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1891.] Scientific News. 683 
Ogden N. Rood, A.M., Professor of Physics in Columbia, says : 
‘t No member of this department is engaged in any commercial or 
outside work whatever. There is one feature of work in which some 
college professors are accustomed to indulge, which cannot be too 
strongly condemned. That is when a man under salary from a great 
university, trading on the name and fame of the institution, holds 
himself in readiness to testify as expert witness for a pecuniary con- 
sideration. This practice, I take it, is one which ought to be discour- 
aged by the authorities of the colleges where it exists. The time of a 
college professor should be devoted to teaching and to original 
research, to the interests of the students, and to the advancement of 
science, ‘The office should not be prostituted in such a manner by 
self-seekers and mercenary men. There is, so far as I know, only one 
institution where this practice is not known: that is at Johns Hopkins. 
The only reason that makes such expert testimony valuable in the eyes 
of the jury is the fact that the witness is an officer in a prominent 
institution of learning, and this looks, to me, like trading in the 
reputation of the college, and, to say the least, isa great breach of good 
taste.’’—Sctentific American, May 23d, 1891. 
Edmond Andre, the well-known student of the Hymenoptera, died 
in Beaune, January 11th, 1891. 
Dr. Oscar Schultze is called to be extraordinary professor in the 
University of Wiirzburg. 
Dr. Lewis E. Hicks, for the past six years professor of geology in 
the University of Nebraska, will leave his position at the close of the 
college year. 
Dr. Dostoiewsky has been elected prosector of histology and embry- 
ology in the Medical School of St. Petersburg. 
Antonio Stoppani, the Italian geologist, died January rst, 1891. 
Dr. Gustav Retzius, well known for his classic work on the verte- 
brate ear, has resigned his position in the University of Stockholm. 
