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130,000 to Yankton College, S. D., from D. K. 

 Pearson. 



Foreign journals report that the late W. J. 

 Astrakofi' has bequeathed to the University of 

 Moscow a sum of a million roubles, on condition 

 that it shall be expended upon the foundation of 

 a ' Moscow University for Women,' with three 

 faculties — mathematics, medicine and natural 

 science. He requires that it shall be placed 

 under the direct administration of the Ministry 

 of Public Education and the program corre- 

 spond exactly with that of the University for 

 men. 



The Mechanical Hall of the University of 

 West "Virginia was destroyed by fire on March 

 4th. The building was insured for $28,000, and 

 the loss beyond this sum is not great. The 

 building will be immediately replaced. 



The present state of aflfairs in the Russian 

 universities in extremely serious. Not only 

 has the University at St. Petersburg been closed 

 for some time, but similar conditions exist at 

 Moscow, Kieflf, Kharkoff, Odessa, Kasan, 

 Tomsk and Warsaw, and in most of the tech- 

 nical institutes. More than 30,000 young men 

 who will soon form an important part of the in- 

 tellectual class in Russia are affected. The 

 troubles began by a demonstration against the 

 Rector of the University of St. Petersburg, 

 which was followed by an encounter with the 

 police in which Cossack whips were used upon 

 the students. The Russian government ap- 

 pears to sympathize to a certain extent with the 

 students, and an investigation has been ordered. 



The statement in the daily press to the effect 

 that Dr. J. L. Wortmann has been elected by 

 the Yale corporation professor of paleontology 

 and Curator of the Peabody Museum is in- 

 correct. It is, however, probable that the work 

 in paleontology will be in some way divided 

 between Professor C. E. Beecher, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, and Dr. J. L. Wortmann. 



Me. J. Arthur Thompson has been ap- 

 pointed professor of natural history in the Uni- 

 versity of Aberdeen in succession to the late 

 Professor Nicholson. 



Dr. Robert Muir has been elected to the 

 vacant professorship of pathology in the Uni- 

 versity of Glasgow. Dr. Muir was last year 



called from a lectureship at Edinburgh to the 

 professorship of pathology at St. Andrews. He 

 has published important contributions especially 

 on the pathology of the blood and of the bone- 

 marrow. 



Mr. W. a. Murrill has been appointed As- 

 sistant Cryptogamic Botanist of the Cornell 

 University Experiment Station for one year, 

 during the absence, in Europe, of Dr. B. M. 

 Duggar. Mr. Murrill is a graduate of the 

 Washington and Lee University, and of the 

 Virginia Agricultural College. He entered 

 upon graduate study at Cornell University two 

 years ago, when he was appointed scholar in 

 botany. During the last year he held one of 

 the positions of graduate assistant in botany at 

 Cornell. He is still continuing graduate work. 



Edgar Buckingham, associate in physics 

 and physical chemistry in Bryn Mawr College, 

 has resigned his position. 



J. H. McCracken, assistant professor of 

 philosophy in New York University, has been 

 elected President of Westminster College. 



Twenty-six fellowships have been announced 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, of which the 

 following were given in the sciences : Reap- 

 pointments— P/uTosopAt/, H. B. Alexander ; 

 Mathematics, R. H. Vivian. New appoint- 

 ments — Mathematics and Astronomy, U. S. 

 Hanna ; Physics, H. S. Conrad ; Chemistry, T. 

 M. Taylor, M. B. MacDonald ; Zoology, J. R. 

 Murlin, C. B. Thompson ; Pedagogy, I. B. Mc- 

 Neal. 



Dr. Daniel E. Rosa, of Turin, has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor of comparative 

 anatomy in the University at Sassari ; Profes- 

 sor Bergen, of Munich, has been made professor 

 of geology and mineralogy in the School of Min- 

 ing at Klausthal. Dr. Solomon, decent in 

 mineralogy at the University of Heidelberg, has 

 been promoted to an assistant professorship. Dr. 

 W. -Wien, associate professor of physics at the 

 Institute of Technology at Aix, has been called 

 to a full professorship at the University at 

 Giessen. Dr. Eggeling has qualified as docent 

 in comparative anatomy and embryology in 

 the University at Strassburg, and Dr. Zermelo 

 as docent in mathematics and theoretical phys- 

 ics in the University at Giessen. 



