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a foreign member of the Berlin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Following the advice of its advisory 

 board, the Wistar Institute of Anat- 

 omy has established a department of 

 embryology, and Professor G. Carl 

 Huber, of the University of Michigan, 

 has been called to this chair. 



By the will of Isaac C. Wyman, of 

 Salem, Mass., a graduate of Princeton 

 College, most of his estate is be- 

 queathed to Princeton University, to be 

 used for a graduate school. Mr. John 

 M. Raymond, of Salem, Mass., and Pro- 

 fessor Andrew F. West, dean of the 

 Graduate School, are the trustees. The 

 value of the bequest is estimated at 

 $3,000,000. Mr. W. C. Procter has re- 

 newed his gift of $500,000 for the 

 Graduate College. A great graduate 

 school is thus assured at Princeton. 



At a meeting of the trustees of the 

 General Education Board, held on May 

 24 in New York City, $082,450 in ap- 

 propriations was voted. Of this sum 

 $538,000 was appropriated condition- 

 ally for the endowment funds of eight 

 colleges, $113 000 for the furtherance 

 of demonstration work in agriculture 

 throughout the southern states, and 

 $31,450 for the salaries and expenses 

 of special professors of secondary edu- 

 cation in the several state universities 

 of the south. The appropriations 

 voted in support of college endow- 

 ments raised to $5,177,500 the sum 

 already spent in this direction. The 

 seventy colleges that have received 

 these endowments during the last four 

 years of the board's activities have 

 each raised sums in endowment which, 

 taken with the board's gifts, aggregate 

 $23,670,500. 



