SCIENCE. 



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The gifts of Mr. B. N. Duke and his father, Mr. 

 W. DuliB, to Trinity College have aggregated 

 over half a million dollars in the last six years. 



The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars has 

 been offered by an anonymous friend to Vassar 

 College for a biological laboratory on condition 

 another $25,000 be collected for the purpose. 



By the death of Mrs. Jeremiah Halsey the 

 Norwich Free Academy will receive a bequest 

 of nearly $100,000, and Trinity College, Hart- 

 ford, $20,000, according to the provisions made 

 by Mr. Halsey in his will. 



The Rev. H. Latham, Master of Trinity Hall, 

 Cambridge University, has given £2,000 for the 

 proposed Sedgwick Memorial Museum. 



Miss Susan Dyckmann has given $300 for a 

 scholarship in zoology iu Columbia University 

 for the year 1899. 



The class of 1899 of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania has given the University $5, 000 toward 

 a scholarship in memory of the late Professor 

 E. Otis Kendall, for many years professor of 

 mathematics. 



The Thirty-seveuth University Convocation 

 of the State of New York will be held at Al- 

 bany, beginning Juue 26th. President Harper, 

 of the University of Chicago, will make the 

 annual address, his subject being ' Waste in 

 Education.' 



At the recent Commencement, on June 8th, 

 the University of Nebraska conferred the follow- 

 ing degrees : 



Bachelor of Arts 84 



Bachelor of Science 32 



Bachelor of Laws 51 



Master of Arts 14 



Doctor of Philosophy 1 



The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was con- 

 ferred for work in mathematics. Dr. Engberg's 

 thesis including a study of (1st) The Cartesian 

 Oval, and (2d) An Extension iu the Theory of 

 the Characteristics of Evolutes. The following 

 are the titles of the theses in science presented 

 for the degree of Master of Arts : 



' The Demagnetizing Effects of Currents in Iron 

 when eleotro-magnetically compensated,' by Z. E. 

 Crook. 



' Beta-Phenyl-Meta-Nitroglutaric Acid and Deriv- 

 atives, ' by Mariel C. Gere. 



' Studies on the Genus Cittotienia,' E. A. Lyman. 



' A volumetric Method for the quantitative Esti- 

 mation of Sulphuric Acid,' by Y. Nikaido. 



' A Contribution to the Chemistry of Aromatic 

 Glutaric Acids,' by H. C. Parmelee. 



Professor Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who 

 holds the chair of Greek and comparative phil- 

 ology in Cornell University, has been elected 

 Presideut of the University of California. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Control 

 of the Michigan College of Mines, Professor 

 Fred W. McNair was unanimously elected 

 Presideut of the institution. Professor McNair 

 has been for some years in charge of the de- 

 partment of mathematics and physics, and so 

 closely identified with the work and growth of 

 the College that its history, aims and methods 

 are entirely familiar to him. 



Dr. F. Strong, of Yale University, has been 

 elected President of the University of Oregon. 



Me. Ulysses S. Grant, of the Minnesota 

 State Geological Survey, has been appointed 

 professor of geology in the Northwestern Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. Frank R. Lillie, instructor in zoology 

 in the University of Michigan, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of biology at Vassar College. 

 At the same College Miss Winnifred J. Robinson 

 has been made instructor in biology and Miss 

 Caroline E. Furness, Ph.D., assistant in the 

 observatory. 



At Syracuse University, Mr. S. M. Taylor 

 has been made associate professor of physics ; 

 Dr. Henry M. Smith, instructor in chemistry, 

 and Johu G. Coulter, instructor in botany. 



Carl A. Bessey, A.B., and B.Sc. in Elec- 

 trical Engineering, of the University of Ne- 

 braska, has been appointed assistant professor 

 in the department of mechanic arts in the 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College, Still- 

 water, Oklahoma. 



Fellowships at Bryn Mawr College have 

 been given to Miss Elizabeth Towle in biology, 

 and to Miss Anna L. Wilkinson in mathe- 

 matics. The fellowship in physics has not yet 

 been awarded. 



