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plete staff of mechanics, which, with his recent 

 endowment of the professional chair, gives that 

 department a complete staff. It also provides 

 for the establishment of a Summer School in 

 Mining. Sir William's present gift is about 

 S400,000, and it raises the total amount that he 

 has given to McGill University to over $3,000, 

 000. 



Me. William K. Vanderbilt has made a 

 donation of $100,000 to Vanderbilt University 

 for the erection of a new domitory on the cam- 

 pus. 



It is reported that the sum of over $2.50,000 

 has been subscribed toward an endowment for 

 Brown University. A committee is endeavor- 

 ing to collect $2,000,000, which it is intended to 

 devote to strengthening the departments already 

 existing in the University. 



A BILL has passed the Kansas Legislature ap- 

 propriating $55,000 for the erection of a new 

 chemistry building at the State University. 



By the will of the late Senator Justin S. Mor- 

 rill, of Vermont, $1,000 is given to Vermont 

 University, for the establishment of a scholar- 

 ship. 



Mrs. Frederick C. T. Phillips, of Law- 

 rence, L. I., has given Harvard University an 

 endowment of $50,000, the income to be used 

 for the purchase of books in English literature. 



The Royal Geographical Society has offered 

 £400 a year for five years' maintenance of a 

 school or institute of geography at Oxford on 

 condition that the LTuiversity contribute an equal 

 sum. The common University fund will con- 

 tribute £300, and it is expected that the Uni- 

 versity chest will add £100. The school will 

 be under the direction of the present reader, 

 Mr. H. J. Mackinder, and an assistant and two 

 lecturers will be appointed. 



In addition to its great Lick Observatory, the 

 University of California is erecting an astronom- 

 ical observatory for the use of students. It 

 contains a central dome 25 feet in diameter, 

 which will contain a 16-inch telescope, and four 

 domes for smaller telescopes. 



Departments of Mining Engineering and of 

 Mechanical Engineering have been added to 



the School of Engineering of the University of 

 Kansas. 



The College of Agriculture of Cornell Uni- 

 versity will conduct a school of nature-study at 

 Ithaca for six weeks, beginning July 6th. 

 Nearly 25,000 teachers in New York State are 

 now receiving, at their own request, the Na- 

 ture-Study publications of the College of Agricul- 

 ture, and it is believed that many will be glad to 

 attend a summer school devoted to this subject. 



Dr. John T. Nicolson, professor of me- 

 chanical engineering in McGill University, has 

 accepted an appointment to the chair of me- 

 chanical and electrical engineering in the great 

 Technical College recently established at Man- 

 chester, England. 



At the University of Kansas the following 

 promotions have recently been made : William 

 C. Stevens, associate professor of botany, to 

 professor of botany; Edward C. Franklin, asso- 

 ciate professor of chemistry, to professor of phys- 

 ical chemistry; Arthur St.C. Dunstan, assistant 

 professor of physics, to associate professor of 

 physics ; Marshall A. Barber, assistant professor 

 of botany, to associate professor of bacteriology 

 and cryptogamic botany; George Wagner, as- 

 sistant i:)rofessor of pharmacy, to associate pro- 

 fessor of pharmacy; Samuel J. Hunter, as- 

 sistant professor of entomology, to associate 

 professor of entomology; Walter K. Palmer, 

 assistant in graphics, to associate professor of 

 mechanical engineering; Edward Bartow, in- 

 structor in chemistry, to associate professor of 

 chemistry. 



Among foreign appointments we note the fol- 

 lowing : Dr. Curt Hassert, of Leipzig, has been 

 appointed associate professor of geography in 

 the University of Tiibingen ; Dr. Geppert, of 

 the University of Bonn, professor of phar- 

 macology in the University of Giessen ; 

 Professor Schilling, of the Institute of Tech- 

 nology at Karlsruhe, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the University of Gottingeu ; Dr. 

 Georg Karsten, of Kiel, associate professor of 

 botany in the University of Bonn, and Dr. 

 Dove, of Berlin, professor of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Jena. Dr. Georg Bohlmaun, docent 

 in mathematics in the University of Gottiugen, 

 has been promoted to a professorship. 



