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delegates from France and foreign societies 

 were present. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



We learn from the Experiment Station 

 Record that the legislature of Minnesota has 

 passed an act providing state aid for ten high 

 schools or consolidated rural schools which 

 maintain agricultural and industrial depart- 

 ments. The state will pay two thirds of the 

 expense to maintain these departments pro- 

 vided that each school employs trained in- 

 structors in agriculture, manual training, and 

 domestic science, possesses not less than 5 

 acres of land suitable for school gardens and 

 experimental and demonstration purposes, and 

 that the total expenditure for each school does 

 not exceed $2,500. The ten schools selected 

 are the high schools at Albert Lea, Alexandria, 

 Oanby, Glencoe, Hinckley, Eed Wing and 

 Wells, the high schools and associated rural 

 schools at Cokato and Mcintosh and the con- 

 solidated school at Lewiston. The act also 

 provides that not to exceed ten schools may be 

 added to the list during each succeeding 

 biennium. 



The assembly of Iceland has decided to 

 establish a university at Eeikjavik, with four 

 faculties and sixteen professors and lecturers. 



The number of students in the universities 

 of the German empire has this summer 

 reached 51,700, an increase of about 3,000 over 

 last winter and of 4,000 over the summer of 

 1908. There has been a large increase in the 

 faculties of medicine and philosophy and a 

 decrease in the faculty of law. 



G. W. Stewaet, A.B. (DePauw, '98), Ph.D. 

 (Cornell, '01), has been elected professor of 

 physics and head of the department at the 

 State University of Iowa, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the removal of Professor Karl E. 

 Guthe to the University of Michigan. 



At the University of Wisconsin, Mr. E. E. 

 Eldridge, of New York, a graduate of Cornell 

 University, has been appointed assistant in 

 bacteriology. Mr. Albert I. Stevenson, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has been 

 made chemist in the State Hygienic Labora- 



tory connected with the university. In the 

 engineering college faculty Mr. Charles G. 

 Buritt, '09, Mauston, has been appointed in- 

 structor in railway engineering, and W. C. 

 Muhlstein, '09, Grand Eapids, assistant in the 

 same department. J. A. Cutler, '09, Dodge- 

 ville, is instructor in topographical engineer- 

 ing. George B. Blake, '08, Huron, S. D., and 

 S. S. Hovey, a graduate of Iowa State College, 

 are new assistants in electrical engineering. 

 B. S. Wood, who was formerly instructor in 

 wood work, is now instructor of pattern work. 



The following changes in the faculty of the 

 University of Utah are announced: Frank A. 

 McJunkin, M.D. (Michigan), now instructor 

 in bacteriology at the University of Michigan, 

 succeeds Eoss. Anderson, M.D., as professor 

 of bacteriology and pathology and becomes 

 state bacteriologist and pathologist; E. B. 

 Ketchum, C.E. (Illinois), at present chief 

 engineer of the Kansas and Colorado Eailroad 

 Co., becomes assistant professor of civil engi- 

 neering; A. A. Knowlton, A.B. (Bates), A.M. 

 (Northwestern), now associate professor of 

 physics at Armour Institute, succeeds L. W. 

 Hartman, Ph.D., as associate professor of 

 physics; Wm. H. Chamberlin, A.B. (Utah), 

 A.M. (California), becomes lecturer in phi- 

 losophy, and Kenneth Williams, B.S. (Penn- 

 sylvania), now chemist for the Tintic Smelter, 

 becomes instructor in chemistry. 



Dr. I. M. Lewis, instructor in botany in New 

 Hampshire College, has been appointed in- 

 structor in botany in the University of Texas. 



The Belfast University commissioners have 

 made the following appointments in the 

 Queens's University, Belfast: Professorships — 

 Botany: Mr. D. T. Gwynne-Vaughan, M.A. 

 Cantab., formerly lecturer in botany, Glasgow 

 University and Birkbeek College, London 

 Lectureships — Organic chemistry : Mr. A. W. 

 Stewart, D.Sc. Glasgow, lecturer in stereO' 

 chemistry and assistant to Professor Sir W, 

 Eamsay, University College, London. Phys- 

 ics: Mr. Eobert Jack, M.A., D.Sc, Ph.D, 

 Glasgow and Gottingen. Bio-chemistry: Mr. 

 J. A. Milroy, M.A., M.D. Edinburgh, demon- 

 strator of physiology. Queen's College, Belfast. 

 Geology and geography: Mr. A. E. Dwerry- 



