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Mr. E. S. Riggs, Assistant Curator of Paleontology, 

 Field Colnmbian Museum. 



April 22 — ' Auimal Messmates and Parasites,' Pro- 

 fessor H. M. Kelly, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, 

 Iowa. 



April 29 — ' Aboriginal Methods of Manufacturing 

 Weapons and Implements,' Prof essor George L.CoUie, 

 Beloit College, Wisconsin. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. W. F. E. Weldbn, P. U.S., professor of 

 zoology of University College, London, has 

 been elected Linacre professor of comparative 

 anatomy at Oxford, in succession to Profes- 

 sor Ray Lankester. Professor Welden, Pro- 

 fessor Love, whose appointment to the Sedleian 

 chair of natural philosophy we announced last 

 week, and Mr. Stout, recently appointed to the 

 "Wilde lectureship of mental philosophy, were 

 all Fellows of St. Johns College, Cambridge. 



The following promotions have been made 

 at Princeton University : Assistant Professor 

 Herbert S. S. Smith to be professor of applied 

 mechanics in the School of Science; Assistant 

 Professor Walter Butler Harris to be professor 

 of geodesy in the School of Science, and In- 

 structor Ulric Dahlgren to be assistant profes- 

 sor of histology in the academic department. 



E. L. Thoendike, Ph.D. (Columbia), instruc- 

 tor in Western Reserve University, has been 

 appointed instructor in genetic psychology in 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. 



The Isaac Newton Scholarship of Cambridge 

 University for the encouragement of study and 

 research in astronomy has been awarded to Mr. 

 G. W. Walker, B. A. Scholar of Trinity Col- 

 lege. The scholarship is of the annual value 

 of £200, and is tenable for three years. 



Miss Caroline Hazard, of Peacedale, R. I., 

 has been elected President of Wellesley College. 



Professor Snellen will retire at the close 

 of the present semester from the chair of oph- 

 thalmology at the University of Utrecht. 



At a recent meeting of the Council of New 

 York University Chancellor MacCracken re- 

 ported that endowments amounting to nearly 

 $50,000 had been received, of which $20,000 



will be devoted to the School of Applied 

 Science. 



A CHAIR of English Literature has been en- 

 dowed in Princeton University with $100,000, 

 on condition that the Rev. Dr. Henry Van 

 Dyke, of Nev/ York City, be the first incumbent. 

 Princeton University has also received $65,000 

 for the academic department. 



The German-American citizens of New York 

 are collecting a fund of $20,000 in honor of Mr. 

 Carl Schurz, whose seventieth birthday was re- 

 cently celebrated. The money will be used to 

 endow a fellowship and a Library of Germanic 

 Literature in Columbia University. 



The following further gifts have been made 

 during the week to educational institutions : 

 $50,000 to the Catholic University by the Na- 

 tional Council, Knights of Columbus, to estab- 

 lish a chair for historical research ; $20,000 to 

 Hobart College for the foundation of scholar- 

 ships by Miss Catherine L. Tuttle ; $10,000 to 

 University of Virginia for books on the history 

 of Virginia, and $5,000 from various donors to- 

 Syracuse University. 



At congregation at Cambridge University 

 on March 2d the report of the General Board of 

 Studies recommending the establishment of a 

 department of agriculture in the University 

 under the direction of a professor was approved. 

 The offers made to the University by Sir Walter 

 Gilbey, the Board of Agriculture, certain county 

 and borough councils and the Drapers' Com- 

 pany were gratefully accepted. 



The plans for the Cornell Medical School, 

 New York City, have been filed. The entire 

 frontage on First avenue, between Twenty-sev- 

 enth and Twenty- eighth streets, is to be occu- 

 pied by the building, which will cost $500,000. 



Erratum: In the abstract (p. 312 above) of Profes- 

 sor Wm. A. Locy's paper before the American Morpho- 

 logical Society, ' New Facts Regarding the Develop- 

 ment of the Olfactory Nerve,' the first sentence should 

 read: ' The early emljryonic history of the olfactory 

 nerve is very imperfectly known,' instead of 'is 

 known,' and the closing sentence should read: 'It was 

 also shown to persist in the adult, ' instead of ' to per- 

 ish in the adult.' Credit should also be given to the 

 Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund for providing the 

 material upon which the research was conducted. 



