The American Association for the Advancement of Science is now in session at Toronto.
The American Academy of Medicine will hold its annual meeting at Chicago on the 17th and 18th inst.
The National Association of Dental Faculties at their recent meeting at Saratoga adopted the three-term course in all Colleges of the Association. This rule will go into effect after the session of 1891-2, and the terms not less than five months each.
Money for the Johns Hopkins University.
—The will of John W. McCoy, recently admitted to probate, makes the Johns Hopkins University the residuary legatee and bequeaths to that institution $100,000. Mr. McCoy also leaves it his magnificent library, and gives to the Peabody Institute his collection of paintings. The rest of the estate, about $150,000, is divided up among literary friends.
A Correction.
—We notice that a number of our contemporaries are publishing a statement to