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inclusive. The purpose of the congress is to 

 consider the best means of promoting the 

 physical, intellectual and moral development 

 of youth in the home, the school and society. 

 The congress will be organized in four sec- 

 tions, as follows: (1) Education of children; 

 (2) study of children; (3) care and training 

 of abnormal children; (4) parents' associa- 

 tions, mothers' clubs, and other supplementary 

 agencies for the improvement of youth. 



Senator Armstrong has introduced a bill 

 in the New York legislature which provides 

 for the establishment of a biological survey 

 of the potable water of the state to prosecute 

 a scientific study of aquatic organisms, their 

 structure, their habits, food, distribution and 

 variations. It is planned to consider such 

 sanitary problems of a biological character as 

 may arise in regard to the waters used by and 

 available for the cities, villages and towns of 

 the state. The sum of $5,000 is appropriated 

 for the educational department of the state 

 for apparatus and equipment and the sum of 

 $10,000 for salaries of employees. If the bill 

 becomes a law the work will be under the di- 

 rection of Professor Clarke. 



The complete collection of monogTaphs pos- 

 sessed by the late Professor Gerhardt has been 

 purchased and presented to the library of the 

 Academy of Medicine by Dr. A. Jacobi. 



The Times states that Sir H. A. Blake, 

 governor of Ceylon, announced at a meeting 

 of the Asiatic Society that Sinhalese medical 

 books of the sixth century described 67 varie- 

 ties of mosquitoes and 424 kinds of malarial 

 fever caused by mosquitoes. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The sad death of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stan- 

 ford will not greatly affect the administration 

 or resources of the Leland Stanford Junior 

 University. It will be remembered that for 

 a long time her estate was tied up by litiga- 

 tion, but that in 1901 Mrs. Stanford made 

 over to the trustees of the university practi- 

 cally all her property, including stocks con- 

 servatively appraised at $18,000,000 and real 

 estate valued at least at $10,000,000. 



It is announced that a new recitation build- 

 ing for Princeton University, to be'' known as 



AlcCosh Hall, will soon be erected behind the 

 university chapel, at a cost of $100,000. The 

 names of the givers are withheld. 



Harvard University has received an anon- 

 ymous gift of $5,000, the income of which is 

 to be used for the assistance of meritorious 

 students in the Medical School. 



By the will of the widow of the late George 

 P. A. Healy, the medical library collected by 

 the late artist is bequeathed to Rush Medical 

 College. 



The University of Berlin has established 

 an academic information bureau for the use 

 of students, both native and foreign. It is 

 prepared also to supply information on scien- 

 tific subjects to visitors to Berlin. 



Professor William James, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has accepted the acting professorship 

 of philosophy at Stanford University. He 

 will lecture at Stanford during the second 

 half of the next academic year and will organ- 

 ize a department of philosophy for the uni- 

 versity. 



Ox accoujit of illness. Professor C. R. 

 Sanger, of Harvard University, is spending a 

 few weeks in Cuba. During his absence. Pro- 

 fessor Sanger's direction of the chemical labo- 

 ratory is assumed by Professor T. W. Rich- 

 ards, in addition to the latter's regular duties 

 as chairman of the chemical department. Dr. 

 G. P. Baxter has temporarily taken full charge 

 of chemistry 1, and has therefore been relieved 

 of his course in gas analysis by Dr. R. C. 

 Wells. 



M. Henri Bergson has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of modern philosophy in the College de 

 France, in the room of the late Gabriel Tarde. 



Dr. Otto Lummer, of the Reichsanstalt and 

 docent at Berlin, has been appointed professor 

 of physics at Breslau. 



Dr. K. Kaiserlixg, docent and custodian of 

 the pathological museum at Berlin since 1901, 

 has been made professor. 



Dr. Ludwig Claison, professor of chemistry 

 at Kiel, has been called to Berlin. 



Dr. Franz Hofmann, associate professor of 

 physiology at Leipzig, has been called to a 

 ])rofessorship at Innsbruck. 



