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Prof. L. L. Dyche returned about November ist from a six month's trip to 

 Greenland. As the fruits of his expedition the University museum received -ten 

 walrus skins; two walrus skeletons; two narwhale skeletons; a group of four bar- 

 ren ground caribou or Greenland reindeer, five polar bears, includiug two old 

 males, one female, one yearling and a cub, a series suitable for a fine group; ten 

 seal skins, representing three species; a collection of one hundred and thirty 

 skulls of North Greenland mammals; a collection of North Greenland fowls; a 

 collection of rocks characteristic of the country; three hundred bird skins, more 

 than twenty-five hundred eggs, and a number of nests; and finally, a considerable 

 ethnological collection. 



The new Physics and Electrical Engineering Building is designed for the most 

 advanced original research, as well as for complete undergraduate instruction. 

 Besides offices, lecture and class rooms, there are two general laboratories of 5,200 

 sq. ft. floor surface, fitted with all laboratory conveniences; a chemical room, bal- 

 ance room, suitable repair and supply rooms, storage battery room, and individual 

 research rooms, fitted with stone piers, gas and water. The building is constructed 

 without iron, and wired to deliver any current to any room. An instrument 

 maker is constantly constructing new apparatus. The building is heated and 

 ventilated throughout by the Sturtevant Fan system, with automatic electric regu- 

 lating service, There is now almost $27,000 of apparatus for demonstration and 

 experiment, and a sufficient corps of assistants to kee;p the laboratory in use all 

 day. A system of circuits connects with the Engine House, where eight different 

 dynamos can deliver into the laboratory different kinds of currents aggregating 

 over 100 H. P. 



Mr. David H. Holmes, a bachelor of arts from Ohio Wesleyan, and Doctor of 

 Philosophy from Johns Hopkins, was elected in December to the chair of Latin 

 Language and Literature in this institution, to succeed the late Professor Robinson. 

 Mr. Holmes spent three years teaching in Massachusetts, first in high schools and 

 then in Wilbraham Academy as instructor in Latin. Mr. Holmes' post graduate 

 work was in Greek, Latin and Sanscrit, He held at Johns Hopkins a scholarship 

 in Sanscrit, later a fellowship in Greek and the last year was assistant instructor 

 in Sanscrit. In 1893 he was elected Professor of Latin in Alleghany College, 

 Meadville, Pa., but resigned a year later to go abroad for further study, residing 

 one semester at Berlin and one at Bonn. While abroad he published his doctor's 

 thesis, "Verbs Compounded with Prepositions, in Thucydides." He also pub- 

 lished at Bonn this year, in Latin, an "Index Lysiacos " of the Greek orator, 

 Lysias, which has received favorable notice from the reviews. 



Dr. Holmes is a native of Indiana, and thirty years of age. 



The Quarterly is in receipt of a work which has a double interest for the 

 members of the University, as coming from two former instructors, whose names 

 are synonyms for thoroughness and energy; this is "The Elements of Physics," by 

 Edward L. Nichols, professor of Physics in Cornell University and William S. 

 Franklin, professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Iowa Agricultural 

 College. It is to appear in three volumes; the present one treating Mechanics 

 and Heat, while the two subsequent volumes will treat Electricity and Magnetism 

 and Sound and Light. It has been written with a view to providing a text-book 

 which shall correspond with the increasing strength of the mathematical teaching 

 in university classes To quote from the introduction: "The present writers 



