New-York tribune., 1900-12-05

Albany. Dee (speciaD.-The following an
Eouncements for the year now closing made by
the University OF the State of New-York:
COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
Medical and Dental observation-disclosures of
licensing examinations in 1900 show that, as in
ether years. New-York professional schools are
countries. Il speaks very Well for New-York medi-
al SSboois thaI o. the paPfrs submitted ny tnSy %
shout one for every four graduates as compared
with one for every graduate Of schools in other
State. and two for every graduate Of schools in
obass i3 Wbc5 bera @ a 20 eas on faupe
thiTty-nine graduates Of New-yOTk schools and
eighty-fve graduates Of schools in other States
The comparison Of New-York dental schools with
isfactory for New-York schools of the papers sub
mitted by seventy-cne graduates Of New-York
schools only ten were rejected while twenty-eight
written by thirtysix graduates of schools in other
candidate had filed certificate of study under
Whose papers We're rejected; two candidates held
dlIloInas from Canadian college. one Of whose
from Russian university. three of whose papers
e we're TeJecteed and twenty-three candidates were
charged in 1900.
HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Attendance and ApportiOnment1Durigg the last
in attendance on NeW-York secordarv Schools.
me amount apportioned TO such schools during the
OF SS /. for each pupil instructed as compared with
an average Of - "a in 1926 the first year under the
Examinations During the academic year there
ten Ten OF II per cent in answer papers claimed OF
10 per sent IN answer papers allowed and Of - per
increases is a Significant fact seventy-three per
of those claimed were allowed and q per cent 81
iE g were % hoor papers me corresP4nG
~ per cent, ~ per cent and y per cent. respec-
Inspection During the year lar visits have been
~ na9S 10 lnStitGtlons IN the university by members
ceding year. Every Institution in the university
HOME EDUCATION
Travelling Libraries and Pictures.-During No
vember eghty-ive travelling Libraries were sent to
Libraries. communities without libraries extension
ures were sent To 6ve schools while ten more
schools and nine clubs used over 400 photographs
Public IIbraries--The Prospect Branch OF the
husen Institute Library at College Point have been
The budget presented by the New-York Board of
EstiInate Eti ana Apporuonment FOR 1901 contains
seventeen libraries. or forty-fve branches If
branches are counted separately. In the boroughs
ognized IN each. hut TO each OF these is awarded
when acquired as branehes The total apporton
ment is SS4Ss4 30 larger than last year.
STATE MUSEUM
PaIeontology.--The state PaleOntOlogist spent
New-BrunsVick and Quebec making collections
regarded by the Canadian geoogists as of the same
geolosie age as the Helderbergian Of New-York-
at Arisaig. \. s; Dalhousie, y. b, and the
GaSpe peninsula, thus putting the museum In pos
session OF series Of fossils of much Importance for
correlstio and study and which dupli-
Gated in this country outside OF the National
Museum Washington.
The aceessions to the paleontoogic collections
during the last season including all that has been
acquired IN the work above specified. have been not
less than ten thousand specimens.
The museum has also recently come into posses
sion by purchase Of the Important collection Of
OF Troy. a very keen observer and careful student
Of the Cambrian rocks. This collection though
small, contains all the types OF species described
ana gstraIea ny MI r orr, and nuGh OF the ma
imprac cUicable to obtain others.
Besides the cooperative work IN Southwestern
New-York carried on in connection with the United
States Geologic Survey other cooperative enter
pTises have been undertaken With the Buffalo So
Getty Of Natural Sciences in the survey Of the
Niagara Falls region and with the geologic de-
partnent Of Cornell University in making traverses
OF ChautauQua County
At the Paris Exposition the exhibit the de-
Eartment of paleontoogy received the grand prize.
Preparations making for exhibit the
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo.