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SCIENCE. 



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with the external gill of the Dipnoi and the 

 Amphibia. The formation of the abdominal 

 pores of Polypterus was also described, and the 

 use of the enlarged anal fin of the male in the 

 breeding-season was discussed. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The wills of John Nicholas Brown and 

 Harold Brown were filed in Newport on May 

 22d. Brown University receives $2-5,000 from 

 them each. J. N. Brown leaves $150,000 for a 

 library building and $500,000 for an endow- 

 ment, the place of the library to be selected by 

 the trustees. Both wills contain a number of 

 charitable bequests. 



Washington and Lee University receives 

 $3000 for a scholarship by the will of the late 

 Mrs. Juliet S. Bradford. 



The entomological collection belonging to 

 the late Dr. J. A. Lintner, for many years 

 State entomologist, is to be given to Cornell 

 University by his widow as a memorial to her 

 husband. 



Mr. Thomas Andrews, F.R.S., has given 

 to the Chemical Laboratory of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity one of the Echelon spectroscopes, in- 

 vented by Professor A. A. Michelson. 



A DORMITORY is being erected by Cornell 

 University on the tract of land in the Adiron- 

 dacks, used in connection with the School of 

 Forestry. 



It is said that a commercial university will 

 soon be established at Hamburg with all the 

 rights of the German universities and technical 

 schools. Provision will be made for chairs in 

 all scientific subjects connected with com- 

 merce. 



On May 9th, the Convocation of Oxford Uni- 

 versity established the new degrees of Doctor 

 in Science and in Literature. Now it will no 

 longer be necessary for graduates in science 

 of this ancient seat of learning to take the 

 examinations of London University for the 

 sake of obtaining a doctorate. Thus the im- 

 pulse given to research will be both direct and 

 indirect. 



Me. Balfour has consented to give the 



inaugural address at the summer meeting for 

 University Extension students and others to 

 be held at Cambridge in August. The meeting 

 will last from August 2d to 27th, and during 

 that time over one hundred lectures will be 

 delivered upon diflTerent aspects of life and 

 thought in England in the nineteenth century. 

 Amongst those who will lecture are Professor 

 Jebb, M.P., Professor A. V. Dicey, Professor 

 Cliiford Allbutt, Dr. Augustus Jessopp, the 

 Master of Trinity, Sir Robert Ball, Professor 

 J. J. Thomson, the Bishop of Southampton, Sir 

 Joshua Fitch, and the Dean of Ely. 



A REQUISITION addressed to Lord Balfour is 

 being signed, asking him to allow himself to be 

 nominated for the chancellorship of St. An- 

 drews University, vacant by the death of the 

 Duke of Argyll. The appointment rests with 

 the general council of the University, and is 

 held by the occupant for life. 



Mr. Laurence Edmonds Griffin, Bruce 

 Fellow and candidate for the degree of Doctor 

 of Philosophy this year at the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been appointed instructor in 

 biology in the College for Women of the West- 

 ern Reserve University, in the place of the late 

 Dr. N. R, Harrington. 



Alice W. Wilcox, instructor in biology at 

 Vassar College, has been appointed by the fac- 

 ulty to hold the Babbott Fellowship for 1900 

 1901 and will do graduate work in biology at 

 the University of Chicago. 



Several changes have recently taken place 

 in the medical staff of University College, 

 London. Dr. Sydney Ringer has retired from 

 the Holme professorship of Clinical Medicine, 

 and has been succeeded by Dr. F. T. Roberts, 

 Mr. Christopher Heath has resigned the Holme 

 professorship of Clinical Surgery and is suc- 

 ceeded by Mr, Rickman J. Godlee. Dr. Rob- 

 erts on taking up the Holmes professorship has 

 resigned the professorship of the principles and 

 practice of medicine, and the council have se- 

 lected Dr. G. Vivian Poore to succeed him. 



Dr. John Wyllie has been elected professor 

 of medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 

 succession to the late Sir Thomas Grainger 

 Stewart. 



