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Dr. J. Burdon Sanderson, the eminent physiologist and author, has been appointed Waynflete Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford, England. Professor Sanderson's experiments and vivisections have led to many important discoveries and have excited the interest of scientific men in all parts of Europe and America.
Richard Wagner, the eminent German composer, is dead in Venice, at the age of seventy years.
The salaries of all German university professors-about 725-amounts to less than $750,000 a year. And yet the most eminent scholars of Germany are willing to serve as university professors.
Unconscious Repartee.-Uncle Dick (an eminent R. A.)-"Well, Johnny, and what are you going to be?" Johnny-"I shall be a judge, like papa." Uncle Dick-"Ah! but you haven't brains enough, my boy," Johnny-"Oh, then I'll be an artist like you."-[London Punch.
A reception was given in Boston last week in honor of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, emeritus professor in the Harvard. Medical School. A number of eminent medical men from distant cities, as well as those of Boston and vicinity, were present. Among those asked to meet Dr. Holmes and Dr...