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it reached 851,263 and in 1904 it was 1,022,299. 

 From January 1 of the present year up to 

 April 15 the number of fatal cases is reported 

 at 576,366, and it is very doubtful whether 

 these figures tell the whole truth. Of the 

 total of 64,214 seizures with 54,602 deaths 

 during the week ending April 22 the Bombay 

 presidency had 3,497 cases and 2,787 deaths; 

 Madras, 65 cases and 65 deaths; Bengal, 4,993 

 cases and 4,351 deaths; the United Provinces, 

 18,249 cases and 16,637 deaths; the Punjab, 

 33,162 cases and 27,362 deaths; Burma, 183 

 cases and 175 deaths; the Central Provinces, 

 223 cases and 175 deaths; Mysore state, 50 

 cases and 40 deaths; Haidarabad state, 401 

 cases and 316 deaths; Central India, 117 cases 

 and 84 deaths; Rajputana, 2,924 cases and 

 2,406 deaths, and Kashmir, 359 cases with 215 

 deaths. These detailed figures will show how 

 the disease has extended over the country and 

 the heavy mortality of the cases. The mortal- 

 ity is higher this week in the Punjab by 3,420, 

 in the United Provinces by 753, in Rajputana 

 by 200, in Burma by 20, in Kashmir by 28, in 

 Bombay city by 132 and in Calcutta by 130. 

 The only noticeable decrease is in the districts 

 of Bengal, where the epidemic seems to be 

 abating. In this area, however, the outbreak 

 occurred earlier in the season. During the 

 present outbreak the anti-plague serum from 

 the Pasteur Institute in Paris has been some- 

 what extensively used for the treatment of 

 cases both in Bombay and Calcutta, and, al- 

 though it is early to form a definite opinion, 

 numerous individual reports would seem to 

 show its value. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 ]\Ir. Percival Lowell has established a 

 liberally endowed fellowship, to be known as 

 The Lawrence Fellowship, for the Department 

 of Astronomy at Indiana University. By the 

 terms of the endowment the fellow is ap- 

 pointed by the department, but the appoint- 

 ment is subject to the approval of the founder. 

 A Lawrence fellow shall be given an opportun- 

 ity for astronomical research at the Lowell 

 Observatory and to prepare a thesis on some 

 astronomical subject agreeable to the director 



and the fellow. Mr. John C. Duncan has re- 

 ceived the appointment for the year 1905-6. 



Dr. W. W. Keen, professor of surgery at 

 Jeffez-son Medical College, has presented to 

 that institution $5,000 to found as a memorial 

 to liis wife the Corinna Borden Keen Research 

 Fellowship. The conditions of the fellowship 

 are that whenever there is accumulated from 

 the income the sum of $500 it shall be awarded 

 to a graduate of the college. 



Miami University has been offered $40,000 

 by Mr. Carnegie for a library building on 

 condition that a similar sum be raised for its 

 maintenance. It is expected that work will 

 begin at once. The addition to Brice Scientific 

 Hall and the woman's dormitory, Hepburn 

 Hall, will be ready for use by the students of 

 the summer session. 



Mr. J. P. Branch, of Richmond, Ya., has 

 given $30,000 to Randolph-Macon College for 

 a dormitory. 



Colgate University has begun the erection 

 of a Science Hall to contain the departments 

 of geology and geography, biology and physics 

 and the museum collections. It will be built 

 of stone at a cost of about $90,000, the dimen- 

 sions being 117 x 70 feet. It will be ready for 

 use during 1906. 



At the University of Colorado 86 degrees 

 were conferred at the commencement exercises 

 on June 7. The number receiving the various 

 degrees was as follows : M.A., 9 ; M.S., 2 ; B. A., 

 40; B. S. (engineering), 14; M.D., 6; LL.B., 

 15. 



John Pearce Mitchell, A.B. (Stanford), 

 who is now studying in Berlin, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in chemistry at Stanford 

 University. 



At Barnard College, Columbia University, 

 Miss Margaret A. Reed has been appointed 

 lecturer in zoology, and Miss Marion E. La- 

 tham, assistant in botany. 



Mr. Ernest Brown, lecturer in applied me- 

 chanics in the University of Liverpool, has 

 been appointed assistant professor in this sub- 

 ject at McGill University. Dr. J. W. Hickson 

 has been appointed assistant professor of psy- 

 chology and lecturer in philosophy. 



