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your official ties to the University. We regret that 

 your enlarged liberty has not come to you in a form 

 "which would have marked our sense of what we owe 

 to you. But we rejoice that an arrangement has 

 been arrived at which will allow your interests still 

 to centre in Cambridge, giving you, at the same time, 

 the opportunity of working in a wider field, where 

 you may do for England what yon have already done 

 for Cambridge, and where your services to learning 

 may benefit, not only England, but the whole Eng- 

 lish-speaking race. — We are proud to sign ourselves 

 your friends and pupils — Feakcis DAinviN", A. 6. 

 Dew-Smith, Walter Gakdinee, W. H. Gaskell, 

 Alfred C. Hadden, W. B. Haedy, S. F. Hakmee, 

 Waltee Heape, J. N. Langley, J. J. Listee, a. 

 Sedgwick, a. C. Sewaed, AethueE. Shipley, L. 

 'E. Shoee, H. Maeshall Waed, H. K. Andeesok", 

 A. S. Lea. March 9, 1900." 



The British Medical Journal states that a 

 Medical Congress of the Islaud of Cuba is now 

 being organized. It is to be held at Havana, 

 and will open on February 24, 1901. The 

 president of the organizing committee is Dr. 

 Vicente B. Valdes. The subjects with which the 

 Congress will deal in are the following: (I) 

 Local Anthropology ; (2) Medical Topography 

 and Statistics ; (3) Yellow Fever ; (4) Palud- 

 ism ; (5) Biehre deborras; (6) Chronic Enteritis 

 of Hot Countries ; (7) Febrile Conditions of In- 

 fancy which do not correspond to Definite 

 Clinical Types ; (8) Treatment of Pulmonary 

 Phthisis by Local Climatotheraphy ; (9) Medical 

 Hydrology of Cuba ; (10) Therapeutic Uses of 

 some Indigenous Plants. 



The New York Evening Post states that the 

 scientific museum of Princeton University has 

 received a collection of Indian pottery, stone 

 axes, and articles used in religious ceremonies of 

 the Hopi Indians of Arizona. This gift is the first 

 installment of a series from Stanley E. McCor- 

 mick, '95. The present collection consists very 

 largely of pieces of recent manufacture, which 

 represent the methods of modelling and decora- 

 tion employed by this tribe of Indians. This 

 McCormick collection will have special value 

 as supplementing the large collections already 

 possessed of Mexican and Peruvian pottery and 

 the extensive Sheldon Jackson ethnological 

 collection from Alaska and New Mexico. 



An exhibit from the United States Patent 

 Ofiice has been sent to the Paris Exposition. 



It is confined to models representing the appli- 

 cations of electricity to which American inven- 

 ters have contributed so much. Tliere is a law 

 forbidding the taking of models of patents from 

 the country, but a special Act of Congress was 

 enacted permitting it in this case. This was 

 accomplished, however, so late as to interfere 

 somewhat with the completeness of the ex- 

 hibit. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



De. Heney S. Peitchett, Superintendent of 

 the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, has been 

 elected president of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology. 



The IMaryland Legislature has voted against 

 the continuation of an annual appropriation to 

 the Johns Hopkins University. 



Sir William C. MacDonald has made a 

 further gift of $200,000 to McGill University 

 for the work in mining and chemistry. 



Meeton College, Oxford, has offered to 

 contribute, out of its University Purposes Fund, 

 £700 towards the cost of fitting up, and £500 

 towards that of maintaining for two years, a 

 new electrical laboratory. 



The New York Evening Post states that the 

 sophomore class, of Yale University, which by 

 the catalogue of this year contains 305 students, 

 has made choice of studies under the new elec- 

 tive system as follows : Greek has been chosen 

 by 124, Latin by 203, chemistry by 48, physics 

 by 202, English by 259, French by 117, German 

 by 178, history by 202, and mathematics by 159. 

 It will be remembered that last year the mem- 

 bers of the sophomore class were required to 

 elect five of six subjects. This year additional 

 electives in chemistry, history, modern lan- 

 guages, and mathematics have been provided. 



A chair of intertropical pathology has been 

 established in the University of Havana for Dr. 

 J. Guiteras, formerly professor of pathology in 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



Peofessoe Jacques Loeb, of the University 

 of Chicago, has been appointed professor of 

 physiology in the Rush Bledical College, re- 

 cently affiliated with the University. It is un- 

 derstood that the junior work in physiology 

 will be carried out at theUniversity of Chicago. 



