 

 lege, Kans. , has accepted the chair of mathe- 

 matics in Hanover (Ind.) College. 



Professor Julius Hann, of Gratz, has been 

 called to the professorship of cosmical physics, 

 at Vienna. Dr. August Gatzmer has been 

 made full professor of mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of Jena. Dr. v. Schmidt, of Dorpat, 

 has qualified as docent in histology and em- 

 bryology in the University at Jena. 



Dr. Th. M. Fries, professor of botany in 

 the University of Upsala, has retired. 



