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education ; it is cramming, accompanied by enfeebled brain and 
waste of nervous tissue .- — Yorkshire Inventor. 
M. Gay-Lussac, son of the illustrious chemist Gay-Lussac, 
died early in June, at the age of 63 years. The deceased was a 
chemist of merit, and had published important researches in 
metallurgy. 
Dr. Burdon-Sanderson, on his appointment to the Wayneflete 
Chair of Physiology, at Oxford, was very naturally desirous for 
his laboratory to be enlarged and improved. At a meeting of 
Convocation a grant of £10,000 from the University chest was 
proposed for this objedt. After much discussion the motion was 
carried only by the narrow majority of 3 ! The opposition is 
said to have been under Bestiarian influences. 
Dr. Michael Foster is appointed to the new Chair of Physi- 
ology at Cambridge, and Dr. A. Macalister to that of Anatomy. 
