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Harvard University has recently received 

 two collections of shells which are at present 

 being made ready for exhibition. One of these, 

 given to the University by the heirs of Warren 

 Delano, was made by Mr. Ballestier at the be- 

 ginning of the present century and consists of 

 specimens from the East Indies. The other is 

 a very complete collection of American land 

 shells made by Mr. E. Ellsworth Call. 



The Committee of Birmingham University 

 announced, on May 18th, that the conditions at- 

 tached to Andrew Carnegie's offer of $250,000 

 to the institution had been fulfilled, the sub- 

 scriptions having reached $1,272,900. Mr. 

 Chamberlain had also received a letter from the 

 anonymous donor who had already given $187,- 

 500, oflfering an additional $62,500 if the pro- 

 posed endowment is increased to $1,500,000. 



In view of the large increase in the number 

 of students attending the Institute of Tech- 

 nology at Darmstadt, the sum of 1,137,000 

 Marks has been appropriated to enlarge the 

 buildings and 45,700 Marks for equipment. In 

 addition to these improvements, an engineering 

 laboratory will be erected at a cost of 270,000 

 Marks. 



Oxford and Cambridge Universities have 

 offered to admit to the privileges of affiliation 

 graduates of McGill University and all matricu- 

 lated students who have completed two aca- 

 demical years of study at McGill and have passed 

 the intermediate examination for the degree of 

 Bachelor of Arts. These terms, if accepted by 

 the McGill corporation, will permit an under- 

 graduate who has passed the intermediate ex- 

 amination to take his degree at Oxford or Cam- 

 bridge in two years. 



A COMMISSION has been established to take 

 charge of the relations between the City and 

 the University of Paris. It consists of members 

 of the Municipal Council and officers of the 

 University, with M. Greard, Vice-Rector of the 

 University, as President. 



Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, professor of psy- 

 chology at Harvard University, will deliver the 

 commencement address at the Women's Col- 

 lege of Baltimore, his subject being 'The Rela- 

 tion of Psychology to General Education.' 



Professor Alfred Cornu, the eminent 

 French physicist, has been appointed Rede lec- 

 turer in Cambridge University for the coming 

 year. 



Professor Edward H. Keiser, for the last 

 fourteen years professor in chemistry at Bryn 

 Mawr College, has accepted the professorship of 

 chemistry in Washington University to succeed 

 Professor Charles B. Sanger, who has been ap- 

 pointed to a position in the chemical depart- 

 ment of Harvard University. 



De. Howard Ayres, professor of biology in 

 the University of Missouri, has been elected 

 President of the University of Cincinnati. 



Dr. F. C. Ferry has been appointed assistant 

 professor of mathematics, and Dr. W. V/aidner 

 instructor in physics, in Williams College. 



Dr. C. E. St. John has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of physics and astronomy in Oberlin 

 College, and Dr. L. Dickson has been promoted 

 to a professorship of mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



Dr. F. H. Safford, instructor in mathe- 

 matics at Harvard University, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of mathematics and 

 mathematical physics at the University of Cin- 

 cinnati to succeed Professor L. A. Bauer, whose 

 appointment as Chief of the newly-established 

 Division of Terrestrial Magnetism of the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey we announced last 

 week. 



The table at the biological laboratory at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, provided for by the John D. 

 Jones Scholarship of Columbia University, has 

 been filled by the appointment of Mr. John C. 

 Torrey. H. C. Surface, of Cornell University, 

 has been chosen to be the first beneficiary of 

 the Dyckman fund for biological research. 

 Mr. Surface is well known for his work on the 

 fishes of New York State. 



The Babbot Fellowship of Vassar College has 

 been awarded to Miss Anne Moore, assistant in 

 biology. Miss Moore will spend next year in 

 studying biology at Chicago University. 



At the University of Berlin, Dr. S. Schwen- 

 dener, professor of botany, has celebrated his 

 70th birthday, and Dr. H. Munk, professor of 

 physiology, his 60th birthday. 



