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AMONG recent appointments, we notice those of : Mr Herbert Bolton, F.R.S.E., 
who for the last eight years has held the post of assistant keeper in the Man- 
chester Museum, to the curatorship of the Bristol Museum ; Miss Agnes Mary 
Claypole of Wellesley College, to be assistant in the department of histology 
and comparative physiology in Cornell University ; Dr Chas. H. Judd, of 
Wesleyan University, to be professor of physiological and experimental psy- 
chology in the School of Pedagogy, New York University, being succeeded as 
instructor of philosophy at Wesleyan University by Dr Raymond Dodge ; 
Dr D.S. Miller to be lecturer in psychology at Columbia University, and Dr E, 
Thorndyke to a similar post at Western Reserve University. 
THE new buildings of Reading College were opened by the Prince of Wales 
on June 11th. He explained that the Institution had for its object the advance- 
ment of higher education, especially in those branches more particularly connected 
with the science and art of agriculture. Reading College isan outcome of Oxford 
University Extension work, and it is hoped that it may be affiliated to the parent 
University for the purpose of training students in the science and practice of 
agriculture as part of their University career. For the present, however, Oxford 
University has rejected this proposal by a very narrow majority. 
Lapy Warwick has established a small school of science on her estate at 
Bigods near Dunmow in Essex. Mr E. E. Hennesey of the Royal College of 
Science has been appointed principal of the school, which is attended by about 
sixty pupils of both sexes. The Essex County Council is interesting itself in the 
movement, and we agree with Nature that the experiment in every way deserves 
success. 
THE people of Birmingham are no longer satisfied with Mason University 
College, but wish to have a University of their own in which Technical Science 
should be one of the faculties. A meeting was held in the city on July 4, and 
speeches were delivered by Mr G. H. Kenrick, who has promised £10,000, Prof. 
W. A. Tilden, the Bishop of Hereford, and Mr Joseph Chamberlain. 
Dr E. D. Pearsons, of Chicago, has presented $25,000 to Pomona College, 
California, for the erection of a science building. 
Tue Loubat prizes of Columbia University, awarded every fifth year, have 
this year been given to Mr W. H. Holmes, of the U.S. National Museum (who 
receives $1,000), and to Dr Franz Boas, of the American Museum of Natural 
History (who receives $400), for work on archaeology and ethnology of North 
America. We note that Mr Joseph F. Loubat has recently presented $1,100,000 
to the Library of Columbia University. 
Pror. J. RercHarp, of Michigan University, accompanied by Prof. H. B. 
Ward, of Nebraska University, Mr A. J. Pieters, and others, is making a biologi- 
cal examination of Lake Erie. 
From the report of the Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy we learn 
that the most important recent additions to the objects exhibited in the court of 
the Oxford University Museum are a cast of the skeleton of the gigantic extinct 
reptile, Iguanodon bernissartensis, from Brussels ; a cast of the skeleton of the 
extinct theromorphous reptile, Pareiasawrus baini, from the Cape Colony ; a cast 
of the five-toed ancestral ungulate, Phenacodus primaevus, from the U.S. America ; 
a cast of the skull of the gigantic extinct bird Phororhacos longissimus, from 
Patagonia ; and an actual specimen of the extinct shark, Cladoselache fylert, from 
