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-will also contains a large number of bequests to 

 hospitals and other charitable institutions. 



At the commencement exercises of Brown 

 University it was announced that $77,000 had 

 been received in gifts, the names of the donors 

 being in most cases withheld. 



Dr. D. K. Pearson has given $125,000 to 

 Olivet College. 



At the annual commencement at Oberlin 

 ■College it was announced that, in addition to 

 the gift of $50,000 for a chemical laboratory, two 

 other sums of $50,000 have been given, the 

 names of donors being withheld. 



In view of the bequest of $50,000 for the 

 department of astronomy at Smith College by 

 the will of Eliza Haven, won after long litiga- 

 tion, it has been decided that the department 

 shall be known as the Elizabeth Haven School 

 of Astronomy. 



The following summary of students for the 

 years 1898-'99 is taken from the catalogue 

 just issued by the University of Minnesota : 



Graduate students 195 



Undergraduates; College of Science, Lit- 

 erature and the Arts 898 



College Engineering and Mechanic Arts 151 



The School of Mines 62 



The School of Chemistry 9 



Department of Agriculture ; 409 



College of Law 447 



Department of Medicine 475 



Summer School for Teachers 380 



3,026 

 Counted more than once 101 



Total 2,925 



Total instructors 266 



Students to each instructor 12 



It has been decided to found a chair of pa- 

 thological anatomy in the Laval University, 

 Montreal. The list of subscribers to the fund 

 which is being raised for the purpose is headed 

 by the Archbishop of Montreal. 



De. C. W. Super has been re-elected Presi- 

 dent of Ohio University. He occupied the 

 position twelve years previous to 1896, when 

 he declined re-election. 



Dr. E. B. Matthews has been advanced to 

 the position of associate professor of petrog- 



raphy and mineralogy, and Dr. G. B. Shat- 

 tuck to the position of associate in physio- 

 graphic geology, at Johns Hopkins University. 

 In the Medical School Dr. L. F. Barker has 

 been promoted to be associate professor of pa- 

 thology, and Dr. R. G. Harrison to be associate 

 professor of anatomy. 



Mr. John L. Van Ornum, a graduate of the 

 University of Wisconsin with the degree of B.S. 

 in Civil Engineering, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering in Washington Uni- 

 versity, where he has been for three years in- 

 structor. Mr. Van Ornum has lately been 

 major of the Third U. 8. V. Engineers. 



Miss Florence M. Lyon, Ph.D. (Chicago), 

 has been appointed assistant in botany, and Miss 

 Annie I. Barrows assistant in zoology, at Smith 

 College. 



Of the twenty-two fellowships awarded in the 

 Johns Hopkins LTniversity the following are in 

 the sciences : 



William Martin Blanchard, of Hartford, N. C, 

 A.B., Randolph Macon College, 1894. Chemistry. 



Charles Edward Caspart, of Baltimore, A.B., Johns 

 Hopkins University, 1896. Chemistry. 



Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, of York, Pa., A.B., 

 Pennsylvania College, 1896. Mathematics. 



Lawrence Edmonds Griffin, of Hamline, Minn., 

 A.B. and Ph.B., Hamline University, 1895. Zoology. 



Joseph Cawdell Herrick, of Virginia, A. B., Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, 1896. Physiology. 



Charles A. Kraus, of Lawrence, Kan., S.B., Uni- 

 versity of Kansas, 1898. Physics. 



Harry Taylor Marshall, of Baltimore, A.B. , Johns 

 Hopkins University, 1894, and M.D., 1898. Pathol- 

 ogy- . 



John Charles Olsen, of Galesburg, 111., A.B., Knox 

 College, 1890. Chemistry. 



Herbert Meredith Reese, of Baltimore, A.B., Johns 

 Hopkins University, 1897. Physics. 



George Burr Richardson, of New York]City, S.B., 

 Harvard University, 1895. Geology. 



Richard Burton Rowe, of Clarksville, N. Y., Ph.B., 

 Union College, 1896. Geology. 



Dr. H. M. MacDonald, of Clare College, has 

 been appointed University lecturer on mathe- 

 matics at Cambridge University in the place of 

 Professor Love. 



At Oxford University Dr. Herbertson has 

 been appointed lecturer in physical geography. 



